Floods, Doxey Road, Stafford
View of Doxey Road from just over the Broad Eye Bridge during the flood of 1946. The houses to the left are where the Conservative Party Headquarters stands today. In the background can be seen the ...
Floods, Guild Street, Burton-upon-Trent
Floods on Guild Street, Burton-upon-Trent. A Triumph Mayflower is making its way across the level crossing. Bass brewery buildings can be seen to the left and in the distance is the Magistrates Court ...
Floods, Stafford Railway Station
View from Newport Road bridge, looking towards Doxey.
A long period of rainy weather resulted in the River Sow rising to its highest level ever recorded, flooding the railway station and stopping all ...
Floods, Stafford Railway Station
Floods on platform 1, Stafford Railway Station. The view is looking towards Newport Road.
A long period of rainy weather resulted in the River Sow rising to its highest level ever recorded, flooding ...
Florence Colliery, Longton. Photographed by William Blake.
Industrial landscape taken at Florence Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Named after the Duke of Sutherland's daughter, the pit was opened in 1874 and was worked until 1990.
Fog Cottages, near Rugeley
A post-card view of the LNWR staff houses in Colton Road, Rugeley, under construction, late summer 1907. They were built as part of the redevelopment of Rugeley (Trent Valley) Station, completed in 1909. ...
Fog Cottages, near Rugeley
A postcard view of Fog Cottages, on the Colton Road near Trent Valley Station, Rugeley. They acquired the name Fog Cottages because the end cottage had an alarm bell installed and this was used in foggy ...
Ford Green Road, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking north east along Ford Green Road from near the junction with Chetwynd Street (on the right). Ford Green station, on the Biddulph Vallley branch, is just to the left of the level crossing gates ...
Ford Green station house, Stoke-on-Trent
The footbridge and station house attached to Ford Green and Smallthorne Station. The station was on the Biddulph Valley branch, opened in 1864 and finally closed in 1964. The house has been demolished ...
Former goods yard, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The former goods yard at Brook lane, a derelict part of Pool Dam Branch railway, which was opened in 1850. The railway was built as an industrial line to connect the Silverdale mines and ironworks with ...
Former Goods Yard, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The former goods yard at Brook lane, a derelict part of Pool Dam Branch railway, which was opened in 1850. The railway was built as an industrial line to connect the Silverdale mines and ironworks with ...
Four Ashes Railway Station, near Brewood
Four Ashes station stood on the Grand Junction line which was opened on 4 July 1837.
Fowlea Brook, Longbridge Hayes, Stoke-on-Trent
The view south from the bridge over the Fowlea Brook just north of Longport Station. At this point the Stoke on Trent City boundary runs along the brook: to the right is Newcastle under Lyme. On the ...
Fowler 2-6-4 leaves Rocester station
British Railways 2-6-4 locomotive, number 42355, hauls its train away from Rocester station on 19 June 1954.
This service is en route from Uttoxeter to Macclesfield.
The class 4P locomotive was ...
Foxfield Colliery, Dilhorne (1880-1965)
Foxfield Colliery was situated in the Cheadle coalfield, where coal-extraction goes back to the seventeenth century.
Although work started on sinking the first shaft (752ft deep) at Foxfield in 1880, ...
Foxfield Steam Railway
Rolling stock storage, some awaiting renovation by the Society.
The Foxfield Railway was built in 1892-1893 to provide a link to the national railway network for the Foxfield Colliery, on the Stoke-Derby ...
Froghall Lime Kilns
A view taken from the Froghall to Foxt road showing the lime kilns on the left. Trees have grown considerably since this photograph was taken, obscuring the view.
Froghall Tramway
A section of the inclined tramway that was used to transport limestone ore from the quarries at Cauldon Low to Froghall Wharf where it was processed into lime before being transported by narrowboat via ...