HOPTON AGAINST HS2

Old Photographs of Hopton

             

Above are two old cottages that used to be on the right-hand side of the church as you look at it from the road. Note Beacon Hill behind to the left.
 
This is the rear of one of the cottages shown on the left.
 

 

The old Stafford Uttoxeter line at Hopton looking towards Stafford.  Staffordshire Life and Pictorial Magazine Summer 1957.  The white buildings on the right are the living quarters (barracks) for R.A.F. personnel and their families.  The tall chimneys belong to Stafford Salt Works near Stafford Common. Courtesy Jim McSharry, Picasaweb.

 

Two old railway signs on the disused Stafford Uttoxeter line near Hopton. Courtesy Jim McSharry, Picasaweb.