Victoria Park, Stafford
Watercolour painting by Jean Margaret Peace. A View of Victoria Park in November, about 1950.
The land between Izaak Walton Walk and the railway station was marshy and liable to flooding. In 1903 the ...
Victoria Park, Tunstall
The main entrance gates to the park are on Victoria Park Road and were made by William Durose, an art metal worker from Tunstall. He produced a pair of elaborate wrought-iron carriage gates with square ...
Victoria Theatre, Hartshill Road, Hartshill
This two-storey building was constructed between 1900 and 1924. It has a cellar and a later large extension attached to the right side of the building. There have been extensive modifications to the building....
Victoria Theatre, Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent
This is the "old" Victoria Theatre on the corner of Hartshill Road and Victoria Street in Hartshill. The theatre moved to a purpose built site on Etruria Road, becoming the New Vic Theatre, in 1986. The ...
View of Bridge Street, Stafford
On the far right is Burgess' agricultural engineers, now replaced by Allied Carpets.
The clock tower belongs to the Royal Brine Baths, built in 1892. The open-sided tower was used by the fire brigade ...
View of Corporation Street, Tamworth
On the left can be seen the Cemetery and railings of the Carnegie Library. The Assembly Rooms are directly ahead, and the Drill Hall is on the right hand side. The Assembly rooms were built by a public ...
View of Kinver Library, High Street, Kinver
The library can be seen here in the background. This was built as the National School for boys and girls in 1851. When new schools were eventually built, it became the village library.
View of Stafford from the top of the Gasometer,
View from the gasworks on Chell Road.
To the left is St. Mary's Church, the parish church of Stafford. Originally the church possessed a spire, but it was blown down in 1593 during a storm, bringing ...
View of the Ironmarket, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The building seen on the far right hand side of this photograph was a private house, which was demolished in 1930. The Silverdale Equitable Industrial Co-operative Society purchased the site and built ...
View of the swimming pool, Uttoxeter
View of the swimming pool soon after it opened in July 1967.
View over the Golf Links, Stockton Brook
Water Polo match, Brine Baths, Stafford
A water polo match taking place at Stafford's Royal Brine baths, believed to that played between English Electric Swimming Club and Coventry in May 1950. Coventry won 6-1.
Reproduced by kind permission ...
Wedgwood Institute, Queen Street, Burslem
The Wedgwood Memorial Institute in Queen Street, Burslem, is an example of a Grade II Listed Building. It was constructed between 1863 and 1869. The street front of the building has elaborate decoration, ...
Wedgwood Museum Gallery, Barlaston,
The first 'new' museum at the Wedgwood factory, which was a major part of the Visitor Centre concept, inaugurated in September 1975.
Photograph by courtesy of the Trustees of the Wedgwood Museum, Barlaston, ...
William Salt Library, Stafford
A view of 18 and 19 Eastgate Street, Stafford, the home of the William Salt Library between 1918 and 2022. Number 19, a Grade II* listed Georgian town house, is now believed to have a hidden timber core ...
Wolverhampton - Grand Stand at Race Course: lithograph
'The Grand Stand, Wolverhampton Race Course.' West north west view showing a substantial building of iron and brick of three tiers. The church and a group of houses are shown to the right. [This was ...
Wolverhampton - Grand Stand: woodcut engraving
'Wolverhampton Grand Stand (see page 126).' Showing the grand stand full of crowds on a race day.Letterpress on back is dateable to August, 1844 [?Illustrated London News]. Anonymous.
Wombourne Library
Wombourne Library stands on Windmill Bank and was opened in 1960