Uttoxeter Carnival
The arrival of the Carnival King and Queen from Leek, pictured at Uttoxeter railway station. A postcard view by G.S. McCann of Uttoxeter.
Uttoxeter Carnival
A carnival character in fancy dress exchanges a model train with a member of the station staff, watched by children, parents and colleagues.
This image is featured by kind permission of the Churnet ...
Uttoxeter fruit market
This image captures the bustle of business at Uttoxeter fruit market in around 1920.
Motor and horse-drawn vehicles laden with produce vie for the attention of busy shoppers in bowler hats and flat ...
Uttoxeter Station
An aerial view of Uttoxeter railway station and sidings.
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 ...
Uttoxeter station
Pictured here in around 1960, Uttoxeter remained an important junction on the route of the old North Staffordshire Railway.
To the south - behind the camera - the line still runs around the edge of ...
Uttoxeter station
Two North Staffordshire Railway staff pose for a photograph at Uttoxeter station in around 1900.
This station was an important junction for trains to Stoke, Derby, Burton-upon-Trent, Stafford, Ashbourne, ...
Uttoxeter Station
A local train pulls into Uttoxeter station on a bright spring day in 1915.
This train, pulled by a small tank engine, could be terminating here, or it could be travelling on to Ashbourne and Buxton. ...
Uttoxeter station football team
Twelve members of the Uttoxeter station football team pose for a photograph during the 1960s.
This image is included by kind permission of the Churnet Valley Railway.
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 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 of the approach to the Railway Station, Blythe Bridge
The cottages on the left have long since gone and been replaced by modern housing. A primitive telephone exchange was established in the house with the bay window. On the right can be seen the Railway ...
View of The Churnet Valley Railway, Uttoxeter
A photograph taken from the Uttoxeter Bypass bridge looking north towards Spath. The fields in the foreground left are now occupied by a scrap yard.
Village store and coffee house, Oakamoor
During the 1890s, this building doubled as both a village store and coffee house, serving the village of Oakamoor.
It must have been quite a novelty for such a small village to have a coffee house; ...
W.G. Bagnall Ltd., Engineering Works, Stafford
This view shows part of the Erecting Shops at W.G. Bagnall Ltd., which was established in 1870 in Castle Street, Stafford. Bagnall's first locomotive was produced in 1875, the company going on to produce ...
W.S. Leach, Wife & Dog at Knutton
Outdoor portrait of a man, a woman and a Staffordshire Bull Terrier taken at Knutton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Chimney stacks, railway signals and a church can be seen in the background.
The ...
Wagon Maintenance, Stubbs and Co. Salt Works, Stafford,
Railway wagon in for repair at the workshop, Stubbs Saltworks.
Brine deposits were discovered under Stafford Common in 1877, during a search for water supplies for the town. In 1893 the Stafford Salt ...
Wakes Sports, Gnosall
A postcard photograph taken at Gnosall Wakes in 1906. Sports and entertainments took place in a field by Gnosall railway station: the station buildings can be seen on the embankment in the background.
Standing ...