Over the years, Leek in Staffordshire has been home to many members of my branch of the Rogers family. The photographs below were taken on a wet Saturday in August 2008 and show some of the houses inhabited by various members of my family over the last 150 years.

This is 1 Waterloo Street, great grandfather Thomas Rogers died here in 1925. Great aunts Phyllis Rogers and Ruth H Rogers were both living here in 1951. Phyllis died here on 28 December 1957. As a very young child I used to visit the 2 aunts most summers.

13 Talbot Street (the one in the middle with the greeny/blue walls). Grandfather Charles Thomas Rogers was born here in 1877. His father Thomas must have moved here shortly after he married in March 1876 and the family was still there at the time of the birth of their second child, Percival in April 1879. But by the time of the 1881 census they had moved to Joliffe Street.

The left hand of these 2 houses is no.4 and named Endon (over the door). The other is no.2 and named Leek. Great grandmother Hannah Rogers (nee Knight) was living there in 1901 and died there of senile decay in June 1908 at the age of 89. The plaque on the right hand wall reads “THE GIFT OF Elizabeth Ash Widow Eldest Daughter of William Jollife Esqr Anno dom 1696.” In small print it states “Restored 1911”