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Housing, Cherry Street, Stafford,

Cherry Street was originally called Talbot Lane. These houses were demolished in the 1960s to make way for Stafford College.

Housing, Eastgate Street, Stafford, (1)

In the distance, at the junction with Tipping Street (near to the white building on the left) is an area known as Pitcher Bank, due to a crockery market which was once held there. The shop in the far ...

Housing, Grey Friars, Stafford,

A photograph of the east side of Greyfriars (between Browning Street and Fancy Walk) taken before re-development in 1974.

Housing, North Walls, Stafford,

This row of houses on North Walls, next to the car park, had changed little by the end of the twentieth century. The pavement has been reduced in width to allow the road to be widened. Photograph ...

Howard Pottery, Norfolk Street, Hanley

Looking eastwards along Norfolk Street in Shelton. At the bottom ate the backs of houses on Harcourt Street. Norfolk Pottery is on the right and backed onto the Caldon Canal, which is just off the photograph ...

Hugh Bourne Street, Brindley Ford, Stoke-on-Trent

The camera is looking north along Hugh Bourne Street (formerly Bourne Street) in Brindley Ford. Finch Street (formerly Chapel Street) comes in from the left in the middle of the photograph and Terrance ...

Hulme House, Hulme, near Caverswall

Hunt Meet, High Street, Tutbury

A large crowd watch the Meynell Hunt setting out after meeting outside the Dog and Partridge on Tutbury High Street. This photograph was taken from a point opposite the Dog and Partridge, looking towards ...

Hunt Meet, The Manor House, Alstonefield

The Manor House dates from 1750, when the middle section was built. The left hand side is early 19th century. The lords of the manor in Alstonefield were the Harpur Crewe family, and their agent lived ...

Hydrant Way extension, Stafford

This picture looks south and shows the entrance gates to the St. Mary’s Gate housing development being constructed by Bovis Homes and David Wilson Homes, in the foreground there is the groundwork of a ...

Ilam Village

A view of Ilam village taken from the gates to Ilam Hall, a Youth Hostel by the time of this postcard view. Ilam village was rebuilt as a model village in the 1840s and 1850s by Jesse Watts Russell....

Ilam village

A general postcard view of the centre of Ilam taken from by the bridge over the River Manifold. To the left can be seen the Cross, erected in the memory of Mrs J. Watts Russell in 1840. Ilam village ...

Industrial Landscape. Photographed by William Blake.

Print of an industrial landscape with a view of pot bank bottle kilns and a house. Unknown location.

Industry and housing in Scotia Road, Tunstall

The camera is at the north end of Scotia Road, looking south east. The bottle oven on the right hand side of the road is part of Pinnox Tile Works. Bert Bentley noted the two houses on the right as numbers ...

Ingleside, Stone

Mark Hughes, Headmaster at Christ Church School, standing outside his home, Ingleside, Oulton Road, Stone. The house had only recently been built, in 1904. A postcard sent by Mr. Hughes and postmarked ...

Interior of a house in Queen Street, Kidsgrove

Interior of a house, Tamworth Street, Lichfield

In 2003 this house had become the Spellbound Bead Shop.

Interior, 15 Tipping Street, Stafford

The entrance hall of 15 Tipping Street, a Grade II listed building dating from around 1740-50. Originally it was a town house and previously had been known as ‘The Croft’. This picture taken in 1963 ...