Seahorse Fountains, Enville Hall
The Seahorse Fountains are seen here, with the 7th Earl of Stamford and Warrington, and family, in the foreground.
Seighford Pool
Seighford Pool in the grounds of Seighford Hall. Seighford Hall is an Elizabethan house to which additions were made over the years, particularly during the Victorian period.
A brick tower in the grounds ...
Shugborough - Temple of the Winds: sepia drawing
'The Temple of the Winds at Shugborough, Staffordshire,' showing an octagonal two storeyed building with a porticoed entrance, and circular stairs to an annex, near the lower mill pool. 'J. B.,' [John ...
Site of Brocton Brickworks,
Skating by Moonlight on Rudyard Lake
Rudyard Lake or reservoir was constructed in 1797 by engineer, John Rennie, to feed the Caldon Branch of the Trent & Mersey Canal. It is around 2.5 miles long and covers roughly an area of 168 acres. ...
Skating on Trentham Lake
Photograph taken at the south end of the lake, in the grounds of Trentham Hall.
The original Trentham Hall was built in the 1630s for the Dukes of Sutherland. The Caroline house was replaced in the ...
Spring Vale, Stone,
Thomas Bakewell (1761 - 1835) bought Spring Vale from the Jervis family in 1808. Here he established a successful asylum for the insane. When he died his son Samuel Glover Bakewell carried on his work. ...
St. Andrew’s Church, Weston
A postcard view looking east over the pool to St. Andrew’s Church in Weston. St. Andrew's dates from the early thirteenth century, but the arcades and chancel arch are later. Two of the church bells ...
St. Michael and All Angels Church, Colwich,
St. Michael and All Angels was built on the site of an Anglo-Saxon church. The present church was built in the late fourteenth century, but was altered and restored between 1852 and 1856.
Inside the ...
Stables, Alton Towers
The Stables at Alton Towers, showing Gothic features on an earlier Georgian building. The gardens were created by the 15th Earl of Shrewsbury between about 1810 and 1827.
This postcard view was published ...
Stafford Castle
An engraving showing the Castle Hill area with a view across fields to Stafford Castle. Railway lines, houses, pond, and anglers in the foreground. Published by J. & F. Harwood, 26 Fenchurch Street, ...
Standon Old Hall
There has been a house on this site since the eleventh century. The right side of the present house is Elizabethan, the left is of a later date. The building is now a farmhouse and the pool no longer ...
Swans, Churchtown Gardens. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide with a view of swans on the lake at Churchtown Gardens, Southport.
The Boathouse , Enville Hall
The Enville Hall estate was landscaped between 1745 and 1755 by the 4th Earl of Stamford, using the services of the poet and landscape designer William Shenstone of Halesowen, and Sanderson Miller, a ...
The Cascade, Alton Towers
A postcard view of the Cascade, one of various features and themed gardens at Alton Towers including Dutch and Italian Gardens, the Chinese Pagoda Fountain, the Swiss Cottage, Stonehenge and the Gothic ...
The Cascade, Alton Towers
A postcard view of the Cascade, one of various features and themed gardens at Alton Towers including Dutch and Italian Gardens, the Chinese Pagoda Fountain, the Swiss Cottage, Stonehenge and the Gothic ...
The Chinese Gardens, Biddulph Grange
The Gardens, Alton Towers
This postcard view of the gardens and the Pagoda Fountain at Alton Towers was published by Alfred McCann, The Studio, Uttoxeter.
Alton Towers was the home of the Talbot family, Earls of Shrewsbury. ...