Village lock-up, Gnosall
A pen and ink sketch on a blank white postcard. View of the lock-up in Gnosall with the inscription: 'Jail / Gnosall'. Signed 'ESPE / 1923'. Dimensions 88mm x 140mm.
Artist: Sydney Pearson (1890-1948). ...
Walsall Town - The George Inn: sepia wash drawing
'The George Inn and Old Houses at Walsall, Staffordshire.' A view of the square known as the Bridge. The large building with three (of four) Ionic columns, originally from Fisherwick Hall, on the left, ...
White Lion Inn, Stafford,
The White Lion Inn was built on the site of the medieval St. John's Hospital and Chapel on Lichfield Road; the rear structure of the inn included stonework from the old chapel. On the right is the eighteenth ...
Women's Prison, Stafford Gaol
Male and female prisoners had always been kept separate, but due to overcrowding a new gaol for females was built in 1852. This allowed the Separate System to be introduced in which it was believed that ...