Oakamoor signal box
Oakamoor signal box, pictured during the 1960s. A platelayers' hut and crossing gates complete the scene.
This image is taken from the collection of the Churnet Valley Railway.
Oakamoor Station
Oakamoor Station stands on the North Staffordshire Railway's Churnet Valley line. It was built in about 1849 in typical N.S.R. picturesque Tudor style.
Oakamoor station porter
The porter Mr Gordon Brough at Oakamoor station in 1957.
This image is included by kind permission of the Churnet Valley Railway.
Oakamoor Station. Circa 1958.
The station porter Mrs. Rita Ecclestone has a go at bike riding on the "down" platform of Oakamoor Station during an obvious lull in traffic!
Those carefree days of the commuter seem a long way off ...
Oakamoor Village
View of the terraced houses in the village looking across the River Churnet. The village is so-called because it was originally covered with dwarf oaks.Thomas Bolton & Sons of Birmingham bought the village's ...
Oakamoor's prize-winning station staff
Station staff at Oakamoor are presented with certificates for winning second prize in British Railways' awards for best kept station gardens. The staff holding the awards are Rita Ecclestone and Gordon ...
Olive Plummer, Cook, Shugborough
Olive Plummer pictured outside Shugborough Hall. Olive was Cook at Shugborough from at least 1939 until 1949. She was born Olive Grundy at Glanford Brigg, Lincolnshire in 1895 and married Reginald Plummer ...
Passenger train at Oakamoor
A three-coach passenger service approaches Oakamoor in around 1957, hauled by Stanier class 4P steam locomotive number 42663.
Note the spur line to the right, heading into sidings at Bolton's Copper ...
Quarry sidings, Oakamoor
Moneystone quarry sidings at Oakamoor. The quarries at Cauldon Low and Froghall provided limestone for the agricultural and pottery industries. At one time thousands of men were employed in the quarrying ...
Railway worker at Oakamoor
Mrs Rita Ecclestone, Clerk and Porter at Oakamoor Station in the 1950s.
Rita is standing on the tracks and the view is looking towards the tunnel mouth. However, today you will be looking down a country ...
River Churnet at Oakamoor
This postcard view taken from the bridge over the River Churnet in Oakamoor, looks north towards houses on Churnet View Road. On the extreme right in the background the Village School can be seen. Most ...
Rock Cottage, Moneystone, near Oakamoor. Photographed by William Blake.
View of Rock Cottage at Moneystone, Staffordshire.
Sand train at Leekbrook Junction
Diesel locomotives 25290 and 25252 at Leekbrook junction.
Sand was carried from Hepworth's sand quarry at Oakamoor to St Helens, Merseyside for Pilkington glass. The last 'sand train' ran down the ...
Sand train at Oakamoor
A Yorkshire diesel shunting engine pulling a 'Sand Train' at Oakamoor sidings. Sand was carried from Moneystone sand quarry via the Churnet Valley line to St Helens, Merseyside for Pilkington glass.
The ...
Servants at Moor Court, Farley
A group of servants believed to have been part of the staff at Moor Court, Farley, near Alton. Moor Court was built in 1861 and was the home of the Bolton family, copper manufacturers at Oakamoor and ...
Spear Thistle or Cirsium vulgare
Spear Thistle is a common biennial of fields, roadsides, wastegrounds and gardens.
Flowering between July and October, it can grow to a height of 1.25m.
This example was found growing at Oakamoor ...
Spring Hill, Oakamoor
A quiet scene looking towards Spring Hill, Eaves Lane, Oakamoor.
Stafford Art Gallery, The Green, Stafford
This view of an exhibition in one of the galleries at Stafford’s Art Gallery was taken by Stafford photographer Tony Boydon.
Stafford Museum's origins lie with the Wragge Museum opened in the Borough ...