Norton Colliery spoil tip from Burslem Golf Course
The view south east from Burslem Golf Course over the Ford Green Valley towards Norton Colliery spoil tip. Running through the middle of the photograph is the embankment of the Biddulph Vally branch line, ...
Oakamoor
A view taken from the top of Oakamoor Tunnel, looking towards Alton. Bottom left is the crossing keeper's house with the terrace of housing built for Bolton's copper workers known as The Island. Oakamoor ...
Oakamoor level crossing
Photograph of the level crossing in Mill Road Oakamoor, and the Crossing Keepers Lodge, Oakamoor railway tunnel portal and crossing in the foreground, with the copper works and Holy Trinity Church in ...
Oakamoor railway station
Members of British Railways' staff go to work with some heavy luggage at Oakamoor station, while the passenger in the background, Ivan Bentley, looks on. Mr Ivan Bentley was the Permanent Way Forman for ...
Oakamoor railway station
Oakamoor railway station lies disused and overgrown in summer 1973.
Designed by A.W.N. Pugin, this style of architecture was a signature of the North Staffordshire Railway.
Varying examples of outstanding ...
Oakamoor railway station
A member of British Railway staff, Mrs Rita Ecclestone, Clerk and Porter at Oakamoor Station, taking a moment's ease at Oakamoor station during the 1950s. This station was in a delightful setting, deep ...
Oakamoor railway station
Oakamoor railway station, pictured during the 1950s. This style of architecture was a signature of the North Staffordshire Railway.
Varying examples of outstanding NSR architecture still survive today ...
Oakamoor signal box
Oakamoor signal box, pictured during the 1960s. A platelayers' hut and crossing gates complete the scene.
This image is taken from the collection of the Churnet Valley Railway.
Oakamoor Station
Oakamoor Station stands on the North Staffordshire Railway's Churnet Valley line. It was built in about 1849 in typical N.S.R. picturesque Tudor style.
Oakamoor station porter
The porter Mr Gordon Brough at Oakamoor station in 1957.
This image is included by kind permission of the Churnet Valley Railway.
Oakamoor Station. Circa 1958.
The station porter Mrs. Rita Ecclestone has a go at bike riding on the "down" platform of Oakamoor Station during an obvious lull in traffic!
Those carefree days of the commuter seem a long way off ...
Oakamoor's prize-winning station staff
Station staff at Oakamoor are presented with certificates for winning second prize in British Railways' awards for best kept station gardens. The staff holding the awards are Rita Ecclestone and Gordon ...
Old Camp Road, Brocton Camp
Officers' Huts line the left-hand side of the road between Battalion lines 'R' and 'S'. In the distance the road begins to bend slightly to the right at its junction with what is now Chase Road to the ...
Old colliery trackway over Fenton Road, Bucknall
The trackway on this embankment came from Victoria Colliery to the south. The embankment carried the trackway over Fenton Road to a coal wharf on Dividy Road. The houses running across the middle of the ...
Old Foley Pottery Works, Fenton
Pottery factory exterior and rail tracks. Taken at the Old Foley Pottery Works, King Street, Fenton, Longton.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.
This photograph is ...
Old Mossfield Colliery tramway wharf, Goldenhill Road, Fenton
This photograph was taken looking east from halfway up Goldenhill Road opposite the entrance to Foley Park. In the distance is the spoil tip of Mossfield Colliery. The tramway lead off to the right of ...
Old Park Loading Point, Cannock Chase No.8 pit
View of coal trucks underground by a loading point.
These old shafts were re-opened whilst Cannock Wood Colliery was being sunk, to provide finance for the venture. They were producing coal before ...
Old Railway, Brook Lane, Newcastle-under-Lyme
A very different view to how this area was in 2002. Looking towards Clayton Road, Brook Lane is the road which runs across this photograph, with the Lyme Brook going underneath the bridge that can be ...