Motor Car Rally, Oakamoor
This postcard view shows a competing motor car labelled ‘310’ on a Hill-climb event on Star Bank, near to Cotton and Oakamoor. The car is a London registered 1928 Model V4 Standard, YW 2734.
The photograph ...
Motor race, Isle of Man
The start of the Gordon Bennett Eliminating Trials held on the Isle of Man. Car No.1 was a Star driven by F R Goodwin.
This is one of a set of photographs belonging to Mr F A Bolton, of Moorcourt, ...
Motor race, Oakamoor
Spectators, chauffeurs and cars at an early 'hill-climb' event which took place annually from about the turn of the century to the start of World War 1. The line-up is fronted by a Daimler from around ...
Motor race, Oakamoor
Approaching the finishing line at the top of Star Bank, Oakamoor. The approaching car has the registration number AY-172. This was an early 'hill-climb' event which took place annually from about the ...
Motorcycles, near Oakamoor
Motorcycles lined up at Star Bank, near Oakamoor. A. Reeves with a 4 h.p. Douglas, G. Child with a 3 1/2 h.p. Norton, W.C. Hardy with a 3 1/2 h.p. Sunbeam, a 2 3/4 h.p. Douglas, and Gerald McCann with ...
Musk Thistle or Carduus nutans
Musk Thistle is a common biennial found on limestone. The prickly stems are bare for some distance below the solitary nodding flower-heads.
Flowering between May and August, it can grow to a height ...
N.S.R. Electric Locomotive, Stafford,
A battery powered electric shunting locomotive (loco 0-4-0, N.S.R. No.1), in the Wolverhampton Road sidings.
This locomotive was built at Stoke Works in 1917 and withdrawn from service at the Oakamoor ...
Oakamoor
A view taken from the top of Oakamoor Tunnel, looking towards Alton. Botton left is the crossing keeper's house with the terrace of housing built for Bolton's copper workers known as The Island. Oakamoor ...
Oakamoor Church
Holy Trinity Church, Oakamoor was built in 1832 to designs by J.P. Pritchett of York.
Oakamoor Church: sepia drawing
'Oakamoor Church.' Showing a modern Gothic church (1832), built on a slope with a crypt on the east. It has a nave of four bays, and a south door into a tower on the west. There is distant landscape ...
Oakamoor Copper Works
This photograph shows the Yankee Mill, which is the bright/light coloured roof immediately to the right of the Big Mill Chimney. This was originally a three storey building, a bronze wire mill which burned ...
Oakamoor from Star Bank. Photographed by William Blake.
View of Oakamoor, Staffordshire, taken from Star Bank.
Oakamoor from the North Staffs Railway Bridge
The North Staffordshire Railway opened up a station in Oakamoor along its Churnet Valley line in 1849. The main line which ran through the village closed in 1965, although a single track remained open ...
Oakamoor level crossing
Photograph of the level crossing in Mill Road Oakamoor, and the Crossing Keepers Lodge, Oakamoor railway tunnel portal and crossing in the foreground, with the copper works and Holy Trinity Church in ...
Oakamoor railway station
Oakamoor railway station, pictured during the 1950s. This style of architecture was a signature of the North Staffordshire Railway.
Varying examples of outstanding NSR architecture still survive today ...
Oakamoor railway station
A member of British Railway staff, Mrs Rita Ecclestone, Clerk and Porter at Oakamoor Station, taking a moment's ease at Oakamoor station during the 1950s. This station was in a delightful setting, deep ...
Oakamoor railway station
Members of British Railways' staff go to work with some heavy luggage at Oakamoor station, while the passenger in the background, Ivan Bentley, looks on. Mr Ivan Bentley was the Permanent Way Forman for ...
Oakamoor railway station
Oakamoor railway station lies disused and overgrown in summer 1973.
Designed by A.W.N. Pugin, this style of architecture was a signature of the North Staffordshire Railway.
Varying examples of outstanding ...