Car race, Cotton
Car race at Cotton, Staffordshire. This is the crossroads on Star Bank looking along the B5417 towards Oakamoor, with Cotton Lane to the right and Beelow Lane to the left. The car approaching the photographer ...
Churnet View Road, Oakamoor
A postcard view of a row of houses on Churnet View Road in Oakamoor. All of these houses remain (March 2023), although over the years most of them have been extended into their front gardens or altered....
Coffee Tavern, Oakamoor
The 1911 census lists that Annie Tipper was running a tobacconists and confectionery shop here at the Coffee Tavern. Her husband was working at the nearby copper works as a wire drawer. The Tipper family ...
Copper Works, Froghall
Thomas Bolton & Sons set up a copper works at nearby Oakamoor in 1852-3. By 1890 there was no more room for expansion at Oakamoor so they began building at Froghall. Major extensions followed in the ...
Copper works, Oakamoor
A postcard view of the copper works at Oakamoor.
In 1790 the Cheadle Copper and Brass Company acquired a tinplate works at Oakamoor and began smelting copper, mostly for factories in Birmingham. In ...
Cotton Dell, Oakamoor
Cotton Dell is
an area of woodland, 160 acres of which was purchased by the
Staffordshire Wildlife Trust in late 1999. The most notable rock feature
in the Dell is Bill's Rock. It is part of local ...
Cotton Village and Dell, Oakamoor
The village is situated on the edge of a dale in the Staffordshire Moorlands. In 1932 Cotton and Oakamoor became a separate ecclesiastical parish, although for centuries previously Cotton had been part ...
Cowley Tunnel, Gnosall
This postcard view of Cowley Tunnel on the Shropshire Union Canal near Gnosall was published by M Hall, Gnosall. It was franked on 10 July 1915 and sent to an address in Oakamoor.
Dimmingsdale Lodge, Oakamoor
Dimmingsdale Lodge was built in the late 19th century in an Italianate style as an entrance lodge for Dimmingsdale, which part of the Earl of Shrewsbury’s Alton Towers estate. Dimmingsdale now belongs ...
Dimmingsdale Lodge, Oakamoor
Dimmingsdale Lodge was built in the late 19th century in an Italianate style as an entrance lodge for Dimmingsdale, which part of the Earl of Shrewsbury’s Alton Towers estate. Dimmingsdale now belongs ...
Eaves Lane, Oakamoor
Looking north along Eaves Lane, Oakamoor, an easily recognisable scene today. Behind the wall on the left is the Lord Nelson public house.
Flooding at Oakamoor
A group of men ride away from a line of cottages in a small boat. Jack Heath is the man on horseback assisting in the rescue of the Finney family, during the 1927 flood.
This image is included by kind ...
Floods at Oakamoor
The River Churnet in flood at Oakamoor. In the background are some of the buildings of Thomas Bolton's Copper Works, since demolished. Jack Hathaway is the man in the middle of the group with hands on ...
Foundry workers, Froghall or Oakamoor
Group of workers, probably from Thomas Bolton and Sons copper works at either Froghall or Oakamoor. They are holding foundry tools, including tongs and pokers.
Fr. Fabers Retreat, Cotton Dell. Photographed by William Blake.
View of Fr. Faber’s Retreat, Cotton Dell, Nr. Oakamoor, Staffordshire.
Fr. Fabers Retreat, Cotton Dell. Photographed by William Blake.
View of Fr. Faber’s Retreat, Cotton Dell, Nr. Oakamoor, Staffordshire.
Friendly Society banner, Oakamoor
Friendly Society banner for Alfred Bolton Juvenile Friendly Society, probably associated with Churnet Valley Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, Oakamoor, Staffordshire. Rectangular silk banner, blue ...
Friendly Society banner, Oakamoor
Friendly Society banner for Churnet Valley Lodge No.126 of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, Oakamoor, Staffordshire. Rectangular silk banner, blue ground with red border. Painted illustration ...