Cheddelton Flint Mill
The earliest reference to milling at Cheddleton dates back to 1253. The northern mill (just visible on the left hand edge) was built specifically to grind flint for the ceramic industry in the Potteries ...
Cheddelton Flint Mill
Four interior views of Cheddleton Flint Mill showing: colour grinding pans (top left), craftsman's corner (top right), grinding pan (bottom left), and the edge runner mill (bottom right).
The earliest ...
Consall Station
View of the down platform and station buildings at Consall Railway Station, looking towards Cheddleton.
Consall stands on the Churnet Valley Line of the North Staffordshire Railway and was opened ...
Consall Station
View of the up waiting room at Consall Railway Station, looking towards Cheddleton. Unusually, it is supported by a cantilever holding it above the Caldon Canal. In the distance can be seen the Black ...
Daniel and the Lions
Oil painting of Daniel surrounded by six lions. Daniel is sitting, wearing a long pink robe. Plain wooden frame. Inscription, bottom left: 'Findler / Painter / 1846'. Artist: Isaac Findler (1809-1888) ...
Dimmingsdale Lodge, Oakamoor
Dimmingsdale Lodge was built in the late 19th century in an Italianate style as an entrance lodge for Dimmingsdale, which part of the Earl of Shrewsbury’s Alton Towers estate. Dimmingsdale now belongs ...
Essex sow, Staffordshire County Show, Uttoxeter
Essex sow 'Cheddleton Daisy 13th', owned by Cheddleton Mental Hospital in competition at the Staffordshire County Show, held at Uttoxeter Racecourse.
Photographer: Gerald McCann of High Street, Uttoxeter....
Female imbecile ward, Stoke workhouse, Newcastle Road, Stoke-on-Trent
This plan is of the female imbecile ward (so called at the time) built in 1894 at Stoke workhouse on Newcastle Road. Workhouses were originally meant to be places where the poor could work in return for ...
Goodwin's Potters Millers on the Caldon Canal, Hanley
George Goodwin & Sons Westwood Mills site on the banks of the Caldon Canal just off Lichfield Street in the Eastwood area of Hanley. The company was founded in 1848 and had mills at Consall and Cheddleton. ...
Male imbecile ward, Stoke workhouse, Newcastle Road, Stoke-on-Trent
This plan is of the male imbecile ward (so called at the time) built in 1894 at Stoke workhouse on Newcastle Road. Workhouses were originally meant to be places where the poor could work in return for ...
Milton
Milton is situated in the north - east of the Potteries conurbation, south of the parish of Norton in the Moors and on the east side of the A53, the main road from Cobridge to Leek. A prominent hard ...
N.S.R. Electric Locomotive, Stafford,
A battery powered electric shunting locomotive (loco 0-4-0, N.S.R. No.1), in the Wolverhampton Road sidings.
This locomotive was built at Stoke Works in 1917 and withdrawn from service at the Oakamoor ...
Needlework samples by Annie Clowes
Samples of repair and construction work on cotton and linen. Examples of hemming, gathering, seams,darning, patching, placket opening and vent. Some specimens have pieces of paper pinned to the fabric ...
Oakamoor railway station
Oakamoor railway station, pictured during the 1950s. This style of architecture was a signature of the North Staffordshire Railway.
Varying examples of outstanding NSR architecture still survive today ...
Oakamoor railway station
Oakamoor railway station lies disused and overgrown in summer 1973.
Designed by A.W.N. Pugin, this style of architecture was a signature of the North Staffordshire Railway.
Varying examples of outstanding ...
Queen's Cinema Palace, Jupiter Street. Smallthorne, Stoke-on-Trent
This cinema was on the north side of Jupiter Street (formerly King Street South) near the corner of Mars Street, just off Ford Green Road. Around the time this photograph was taken, the Palace became ...
Rhyl express at Leek station
At Leek station on 15 June 1957, an unidentified 'Crab' 2-6-0 Mogul works its way to the front of the train, ready to take a trainful of passengers to the coast at Rhyl.
The locomotive probably owes ...
Rocester Station on the Churnet Valley line
Once rail services were withdrawn in the 1960s, many railway buildings became neglected and derelict, as seen here at Rocester.
Only a few railway workers houses remain as private dwellings.
However, ...