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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K8NAR4 - Samuel Allsopp & Sons Ltd, High Street, Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire.
Founded by Benjamin Wilson senior in the 1740s and was acquired from his son Benjamin junior by the latter's nephew Samuel Allsopp 1807. Second brewery in Station Street added 1859-60. Registered February 1887. In financial difficulties and went into receivership July 1911. New board appointed 1913 and recovered thereafter.
In 1930, they acquired Archibald Arrol & Sons Ltd of Alloa, a brewery which continued to trade until 1998.
Merged with Ind Coope Ltd in June 1934 to form Ind Coope & Allsopp Ltd. with 1,800 houses.
High Street brewery converted to lager production 1899 and mostly demolished 1938, the remaining building was used as a shoe factory then demolished in 1979 after the site was bought by Bass who built offices thereon.
Station Street brewery still standing, part used as offices and for residential, the rest incorporated into Molson-Coors complex.
The brewery's famous pale ale was Double Diamond
The brewery features in The Noted Breweries of Great Britain and Ireland by Alfred Barnard published 1890.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K3J79H -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JX2RGD - The town of Crewe has long been associated with four Cast Iron Eagles sat atop a crest bearing the letter ˜C' which is believed to stand for Crewe. However the exact origin of the Eagles has long been a mystery, it is claimed that they were originally cast at the Horseley Ironworks in Tipton, Staffordshire as part of Robert Stephenson's Dee Bridge in Roodee, Chester on the Chester to Holyhead Railway.
This claim is further supported by the faint outline of the letter ˜H' inside the ˜C' on the crest below each Eagle which is believed to stand for Holyhead. On 24 May 1847, the carriages of a local passenger train to Ruabon, fell through the Dee Bridge into the river below, tragically killing five people
The Eagles are mentioned multiple times in the report of the Coroner's inquest into the bridge failure, following the incident, the bridge was repaired and strengthened and eventually replaced in 1871. The recovered scrap metal which included the Eagles was sent to Crewe Works so that it could be recycled.
It is believed that Francis Webb spotted the Eagles amongst the scrap on Stone Yard Bank near Flag Lane and had them rescued. They were then mounted on a bridge across the Crewe to Chester Line which was used to move rail vehicles in and out off Crewe Works, this would become known as the Eagle Bridge.
During the 1980s the demand for the repair of locomotives at Crewe started to decline, until eventually, the Eagle Bridge became too costly to maintain. The Eagles were removed from the bridge with one being mounted at the then entrance to Crewe Works on West Street.
The other three Eagles were placed into storage within the works, that is until 1987 when two of the Eagles were moved here to the Heritage Centre where they can still be seen today.
The Eagles now perch impressively as they watch over three different locations within the town. Two of the Eagles are located at the Heritage Centre, the first can be seen at the entrance to the museum
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JX2RJ8 - The town of Crewe has long been associated with four Cast Iron Eagles sat atop a crest bearing the letter ˜C' which is believed to stand for Crewe. However the exact origin of the Eagles has long been a mystery, it is claimed that they were originally cast at the Horseley Ironworks in Tipton, Staffordshire as part of Robert Stephenson's Dee Bridge in Roodee, Chester on the Chester to Holyhead Railway.
This claim is further supported by the faint outline of the letter ˜H' inside the ˜C' on the crest below each Eagle which is believed to stand for Holyhead. On 24 May 1847, the carriages of a local passenger train to Ruabon, fell through the Dee Bridge into the river below, tragically killing five people
The Eagles are mentioned multiple times in the report of the Coroner's inquest into the bridge failure, following the incident, the bridge was repaired and strengthened and eventually replaced in 1871. The recovered scrap metal which included the Eagles was sent to Crewe Works so that it could be recycled.
It is believed that Francis Webb spotted the Eagles amongst the scrap on Stone Yard Bank near Flag Lane and had them rescued. They were then mounted on a bridge across the Crewe to Chester Line which was used to move rail vehicles in and out off Crewe Works, this would become known as the Eagle Bridge.
During the 1980s the demand for the repair of locomotives at Crewe started to decline, until eventually, the Eagle Bridge became too costly to maintain. The Eagles were removed from the bridge with one being mounted at the then entrance to Crewe Works on West Street.
The other three Eagles were placed into storage within the works, that is until 1987 when two of the Eagles were moved here to the Heritage Centre where they can still be seen today.
The Eagles now perch impressively as they watch over three different locations within the town. Two of the Eagles are located at the Heritage Centre, the first can be seen at the entrance to the museum
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M84KK3 - Tamworth is a split-level railway station which serves the town of Tamworth in Staffordshire, England. It is an interchange between two main lines
the Cross Country Route and the Trent Valley section of the West Coast Main Line (WCML). It has four platforms: Two low-level platforms (1 and 2) on the WCML, and, at a right-angle to, and passing over these, are two high-level platforms (3 and 4) served by the Cross Country Route. Historically there were chords connecting the two lines, but there is no longer any rail connection between them.
The original station was opened on 12 August 1839[1] by the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway, a forerunner of the Midland Railway, on its original route from Derby to Hampton-in-Arden meeting the London and Birmingham Railway for London. Later, in 1842, the B&DJ built a branch to Birmingham, terminating at Lawley Street railway station.
Tamworth high level platforms, looking north.
On 26 June 1847 the London and North Western Railway opened its Trent Valley Line passing at a right angle beneath the original Birmingham and Derby line with a new joint station designed by John William Livock.
The joint station did not acquire the High Level and Low Level names until 1924. Since it was expected that only local trains would call, the low level platforms were on loops, with the running lines left clear for expresses. At that time there was a north to west curve linking the, by then, Midland Railway line with the LNWR line. This curve was opened in 1847, and closed in March 1969
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2AFK5MA - The Gladstone Pottery Museum is a working museum of a medium-sized coal-fired pottery, typical of those once common in the North Staffordshire area of England from the time of the industrial revolution in the 18th century to the mid 20th century. It is a grade II* listed building.[1]
The museum is located in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. It is also included in one of the regional routes of the European Route of Industrial Heritage.[2] Despite the name of the museum, it is a complex of buildings from two works, the Gladstone and the Roslyn.[3] The protected features include the kilns. As there are less than 50 surviving bottle ovens in Stoke-on-Trent (and only a scattering elsewhere in the UK), the museum's kilns along with others in the Longton conservation area represent a significant proportion of the national stock of the structures.
The museum is centred on the Roslyn pottery. It contains two biscuit ovens and two larger glost ovens. In addition are two enamel kilns. A tandem compound steam engine by Marshall & Sons, of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire is in place but it is turned by an electric motor. The two muffle kilns came from elsewhere.
The museum allows the visitor to explore the bottle kilns and exhibits the principal ancillary rooms: the engine house, the slip room, saggar making workshop. It shows aspects of working with clay- including hands on displays of throwing, moulding and decorating. Colour and gilding is presented as interpretive panels.
There is a gallery explaining the history of the tile: how it was pressed glazed and decorated. In one tableau the Gladstone Vase by Frederick Alfred Rhead is displayed.
There is also a gallery charting the history of sanitary ware, privies, earth closets and water closets
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DBHR4H - Etruria is a suburb of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England.
Etruria was the fourth and penultimate site for the Wedgwood pottery business. Josiah Wedgwood, who was previously based in Burslem, opened his new works in 1769. It was named after the Italian district of Etruria, home of the Etruscan people who were renowned for their artistic products. The site covered 350 acres (140 ha) and was next to the Trent and Mersey Canal. As well as Wedgwood's home, Etruria Hall, it included the Etruria Works which remained in use by the Wedgwood enterprise until 1950. The Wedgwood factory is now in Barlaston, a village about six miles to the south of the Etruria site.
Etruria Hall was the site of the substantial invention of photography by Thomas Wedgwood in the 1790s.
After Wedgwood
Much of Etruria became derelict with the move of Wedgwood after the Second World War and the subsequent closure of the nearby Shelton Bar steelworks. Large-scale regeneration began in the 1980s with the Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival.
Etruria is home to the Etruria Industrial Museum, a scheduled ancient monument, which includes a working steam engine called Princess. The museum buildings were originally a bone and flint mill built in 1857 to grind materials for the pottery industry. Inside visitors can see displays on the history of the site and original machinery. On the first weekend of each month the museum's 1903 coal-fired boiler provides steam to operate Princess which then turns the grinding machinery.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DBHT5B - The Winkhill Mill Company were in Shelton Old Road and Swan Street in Stoke and made cardboard boxes in the 1930s. This part of the mill is in Swan Street. Prior to 1912, the company were in Haywood Street, Stoke. Beyond the mill, the black & white building was a recreation hall, now demolished. Winkhill Mill is now the site of a range of ceramic studios, works and shops.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3690680621 - 'Poppies fighting up through oilseed rape at Acton Trussell, Staffordshire, Staffs.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JAGDR2 - Editorial image of a Welcome Break motorway service station fuel price sign in the United Kingdom showing high unleaded and diesel prices, illustrating the pressure of rising petrol and diesel costs on motorists, commuters, families, delivery drivers, haulage operators and the wider British economy. The photograph is useful for stories about inflation, fuel price volatility, pump price rises, energy insecurity, transport costs, household budgets, commuting expenses, business overheads and the cost of living squeeze affecting drivers across the UK. With bright red digital numbers, familiar roadside branding and a clear forecourt pricing display, the image works strongly for newspapers, magazines, websites and business reports covering expensive fuel, road travel costs, petrol station pricing, diesel inflation, motoring affordability and the knock-on effect of higher fuel bills on shopping, tourism, trade, logistics and domestic budgeting. It is also relevant to coverage of global crude oil prices, oil market volatility, refinery margins, wholesale fuel costs, fuel duty debate, supply chain disruption, shipping route concerns, Middle East tensions, Strait of Hormuz fears, geopolitical instability and worries about imported energy costs feeding through into UK pump prices. The image supports broader editorial themes such as car dependency, motorway travel, service station economics, rising living costs, inflationary pressure, freight costs, commercial vehicle running costs, family holiday travel budgets, regional fuel price differences and public frustration at forecourt price increases. Search relevance includes UK fuel prices, high petrol prices, high diesel prices, Welcome Break, motorway services, fuel price sign, unleaded price, diesel price, expensive fuel, fuel inflation, energy costs, oil prices, transport inflation, motoring costs, pump prices, roadside sign, British motorists, fuel affordability and economic pressure.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2M84KJT - Tamworth is a split-level railway station which serves the town of Tamworth in Staffordshire, England. It is an interchange between two main lines
the Cross Country Route and the Trent Valley section of the West Coast Main Line (WCML). It has four platforms: Two low-level platforms (1 and 2) on the WCML, and, at a right-angle to, and passing over these, are two high-level platforms (3 and 4) served by the Cross Country Route. Historically there were chords connecting the two lines, but there is no longer any rail connection between them.
The original station was opened on 12 August 1839[1] by the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway, a forerunner of the Midland Railway, on its original route from Derby to Hampton-in-Arden meeting the London and Birmingham Railway for London. Later, in 1842, the B&DJ built a branch to Birmingham, terminating at Lawley Street railway station.
Tamworth high level platforms, looking north.
On 26 June 1847 the London and North Western Railway opened its Trent Valley Line passing at a right angle beneath the original Birmingham and Derby line with a new joint station designed by John William Livock.
The joint station did not acquire the High Level and Low Level names until 1924. Since it was expected that only local trains would call, the low level platforms were on loops, with the running lines left clear for expresses. At that time there was a north to west curve linking the, by then, Midland Railway line with the LNWR line. This curve was opened in 1847, and closed in March 1969
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DBHTX6 - The old Winkhill Mill Co building that used to make cardboard boxes in Stoke-On-Trent, Staffs, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CEY9FD - Norton Canes services is a motorway service station on the M6 Toll, in the village of Norton Canes near the towns of Brownhills, Cannock, and Walsall, in Staffordshire, England. It is operated by RoadChef, who has a 25-year lease on the site. The company also uses the site as its head office
Norton Canes services is located on the M6 Toll between junctions T6 and T7, and is positioned so that it can be accessed before reaching the main toll plaza in either direction. It is a single-sided site, unlike a large majority of other service areas which have separate facilities for each direction. For this reason it is possible to do a U-turn at the services
however, it is not possible to avoid the toll in that way.
Unlike most other service areas, where it is illegal for traffic from local roads to use the back entrance to the site, provision has been made at Norton Canes for traffic from the A5 to access the services
