Packhorse Lane was the road between Burslem and Newcastle under Lyme before Newcastle Road was built. It ran down the side of the large and ornate 1789 pottery works of Enoch Wood.

The corner of Enoch Wood's Fountain Place Works undergoing restoration.
The road in the foreground is Fountain Place. To the left of the works is Packhorse Lane and to the right is Westport Road.
The building to the extreme left of the photo is the National Westminster Bank.

photo: May 2000

This is a Listed Building

on the History of Wood's factory & Packhorse Lane

on the restoration of Wood's Works

The frontage of Woods factory in 1840.
The carts in the forefront of the picture were bringing 
coal from the firm's colliery at Bycars. 
Pack Horse Lane was entered through the arch.