Triumph Combination motorbike
The bike was owned by the photographer Gerald McCann, and shows his mother in the side car. It was the last photograph he took of the bike before it was sold.
Tunnel beneath High Lane and the Chatterley Whitfield mineral railway, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking east along the mineral railway from Chatterley Whitfield toward the entrance of the tunnel under High Lane. The photograph was taken just south of Johnson Place. The tunnel ran under what is now ...
Tunstall Station
Tunstall Station pictured just after closure in 1964. Tunstall was a station on the Potteries Loop Line. Opened in December 1873, it was closed when the loop line closed in March 1964. The camera was ...
Tunstall Station and goods yard
This is a view from the Boulevard near bridge over the Loop Line at Tunstall Station just before the station and line were closed. The camera is looking south towards Burslem, the next station on the ...
Tutbury Station
Tutbury Station looking south towards the smoking chimney of the Nestlé and Anglo Swiss Condensed Milk Company factory in Hatton. On the far right is the goods shed; behind it is the grain warehouse ...
Underground charging station and garage for Clayton Pony Loco, Lea Hall Colliery, Rugeley
A set of rails run through the middle of the station, with generators and an overhead lifting beam covering both sides. Note also the roller staging to facilitate the handling of heavy batteries.
Lea ...
Unicorn Hotel, Stafford,
The Unicorn Hotel on the corner of Lammascote Road and South Walls.
Half way down South Walls can be seen John Bagnall's Carriage Works.
Union Street, Burton-on-Trent
View of Union Street from the corner of Station Street.
Up platform, Stoke-on-Trent Railway Station
The view from the south end of the up (southbound) platform of Stoke Station. The photograph was taken before electrification in 1967, and before the four tracks were reduced to two. On the right of the ...
Uttoxeter By-Pass
A section of the Uttoxeter by-pass was started pre-WWII and was intended to be a dual carriageway. Work was halted due to the War Effort, and re-commenced some time later. Even by the late 1980s there ...
Uttoxeter Road, Blythe Bridge
The shop in the foreground was owned by Hodgkinsons, and run by a very elderly lady at this time. The building with the advertising poster on the side was Lewis'. By 2003 both shops had become private ...
Uttoxeter Station
Dove Bank Station was the original Churnet Valley station at Uttoxeter. Trains from Stoke-on-Trent to Derby called at the company’s Bridge Street station. To save passengers the inconvenience of travelling ...
Uxbridge Street, Burton-on-Trent
General view down Uxbridge Street with various horse-drawn vehicles.
Victoria Street, Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph was taken looking north along Victoria Street from the Shelton New Road junction. The terrace of houses on the left date from the last decade of the 19th century, those further down and ...
View down the Brewery Yard, Bass, Burton-on-Trent
View down the yard, looking towards Station Street. A sign over a doorway into the Union Room says " Bass Ratcliff & Gretton, Licensed Brewers of Beer For Sale" .
View from Bent’s Brewery, Stone
A postcard view looking south from the tower of Bent’s Brewery on Mount Road, Stone. The railway station can be glimpsed through the trees in the middle ground. The house to the left foreground is Field ...
View from Red Hill, Stone
A romanticised view of Stone from Red Hill. On the left is St. Michael's Church, in the centre can be seen Joule's Brewery and to the right is the Roman Catholic Church of St. Dominic. A steam locomotive ...