Up platform, Stoke-on-Trent Railway Station
The view from the south end of the up (southbound) platform of Stoke Station. The photograph was taken before electrification in 1967, and before the four tracks were reduced to two. On the right of the ...
Uttoxeter By-Pass
A section of the Uttoxeter by-pass was started pre-WWII and was intended to be a dual carriageway. Work was halted due to the War Effort, and re-commenced some time later. Even by the late 1980s there ...
Uttoxeter Road, Blythe Bridge
The shop in the foreground was owned by Hodgkinsons, and run by a very elderly lady at this time. The building with the advertising poster on the side was Lewis'. By 2003 both shops had become private ...
Uttoxeter Station
Dove Bank Station was the original Churnet Valley station at Uttoxeter. Trains from Stoke-on-Trent to Derby called at the company’s Bridge Street station. To save passengers the inconvenience of travelling ...
Uxbridge Street, Burton-on-Trent
General view down Uxbridge Street with various horse-drawn vehicles.
Victoria Street, Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph was taken looking north along Victoria Street from the Shelton New Road junction. The terrace of houses on the left date from the last decade of the 19th century, those further down and ...
View down the Brewery Yard, Bass, Burton-on-Trent
View down the yard, looking towards Station Street. A sign over a doorway into the Union Room says " Bass Ratcliff & Gretton, Licensed Brewers of Beer For Sale" .
View from Bent’s Brewery, Stone
A postcard view looking south from the tower of Bent’s Brewery on Mount Road, Stone. The railway station can be glimpsed through the trees in the middle ground. The house to the left foreground is Field ...
View from Red Hill, Stone
A romanticised view of Stone from Red Hill. On the left is St. Michael's Church, in the centre can be seen Joule's Brewery and to the right is the Roman Catholic Church of St. Dominic. A steam locomotive ...
View near the station, Blythe Bridge
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 Cheddleton
The village as seen from the hillside above the junction of Station Road and Leek Road. In the foreground is the Caldon Canal, with the Parish Church in the upper right corner.
View of Old Penkridge Road, Cannock,
View of Stafford from Newport Road,
The area in the foreground, between Izaak Walton Walk and the railway station, was marshy and liable to flooding. In 1903 the Corporation bought the land and raised its level by three feet. The area ...
View of the Gypsum Works, Stowe-by-Chartley,
Gypsum is a source of plaster of Paris and was mined at the Normanwood Gypsum Mine at Hixon. The shaft was near Stowe. Gypsum was sent from Normanwood to London to make castings, particularly for dentists. ...
View of Tipping Street, Stafford,
Tipping Street has also been named Chipping Street, Dog Lane and The Diglake.
The junction between Tipping Street and Eastgate Street was the site of the old crockery market; it is still known as Pitcher ...