Essington Windmill
View of the ruined windmill at Essington. Originally built in 1681 by Henry Vernon, it was rebuilt with a brick roundhouse in the late 18th century. It worked with four common sails and two pairs of ...
Etruria Industrial Museum, Lower Bedford Street, Etruria.
The Etruscan Mill was built in 1857 alongside the Trent and Mersey Canal. The Mill's purpose was to grind materials for the agricultural and pottery industries, such as cattle bone and flint. Bone meal ...
Etruria Vale Mills on the Caldon Canal, Stoke-on-Trent
On the left is Mellor's Minerals flint mill on the Caldon Canal off Etruria Vale Road (to the left). The camera is looking north along the canal with the (now demolished) houses on Bedford Street in the ...
Etruria works: water colour painting
Showing a view of a large factory by a canal. The factory is a well-balanced building of many sections with a domed block at each end. There is a bridge to the left, then a kiln and offices, with a ...
Excavating the mill wheel, White Barn Farm, Shugborough
Members of Staffordshire Industrial Archaeology Society excavating the iron mill wheel which drove a water powered threshing machine at White Barn Farm on the Shugborough Estate. White Barn was built ...
Factory site, Mill Lane, Stone
A view of Mill street looking across the factory development now (2006) occupied by Morrisons supermarket.
The factory complex began life as a shoe factory, initially Richard Vernon's and later Lewis ...
Fazeley Canal and Tolson's Mill, Dosthill
Tolson's Mill began life as Sir Robert Peel's Mill, where they made narrow tape and webbing. Peel leased and eventually sold the mill to William Tolson, who was leasing Dosthill Hall at the time.
In ...
First floor, Burndhurst Mill, Lower loxley
Image courtesy of the Brough family. Burndhurst Mill was built in the 18th century and is Grade II listed.
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 ...
Fole Dairy, near Uttoxeter
Unloading milk at the old milk depot 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 originally owned ...
Forton Mill
A postcard view of the derelict water mill, a red brick building on a 17th century stone base by the River Meese in Forton.
This former hemp mill is thought to stand on the site of a Saxon mill, mentioned ...
Furlong Lane from Newport Lane, Middleport
The camera is looking northwards along Furlong Lane from the Newport Lane corner. On the left, the first building, then shops, still stands and is offices. Further down on the right hand side are the ...
Furlong Mill, Furlong Lane/Navigation Road, Middleport
The main part of this building was constructed in 1842, then enlarged in 1913. In total it comprises of eighteen buildings which include two bottle kilns. One of the buildings on this site used to be ...
Furlong Mills, Middleport
The camera is looking southwards along Furlong Lane in Middleport. Furlong Mills in Furlong Lane, Middleport is a mill for the preparation of potting materials. It was built in 1842, marked on maps as ...
Fustian Mill on Oxford Road, Fegg Haye, Stoke-on-Trents.
The fustian mill is on the west side of Oxford Road. The mill was part of Congleton Cutters "English Velvets".
Fustian is the old name for corduroy, a kind of cotton velvet. The cotton cloth had extra ...
Gearing, Burndhurst Mill, Lower Loxley
The ground floor gearing shows the pit wheel and ancillary gears to drive four millstones. Photographed in 1984, courtesy of the Brough family.
Burndhurst Mill was built in the 18th century and is ...
Gentleshaw windmill
The remains of the windmill now stand in the grounds of the Ye Old Windmill Inn public house.
It was built by 1818 but was no longer in use by 1902.
Gentleshaw windmill
The remains of the windmill now stand in the grounds of the Ye Old Windmill Inn public house.
It was built by 1818 but was no longer in use by 1902.