The Caldon Canal and Bolton's Copper Works
The Caldon Canal with Thomas Bolton & Sons Ltd. Copper Works in the background. In the foreground a boy is fishing.
Thomas Bolton & Sons set up a copper works at nearby Oakamoor in 1852-3. By 1890 ...
The Caldon Canal at Cheddleton Wharf
The bridge over the canal carries the main road to Leek. The building to the right of the bridge is part of Cheddleton Flint Mill. Two working narrow boats are moored to the left and another is passing ...
The Caldon Canal at Froghall Basin, Kingsley
A working narrow boat loaded with limestone is seen being pulled along the canal by an unseen horse and driver. The Caldon Canal opened in 1779 and links Froghall to the Trent and Mersey Canal at Etruria, ...
The California Mill, Leek
California Mill in Horton Street is a very good example of the gradual concentration of the many processes in the silk industry onto one industrial site. Steam power was used here from at least 1839 so ...
The chain hoist, Burndhurst Mill, Lower Loxley
Image courtesy of the Brough family. Burndhurst Mill was built in the 18th century and is Grade II listed.
The Cotton Mill, Liverpool Road, Cross Heath, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Cross Heath cotton mill was built by Richard Thompson in 1797. Thompson also built apprentice houses and mill workers' cottages, and generally looked after his staff. The mill continued in textile manufacture ...
The Counting House, Job White & Sons Ltd, Compton Mills, Leek
Towards the end of the 20th century the accounts office was turned into an art gallery.
The Dyehouse, Job White & Sons Ltd, Compton Mills, Leek
The men are hank-dyeing in wooden dye-barks. This age old method was still used locally until the 1960s, and until an even later date at Thomas Whittles' factory.
The Heath Windmill, Uttoxeter
Built in the mid 19th century, the mill finished business in the early 1900s. The windmill was demolished in two stages. In about 1905 the cap and sails were removed as well as the top three stories ...
The Infirmary of the former Burton Abbey, Burton-on-Trent
The drawing was produced in 1818 prior to the re-building which now forms the Abbey Inn. The building in the background is one of Robert Peel's cotton mills at Bond End, c1780-90. Originally powered by ...
The Mill and Canal Wharf, Great Haywood,
View of the mill and canal wharf from the towpath of the Trent and Mersey Canal; the bridge marks junction of the canal with the Staffordshire and Worcester Canal.
Far left is the corn mill, powered ...
The Mill Stafford
A view from Isaac Walton Walk, Stafford. In the background is the Old Mill and in the foreground is the Weir on the River Sow.
The Mill Stream, Clifton Campville
Clifton Mill is sited on the River Mease, on Lullington Road to the north of the village. The existing building is 18th century, but there has been a mill on this site possibly back to Domesday Book ...
The Mill, Great Haywood
View of the mill and canal wharf from the towpath of the Trent and Mersey Canal at the junction of the canal with the Staffordshire and Worcester Canal. The Wharfinger's house is on the right.
Far ...
The Mill, Madeley
Madeley Mill stands on the dam at the northern end of the Pool, which was formed to provide power for the water wheels. Formerly a corn mill, it became a cheese factory in the 1930s. This closed in ...
The Mill, Penkridge
There has been a mill on this site, east of Bull Bridge on the River Penk, by 1754. Built on in the late 18th century, the present building mill operated as a water-powered iron rolling mill between ...
The Mill, Penkridge
There has been a mill on this site, east of Bull Bridge on the River Penk, by 1754. Built on in the late 18th century, the present building mill operated as a water-powered iron rolling mill between ...
The Mill, Stone
There was a mill on this site since mediaeval times belonging to Stone Priory. The current mill in Stone was built in 1795 for Robert Bill as a water-powered corn mill. Richard Smith, the inventor of ...