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Cross Heath Cotton Mill, Newcastle-under-Lyme

This photograph shows the cotton mill in Cross Heath in 1960. The mill was built by Richard Thompson in 1797 and continued to manufacture textiles until the late 1960s. Thompson was a conscientious employer ...

Crowd standing under gateway, Leek

A group of adults and children stand beneath the arches of large fake castellated gateway. On the right, facing towards Heywood Street is the lower dyehouse, which became the Leek Post building.

Cutting headwear and gloves, Job White & Sons Ltd, Compton Mill, Leek

The picture was one of a number taken at Job White & Sons factory during the year of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation.

Dains Mill, Upper Hulme

Thomas Hine loading corn at Dains Mill, Upper Hulme. The water powered mill at Dains Mill dates back to around 1600. Four generations of the Hines family worked the mill from 1802. For a while, the ...

Dairy workers, Fole Dairy, near Uttoxeter

preparation of condensed milk in the old mill building at Fole Dairy. Fole dairy occupied the site of Fole Mill, originally built in 1771 for Henry Copestake. The Dairy opened in the 1920s and was ...

Dale Mills, Adkins Street, Cobridge

Constructed in 1922, this flint mill is a rectangular factory complex. It is approximately seven rooms long by four rooms deep and consists of five main buildings. One of the buildings, at the north-west ...

Dalehall Mills, Newport Lane, Middleport

Dalehall Mills is a mill used in the pottery industry, which was constructed between 1878 and 1900. It is three storeys high and is two rooms wide by two rooms deep. The front of the building has a large ...

Deepmore Mill, Shareshill

Deepmore Mill stands on the Saredon Brook and was in existence in 1775. By 1829 it was owned by the Monckton family and was working as a corn and blade mill. The mill continued in use until about 1900 ...

Directors of Job White & Sons Ltd, Compton Mills, Leek

On the left is Mr Job White, next to him is Mr Harry White, and on the right is Mr Charlie L. White.

Dovedale - Thorpe Mill: pen and sepia drawing

'Thorpe Mill and entrance into Dovedale,'showing an 18th century building.'T.P.W.,' [Thomas Peploe Wood.]

Doveridge Mill, near Uttoxeter

A postcard view of Doveridge Mill, on the Derbyshire side of the River Dove. On the left there is a man standing by the mill wheel, and centre right a man and a child. This postcard was published by ...

E. J. Holdcroft and Sons, Blythe Bridge Mill, Blythe Bridge

Photograph donated by the Blythe Bridge and Forsbrook Local Historical Society, who retain copyright ownership.

E.B. & W.R. Chapman's Sheepskin Works, Tutbury

E.B. & W.R. Chapman's Sheepskin Works, at the Old Mill, Tutbury. The corn mill in Tutbury was converted to use as a tannery in 1913-14 by E.B. Chapman. His son Walter expaned the business to produce ...

Edial: sepia wash drawing

Showing what appears to be a ruined barn near a stream. Anonymous, [Henry Curzon Allport.]

Ellastone Mill

Enderley Mill, Enderley Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme

Enderley Mills were founded in 1881 by Richard Stanway and specialised in the manufacture of uniforms. At the time of Stanway's ownership the Mill was viewed as a model one by the Government Inspector, ...

Entrance to Shelton Steel & Iron Works, Newport Lane, Middleport

ooking south near the end of Newport Lane at one of the entrances to Shelton Steel Works. The buildings on the right, partly hidden by the Shelton signboard, is Oliver's Mill with its calcining oven. ...

Essington Windmill

This photograph taken in the 1920s is almost certainly Essington Windmill, Staffordshire's only post-mill All that remains today is the base and central post. It believed to have been built by Henry ...