Fish Pond, Hawkesyard Priory, Armitage
Situated on the hill side above the Hawkesyard Priory, this spring-fed fish pond may have originally have been a carp pool which was used to provide fish for food. It would undoubtedly also have had ...
Fish Pond, Hints
A postcard view of the fish pond which formerly existed west of Rookery lane in Hints, fed by the Black or Bourne Brook.
Postcard photographed and published by Mill's Studios, St. John Street, Lichfield. ...
Fishing at Walk Mill, Bishop's Offley
Arthur and Winnie Boulton of Whittington, near Eccleshall fishing in Walk Mill Pool. The mill buildings can be seen in the background.
Walk Mill dates from the late eighteenth century and was used ...
Fishing Lodge, Tittesworth Reservior
Tittesworth Reservoir was built in 1858 by the damming of Meer Brook and the River Churnet. It was originally known as New Pool and was enlarged between 1959 and 1962. The Fishing Lodge acts as a visitor ...
Fishing, Willenhall area
A photograph taken by Harold Cartwright of Willenhall, so it could have been taken in the area. Possibly Moseley Park or Willenhall Memorial Park.
Fishpond, St. Thomas' Priory Farm, Stafford,
Medieval fishponds were used for breeding fish, and for holding those caught in rivers and ponds until required. This fishpond would have supplied St. Thomas' Priory, which was broken up during the Dissolution.
The ...
Foxglove or Digitalis purpurea
Foxglove, a biennial, prefers acidic soils in hedgerows and river banks.
Flowering between June and September and , it can grow up to 1m in height.
This example was found growing at Armitage in ...
Freeford Hall: water colour painting
South view showing a two storeyed Georgian brick house seen across a lake. There is parkland on the right.(See SV IV. 203a, for an engraved copy.)Anonymous, [S. Shaw.]
Furnace Pools, Cannock Chase
This postcard is believed to show Furnace Pools which are alongside the A460 Hednesford to Rugeley Road close to where Marquis Drive crosses the maion road.
Postcard published by DVP, 117 Loughborough ...
G.T. Heath Boat Hire, Rudyard Lake
George Heath was a member of a local farming family. He became a coal merchant and ran this boat hiring business at the Dam at Rudyard Lake from the early 1900s until 1940.
Gailey Pool, near Cannock
The pool is one of three canal-feeding pools or reservoirs at the highest point of the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal. The pool was engineered by John Robinson McClean and was completed in 1855.
Gala Day, Rudyard Lake
Regatta days were a regular feature at Rudyard Lake in the early part of the 20th century. This postcard view is looking north from the Dam.
Germander Speedwell or Veronica chamaedrys
Germander Speedwell is a common perennial found around hedgebanks.
Flowering between March and July, its can grow to a height of 35cm.
This example was found growing at Kinver in Staffordshire, ...
Girls at a Rudyard Hotel
With the coming of the railway, Rudyard Lake became a popular rural destination for the people of Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire.
It is interesting to note that the famous writer, Rudyard Kipling, ...
Goat's Rue, or Galega officinalis
This subshrub starts from the south and continues to colonise damp places.
Flowering between July and September, it can grow up to 150cm in height.
This example was found growing at Broughton Pool, ...
Great Gate, near Hollington
This postcard view was taken looking west along Sandy Lane in Great Gate. On the left and in the centre the two cottages remain although with some changes (September 2023), the stone building on the right ...
Great Hartwell Farm, Rough Close
View of a moated farm taken, Great Hartwell Farm, Rough Close, near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Photographed by William Blake.