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Rothsay Road, Longton. Photographed by William Blake.

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

Rough Close, Meir Heath,

The Swynnerton Arms is in the distance.

Rough Close. Photographed by William Blake.

View of Rough Close, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.

Row of shops, Bilbrook Lane, Bilbrook

Shops shown include a snack shop, 'The Old Orchard' and the Lane Green Post Office. Bilbrook started life as a small village, but then grew in the 1930's, when Lane Green estate was built to accomodate ...

Rowley Avenue, Stafford,

Rowley Avenue is in Rowley Park, which once formed part of the Rowley Hall estate. The estate was bought by the Stafford Land Building and Improvement Company in 1866. The company built a model suburb, ...

Rowley Avenue, Stafford,

Rowley Avenue is in Rowley Park, which once formed part of the Rowley Hall estate. The estate was bought by the Stafford Land Building and Improvement Company in 1866. The company built a model suburb, ...

Rowley Park, Stafford,

The Rowley Hall estate was bought by the Stafford Land Building and Improvement Company in 1866. The company built a model suburb, which was to have its own church and pleasure gardens. The scheme ...

Rowley Park, Stafford,

The Rowley Hall estate was bought by the Stafford Land Building and Improvement Company in 1866. The company built a model suburb, which was to have its own church and pleasure gardens. The scheme ...

Royal Brine Baths and Green Bridge, Stafford,

In the 1880s a thick bed of salt was discovered on Stafford Common, during the search for a water supply for the town. This led to the opening of the Brine Baths in Greengate Street in 1892, designed ...

Royal Brine Baths, Bridge Street, Stafford

In the 1880s a thick bed of salt was discovered on Stafford Common, during the search for a water supply for the town. This led to the opening of the Brine Baths in Greengate Street in 1892, designed ...

Royal Brine Baths, Stafford

In the 1880s a thick bed of salt was discovered on Stafford Common, during the search for a water supply for the town. This led to the opening of the Brine Baths in Greengate Street in 1892, designed ...

Royal Brine Baths, Stafford

In the 1880s a thick bed of salt was discovered on Stafford Common, during the search for a water supply for the town. This led to the opening of the Brine Baths in Greengate Street in 1892, designed ...

Royal Brine Baths, Stafford

In the 1880s a thick bed of salt was discovered on Stafford Common, during the search for a water supply for the town. This led to the opening of the Brine Baths in Greengate Street in 1892, designed ...

Royal Oak Public House, Eccleshall

The Royal Oak Inn is one of Eccleshall's two coaching inns on the London to Chester road (the other is the King's Arms on Stafford Street). With the advent of the railway the landlord compensated for ...

Royal Scot, Whitmore

'Royal Scot' 4-6-0 locomotive number 6166, The London Rifle Brigade, pulls out of Whitmore after taking on an unexpected royal visitor in summer 1932. A note on the back of the photograph tells us ...

Royal Visit Street Decorations, Stafford,

Stafford was once a walled town. This is a reconstruction of the East Gate on its original site in Eastgate Street. The gate was erected for Queen Victoria's daughter and her husband, Prince and Princess ...

Rudyard

We are looking towards Rudyard's railway bridge on a sunny day in 1957. A small narrow guage railway now runs for a mile or so along a strech of the former track bed in the summer months. It is ...

Rudyard Lake