Description:A postcard view of a winter scene in Gnosall, with the village lock-up on the left on Station Road. The lock-up was built in 1830. Lock-ups, often found in rural communities, were a convenient place to detain vagrants and local drunks. Only three lock-ups survive in the county, the other two can be found in Stafford and at Alton.
Gnosall lock-up is a grade II listed building. It was re-erected on nearby Sellman Street close to the A518 when plans to widen the road went ahead after a lorry drove into the building in the mid-1960s. Funds to move the building were raised by the Women's Institute.
Where the lock-up stood on the left is now Brookhouse Road (leading to a housing development) and a junction with the High Street, Station Road and Stafford Road (A518). On the right are the alms-houses, which are little changed today (June 2023) and beyond the alms-houses in the distance further along the High Street are houses which are still in existence.
This postcard was franked on 14 September 1908 in Wolverhampton and it was sent to an address in Lichfield.