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Aerial Car ride, Drayton Manor Park, near Tamworth

This postcard view shows the aerial car ride which was in service from around 1964 to 2017 at Drayton Manor Park and Zoo. In the foreground on the right there is a part view of the lake with a boat which ...

Alton Towers

The Grand Entrace to Alton Towers. This postcard view was posted in Alton by Ruby (who was on holiday) to her Aunt in Sydenham, London. Alton Towers was the home of the Talbot family, Earls of Shrewsbury. ...

Alton Towers

This postcard view is of the Lake at Alton Towers and in the distance are the Stables. It was published by Lilywhite, Ltd. Triangle, Yorks. The card was posted from Alton by a member of a group of ...

Bagnall Lock Bridge, Alrewas

Bridge number 49 on the Trent and Mersey Canal at Bagnall Lock, close to the Kings Bromley road at Alrewas. This postcard scene is of younsters feeding swans from a narrow boat with lots of young onlookers ...

Bass employees at Blackpool train station in 1911

Bass, Ratcliff and Gretton organised annual trips for its employees from 1865 until 1914. Initially these trips were biennial until 1883, then every year until 1914. Destinations included Blackpool, Liverpool ...

Bass employees on a Bass Trip, Liverpool Station

Group of people standing outside Liverpool to New Brighton Railway Station.

Bass Joiners' trip to a football match, Burton-on-Trent

Assembly workers on their way to the F.A.Cup 3rd round tie between Charlton Athletic and Burton Albion, played at Charlton's ground at the Valley on 7th January 1956. At the time Charlton were one of ...

Bathers and boats, Rudyard Lake

Three women bathers sit on the landing stage near the dam. Rowing and larger boats for hire and lake trips are moored on either side. This real photograph postcard was published by H. Breaks, Rudyard, ...

Bathers at Rudyard Lake

In this postcard view two women in swimming costumes sit on the landing stage near the dam at the southern end of Rudyard Lake whilst a third dives into the water. A tourist boat is moored alongside. Rudyard ...

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 ...

Beeston Tor, Leek & Manifold Light Railway

A packed passenger train with two locomotives has halted at Beeston Tor Station on its way north along the Leek and Manifold Light Railway . The line, which opened in 1904, closed in 1934, and the track ...

Beggars' Oak tree, Bagot's Park

This enormous tree was a popular local attraction. People often chose to visit the tree for a summer outing. Many of the branches needed supports because of their weight and length. When the branches ...

Beggars' Oak, Bagot's Park, Abbots Bromley

This enormous tree was a popular local attraction. People often chose to visit the tree for a summer outing. Many of the branches needed supports because of their weight and length. When the branches ...

Bible Study Class, Stafford,

Group photograph from a bible study class outing.

Boating on the River Stour at Kinver

Boats and visitors, Rudyard Lake

A postcard view of visitors at Rudyard Lake taken at the south end of the lake. The lake is a reservoir constructed in 1797 by engineer John Rennie to feed the Caldon Branch of the Trent & Mersey ...

Brewood Show, Somerford Park

Spectators watch the judging in one of the strongly-supported bull classes at the Brewood and District Agricultural Society’s 43rd annual show, held on Bank Holiday Monday 2 August at Somerford Park, ...

Brewood Show, Somerford Park

Posing for the Newsletter photographer at the Brewood and District Agricultural Society’s 43rd annual show. Please contact us if you recognise anyone in the photograph. Reproduced by kind permission ...