New Post Office, Leek Road, Stoke-on-Trent
Sited on the corner of Leek Road and Station Road in Stoke, this is the city's main letter and parcel sorting office. The New Post Office in Leek Road replaced the "new" Post Office, built 1930, in Station ...
Omnibus with Driver and Groom, Ingestre,
Omnibus at Ingestre with horses, driver and groom.
P. Warburton's lorry, New Street, Uttoxeter
The lorry is a Dennis Jubilant which was purchased by P. Warburton after the Second World War. The lorry finished its working life with a fairground operator.
Paradise street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This removal from Paradise Street was one of the many slum clearances that took place around this time. These residents were moved to Beattie Avenue, and generally people were removed to modern council ...
Patent Cast Iron Octagon Box Nave - an advertisement from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
Rough and potholed roads posed serious problems in this period, when a broken wheel could mean damaged cargo or long delays to a journey.
Tomorrow's World
Just imagine - to talk excitedly about ...
Payload Bulk Grain Semi Trailer, Shobnall, Burton-on-Trent
This Bass Charrington 15 tonne Payload Bulk Grain Semi Trailer with Scammel Tractor unit is being filled up at Shobnall. When Bass purchased the trailer in the 1970s it cost £2,441.
Pony and cart, Oaken
Pony and cart by Oaken Cottage in Codsall. The sign on the side of the cart reads T.H. Wikes, Codsall.
Thomas Henry Wilkes (1885-1933) was a farmer who lived at Roseville on Wolverhampton Road, Codsall. ...
Potteries Motor Transport bus, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This postcard view shows the first P.M.T bus to run from Newcastle-Under-Lyme to Audley.
Pottery crates at J J West, Crate makers, Navigation Road, Middleport
Crate making was an important ancillary trade for the pottery industry. Crate yards were usually small companies, but very important in reducing losses through transport breakages of finished pottery. ...
Proposed Commercial Canal - Declaration from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
A committee of subscribers to a scheme for a new canal are in uproar about the publication of a hand bill claiming to reflect their views.
At this time, the committee were taking on a weighty opponent, ...
Proposed Grand Commercial Canal - Pamphlet from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
In this statement, a group of landowners protest that they have been misrepresented in print.
They believe that they have been cast as supporters of a controversial new canal scheme, simply because ...
Railway delivery cart, The Close, Lichfield
Railway Hotel, Rugeley
Situated at the road junction by the Rugeley Trent Valley railway station entrance, the Railway Commercial Hotel is strictly speaking in Colton Parish. It was probably built around 1862-64. The proprietor ...
Rowland's Delivery Van, Stafford,
Rowland's were a well-known family firm in Stafford, owning a bakery and grocer's shops on Gaol Road and Crabbery Street. At the rear of their premises was a yard where they kept delivery vehicles.
Rowland's ...
Rowland's Horse-drawn Delivery Cart, Stafford,
Rowland's were a well-known family firm in Stafford, owning a bakery and grocer's shops on Gaol Road and Crabbery Street. At the rear of their premises was a yard where they kept delivery vehicles.
Rowland's ...
Rupert Hall Lorry in Tamworth floods
S. Rushton and son, Wesley Street, Blythe Bridge
Mr Rushton is ahead of the horse-drawn carriage delivering his bakery goods. His son is seated in the carriage.
Photograph donated by the Blythe Bridge and Forsbrook Local Historical Society, who ...
Samuel Barlow Coal Co. trucks, Glascote, Tamworth
Five Ford Thames six-wheeler trucks belonging to Samuel Barlow Coal Co. Ltd. pictured at an unidentified colliery. the drivers are (from left to right): Jack Healy, Albert Taylor, Johnny Holmes, unknown, ...