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The English Electric Co., Stafford

Apprentices and trainees are pictured posing for the photographer as they take part in this scene for the Stafford Pageant. Many of the apprentices are dressed as devils with one on the front row holding ...

The English Electric Co., Stafford Works Fire Engine

The English Electric Co., Stafford Works, Aster Merryweather, Fire Engine is pictured with the Fire Crew including a Fire-Woman (which was quite unusual at this time). The fire engine was housed in the ...

The Hough, Lichfield Road, Stafford

This group of distinguished looking managers and engineers are pictured on a cold day in the garden with the east front of the Hough in the background. This building later became known as The Old Hough. ...

The murder of Elizabeth Gaskin, Hednesford

Postcard photograph with the caption ‘The Chase Murder, Feb 1919. Showing 5ft wall over which the body was taken. Tank is several yards from the wall’. Henry Gaskin climbed the wall to place his murdered ...

The murder of Elizabeth Gaskin, Hednesford

Postcard photograph captioned ‘Where the body was found’ with a group of people at the base of a gasometer. Henry Gaskin hid his wife's dismembered head and clothing in the water below the disused gasometer ...

The New Hough, Lichfield Road, Stafford

The New Hough was built in 1907 and was the residence of the Manager with his servants, a groom and a gardener. The architect was Arnold Mitchell of Hanover Square, London. The estimated cost was £1,500.00. ...

The reservoir on Hednesford Hills

View of the construction of the reservoir on Hednesford Hills close to the Museum of Cannock Chase. Work on the site began in Spring 1991.

Training Awards Event , GEC ALSTHOM, St. Leonard's, Stafford

The 1995 Switchgear Training Awards Event held at St Leonards Sports and Social Club, Stafford. Among those in the photograph are: Joanne Humble, Mark Wetton, Andrew Gardner, Derek Pinches, Eric Lander, ...

Training Awards Event at Alstom, St. Leonard's Works, Stafford

Employees from St. Leonard's Works pictured during a Training Awards Event held at St. Leonard's Sports and Social Club, Stafford. Among those in the photograph are: Pete Simpson (3rd row from front, ...

Transformer works, English Electric Co., Stafford

This photograph of a new sign on the English Electric’s Transformer Works building was taken from Stychields car park at the Lichfield Road Works in Stafford. The sign was illuminated at night and visible ...

Tug and locomotive, GEC Alsthom, Stafford

On the right (left to right) are David Jones and Bernard Duffy who are pictured outside GEC Alsthom Turbine Generators Ltd.'s Over-Speed Control Room on the Lichfield Road site at Queensville in Stafford. ...

Twyford's Works, Cliffe Vale, Stoke-on-Trent

A view taken from Hanley Cemetery looking over the Trent and Mersey Canal, towards the Twyford's factory and bottle kilns. Thomas Twyford built the works in Cliff Vale for the production of sanitary ...

Upper Brook Street, Rugeley

A quiet scene in Upper Brook Street, Rugeley. On the left is a glimpse of a sign for the Crown public house and on the right are several set-back shops which replaced cottages demolished in the 1930s. ...

Victory Celebrations at English Electric Co., Stafford,

Female factory workers at the English Electric Co. factory on Lichfield Road celebrate victory at the end of World War Two. The company had changed to war work on the outbreak of war, as they had ...

Victory celebrations, English Electric Co., Stafford

Female employees celebrate Victory at the end of World War Two in one of the typing pools on the Lichfield Road Site in Stafford; note the decorations and tin hats hanging on the wall. In later years ...

View of Barlaston and Meaford Power Station,

View of Meaford power station from Trentham Park. This is an artist's impression of what the power station would look like prior to its construction; the station came into operation in 1947. The majority ...

Wall Grange Pumping Station, near Cheddleton

Staffordshire Potteries Water Works Company's Wall Grange Pumping Station, built in 1849, was the first one locally to have provided water to Stoke on Trent. In the foreground a boy is fishing in the ...

Water reclamation works, Uttoxeter

Construction of a sewage filter bed at the water reclamation works, close to the A50.