The “Screens” at Beaudesert Hall
Pictured is an area that was known as the “Screens”, it was a space under the Great Hall Gallery. On the left the arch in the Screen linen-fold panelling led into the Great Hall. On the right the stone ...
The Bishop’s Palace, Lichfield
This postcard view shows the south-east front of the Bishop’s Palace in the Cathedral Close at Lichfield. The Grade I listed stone building of two storeys with dormer windows in the roof has a date of ...
The Boiler House at Beaudesert Hall
The old beams used for this timber framed and plaster structure were purchased from demolished cottages. The building was created to house the boiler house in a small courtyard to the north of the Hall ...
The Bottle Lodge , Tixall
Photograph of the Pepper Pot Lodge at Tixall before restoration.
The Bottle Lodge or Pepperpot Lodge, and originally called Upper Lodge, Tixall.
Grade II listed, this is a curious octagonal lodge ...
The Bottle Lodge and stables , Tixall
Photograph of the Bottle Lodge and stables at Tixall before restoration.
The Bottle Lodge, Tixall
Photographic postcard of the Bottle Lodge or Pepperpot Lodge, and originally called Upper Lodge, Tixall.
Grade II listed, this is a curious octagonal lodge in ashlar sandstone with an ogee stone vaulted ...
The Cottage, Slitting Mill, Rugeley
The thatched cottage, with the address no. 2 Slitting Mill Road stood near the then quarry, and was demolished in about 1969. It was said to be about 300 years old by its last resident Mr Major Harley, ...
The Crooked House, Himley
Two men standing in the doorway of the Glynne Arms, also known as the Crooked House. Above the door the licencee's sign states that the publican at the time was Sarah A. Glaze and that the house served ...
The Dairy House, Trentham. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape with a view of the Dairy House at Trentham, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
The Darlaston Café, Meaford, near Stone
A postcard view of the Darlaston Café which stood on the eastern side of the A34 Stoke-on-Trent to Stone Road, close to the Darlaston Inn. It was one of a number of road-side cafés and petrol ...
The Dining Room, Chillington Hall
This view of the Dining Room at Chillington Hall was taken by County Life in 1948.
The Dining Room with its delicate triglyph frieze, which has also been known as the ‘Eating Room’, was designed by ...
The Drawing Room at Wolseley Hall
Pictured is the Drawing Room at Wolseley Hall which was photographed by Country Life and featured in their magazine in 1910.
The Wolseley family had lived on the estate since Norman times. In the eighteenth ...
The Drawing Room, Hoar Cross Hall
Interior view of the Drawing Room at Hoar Cross Hall.
Hoar Cross Hall was built between 1862 and 1871 to the design of architect Henry Clutton for Hugo Meynell and his wife Emily Charlotte. Henry died ...
The Drawing Room, Hoar Cross Hall
Interior view of the Drawing Room at Hoar Cross Hall.
Hoar Cross Hall was built between 1862 and 1871 to the design of architect Henry Clutton for Hugo Meynell and his wife Emily Charlotte. Henry died ...
The Entrance Hall, Chillington Hall
This view of the Entrance Hall at Chillington Hall was taken by County Life in 1948.
The Entrance Hall or Vestibule was designed by Sir John Soane. His screen of columns frames the view through the ...
The Font. St. Mary's Church, Trentham. Photographed by William Blake.
Church interior with a view of the front at St. Mary's Church, Trentham, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
The Gallery, Hoar Cross Hall
The postcard shows the Gallery at Hoar Cross Hall. Hoar Cross Hall was built between 1862 and 1871 to the design of architect Henry Clutton for Hugo Meynell and his wife Emily Charlotte. Henry died ...
The Gothic Gateway , Enville Hall
The Enville Hall estate was landscaped between 1745 and 1755 by the 4th Earl of Stamford, using the services of the poet and landscape designer William Shenstone of Halesowen, and Sanderson Miller, a ...