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Bayley's caterers and confectioners, Newcastle-under-Lyme

Founded by 1893 by Alexander Bayley, by 1911 Joseph Bayley, Jr ran a caterers and confectioners shop and café at 7 Ironmarket, Newcastle-under-Lyme. They had a second shop at 30, High Street. Bayley's ...

Beach scene, Lancashire

Lantern slide of a beach scene including a group of people by a lifeboat house. This is probably the beach at Ainsdale near Formby, Lancashire where photographer William Blake grew up. Blake moved to ...

Beacon Farm, Hopton,

Beacon Farm is little changed since this photograph was taken. The farm is situated on the left of the road to Weston, near Blackheath Covert.

Beacon Hill, Congreve, Penkridge

Beacon Road, Rolleston

1, Beacon Road, Rolleston-on-Dove, is a 17th century thatched and timer-framed cottage with 19th century alterations. Behind it is 3, Beacon Road, a brick-built cottage dated by the inscription in raised ...

Beacon Street School, Lichfield

Beacon Street School was built in the latter half of the 19th century and was a residential school for children in need of special care. This building was converted into flats and apartments in 2002.

Beacon Street, Lichfield

This postcard view of a quiet scene looks north-west along Beacon Street in Lichfield. Many of the cottages on the left remain (July 2020), however, several of the buildings on the extreme right were ...

Bean Motor Car, Burton-upon-Trent

This motor car parked over the tram lines in Guild Street, Burton-upon-Trent, is thought to be a Bean four-seater tourer with the hood up. In the background in the centre is St. Mary and St. Modwen's ...

Bear & Billet Hotel, Chester. Photographed by William Blake.

Lantern slide with a view of the Bear & Billet Hotel and the Bridgegate in Chester.

Bear Inn, Stafford,

The seventeenth century Bear Inn on Greengate Street was built on the site of the Old Black Bear Inn; it is possible some of the old building was used in the structure of the present. In the eighteenth ...

Beardmore's old pottery, City Road, Fenton

This photograph was taken looking westwards from close to the corner of Fountain Street and City Road. On the left is Frank Beardmore's old Sutherland Pottery, dating from 1901, although the works had ...

Bearwood Hill, Burton-on-Trent

View of tram descending Bearwood Hill. Trams were introduced in Burton in 1903, and they remained in the town until 1926. Originally they were open-topped like this one, but in their later years were ...

Bearwood Hill, Burton-upon-Trent

A postcard view looking up Bearwood Hill, Burton-upon-Trent, taken from the eastern end of Burton Bridge, with the River Trent in the foreground.

Beatrice Street in Brindley Ford, Stoke-on-Trent

Beatrice Street was formerly Victoria Street in Brindley Ford. The street has been demolished, replaced with modern housing and renamed Barmouth Grove. The camera is looking north with Terrance Street ...

Beattie Avenue during the arrival of their new residents from Paradise Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme

By the late 1930s and the time of this photograph slum clearance had started in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Some of the first people to be re-housed were the residents of Paradise Street who were moved to Beattie ...

Beaudesert

A colour lithograph print of Beaudesert from 'A Series of Picturesque Views of the seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland' edited by the Rev. F.O. Morris, B.A., published in 1880. Beaudesert ...

Beaudesert

Beaudesert Hall was the mansion of the Pagets, Marquesses of Anglesey. Its core was medieval, with later alterations. It was demolished in the early 1930s. The main staircase and much interior panelling ...

Beaudesert

Beaudesert Hall was the mansion of the Pagets, Marquesses of Anglesey. Its core was medieval, with later alterations. It was demolished in the early 1930s. The main staircase and much interior panelling ...