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Bull Bridge, Penkridge

Bull Bridge was built around 1796 and widened in 1822. In 1963 the road was further widened and the bridge was reconstructed . It is believed to be named after a nearby place name 'Bold'. The bridge ...

Bus Station and Mining College, Cannock

The original Mining College was founded 1891. The 1920s building which replaced it was enlarged and opened in October 1929 by Viscount Chelmsford. It cost about £25,000 of which £18,000 was a grant from ...

Canal and Locks, Great Haywood

The lock on the Trent and Mersey Canal by Trent Lane in Great Haywood, with the lock keeper's cottage on the right. This was later (until 2017) the Lock House Restaurant and Tea Rooms. Postcard publisher ...

Canal and River Sow, Milford

The Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal near Milford at the point where it crosses the River Sow via an aqueduct. A 'Teesee' postcard published by E.J. Garside, Rock House, Milford.

Canal Bridge, Great Haywood

Postcard view of the towpath alongside the Trent and Mersey Canal at Great Haywood, looking south. The iron bridge seen in the picture carried the drive from Shugborough Hall to Little Haywood over the ...

Canal junction, Great Haywood

View of the canal bridge and wharf from the Trent and Mersey Canal; the bridge marks junction of the canal with the Staffordshire and Worcester Canal. The building on the far left was a corn mill, ...

Cannock Chase views

A composite postcard with five views of places around Cannock Chase: Shugborough Hall; Ingestre Hall; Essex Bridge; the Bottle Lodge, Tixall; Main Road, Great Haywood. Postcard published by W.H. Smith ...

Colton Bridge

A colour-tinted postcard view of the bridge over the Moreton Brook, Bellamour Way in Colton. Postcard published by Pascoe and Son, Rugeley and postmarked 5 July 1914.

Coronation Bridge, Victoria Park, Stafford

The land between Izaak Walton Walk and the railway station was marshy and liable to flooding. In 1903 the Corporation bought the land and raised its level by three feet. The area was laid out as Victoria ...

Coton, Gnosall

Looking along Newport Road towards Gnosall village centre from Coton. On the extreme left is the Navigation Inn, then Joseph James Walwyn's grocers shop and slightly further along can be seen the bridge ...

Cross Keys, Penkridge

The Cross Keys public house, Filance Lane, Penkridge stands next to Filance Bridge and the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal. Postcard published by District View Publishing Co., 117 Loughborough ...

Essex Bridge, Great Haywood

There has been a bridge crossing the River Trent at Great Haywood since the sixteenth century. It was rumoured that the bridge was built by the Earl of Essex, to allow Queen Elizabeth I to visit him at ...

Essex Bridge, Great Haywood

There has been a bridge crossing the River Trent at Great Haywood since the sixteenth century. It was rumoured that the bridge was built by the Earl of Essex, to allow Queen Elizabeth I to visit him at ...

Essex Bridge, Great Haywood

Postcard postmarked 28 February 1912.

Essex Bridge, Great Haywood

There has been a bridge crossing the River Trent at Great Haywood since the sixteenth century. It was rumoured that the bridge was built by the Earl of Essex, to allow Queen Elizabeth I to visit him at ...

Essex Bridge, Great Haywood

There has been a bridge crossing the River Trent at Great Haywood since the sixteenth century. It was rumoured that the bridge was built by the Earl of Essex, to allow Queen Elizabeth I to visit him at ...

Essex Bridge, Great Haywood

Postcard postmarked 18 July 1906.

Haywood lock, Great Haywood

A canal boat passing through the lock on the Trent and Mersey Canal by Trent Lane in Great Haywood. The stone canal bridge links Great Haywood (left) with the Essex Bridge and the Shugborough estate ...