Tamworth Castle and Mill
This photograph shows the mill at Tamworth on the right hand side, with the castle in the background on the left. The mill was demolished in 1920.
The Boating Lake, Drayton Manor Park, near Tamworth
This postcard scene shows several paddle boats in action on part of the Boating Lake at Drayton Manor Park and Zoo.
In later years the site became known as Drayton Manor Resort, one of the largest ...
The Caldon Canal at Cheddleton Wharf
The bridge over the canal carries the main road to Leek. The building to the right of the bridge is part of Cheddleton Flint Mill. Two working narrow boats are moored to the left and another is passing ...
The Caldon Canal at Consall
View of the Caldon Canal, showing a horse-drawn boat.
The Caldon Canal at Froghall Basin, Kingsley
A working narrow boat loaded with limestone is seen being pulled along the canal by an unseen horse and driver. The Caldon Canal opened in 1779 and links Froghall to the Trent and Mersey Canal at Etruria, ...
The Canal at Tettenhall
A view from the tow path of the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal at Tettenhall Green, near Wolverhampton, looking north east. A horse is on the tow path pulling a loaded canal boat away from camera. ...
The Canal at Wheaton Aston
This postcard view looks north-west along the Shropshire Union Canal to Wheaton Aston. The Canal Bridge in the centre is number 19 and the building left of the bridge is the Hartley Arms public house. ...
The Lake and Rides, Drayton Manor Park, near Tamworth
This postcard view shows several rides at Drayton Manor Park and Zoo. On the left there is the Paratower (a parachute ride) which was in service from around 1982 to 1997 and centre right there is a glimpse ...
The Lake, Ranton Abbey
A postcard view of Gap Pool at the Ranton Abbey Estate, formerly occasionally Ronton as with the caption on this postcard. The pool and the nearby remains of Ranton Abbey are situated one mile to the ...
The Lake, Trentham Gardens
Lithograph of a painting by E. Adveno Brooke (1821-1910) showing Trentham gardens and lake. It was published in Edward Adveno Brooke's 1857 book 'Gardens of England'.
Trentham Hall was built in ...
The Landing Stage, Rudyard Lake
The Locks at Penkridge Wharf
This postcard view shows a quiet scene looking south along the Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal at Penkridge Locks, Penkridge Wharf. The buildings on the left remain (March 2021) although over the ...
The Trent & Mersey Canal, Little Haywood
The canal boats to the left all belong to William Sproston who was a farmer and coal merchant living at Navigation Inn (now Navigation Farm) on Meadow Lane in Little Haywood. In the centre is a signal ...
Torquay Town, Devonshire. Photographed by William Blake.
Townscape taken at Torquay, Devonshire.
Tower of the Winds and Shugborough Hall
An engraving published as a plate in "Walpoole's New Complete British Traveller’’, published in 1784. The upper view shows the Tower of the Winds (here captioned as the Temple of the Winds) in Shugborough ...
Trent & Mersey Canal dock, Sideway, Stoke-on-Trent
A view of the Stafford Coal & Iron Company dock on the Trent & Mersey Canal at Sideway. Some of the colliery winding gear is in the background and the main railway line runs from left to right across ...
Trent & Mersey Canal Wharf, Stone
Henry Sproston's Coal merchants boat pictured at the wharf on the Trent & mersey canal, opposite the Star Inn, Stone. The gas works gasometer can be seen in the background - the site is now occupied ...
Trent & Mersey Canal, Meaford, Stone,
Canal boats on the Trent and Mersey Canal at Meaford.