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Picket line at Hem Heath Colliery, Trentham

During the 1984/1985 miner's strike some miners continued to work and faced crossing the picket lines every day. Workers had to face their collegues who were striking, and therefore not receiving a wage, ...

Picking Coal. Photographed by William Blake.

People foraging for coal during the Coal Strike, March 1912.

Picnic party at The Brooms, Stone

A large group of people pictured at The Brooms on Stafford Road, Stone. This could be the occasion of a works treat for the staff of McIlroy's department store in Hanley. At the time of this photograph ...

Picture House, Bridge Street, Stafford

Crowds of people outside the Picture House cinema decorated for the Peace Celebrations at the end of the First World War. During the day’s events, the Mayor of Stafford, Cllr Joseph Rushton, and the ...

Picture House, Bridge Street, Stafford

The Picture House cinema decorated for the Peace Celebrations at the end of the First World War. The Picture House opened on Bridge Street in February 1914. It closed in 1995 and was converted into a ...

Pierrette dancing troup at the Lichfield Greenhill Bower

Pierrot Character, Stafford Pageant,

Gladys Holt as a Perriot or Harlequin character. The costume was made from crepe paper. The annual procession through Stafford ended with a fair on the town common. A prize was awarded to the best ...

Pirate Float, Stafford Pageant,

Clive Holt in fancy dress. The photograph was taken at the rear of a house on Harrowby Street, Littleworth. The annual procession through Stafford ended with a fair on the town common. A prize was ...

Pirate Ship, Drayton Manor Park, near Tamworth

This postcard view shows the former Pirate Ship at Drayton Manor Park and Zoo which was in service from around 1982 to 2003. In later years the site became known as Drayton Manor Resort, one of the ...

Pit ponies on strike

In 1921 there was a three months strike because of the mine owners refusal to match the salaries the miners had been receiving during the period 1917-21 of Government control of the mines. For the ...

Plain Answers to plain Questions in a dialogue between John Bull and Bonaparte - document from the Enoch Wood scrapbook

Satirical Wartime Propoganda Fictitious dialogue between John Bull (a well-known name used to personify England) and Napoleon Bonaparte. It was produced during the Napoleonic Wars shortly after ...

Planting daffodils, Leigh

Leigh & District Women's Institute members planting daffodils in Leigh to mark to Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

Plant's Hole outcrop pit, Lightwood, Cheadle

This outcrop pit is 'Plant's Hole', at Lightwood, Cheadle. During the General Strike outcrop pits (about 4 feet square) were dug for coal getting. From left to right: Arthur Plant, Jack Alcock, Albert ...

Plate

Produced for the Harrods Exhibition, 1934. Plate. 1986.P.516. 1934. Over glaze printed & painted earthenware. D : 229 mm (9 "). Earthenware plate. Decorated with an over glaze printed pattern ...

Play in St. Chad’s Church, Stafford

A dramatic scene from Stafford Theatre Guild’s production of Christopher Fry’s ”A Sleep of Prisoners”, presented in St. Chad’s Church. Left to right: Edwin Price, Denis Dunsford, Derek Knight and Francis ...

Playing musical chairs, Sports and Flower Show, Pattingham

The adults pictured, from left to right are: Norah Chaplin, Harold Taylor, Uncle Bob Taylor, Bill Boland, Bill Ash and Ken Lakin. The game is being played on the old School field, now Orchard Close. The ...

Plough Maltings, No.22 Malthouse, Bass, Horninglow Street, Burton-on-Trent

The last coal fired kiln in Burton. The photograph was taken at 9pm in the evening, January 1967.

Ploughing Match, Abbots Bromley

Vintage tractors competing in the annual ploughing match and hedge-laying competition.