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Queensville, Stafford,

View from the Radford side of the railway bridge. Until 1838 this area was known as Spittal Brook, but was changed in honour of the Coronation of Queen Victoria. The former name was a reference to ...

Quixhill Lodges

The entrance to Quixhill Drive, formerly one of the entrances to the Alton Towers estate. It consists of two widely-spaced lodges with Tuscan columns, with a central freestanding stone archway in between, ...

Radford Bank, Stafford,

This view of Radford Bank, or Hill as it was known in the early twentieth century, shows a rural lane very different to the busy main road of today. The bridge is over the Staffordshire and Worcestershire ...

Radford Cottage, The Avenue, Stone

A postcard view of Radford Cottage which stands at the southern end of The Avenue, formerly Gower Street, Stone. Built around 1898, at the time of this photograph it was the home of William Joseph Godwin ...

Railway Bridge, Shugborough Park,

During the 1840s two railways were constructed through the park at Shugborough. To minimise the damage fences and trees were used to hide the trains from view. The tunnel and bridges were designed to ...

Railway Engine "Isabel", Stafford

The engine is the narrow gauge locomotive 'Isabel', built by W.G. Bagnall Ltd. in 1897 for the Cliffe Hill Granite Company. The engine was named after John Rupert Fitzmaurice's (1865-1949) wife Isabel ...

Rakeway House, Cheadle

View from west of Rakeway House, formerly the seat of the Mylles family, who were mining ironstone in Lightwood in the 1590s. They later built Mill House at Rakeway and moved there. Since this photograph ...

Rangemore Hall

Rangemore Hall was built in the 1850s around a house originally built in 1922. Lord Burton remodelled the house in 1898-1901. The Burton family sold it to Staffordshire County Council in 1949, who set ...

Rangemore Hall

View of Rangemore Hall, near to Burton on Trent, home of Lord Burton. Rangemore Hall was built in the 1850s around a house builtr in 1822. Lord Burton remodelled the house in 1898-1901. The Burton ...

Rangemore Hall

Ranton Abbey

The remains of Ranton Abbey are situated one mile to the west of Ranton, in a private wooded park. The fifteenth century church tower still survives. The abbey was an Augustinian house, founded in ...

Ranton Abbey Lodge,

The remains of Ranton Abbey are situated one mile to the west of Ranton, in a private wooded park. The fifteenth century church tower still survives. The abbey was an Augustinian house, founded in ...

Ravenhill House, Brereton

Post Card view of the garden and southerly aspect of the house taken from near the current Ravenhill Park children's paddling pool. Note the topiary and glass house. Late 19th century Ordnance Survey ...

Ravenhill House, Brereton

Ravenhill House was built, on the site of an earlier building, sometime between 1772 and 1787 by Assheton Curzon (later Viscount Curzon) of Hagley Hall, Rugeley . It was leased from Curzon in 1787 to ...

Reconstruction of the Old Victoria Road Bridge, Stafford,

The original Victoria Bridge was built on soft ground in the 1860s. It lasted until 1933, when a new bridge, designed by the Borough Surveyor, William Plant. In this photograph the old bridge is being ...

Recreation Grounds, Cheadle

Children with a pram and pushchair walking along a path in Cheadle's Memorial Recreation Ground on Tean Road. The playground swings and a van with a split windscreen. Postcard published by Harvey Barton ...

Recreation Grounds, Cheadle

A group of boys pictured in Cheadle's Recreation Grounds with tennis courts, bowling green and pavilion in the background. An unused postcard published by R. D. and E.D.Richards, photographers, Strensall, ...

Recreation of German Prisoner of War inscription on Cannock Chase

Based on written evidence, this reconstruction shows an inscription created by German PoWs held at Brocton Camp on Cannock Chase in the later stages of World War I. Made out of painted stones, the inscription ...