The murder of Elizabeth Gaskin, Hednesford
Postcard photograph captioned ‘Where the body was found’ with a group of people at the base of a gasometer. Henry Gaskin hid his wife's dismembered head and clothing in the water below the disused gasometer ...
The murder of Elizabeth Gaskin, Hednesford
Postcard photograph with the caption ‘The Chase Murder, Feb 1919. Showing 5ft wall over which the body was taken. Tank is several yards from the wall’.
Henry Gaskin climbed the wall to place his murdered ...
The old blast engine house in Ravensdale, Tunstall
The ruins are the engine house and chimney of a iron works blast engine. The photograph was taken near Copp Lane alongside the Trent and Mersey Canal looking south east towards Burslem. The tower of ...
The reservoir on Hednesford Hills
View of the construction of the reservoir on Hednesford Hills close to the Museum of Cannock Chase. Work on the site began in Spring 1991.
The station and gasworks, Longton
Photograph taken looking east, St. James's church can be seen in the distance. The entrance to the yard was by Murdoch St.
This is the now site of the Tesco super store and car park.
The view south from Stanley Farm, Stanley
This is a view south from Stanley Village over Stanley Pool towards, on the right, the higher ground of Bagnall. Stanley Pool is a reservoir originally built in 1786, and later expanded, to supply water ...
The view west from Edgefield Lane, Stockton Brook, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking over "Crosswinds" bungalow south west from the higher ground of Stockton Brook. The chimney in the left centre (now demolished) belonged to Stockton Brook water Pumping Station and the waste tip ...
The village water pump, Walton on the Hill
The old village pump at Walton on the Hill. The photograph was taken in 1993 by Philip Husselbee. His mother Laura Husselbee, nee Dutton, remembered playing around it as a child in the early 1900s. ...
The Waterworks, Longton Road, Stone
The waterworks, since demolished, were built in 1890 and supplied the town of Stone. The reservoir was on Red Hill.
This postcard was franked in Burton upon Trent on 5 March 1918 and sent to an address ...
The Weir, Knypersley Pool
The earlier Serpentine reservoir was found to be inadequate to supply enough water to the Caldon canal. Knypersley reservoir was built as a supplement by Hugh Henshall in 1827. Hugh was the brother-in-law ...
The Werrington Hotel, Bucknall
Opened as the Werrington Hotel in 1939, later becoming the Pig and Whistle before being renamed The Werrington, this Ind Coope public house was demolished in the 1990s. To the left is Eaves Lane with ...
Tony Briggs Senior and Johnny Spittle, Huntington
Huntington Water Pumping Station in the background. The Station was demolished in the 1970s, and the site is now (2010) Naden House, sheltered accommodation for elderly people.
Traction engine at Brindley Pumping Station open day, Rugeley
Brindley Bank Pump House was opened in 1905 and was built by the South Staffordshire Waterworks Company. It contained a horizontal tandem compound pumping engine made by Hathorn Davey of Leeds in 1903. ...
Trent and Mersey Canal Wharf, Stone
The Stafford Street bridge over the Trent Mersey canal at Stone. In the distance can be seen the gas works. the canal boat appears to be unloading a cargo of lime at the wharf on the right.
To the ...
Turning on the water, Eccleshall
Celebrating the switching on of the mains water supply to Eccleshall High Street in 1938.
Twyford's Etruria Works, Garner Street, Stoke-on-Trent
Built in 1912 and modernised in the 1950s, the Etruria Works was just a mile from Twyford's main site in Cliffe Vale. In the background are the holders of Etruria Gas works, the wall in the foreground ...
Twyford's Works, Cliffe Vale, Stoke-on-Trent
A view taken from Hanley Cemetery looking over the Trent and Mersey Canal, towards the Twyford's factory and bottle kilns.
Thomas Twyford built the works in Cliff Vale for the production of sanitary ...
Unveiling of the Clock, Gaol Square, Stafford,
The Sidney Fountain was erected in 1889 in memory of Thomas Sidney, a local man who became Mayor of London. In 1916 the drinking fountain had its lamp replaced by a four-dial clock, which was presented ...