Pottal Pool Gravel Pit, Cannock Chase
Pottal Pool Gravel Pit was operated by Brocton Gravel Company which had been set up by Fred Ridley in 1930. Harold Foster, relative of Fred Ridley, built and managed Portal Pool gravel pit in the 1940s, ...
Pottal Pool, Cannock Chase
Pottal Pool Lido opened on 3 August 1933, offering bathing, light luncheons and teas. As well as swimming and diving facilities there was a paddling pool for small children and floodlighting in the evening. ...
Pottal Pool, Cannock Chase
Looking out across Pottal Pool from the chalet.
Pottal Pool Lido opened on 3 August 1933, offering bathing, light luncheons and teas. As well as swimming and diving facilities there was a paddling ...
Pottal Pool, Cannock Chase
The area is now quarried but it was once a popular leisure area on Cannock Chase with rowing boats for hire and a bathing lido for open-air swimming.
Postcard by Evans' Stationery Stores, Hednesford...
Pye Green, Hednesford
Colour-tinted postcard view of a path through deciduous trees into a fenced grassed area.
Ragged Robin, or Lychnis flos-cuculi
A marshy place, upland stream or lowland meadow is where you must go to find this pink-flowering perennial plant.
In bloom in between May and June, it can reach a height of 70cm.
This example was ...
Range Corner, Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
A later view of a postcard scene from Rugeley Camp, taken from Rifle Range corner looking up Penkridge Bank Road and the White House would have been in the far distance on the left. It was in the middle ...
Rawnsley Hills, near Hednesford
A view frombRawnsley Hills looking easterly from near the Hednesford Hills Raceway area towards the Rawnsley Road with Beau Desert golf course beyond the railway mineral line and the forestry trees in ...
Red Campion, or Silene dioica
You will find this biennial or perennial plant growing in Staffordshire's woods and hedgerows.
Flowering between May and November, it can reach a height of 80cm.
This example was found growing in ...
Red Hill, Stone
A tinted postcard postcard view of Red Hill Road, a bridleway leading towards Stone Park, near Stone. Published by A.W. Tilley, Newsagent and Stationers of 7 Radford Street, Stone.
Reflections, Stanley Pool. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape taken at Stanley, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Reflections, Stanley Pool. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape taken at Stanley, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
River Trent from Rugeley Quarry
A colour-tinted postcard view taken from Rugeley quarry area looking north. The quarry is adjacent to the Trent Valley main line just south of the Rugeley Trent Valley railway station.
Postcard published ...
Roaches House, Upper Hulme
Sir Philip Brocklehurst and his daughter Anne mounted on horses outside Roaches House.
Roaches House stands to the south-east of Hen Cloud on The Roaches. Originally built in 1876 as Argyle Cottage, ...
Roaches House, Upper Hulme
Roaches House stands to the south-east of Hen Cloud on The Roaches. Originally built in 1876 as Argyle Cottage, this house was later renamed Roaches House. It was leased by John Hall, of Brough, Nicholson ...
Roaches House, Upper Hulme
Roaches House viewed from the southern slopes of Hen Cloud. Originally built in 1876 as Argyle Cottage, this house was later renamed Roaches House. It was leased by John Hall, of Brough, Nicholson and ...
Road at Sandon. Photographed by William Blake.
Woodland scene and country lane taken at Sandon, Staffordshire.
Rock Garden, Wootton Hall, near Ellastone
A view of the Rock Garden at Wootton Hall, with a fountain, ferns and mosses. Wootton Hall, near Ellastone, was a large stone house originally built for the Davenport family which was extensively rebuilt ...