Description:A classroom at Stonehouse Primary School at Slitting Mill, near Rugeley. This is Miss Merry's class which had three or four school years in one class. There were around 40 pupils attending the school at this time. Stephen Adams is 3rd left, his brother Chris Adams is standing reading a book with Sheila Upton(?). David Westwood is at the back near the window and to his left near the window is David Bridgens. In front of him is Keith Rollinson(?). 4th from left, wearing spectacles is Michael Walsh.
Sarah Hopkins left a legacy of £600, a cottage and land near the Stonehouse, Rugeley, to provide a school for children in the Cannock Chase area. Her will was dated 1841 and proved in 1844. The school closed in about 1894 and the legacy was transferred to a mixed National school, which was built at Stonehouse in that year. Latterly the school was renamed Slitting Mill County Primary School until it closed in the early 1990s.
This photograph is believed to have been taken for the Rugeley Times.