Another selection of Bert Bentley pictures, courtesy of The Sentinel newspaper. Several in this batch show Stoke train station, and in a suitably gothic mode, which is a setting of a scene early on in my novel The Spyders of Burslem…

BERT BENTLEY ARCHIVE – STOKE – 1963/64 – Stoke Station

BERT BENTLEY ARCHIVE – STOKE – 1963/64 – Stoke Station

BERT BENTLEY ARCHIVE – STOKE – 1963/64 – Stoke Station

In the middle picture it looks like there’s litter on the line, but actually it seems to be dappled sunlight. Similarly, in the bottom picture what looks like litter actually seems to be either snow or recent rain puddles.