Greengate Street, Stafford
This view was taken looking south from Market Square to Greengate Street in Stafford. Later in 1992 the town centre became pedestrianised and the A34 was re-routed around the town.
All of the buildings ...
Greengate Street, Stafford,
View of Greengate looking towards the Market Square.
On the left is Haycock and Tooth's ladies and gentlemen's outfitters shop, which opened in 1897.
The building with the bow windows is the Swan ...
Happy Days Coaches, Stafford
This Happy Days Coach 379 BRE, fleet number 82, was a Beadle LD with Beadle coach body new in 1954.
The Happy Days Coach business was started around 1922 by the Austin family. They operated originally ...
Happy Days Coaches, Stafford
In the centre of this photograph Mr W H Austin is pictured with his staff outside the Happy Days Coaches booking office on the corner of Derby Street and Railway Street in Stafford.
The Happy Days ...
Harper Brothers coach, Heath Hayes
Harper Brothers was founded in Heath Hayes in 1922 by Cecil G. Harper. 'Gloria de Luxe' was an early trade identity of Harper Brothers, a name apparently contrived from a mixture of Latin and French. ...
Hartshill Road, Stoke-on-Trent
A Ford Escort and a Potteries Motor Traction bus bound for Silverdale is bought to a halt by a police constable in Hartshill. This photograph was taken close to the junction with Queens Road, looking ...
Hickson Bros 'Gilford' coach, Holloway, Lady Bank, Tamworth
Built by the Gilford Motor Company, High Wycombe, this coach was a 6 cylinder petrol Over Head Valve engine, which did 10 miles at best to the gallon. Passenger access was through the front near side ...
High Street, Burton-upon-Trent
A view of High Street in Burton-upon-Trent, with Barnaby's Bar to the right.
High Street, Eccleshall,
The timber framed building on the right is the Market Hall (built in 1884) which replaced the Old Market Hall and was constructed to the same design. Later used as a reading room, and briefly rented ...
High Street, Eccleshall,
On the far right is the Royal Oak Inn, one of Eccleshall's two coaching inns on the London to Chester road (the other is the King's Arms on Stafford Street). With the advent of the railway the landlord ...
High Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The tall building on the left hand side of this photograph was the original covered Market Hall. The Hall was built in 1854, in order to supplement the portable street markets that took place outside, ...
High Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This very busy scene is looking south down the High Street. The ring road was built in the 1960s and this removed the congestion from the town.
High Street, Talke Pits
A group of schoolchildren about to go on a coach trip. To the right is a Crosville's coach.
Highfield Manor, Stafford,
Highfield Manor was built in 1880 by David Hollin, a boot and shoe manufacturer. The gardens were influenced by those at Versailles, and Mr Hollins employed three gardeners.
In 1900 Mr Hollin commissioned ...
Horse-drawn Carriage outside Highfield Manor, Stafford,
The owner of Highfield Manor, David Hollin (1844-1916), with his wife Emma (1842-1926) and niece Edith Emily Jackson in a horse-drawn carriage.
Highfield Manor, built in 1880, was on Newport Road ...
Ironmarket, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The name of Ironmarket no doubt came from the fact that Newcastle was a centre of ironmaking in the 14th century. The corner of the Lancaster Buildings can just be made out on the right hand side of the ...
Ironmarket, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Potteries Motor Traction buses pick up and drop off passengers on a gloomy, misty November morning on Ironmarket, Newcastle-under-Lyme. On the left is the ornate cast iron awning belonging to Henry White's ...
Jeffrey's Garage in Brakespeare Street, Goldenhill, Stoke-on-Trent
The photograph shows W Jeffrey & Sons bus and coach garage in Brakespeare Street (to the left) in Goldenhill. This is the rear entrance to the garage which fronted onto Charlotte Street. The garage has ...