Walk Mill Pool, near Eccleshall
A view of the mill pool created on the River Sow to drive Walk Mill. Walk Mill dates from the late eighteenth century and was used for grinding corn. There was an earlier mill on this site which was ...
Walk Mill Pool, near Eccleshall
A postcard view of the mill pool created on the River Sow to drive Walk Mill. Walk Mill dates from the late eighteenth century and was used for grinding corn. There was an earlier mill on this site which ...
Walk Mill, near Eccleshall
Walk Mill dates from the late eighteenth century and was used for grinding corn. There was an earlier mill on this site which was used for fulling or “walking” cloth, hence the name.
The waterwheel ...
Walton Heath, near Stone
A tinted postcard view published by A.W. Tilley, Newsagent and Stationers of 7 Radford Street, Stone.
Waterfall, Hints
A postcard view of a small waterfall at a weir which held water to form a fish pond formerly sited to the west of Rookery Lane, Hints, on the Black Brook at the point where it becomes the Bourne Brook.
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Waterfall, Rudyard Lake
A postcard view taken near to the dam wall at the south end of Rudyard Lake. Rudyard Lake is a reservoir constructed in 1797 by engineer John Rennie to feed the Caldon Branch of the Trent & Mersey Canal. ...
Waterside Scene. Photographed by William Blake.
River or lakeside scene including a man, boats and a house.
Unknown location.
West Park, Wolverhampton
The lake and walks at West Park, Wolverhampton. The Conservatory can be seen across the water. West Park was designed by Richard Hartland Vertegans and was opened on 6 June 1881 by the Mayor of Wolverhampton, ...
Weston Church, near Stafford
Looking over Weston Pool towards the church. The church, St. Andrew's, dates from the early thirteenth century, but the arcades and chancel arch are later. Two of the church bells date from the fourteenth ...
Weston Jones Mill, Norbury,
There has been a mill at Weston Jones since 1532.
This building was constructed in the eighteenth century, but was added to in the nineteenth century; it was derelict by 1914.
The mill wheel was ...
Westport Lake, Stoke-on-Trent
The camera is looking northwest over Westport Lake towards Bradwell Woods. The main railway line runs along the shoreline in front of the industrial buildings on Chemical Lane. There is more housing ...
Wild Thyme or Thymus polytrichus
Wild Thyme is a dwarf shrub with straggling stems commonly found on Carboniferous Limestone.
Flowering between May and August, its stem can grow up to 7cm in length.
This example was found growing ...
Wood Sage or Teucrium scorodonia
Wood Sage is a perennial found in dry open habitats on sandstone and limestone.
Flowering between July and September, it can grow up to a height of 20cm.
This example was found growing at Oakamoor ...
Wyrley and Essington Canal, near Lichfield
This postcard view shows a widebeam barge near to Lock number 14 on the former Wryley and Essington Canal. Lock 14 was one of a series of locks on the canal between Wall Lane and Fosseway Lane near Lichfield. ...
Yellow Archangel or Lamiastrum galeobdolon
Yellow Archangel is a common perennial found in rich woodland, chiefly on limestone and clay.
Flowering between May and June, it can grow up to 50cm in height.
This example was found growing at ...
Yellow Pimpernel or lysimachia nemorum
Yellow Pimpernel is a creeping perennial found in moist woodland.
Flowering between May and September, its stem can grow up to 30m in length.
This example was found growing at Madeley in Staffordshire, ...
Yellow Waterlily, or Nuphar lutea
You can spot this perennial plant living in lakes, canals, rivers and ponds, where its leaves float on the surface.
Flowering between June and August, it can grow up to 10cm in height.
This example ...
Yoxall Lodge
Yoxall Lodge was originally built as a hunting lodge in the Needwood Forest. The hunting lodge was acquired from Sir Nathanial Curzon by John Gisbourne and rebuilt as a comfortable Georgian country house ...