View of Oakamoor
A photographic postcard view of Oakamoor taken from Star Bank. In the foreground, centre left, can be seen the Cricketer's Arms, which probably dates from the construction of the turnpike road in 1762. ...
View of Oakamoor
View of Oakamoor from a postcard dated 1905.
Village store and coffee house, Oakamoor
During the 1890s, this building doubled as both a village store and coffee house, serving the village of Oakamoor.
It must have been quite a novelty for such a small village to have a coffee house; ...
Village view, Oakamoor
A general view of Oakamoor taken from Church Bank.
Postcard published by G. Hill and Sons, Stanley Street, Leek. Postmarked in Oakamoor on 4 January 1915 and sent by Angela to an address in Derby. ...
War Memorial, Oakmoor
A postcard view of the Grade II listed War Memorial on Carr Bank, Oakamoor, which commemorates the fallen of the First World War and the Second World War.
The memorial erected around 1919 has inscribed ...
Wild Angelica, or Angelica sylvestris
You can find this perennial plant in marshy fields, at stream sides, and in boggy woods.
Flowering between July and September, it can grow to a height of 1.5 metres.
This example was collected at ...
Wood Sage or Teucrium scorodonia
Wood Sage is a perennial found in dry open habitats on sandstone and limestone.
Flowering between July and September, it can grow up to a height of 20cm.
This example was found growing at Oakamoor ...
Workers at Bolton's Copper Works, Froghall
Harry Carr and Jack Beardmore at work at Bolton's Froghall Works. They are putting scrap copper into a furnace.
Thomas Bolton & Sons set up a copper works at nearby Oakamoor in 1852-3. By 1890 there ...