The rear of houses on Picton Street, Hanley
This photograph was taken from the corner of Botteslow Street and Commercial Road in Hanley. Commercial Road runs across the bottom of the photograph and becomes Nelson Road. Picton Street was one of ...
The Roebuck Hotel, Derby Street, Leek
View of the timber framed building during a rainstorm.
The School House, Hoar Cross
The School House stood on Abbots Bromley Road, Hoar Cross, next door to the village school. It is now known as the Old School House and the school building as the Old School, both converted into dwellings ...
The School, Hoar Cross
Situated in Abbots Bromley Road, Hoar Cross, this postcard photograph shows the school within its school yard in front, with the adjacent school house beyond.
By 1851 there was a school at Hoar Cross ...
The Sentinel offices, Trinity Street, Hanley
These offices on the corner of Foundry Street and Trinity Street were occupied from 1874. At that time, the newspaper was expanding producing daily and weekly Sentinels, with three editions of the daily ...
The Shops, Wharf Road, Gnosall
This row of shops is situated at the west end of Wharf Lane near the Boat Inn and is still in use (2023) but now with a full-length off the road pull in at the front.
A postcard published by Francis ...
The Shrewsbury Arms Hotel, Rugeley
The postcard view of the Shrewsbury Arms gives the name of the hotel's proprietor at the time and was presumably produced for advertising purposes. It was originally named the Crown. By the mid 19th ...
The Square, Caverswall
A view of the Square, caverswall. A photograph taken by William Blake of Longton.
The Square, Norton Canes
This postcard view can still be identified today especially as the corner shop on the right is still standing. Note the gas lamp in road. In the photograph are shoppers and children, and people passing ...
The Star Inn, Cop Mere End, Eccleshall,
The Star Inn was once known as The Rising Sun.
The State Bed at Beaudesert Hall
This view of the State Bed in the State Bedroom at Beaudesert Hall is from a glass negative believed to have been taken prior to the fire in 1909 which was in an adjacent part of the building. The State ...
The State Bedroom at Beaudesert Hall
It is thought that the State Bedroom’s decoration and bed were original to the room from around the early 1700s and not altered as much as so many of Beaudesert’s rooms were after the 1909 fire. The ...
The State Dressing Room at Beaudesert Hall
Previously hung with Chinese wallpaper the State Dressing Room was badly damaged during the 1909 fire. During the repairs to the room it was given a completely different look by using old oak wainscot ...
The Tapestry Bedroom at Beaudesert Hall
Pictured is the Tapestry Bedroom. During the remodelling of Beaudesert this room was created from two rooms and given a Jacobean style appearance. The elaborate plaster ceiling was introduced, the floor ...
The Temple, Patshull Hall
The Doric Temple stands on the west side of the Great Pool at Patshull Hall, and is believed to have been designed by James Gibbs in about 1750. It was incorporated into the Temple Hotel in 1980.
The Traveller's Rest, Cheadle. Photographed by William Blake.
The Traveller's Rest public house on Ashbourne Road, Cheadle. The long low building behind the pub was a rope walk.
The Vestibule at Beaudesert Hall
The steps in the Vestibule are pictured leading up from the east front entrance door and through the two massive stone arches into an area known as the “Screens”, (a space under the Great Hall Gallery). ...
The Viaduct, Monsal Dale. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape including a steam train crossing the Monsal Dale Viaduct, Nr. Bakewell, Derbyshire.
The viaduct, spanning the River Wye, was built in the 1860s and carried passengers on the Midland Railway ...