Description:Pictured trying the handle of a shop door in the High Street, Stone, is just one of the routine jobs of Police Constable Ted Cornes.
Much of the policeman’s lot is, of course, purely routine work, but there is about it an attractive uncertainty, which comes from the knowledge that at any hour of the day or night anything might happen to change the routine in an instant.
Police Constable Cornes, who in next July (1956) will have completed 30 years in the Staffordshire County Police Force, all but 18 months of that period has been in the Stone Division, he served under three Chief Constables and five Superintendents. Nearly 20 years of his service has been spent “on the A34” at Tittensor and later at Walton, so he, more perhaps than most police officers, knew something of the uncertainty of a policeman’s work, for rarely a day would pass without some strange happening being reported from that section of the trunk road that bisected the Stone Police Division.
This article on “Other People’s Jobs” was published in the Stone Guardian on Saturday 29 January 1955.