Heritage collections and photographs

Choose a collection

Village streets and people. Staffordshire Past Track holds catalogued views of the Square, the churches, the war memorial and Cheadle Road. Some records identify individual people. Our old photographs guide gives three catalogue references and explains how to compare pictures.

Listed buildings. The National Heritage List for England describes the stonework and dates of Forsbrook Hall Farmhouse and the design of the war memorial. Use the list entry number when referring to a building in a school project or local-history note.

Industry and transport. The Foxfield Railway records how local railway workers built a line to move coal from Dilhorne and how volunteers kept it running after the colliery closed. Its history gives a useful starting point for tracing a railway photograph captioned Blythe Bridge.

Church and burial research. Start with the burial records guide if you have a name and date. For photographs of a church building, search for “St Peter’s Forsbrook” as well as “Blythe Bridge”. For local authority decisions about a place, use the separate parish minutes archive.

Photograph credits

These photographs are reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike 2.0 licence. The versions on this site use WebP compression, some are resized and the layout may crop the edges. These versions are available under the same licence.

• Chapel Street, Forsbrook, © Stephen McKay, 13 May 2021. Houses and spring blossom on Chapel Street.
• Entering Forsbrook, © Stephen McKay, 13 May 2021. The village sign alongside the road.
• St Peter’s Forsbrook, Blythe Bridge, © John Lord, 6 September 2017. The church as seen from its churchyard.
• The Roebuck, Forsbrook, © Stephen McKay, 13 May 2021. A modern view of the inn near the former brook crossing.

The historical postcards linked in our guides remain with the collections named in their catalogue records. The photograph licence above applies to the four listed Geograph images.