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Aqualate Hall

This postcard view shows Aqualate Hall by John Nash. The original Hall was built for Edwin Skrymsher in the early seventeenth century. Sir John Boughey bought the house in the late eighteenth century ...

Aqualate Hall,

The original Aqualate Hall was built for Edwin Skrymsher in the early seventeenth century. Sir John Boughey bought the house in the late eighteenth century and commissioned John Nash to rebuild it in ...

Argyll Road, Longton. Photographed by William Blake.

Street scene taken at Argyll Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. This is one of many street scenes in the Blake Collection. Most of them were taken in the Normacot and Dresden areas near ...

Armitage School

A view of Armitage School at the junction of Rugeley Road and Church Lane. It became the home of Armitage Youth Centre around 1975. The hall is also used by other community groups. The school was replaced ...

Audmore House, Gnosall

A postcard photograph of Audmore House, Gnosall. It is believed to have been built for the Hickin family as a farm house by 1680. The Rev. W. Hickin, Vicar of Gnosall, was living here by the early 19th ...

Audmore Road, Gnosall

Looking south on Audmore Road with the church of St Lawrence on the left. The building with the tall chimney is in Sellman Street close to its junction with High Street and Audmore Road. Originally Grosvenor's ...

Baggeridge Woods Colliery, Himley

A view of base of the boiler house chimney stack and one of the sets of winding gear. Baggeridge was sunk in February 1899, mining a coal seam at a depth of 600 feet. A second shaft was sunk in 1910 ...

Bandstand and Bowling Green, Cannock

A very early postcard where the message and picture is on the same side; the address only being on the reverse. This style of postcard became obsolete when divided back cards were introduced in Great ...

Bank Street, Heath Hayes

A view of Bank Street, Heath Hayes with what are now numbers 77, 79 and 81 Bank Street on the right. The houses are now rendered in white, but the doors and windows of the two left-hand buildings can ...

Bar Hill, Madeley

A postcard view of Madeley Village taken looking north from a field by Bar Hill towards Poolside on the A525, close to the junction with The Holborn. Although it is mostly hidden by the trees, the second ...

Barlaston Hall

Barlaston Hall stands on a hill, overlooking the Trent Valley. It was built in 1756 for Thomas Mills, an attorney from Leek. The design is attributed to Sir Robert Taylor. In 1774 Barlaston Hall featured ...

Barlaston Railway Station,

Bass & Co. Ltd., Middle Brewery, Burton-upon-Trent

Bass & Co. Ltd.’s Middle Brewery was completed in 1858 and stood to the west of Guild Street in Burton-upon-Trent. Photograph from Boots Fine Art Views of Burton, published by Boots Limited in the ...

Bass & Co. Ltd., Middle Yard, Burton-upon-Trent

Looking west along Bass & Co. Ltd.’s Middle Yard showing the cask washing sheds. Middle Yard lay between the Bass Old and Middle Breweries. Photograph from Boots Fine Art Views of Burton, published ...

Bass & Co. Ltd., New Brewery, Burton-upon-Trent

Bass & Co. Ltd.’s New Brewery was built in 1863-1864 and stood between Station Street and Duke Street, and east of Union Street, Burton-upon-Trent. Photograph from Boots Fine Art Views of Burton, published ...

Bass & Co. Ltd., Old Brewery, Burton-upon-Trent

Bass & Co. Ltd.’s Old Brewery viewed from the River Trent, Burton-upon-Trent. The Bass family had been brewing on this site since 1777. The distinctive Water Tower was built in 1866. The chimneys to ...

Bass & Co. Ltd., Shobnall Maltings, Burton-upon-Trent

Bass & Co. Ltd.’s Shobnall Maltings consisted of seven linked ranges of buildings built between 1873 and 1876. This enormous industrial site also included an ale store, a cask washing and repair facility, ...

Bass & Co., Ltd. Locomotive and Director's Coach, Burton-upon-Trent

An 0-4-0 saddle tank locomotive pulls an observation carriage containing visitors to the Bass brewery site, on a tour of the business in Burton-upon-Trent. Photograph from 'Boots Fine Art Views of ...