Leek Cyclists' Club
Leek Cyclists' Club pictured in the Leek area with their 'penny-farthing' bicycles. At the front of the group are George Watson and his son.
Leek Grammar School pupils, Clerk Bank, Leek
The school was founded in 1723 by Thomas Parker, the 1st Earl of Macclesfield, and Lord Chancellor who was born in Leek. This school photograph of pupils and masters was taken outside the grammar school ...
Leek Volunteer Band, Ball Haye Hall
This is probably the earliest photograph of the band, who were considered to be one of the best in Staffordshire. They gave open air concerts to large audiences in Leek Market Place on Monday evenings ...
Licensee, Three Crowns Inn, Stone,
Thomas Shardlow, licensee of the Three Crowns Inn, Little Stoke. The Shardlow family were licensees at the inn for 180 years.
His daughter, Leah Ethel, is serving a customer. She was the last Shardlow ...
Lichfield Road, Stafford,
This photograph shows Lichfield Road and Queensville.
At this time all the buildings were private houses, but today the majority are hotels and boarding houses.
The house with the timbered gables ...
Longton Police Station
Glover's brewery was on this Sutherland Road site originally, until Joules of Stone bought them out in 1903. The police purchased the brewery from Joules, demolished it, and built this building. Longton ...
Longton Road, Stone
A tinted postcard view of Longton Road, near Ivy Mill. Published by A.W. Tilley, newsagent and stationers, 7 Radford Street, Stone.
Lord Harrowby and his Sister as Children, Sandon Hall,
The ancestral home of the Harrowby family is Sandon Hall.
Lord Harrowby (right) is wearing a dress similar to his sister's. It was customary for small boys to wear dresses until they reached the age ...
Lord Norton, 'Colonial Self-Government'
Lithograph print. Caricature of Rt. Hon. Sir Charles Bowyer Adderley K.C.M.G., 1st Baron Norton (1814-1905). Born into an old Staffordshire family he inherited Hams Hall in Warwickshire. He was Member ...
Loton's shop, Abbots Bromley
Thomas George Loton's grocers shop in Market Place, Abbots Bromley. Born in Cheadle in 1849, Thomas Loton inherited this grocer's shop from his father George Loton in the 1880s and ran it until his ...
Lydia Daw, Brewood
Lydia Daw was baptised at Brewood on 23 July 1817, daughter of James and Esther Daw and older sister of James Daw, blacksmith, of Brewood. She left Brewood to work in London and was cook to Queen Adelaide, ...
Main Road, Little Haywood
View of Main Road taken from the crossroads in the centre of the village, looking towards Great Haywood.
In the centre is the Red Lion public house, once named The Bowyer Arms, after the family who ...
Man and horse, Hollinsclough
Market Cross, Cheadle
Looking down Cross Street towards St Giles Roman Catholic Church with the 17th century Market Cross in the foreground. The cross is surmounted with a Victorian era gas lamp.
In front of William Fallows' ...
Market Place and Parish Church, Burton-upon-Trent
A view looking over the Market Place towards St, Modwen's Parish Church, Burton-upon-Trent. The market is still held here today but much diminished from this busy scene on the cobbles. The Market Hall, ...
Market Square, Rugeley
A busy early postcard scene by Valentines of Market Square, Rugeley. Abraham Whitworth's grocery shop is on the left and Harris's ironmongers shop is to the right. The Town Hall's clock tower is prominent, ...
Market Street and Market Place, Rugeley,
Market Street and Market Place with the original Town Hall in the centre of the view.
Market Street, Hednesford
A colour-tinted postcard view looking north-west along Market Street, Hednesford. The barber's pole on the left edge of the card belonged to the premises of Mr J. Bird who was there for over 30 years. ...