Uttoxeter station
Two North Staffordshire Railway staff pose for a photograph at Uttoxeter station in around 1900.
This station was an important junction for trains to Stoke, Derby, Burton-upon-Trent, Stafford, Ashbourne, ...
Uttoxeter Station
A local train pulls into Uttoxeter station on a bright spring day in 1915.
This train, pulled by a small tank engine, could be terminating here, or it could be travelling on to Ashbourne and Buxton. ...
Uttoxeter station football team
Twelve members of the Uttoxeter station football team pose for a photograph during the 1960s.
This image is included by kind permission of the Churnet Valley Railway.
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 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 ...
View of the approach to the Railway Station, Blythe Bridge
The cottages on the left have long since gone and been replaced by modern housing. A primitive telephone exchange was established in the house with the bay window. On the right can be seen the Railway ...
View of The Churnet Valley Railway, Uttoxeter
A photograph taken from the Uttoxeter Bypass bridge looking north towards Spath. The fields in the foreground left are now occupied by a scrap yard.
Village store and coffee house, Oakamoor
During the 1890s, this building doubled as both a village store and coffee house, serving the village of Oakamoor.
It must have been quite a novelty for such a small village to have a coffee house; ...
W.G. Bagnall Ltd., Engineering Works, Stafford
This view shows part of the Erecting Shops at W.G. Bagnall Ltd., which was established in 1870 in Castle Street, Stafford. Bagnall's first locomotive was produced in 1875, the company going on to produce ...
W.S. Leach, Wife & Dog at Knutton
Outdoor portrait of a man, a woman and a Staffordshire Bull Terrier taken at Knutton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Chimney stacks, railway signals and a church can be seen in the background.
The ...
Wagon Maintenance, Stubbs and Co. Salt Works, Stafford,
Railway wagon in for repair at the workshop, Stubbs Saltworks.
Brine deposits were discovered under Stafford Common in 1877, during a search for water supplies for the town. In 1893 the Stafford Salt ...
Wagon of Oxford's Puddings, Burton-upon-Trent
An LMS Railway horse-drawn flat-bed wagon loaded with Oxford's Puddings destined for Springfield, Massachusetts, USA for Thanksgiving Day. Their destination was Bertha Studios who traded greetings cards ...
Wakes Sports, Gnosall
A postcard photograph taken at Gnosall Wakes in 1906. Sports and entertainments took place in a field by Gnosall railway station: the station buildings can be seen on the embankment in the background.
Standing ...
Walker Brothers Oil Tanker, Leek
Walker Brothers Oil Tanker on a railway siding Leek Brook Junction.
In 1928 Walker Brothers Oil became William Walker and Sons (Hanley) Limited and until the end of the Second World War the company ...
Wall Grange Pumping Station, near Cheddleton
The building to the right of the image is the Staffordshire Potteries Water Works Company's Wall Grange Pumping Station, built in 1849 was the first one locally to have provided water to Stoke on Trent. ...
Wall Grange Railway Station, near Cheddleton
Wall Grange Station was opened in 1873. The line was originally constructed as single track throughout from Milton Junction (where the line diverged from the Biddulph Valley line) to Leek Brook Junction. ...
Wall Grange Railway Station, near Cheddleton
Wall Grange Station was opened in 1873. The line was originally constructed as single track throughout from Milton Junction (where the line diverged from the Biddulph Valley line) to Leek Brook Junction. ...
Wall Grange Station, near Cheddleton
Wall Grange Station was opened in 1873. The line was originally constructed as single track throughout from Milton Junction (where the line diverged from the Biddulph Valley line) to Leek Brook Junction. ...