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Beggars' Oak, Bagot's Park, Abbots Bromley

This enormous tree was a popular local attraction. People often chose to visit the tree for a summer outing. Many of the branches needed supports because of their weight and length. When the branches ...

Beggar's Oak, Bagot's Park, near Abbots Bromley

This enormous tree was a popular local attraction. People often chose to visit the tree for a summer outing. Many of the branches needed supports because of their weight and length. When the branches ...

Bell Heather, or Erica cinerea

You can spot this shrub on the drier parts of heaths and moors, especially in the Churnet Valley and Cannock Chase. Flowering between May and August, it produces fruit between August and October and ...

Bell Inn, Haughton

The Bell Inn on the A518 in Haughton. Since this photograph was taken a new side and rear entrance extension has been added, and the farm outbuildings to the right were demolished in the late 1990s and ...

Bell Inn, Haughton,

The Bell Inn may have originally been called The Blue Bell Inn. It was known by this name in 1796 but has mostly been known as The Bell. It is thought originally to have been a farmhouse. At the time ...

Bell tents and marquee, Uttoxeter schoolboys Farm Camp, Lower Cowley Farm, Gnosall

In 1941 during WWII there was a general shortage of labour, which affected farms as well as many other industries. Already women had been recruited to work on the land (they were known as the Womens' ...

Bellamour at Colton

Bellamour Way, Colton

This postcard view of houses on Bellamour Way in Colton has hardly changed over the years. The buildings remain (October 2020), however, the front gardens have changed. This postcard view was franked ...

Belle Vale, Cradley Heath

View from road looking towards a bridge at Belle Vale, Cradley Heath. Building and slag heap behind. A woman is standing in the road with a pram and two children. Photographer: Albert Henry Yelland....

Belle Vale, Cradley Heath, West Midlands

A snowy view from the road looking towards a bridge at Belle Vale, Cradley Heath. An industrial building and large slag heap are in the background. Photographer: Albert Henry Yelland.

Bell's old fireclay pit, Cobridge

The fireclay pit supplied Cobridge Refractories works which was off the photograph to the left. The camera is looking over the pit towards Hillary Street (on the right) and Crystal Street and Blackwell's ...

Bemersley Farm, Brindley Ford

This is a view east from Hugh Bourne's old Primitive Methodist Chapel in Brindley Ford. The chapel has been demolished. At the top of the path is Bemersley Farm, where Hugh Bourne lived for a time. The ...

Ben Shaw, Uttoxeter

Ben Shaw was King of the Uttoxeter Carnival in the 1920s. Ben is seen here with one of his horses, waving his handkerchief so the horse would prick its ears forward for the photograph. Ben Shaws brother ...

Bennison Family, Mill Meece

William Bennison (1865-1912) and his wife Mary Ellen (nee Shemilt) at Mill Meece Farm with their three sons, William and twins James and Robert. The Mill Meece farm near Eccleshall is still(2005) in ...

Bent's Brewery, Stone,

Bent's Brewery was established in Newcastle-under-Lyme in the 1790s by William Bent. The business remained in Newcastle until 1936, when manufacture transferred to Liverpool. The company expanded ...

Beresford Dale

Landscape with a view of the River Dove at Beresford Dale, near Hartington, Derbyshire. This stretch of the River Dove marks the border between Staffordshire and Derbyshire. Photographer: William Blake ...

Beresford Dale

Landscape with a view of the River Dove at Beresford Dale, near Hartington, Derbyshire taken in summer 1906. This stretch of the River Dove marks the border between Staffordshire and Derbyshire. Photographer: ...

Beresford Dale, River Dove

Watercolour painting by John Louis Petit (1801-1868). A view of limestone rock formations in Beresford Dale on the River Dove, on the Staffordshire-Derbyshire border. Dimensions: width - 237mm, height ...