Bolton's Copper Works, Froghall, Kingsley
Thomas Bolton & Sons set up a copper works at nearby Oakamoor in 1852-3. By 1890 there was no more room for expansion at Oakamoor so they began building at Froghall. Major extensions followed in the 1930s, ...
Boon Hill, Audley
The bottom of Boon Hill Road at its junction with Bignall End Road. Audley Station can just be seen on the right and the chimneys of Diglake Colliery are seen through the trees.
Bosley station
Bosley Station, Cheshire, pictured around 1963 and still in use.
Note the Ford Anglia saloon car, the equivalent of a Ford Ka today!
A semaphore railway signal stands to the left of the building.
This ...
Bradwell Woods and Fowlea Brook, Tunstall
Looking south west over the Fowlea Brook towards the higher ground of Bradwell Woods. The photograph was taken from near the end of Watergate Street by Copp Lane. Running across the centre is the main ...
Branch railway, Normacot
The branch railway from Normacot to Cinderhill (Park Hall)Colliery. This is the course of the line only, the track had been lifted by the time this photograph was taken.
Brandy Row or Foundry View, Huntington
The houses to the front left were known as Brandy Row or Foundry View. The houses seen in the background were on Gravel Lane, these houses stood on the site of what is now housing on the current line ...
Brereton Collieries, Rugeley
A postcard view of Brereton Collieries. The pit on the right was originally known as Brick-Kiln pit, latterly Brereton Colliery which closed in 1960, the same year that production started at nearby Lea ...
Bridge over the River Churnet
Two smartly-dressed Edwardian men pose on a bridge spanning the River Churnet.
The walkway appears to be supported by a sturdy tree trunk spanning the two river banks.
As the river is prone to flooding, ...
Bridge over the River Dove, Tutbury
The present Tutbury Bridge was built around 1817. Beyond can be seen the bridge for the railway line which linked Tutbury Plaster Mill to the North Staffordshire Railway branch line between Uttoxeter ...
Bridge over the River Dove, Tutbury
The present Tutbury road bridge was built around 1817. In front can be seen the bridge for the railway line which linked Tutbury Plaster Mill to the North Staffordshire Railway branch line between Uttoxeter ...
Bridgewater's brewhouse, Dudley Wood
The brewhouse at the rear of the Victoria Inn, Dudley Wood Road, one of a series of photographs taken showing subsidence of buildings due to coal mining. The Victoria Inn and associated brewhouse belonged ...
Brindley Heath Railway Station from Moors Gorse, near Hednesford
Roughly midway in-between Hednesford (to the left) and Rugeley, Moors Gorse is the site of a water pumping station that, at the time of this photograph, was steam driven. Its front wall adjacent to the ...
Brindley Valley, Cannock Chase
This is Brindley Heath Road in 1980, one of a number of photographs Jake Whitehouse took of locations that feature in postcards from the Great War era. This is the route that the military railway took ...
Brittain's Paper Mills, Cheddleton
A view of Brittain's Paper Mills at Cheddleton with the Caldon Canal passing by. A paper mill has stood on this site at Cheddleton since 1797, when the paper was made by hand. It was built by the pottery ...
Broad Hill, Gnosall
A postcard view of a labourer taking a rest with a horse and a cart loaded with wood on Broad Hill, near Gnosall.
In the background the railway bridge spans the former L&NWR Shropshire Union Railway ...
Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
The Officers' Huts of "R" and "S" Lines are positioned aside each other off Camp Road close to Bednall Belt, in the distance is the junction of Chase Road. The three people in the foreground appear in ...
Brookfield Foundry and Kerr Stuart engineering works, Whieldon Road, Stoke-on-Trent
This is a view west from the Whieldon Road area towards the Brookfield Foundry. The main railway line runs in front of the buildings and behind can be seen the floodlight pylons of the original Stoke ...
Brookfield Foundry, Stoke-on-Trent
The photograph shows what was the California Engineering Works of the locomotive builders, Kerr Stuart & Co. Railway locomotives had been produced on this site since 1892. Kerr Stuart closed down in ...