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Guildhall, Stafford,

The Guildhall on Market Square was designed by Charles Trubshaw and built in 1853. It housed the Borough Council, the courts and on the ground floor was a police station. The entrance to the market ...

Hagley Hall, Rugeley

This steel engraving pictures Hagley Hall, Rugeley. Drawn by J.P. Neal, engraved by W. Watkins and hand coloured, it was published in 1831 by Jones & Co., London. At this time the Hon Robert Curzon M.P. ...

Hagley View, Rugeley

This postcard view was published by G. Frith, Rugeley.

Hamilton Road, Longton. Photographed by William Blake.

Street scene taken at Hamilton Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. This is one of many street scenes in the Blake Collection. Most of them were taken in the Normacot and Dresden areas near ...

Hammerhouse Farm, Norton Bridge

Hammerhouse Farm is a Grade II listed timber-framed building dated 1604 on a fireplace. It is located on Smithy Lane, Norton Bridge close to the railway junction of the West Coast Main Line to Crewe ...

Hammerhouse Farm, Norton Bridge,

Hamstall Hall, Hamstall Ridware

This postcard view shows Hamstall Hall which dates from the early 17th century. It was built not long after Sir Thomas Leigh bought the estate from the Fitzherbert family in 1601. Large scale rebuilding ...

Handsacre Hall

Dating from around 1320 and standing within a 12th century moat, Handsacre Hall had been extensively remodelled in the 17th century. It had stood derelict for some time before vandals destroyed the central ...

Handsacre Hall

The rear of Handsacre Hall viewed from the south west. A cow stands in the fenced paddock. At the time of this photograph Handsacre Hall was farmed by the Boycott and Harvey sisters. At this time the ...

Handsacre Hall

Dating from around 1320 and standing within a 12th century moat, Handsacre Hall had been extensively remodelled in the 17th century. It had stood derelict for some time before vandals destroyed the central ...

Handsacre Hall

Superseding an earlier hall, Handsacre Hall building probably largely dated to the 15th century. Falling into dis-prepair in the 16th century, it was renovated during the 17th century. Originally ...

Hanley Post Office, Tontine Street, Hanley

Hanley's main Post Office stood in Tontine Street. The grade II listed building was built in 1906 on open ground that once housed Batty's Circus. The three storey building, designed by John Rutherford, ...

Hanley Tabernacle, Town Road, Hanley

The Congregational Independent Tabernacle Church was founded in Hanley in 1784, a Mission Hall was built in 1879 and the church in the photograph built on Town Road (then known as High Street) in 1883. ...

Harpfield Infants School, Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent

Harpfield Infants School was built in 1875. Under the guidance of its first chairman, Sir Lovelace Stamer, Rector of Stoke-on-Trent, who was also chairman of the National Schools Board in Stoke, the ...

Hatherton Hall

Grade II listed Hatherton Hall was built in 1817 and was the seat of the Walhouse family. It was rebuilt by Moreton Walhouse, possibly in an emotional reaction to being passed over in his uncle, Sir ...

Hatherton Park

Hatherton Hall is a Grade 2 listed building built in 1817 in the Tudor Gothic style for Moreton Wallhouse Esq. It replaced a previous mediaeval manor house. This postcard by F. Frith & Son of Reigate ...

Haughton Old Hall,

This sixteenth century house was restored in 1889. The more decorative timber framed gable is a later addition to the building. The barn, now converted into a cottage, contains timbers said to have ...

Haughton Old Hall,

This sixteenth century house was restored in 1889. The more decorative timber framed gable is a later addition to the building. The barn, now converted into a cottage, contains timbers said to have ...