Testing the New Riverway Bridge, Stafford
This view is from the town side of the bridge, looking towards Littleworth. The road officially opened on 15 December 1914. A plaque on the right hand pillar commemorates the event.
Plumblines are ...
The River Sow at Shugborough
A photograph taken from the Essex Bridge at Shugborough showing where the old course of the River Sow (right) joins the new course created in about 1805, which in turn joins the River Trent at the Essex ...
The Meece at Mill Meece
The Meece Brook, viewed from Mill Meece bridge, is a tributary of the River Sow.
A postcard view published by E.J. Hurlstone of Eccleshall.
The Mill Pool, Victoria Park, Stafford
A postcard view from the footbridge by the mill pool looking across Victoria Park and the River Sow towards the railway station buildings in the distance. Until 1957 the Town Mill stood near this site; ...
The Mill Stafford
A view from Isaac Walton Walk, Stafford. In the background is the Old Mill and in the foreground is the Weir on the River Sow.
The new Hough Bridge, Pershall, near Eccleshall
A view of the ford and the then newly installed footbridge over the River Sow close to the Hough at Pershall, near Eccleshall. The Hough farm is further along the road in this photograph.
A postcard ...
The Old Mill and Weir, Stafford
Colour-tinted postcard of view of the Town Mill and mill pond in Stafford. The mill at this time was occupied by J. Brookfield and Son, who produced animal feed. The mill was built by George Brewster ...
The Ruins and The Orangery
A view from the west front of Shugborough Hall, looking towards the River Sow and showing the Ruin, built in about 1749-1750, and the Orangery to the right, built in 1764 by James 'Athenian' Stuart and ...
The Ruins, Shugborough
The Ruin is situated on the banks of the River Sow; this monument was built in abou 1749-1750 using stone from sections of Shugborough Hall pulled down during alterations. The architect was Thomas Wright ...
The Weir Stafford
The Weir on the River Sow in Stafford Park. In the background is the Station Hotel.
The Weir, Great Haywood
A view looking north from the Essex Bridge. On the left can be seen the weir which maintains the level of the ornamental stretch of water at Shugborough which was the original course of the River Sow. ...
The Weir, Stafford
Looking across to the Station Hotel. Victoria Park has yet to be developed. The land between Izaak Walton Walk and the railway station were marshy and liable to flooding. In 1903 the Corporation bought ...
The West Front of Shugborough
A view of the west front of Shugborough, showing the full extent of the Ruin on the banks of the River Sow. To the left can be seen the Chinese House, built in 1747, and the Orangery, built in 1764 by ...
Tixall Bridge, near Milford
This Is the bridge over the Sow in Holdiford Road, Milford at the point where the river is the boundary between Berkswich and Tixall parishes.
Postcard published by William Shaw of Burslem.
Tixall Hall and Gatehouse: water colour painting
'Tixall.' Showing a three storey Jacobean gatehouse and a two storey Georgian Hall behind, in a park with a river winding in the foreground. There are also two arches of a bridge to the left in the ...
Town Mill, Stafford
The town mill was built by George Brewster in 1834, on the site of the medieval town mill. It was powered by two wheels, fed from the mill pool by a culvert running under the road.
The mill was demolished ...
Trentham Boating Lake,
Trentham Hall was built in the 1630s for the Dukes of Sutherland. The Caroline house was replaced in the early eighteenth century by one in a Classical style. Capability Brown and Henry Holland worked ...
Two Waters Way, Stafford
Looking south west towards Kingston Hill and Tixall Road, the two new bridges pictured form part of a new pedestrian and cycle route over the Rivers Penk and Sow along with an elevated section across ...