View of the Saw Mill at Somerford Hall, Brewood
Visit of Princess Elizabeth to Enderley Mills, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Princess Elizabeth is here pictured visiting Enderley Mills. With her are, from left to right, the Recorder of Newcastle, Mr W Field Hunt K.C., Mr R. Bassett (Managing Director), Mrs Evanson (the Mayor ...
W J Dolby, Potters' Millers, Lytton Street, Stoke-on-Trent
W J Dolby were potter's millers and merchants who supplied prepared clay, flint and bones to pottery works. The mill was located alongside the Trent & Mersey Canal (to import raw materials) on Lytton ...
W.Podmore & Sons, Potters' Millers, Shelton
W Podmore & Sons were a family firm of potters' millers with several mills around North Staffordshire. This is their Caledonian Mill on Caledonia Road in Shelton, just off Cemetery Road. The buildings ...
Walk Mill, Bishop's Offley
This photograph was taken in the spring of 2003 and shows the degree of dilapidation that has occurred since the mill was damaged during a storm in January 1997. Walk Mill dates from the late eighteenth ...
Walk Mill, Bishop's Offley,
Walk Mill dates from the late eighteenth century and was used for grinding corn. There was an earlier mill on this site which was used for fulling or “walking” cloth, hence the name.
The waterwheel ...
Walk Mill, near Eccleshall
Walk Mill dates from the late eighteenth century and was used for grinding corn. There was an earlier mill on this site which was used for fulling or “walking” cloth, hence the name.
The waterwheel ...
Walk Mill, near Eccleshall
Walk Mill dates from the late eighteenth century and was used for grinding corn. There was an earlier mill on this site which was used for fulling or “walking” cloth, hence the name.
The waterwheel ...
Wardle & Davenport's Office Block, Leek
Built in 1925, this fine building was demolished with the rest of Wardle & Davenport's huge Belle Vue Mill in the 1970s.
The silk manufacturing firm of Wardle & Davenport began in 1867 as a partnership ...
Warehouse and Registered Office, Job White & Sons Ltd., Compton, Leek
The firm of Job White & Sons Ltd. decorated their offices in Compton to celebrate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. The portrait on the facing wall was a sizeable 12 feet high.
Water Mill, Lower Tean
Tean Water Mill on the River Tean. The water wheel can be seen in the large opening left of centre of the building.
Jacob Milner was the owner of the Tean Water Mill in 1852 and it was run by his ...
Waterloo Mills, Waterloo Street, Leek
The mills, also known as 'Broster's Mill' were designed by James Gosling Smith, brother-in-law of Mr. William Broster. The building was completed in 1894 and looks very much like Big Mill in Mill Street, ...
Weir by the Mill pool, Stafford
Mute Swans by the weir on the River Sow at the mill pool by Stafford Mill. The iron bridge carries the footpath from Mill Bank to Newport Road.
Photograph donated by Stafford Historical and Civic ...
Wellington Mills, Leek
A view of the Wellington Mills on Strangman Street, looking along Chorley Street. Wellington Mills were built in 1853 and owned for most of its working life by Thomas Whittles Ltd., a family firm which ...
Wellington Silk Mills, Strangman Street, Leek
The mill was owned by Thomas Whittles Ltd., a family firm which traded from the premises for over a century, between the late 1860s until the 1970s. The company was the last firm in Leek involved in the ...
Werrington Windmill
An 18th century brick-built mill, which formerly had four sails and a boat cap. It ceased to work by sail in the late 19th century and ground coal towards the end of its life. It was the headquarters ...
West view of Mosty Lea Mill, near Stone
Mosty Lea Mill was probably in existence by 1716, when Stephen Townsend, a Stafford dyer, purchased the site for use as a fulling mill.
In 1756, John and Ralph Baddeley acquired it and rebuilt parts ...
Weston Jones Mill, Norbury,
There has been a mill at Weston Jones since 1532.
This building was constructed in the eighteenth century, but was added to in the nineteenth century; it was derelict by 1914.
The mill wheel was ...