Wetley Abbey, Wetley Rocks
Wetley Abbey is believed to have been built around 1824 for the pottery manufacturer, George Miles Mason. The house may incorporate parts of an older building. In more recent years Wetley Abbey has ...
Wetley Abbey, Wetley Rocks
Wetley Abbey is believed to have been built around 1824 for the pottery manufacturer, George Miles Mason. The house may incorporate parts of an older building. In more recent years Wetley Abbey has ...
Wharf House, Fradley Junction
Wharf House, Fradley, is a Grade II listed building dating from the early to mid 19th century. It stands (2025) on the Trent & Mersey Canal at its junction with the Coventry Canal.
Wharf Street, Longton. Photographed by William Blake.
Street scene taken at Wharf Street, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
This is possibly the best known image from the collection. Blake, in a library entry for the North Staffs Field Club, describes ...
Wheatly & Son brickworks, Springfields, Stoke-on-Trent
Wheatly's Brick & Tile Works (Springfield Tileries) fronted onto Newcastle Road (A34). This photograph shows the rear of the works, taken from Wheatly Avenue, with marl hole in the foreground and the ...
Wheatly's Springfields Tileries, Stoke-on-Trent
The stockyard, ovens and chimneys at Wheatly's Springfield tilery. In the foreground are a variety of ridge and roof tiles. The painted sign on the gable end on the right hand side advertises "bricks, ...
Wheelwright's house, Bagot Street, Abbots Bromley
George F. Bradbury Senior bought the wheelwright's business and premises in Abbots Bromley from Mr Robinson in 1864. He and his son George F. Bradbury Junior ran a wheelwrights, joiners and undertakers ...
Whitfield Colliery. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide with a view of Chatterly Whitfield Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire ...
Whitmore Hall
This Grade I listed building has been the home of the Mainwaring family (now Cavenagh-Mainwaring) and their direct ancestors for over 900 years.
The earlier timber-framed house was modified and encased ...
Whitmore Road Lodge, Trentham
Whitmore Road Lodge or Hargreaves Lodge, and built by Thomas Roberts, the Sutherland Estate's Surveyor and Architect in 1896. The Sutherlands used this lodge if they were travelling to Newcastle or Market ...
Windmill Inn, Werrington
This postcard view shows the Windmill Inn close to Werrington windmill which is thought to have been built around 1730. The landlord at the time of this photograph was Frederick Dale.
The inn began ...
Windygates Hall, near the Roaches
The Hall was erected in 1634 by Thomas Brough and Elizabeth Cotton. Windygates has been occupied and farmed by the Robinson for most of the past 150 years.
Wolseley Hall, Rugeley
This photograph shows some of the buildings that stood at the rear of Wolseley Hall and on the extreme right is a part view of the west front of the hall. The picture was taken immediately before the ...
Wolseley Hall, Rugeley
The photograph shows the central entrance porch on the south front of Wolseley Hall. This was added by the 7th Baronet during his and James Trubshaw's remodelling of the Hall in around 1821. The room ...
Wolverhampton Die Casting Co., Paul Street, Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton Die Casting Company, acquired the factory in 1955 and closed it in 1966 (together with their Ludlow factory). It was sold to Barrs Industrial. By 1968 it was again used for die-casting by ...
Wolverhampton High-Level Railway Station
The main entrance to Wolverhampton High-Level Railway Station.
The Station is thought to have been built by local architect Edward Banks for the Shrewsbury & Birmingham Railway (S&B). It was opened ...
Wolverhampton Road, Stafford
Camden Place on Wolverhampton Road. It was built for Richard Ford in the early nineteenth century and designed by George Gilbert Scott. In the 1960s it was used as an annex to the College of Art, but ...
Wolverhampton Road, Stafford
Numbers 60 to 73 Wolverhampton Road, Stafford. The photograph was taken by the junction with Telegraph Street which is on the left, this view is little changed today (2025).