Mow Cop from Moss House Farm near Hall Green
Oil painting by John Munday. Expanse of water with white ducks at front, trees and fields at back with hill and Mow Cop folly in the distance.
Multi-view, Rudyard Lake
A multi-view postcard of Rudyard Lake. The top left picture shows visitors on the landing stage at the south end of the lake, top right is of the lake’s dam wall also at the south end of the lake, the ...
Musk Thistle or Carduus nutans
Musk Thistle is a common biennial found on limestone. The prickly stems are bare for some distance below the solitary nodding flower-heads.
Flowering between May and August, it can grow to a height ...
Nodding Bur-Marigold or Bidens cernua
Nodding Bur-marigold is an annual found by ponds lakes and canals.
Flowering between July and October, it can grow to a height of 60cm.
This example was found growing at Alton in Staffordshire, ...
Norton Pool, Norton Canes
Now known as Chasewater, Norton Pool was formed in 1797 by damming two streams: the Crane Brook which flowed into the Tame, and another stream flowing into the Penk, to provide a feeder to the extended ...
Oakley Hall, near Mucklestone
The manor of Oakley was held from about the 13th century by the Chetwode family, whose seat was the Chetwode Manor estate in Buckinghamshire. A manor house existed at Oakley from the 16th century but ...
Offley Arms and Pool, Madeley
A postcard view looking across the Pool towards the Offley Arms on Poolside, Madeley. It was built as a timber-framed house in the 16th century but refaced in the 18th century in brick when the building ...
On the ice, Rudyard Lake
A postcard view of a winter scene taken at the south end of Rudyard Lake. There were a number of exceptionally cold winters in the decades before the First World War which enabled locals and visitors ...
Ornamental Lake at Hatherton Hall,
Hatherton Hall was built in 1817.
Oxford Ragwort or Senecio squalidus
Oxford Ragwort is an annual, which was introduced to Oxford in 1794. It has since spread to many industrial areas.
Flowering between April and December, it can grow to a height of 30cm.
This example ...
Pagoda and Fountain, Alton Towers
Designed by Robert Abraham, the Pagoda is a 44 foot high fountain which is a copy of the To-ho Pagoda in Canton. It was begun in 1826 and was originally intended to build six storeys. When it was finally ...
Parkhall Colliery and tip from Park Hall Hills
Looking towards Longton from Parkhall Hills. The middle of the photograph is dominated by the spoil tips of Parkhall Colliery, closed nearly four years before the picture was taken. Park Hall Road, connecting ...
Passenger train passing Rudyard Lake
A Fowler 4P steam locomotive passes Rudyard Lake with a three-coach passenger service from Macclesfield in 1953.
This image is featured by kind permission of the Churnet Valley Railway.
Patshull House - Park and Pool: pencil drawing
'Part of Patshul (sic) Park - Sir George Pigot's Bart.,'showing a view across the pool to a distant bridge. There appears to be a windmill behind the bridge in the far distance, hidden among the trees.[Drawn ...
Patshull House: water colour painting
North east view looking over the pool, across the park to the house. Showing a white house with a portico, balanced by wings. It stands on turf terraces with open ground to the pool in the foreground.Anonymous, ...
Pershall Lodge, Eccleshall,
Pershall Pool, near Eccleshall
A postcard view of Pershall Pool, wrongly captioned as Cop Mere. Known locally as Landor's Pool, this small stretch of water is usually marked on maps as Pershall Pool. It can be found along the lane ...