Female Provident Society - Document from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
This 'benefit club' claimed to offer women a fighting chance of avoiding hopeless poverty - many years before any worker paid a National Insurance contribution.
If a woman fell ill, she could expect ...
Fern Cottage, Trentham parish workhouse
This plan is of Fern Cottage, Trentham parish workhouse. Parish workhouses began in the 17th and 18th centuries as places where the poor worked in return for food and board. The workhouses were frequently ...
First aid demonstration, Cannock area
Photograph of first aid demonstration in Cannock area. Four men are taking part in the demonstration, with a crowd of onlookers behind rope barrier, including Police Constable H. Rickuss, a member of ...
First Aid Team, Mossfield Colliery, Longton
This group includes Tom Ibbs sitting on the front row, far left.
Mossfield Colliery was sunk in the 1850s, with up to four shafts, and closed in 1963. The colliery was located near Adderley Green near ...
First Aiders event, Cannock area
St. John Ambulance cadets and nursing officers gathered for an unknown occasion. A lady in civilian clothes shakes hands with a lady officer, while the rest of the group look on.
Florence Thorneycroft OBE
Miss Florence Thorneycroft (died 1944) was a Staffordshire County Councillor from March 1919 to May 1936 and a County Alderman between May 1936 and February 1944. She lived at Tettenhall Towers, Wolverhampton ...
Food collection at Weston Coyney, Stoke-on-Trent
The miner's strike of 1984 - 1985 saw many families suffer great hardship as striking workers lost all their pay and benefits. Food collection and distribution points like this one at Weston Coyney were ...
Foresters Convalescent Home, Walton Pool, Stourbridge
This nursing home was founded by the Ancient Order of Foresters and built in 1893.
During World War II the home was arefuge for children evacuated from Birmingham and Felixstowe. It has been a private ...
Gallipots
Set of 5 nesting gallipots. Cream coloured unglazed ceramic. They were used by apothecaries and pharmacists to hold medicines. Nowadays they are still used but are often disposable.
From the Staffordshire ...
General Booth and Mayor William Marson, Stafford,
William Booth (1829 - 1912), known as 'General Booth', founded the Christian Mission in 1865.
The movement aimed to help the poor and needy of London's East End, and as it developed was renamed the ...
George VI's Coronation Decorations, Bridge Street, Stafford,
George VI's Coronation Decorations, Brine Baths, Stafford,
View taken from Green Bridge.
The Brine Baths opened in 1892 on Greengate Street, after a thick bed of salt was discovered on Stafford Common during the search for a water supply for the town. Its ...
Goldenhill Welfare House
This photograph of the Welfare House in Heathside Lane, Goldenhill was taken by Stafford photographer Tony Boydon. In later years the building became known as Heathside House Nursing Home.
Groundslow Sanatorium, near Tittensor
A view across fields of Groundslow Sanatorium. The original house at Groundslow Fields, seen here to the right of the more recent Santorium buildings, is believed to have been built in 1832 as a hunting ...
Groundslow Sanatorium, near Tittensor
The Nurses' Dining Room at Groundslow Sanatorium.
The original house at Groundslow Fields is believed to have been built in 1832 as a hunting lodge for the Duke of Sutherland of the nearby Trentham ...
Groundslow Sanatorium, Tittensor
This photograph was probably taken when the building was a sanatorium. Said to be built in 1832 as a hunting lodge for the Duke of Sutherland of the nearby Trentham Estate, it was purchased by the Staffordshire, ...
Groundslow Sanatorium, Tittensor
This photograph was probably taken when the building was a sanatorium. Said to be built in 1832 as a hunting lodge for the Duke of Sutherland of the nearby Trentham Estate, it was purchased by the Staffordshire, ...
Group of Volunteer Nurses, Stafford,
Group photograph of First World War volunteer nurses.
They are pictured on the steps of the Borough Hall, Eastgate Street.