The Square, Norton Canes
This postcard view can still be identified today especially as the corner shop on the right is still standing. Note the gas lamp in road. In the photograph are shoppers and children, and people passing ...
The Star Inn, Cop Mere End, Eccleshall,
The Star Inn was once known as The Rising Sun.
The State Bed at Beaudesert Hall
This view of the State Bed in the State Bedroom at Beaudesert Hall is from a glass negative believed to have been taken prior to the fire in 1909 which was in an adjacent part of the building. The State ...
The State Bedroom at Beaudesert Hall
It is thought that the State Bedroom’s decoration and bed were original to the room from around the early 1700s and not altered as much as so many of Beaudesert’s rooms were after the 1909 fire. The ...
The State Dressing Room at Beaudesert Hall
Previously hung with Chinese wallpaper the State Dressing Room was badly damaged during the 1909 fire. During the repairs to the room it was given a completely different look by using old oak wainscot ...
The Tapestry Bedroom at Beaudesert Hall
Pictured is the Tapestry Bedroom. During the remodelling of Beaudesert this room was created from two rooms and given a Jacobean style appearance. The elaborate plaster ceiling was introduced, the floor ...
The Temple, Patshull Hall
The Doric Temple stands on the west side of the Great Pool at Patshull Hall, and is believed to have been designed by James Gibbs in about 1750. It was incorporated into the Temple Hotel in 1980.
The Traveller's Rest, Cheadle. Photographed by William Blake.
The Traveller's Rest public house on Ashbourne Road, Cheadle. The long low building behind the pub was a rope walk.
The Vestibule at Beaudesert Hall
The steps in the Vestibule are pictured leading up from the east front entrance door and through the two massive stone arches into an area known as the “Screens”, (a space under the Great Hall Gallery). ...
The Viaduct, Monsal Dale. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape including a steam train crossing the Monsal Dale Viaduct, Nr. Bakewell, Derbyshire.
The viaduct, spanning the River Wye, was built in the 1860s and carried passengers on the Midland Railway ...
The Views, Penkhull
The Views is an early 19th century house in extensive grounds, just to the south of Penkhull New Road close to Penkhull Green. A grade II listed building, it was the birthplace of Oliver (later Sir) ...
The Villas from Hunter's Way, Penkhull
The rear of one of the houses in The Villas development seen from Hunter's Way. This is number 12, "Rosemount", one of the largest houses in the development, built on the higher ground with a view over ...
The Villas from Hunter's Way, Penkhull.
A close up view of the rear of one of the houses, Number 12 "Rosemount", on the edge of The Villas development in Stoke. The photograph was taken from Hunter's Way, looking over the fence towards Boothen. ...
The Villas, Stokeville, Boothen and beyond from Hunter's Way, Penkhull
The camera is looking northeast over the houses in the Villas development from the higher ground on Hunter's Way. Faintly in the centre are the four floodlight pylons of the old Stoke City Victoria ground. ...
The Villas, Stokeville, Stoke-on-Trent
Number 16, The Villas, also known as "Whitmore", was a "first class house" (see below). The house has been extended and subsequently divided into flats.
The Stokeville Building Society was formed in ...
The Villas, Stokeville, Stoke-on-Trent
Numbers 23 and 24 The Villas, despite their size, are two "third class" houses (see below). Number 24 is adjacent to London Road and was used as a Doctor’s surgery. The house has been modified and extended ...
The Villas, Stokeville, Stoke-on-Trent
Numbers 6 and 6a, The Villas were originally a single 'third class house' (see below) which has been subsequently divided into two dwellings. A 2-storeyed stucco building, Italianate in style, with a ...
The Villas, Stokeville, Stoke-on-Trent
Number 5 The Villas is a detached "third class house" (see below) next to the centre turning circle. A 2-storeyed Stucco building with concrete tiled roof, Italianate in style. There is a tower at the ...