Walking Match, Armitage
Pictured is the start of the Armitage Club and Institute Walking Match, an image taken from a glass negative.
The Walking Match commenced at the junction of Old Road and New Road. In the background ...
Wall Bridge over the River Churnet, Leek
View of the bridge, which stands at the foot of Ladderedge on the A53 Newcastle Road. The wintery scene was used as a postcard at Christmas.
Wallash, Mayfield
This postcard view taken in Wallash looks north-east along the B5032 Ashbourne Road in Mayfield. The three-storey building on the left and the cottages on the right remain (January 2023).
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Walsall Road, Cannock
Walsall Road at the junction with Mill Street, Cannock. The tall building at the extreme left of the photograph still exists but Collins shoe shop and its adjoining building were demolished to make way ...
Walton Rise, Walton, near Stone
A postcard view looking north along Manor Rise, Walton, Stone. These distinctive flat-roofed houses were built in 1941-1942 to house munitions working at the Royal Ordnance Factory at Swynnerton.
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War Memorial, Hednesford
A view of Hednesford's War Memorial on the Rugeley Road soon after it was unveiled in 1922. Behind the fence on the left was the site of Hednesford's pool which dried up in the 1880s when its feeder brook ...
Warburton's lorries, Market Place, Uttoxeter
Pictured are three lorries purchased for P. Warburton's road haulage company after the Second World War. At the front is a rare Proctor, then a Thorneycroft, then a Dennis Jubilant. He also bought a ...
Watling Street, Cannock
Looking towards Four Crosses on Watling Street near Cannock, now the A5. This view is now virtually unrecognisable as it is now Longford Island. An entrance to the grounds of Longford House is visible ...
Watling Street, Quarry Hill, Tamworth
Lesters general store can be seen on the far left hand side of this photograph, with the cast iron canopy outside.
Watling Street, Quarry Hill, Tamworth
Watling Street, Stretton, near Penkridge
A postcard view of a quiet scene on the Watling Street (A5) at Stretton. The cottage on the right remains (January 2020). The two people outside the doorway of the cottage are Joseph Onion and his younger ...
Watling Street, Wilnecote, Tamworth
Quarry Bank Hill can be seen in the background of this photograph.
Wellington Silk Mills, Strangman Street, Leek
The mill was owned by Thomas Whittles Ltd., a family firm which traded from the premises for over a century, between the late 1860s until the 1970s. The company was the last firm in Leek involved in the ...
West Hill, Hednesford
This street is officially now named Green Heath Road but is still referred to locally as West Hill. The building with the steeple on the right is West Hill Primary School. This and some of the houses ...
Western Springs Road, Rugeley
A postcard view of a quiet scene looking south-east on the Western Springs Road, Rugeley, with a junction with Sheep Fair on the left.
Weston Village
A postcard view of a quiet scene on Green Road, Weston, taken by Alfred McCann, photographer of Uttoxeter.
This postcard was franked in Weston on 16 September 1908 and sent to an address in Birmingham....
Weston Village
A postcard view of a quiet scene in Weston. In the centre is the spire of St. Andrew's Church which dates from the early thirteenth century, but the arcades and chancel arch are later. Two of the church ...
Wetwood Post Office, near Eccleshall
A postcard view of Wetwood Post Office next to a junction with the Eccleshall Road (B5026) in Wetwood. The building on the right is Broughton Institute which later became known as Broughton Parish Room.
This ...