Oliver Road and the old St Peter's School, Penkhull
Looking east along Oliver Road from just off Hilton Road. In the background are the recent buildings of St Peter's School, which was on Queen's Road in Penkhull. The school closed in 2011 and lay empty ...
Oulton Cricket Club, Oulton Grange, near Stone
Cricketers and spectators at The Grange Ground in the late 1950s. In the background is a van belonging to the Potteries Die Company.
Oulton Cricket Club were founded in 1953 and their first ground ...
Outgoing Group Captain tours the site, RAF Stafford
Pictured on a cold February day the outgoing Station Commander, Group Captain R D Brittain tours the site on the back of a lorry with the Commanding Officer's personal heater.
RAF Stafford was formed ...
P. Warburton's lorry, New Street, Uttoxeter
The lorry is a Dennis Jubilant which was purchased by P. Warburton after the Second World War. The lorry finished its working life with a fairground operator.
Pageant Queen and 'Gang Show' Float, Stafford Pageant,
Procession seen outside the King William public house, now the Malt and Hops, on Lichfield Road. The Gang Show float, with gypsy caravan, was probably based on the show's production number 'Romany Revels'.
The ...
Police Escorting a Heavy Load, Weeping Cross, Stafford
A Wynns tractor and trailer is seen here navigating the junction at the top of Radford Bank, heading towards Milford.
Vehicles like this were a fairly common sight in Stafford during the later years ...
Post Office Road, Alrewas
'Sycamore House' on Post Office Road.
Post Office Road, Alrewas
Alrewas Post Office on Post Office Road.
Potteries landscape from Navigation Road, Burslem.
Bert Bentley was looking east over Burslem from the top of Navigation Road. Just to the right of the bottle ovens is the short tower of St John's Church (a grade II listed building). The tower is the ...
Printing press being delivered to the Uttoxeter Advertiser
A new printing press (The Stunner) being delivered to The Uttoxeter Advertiser, whose offices were in Market Place. It had to be lifted over the buildings to their works as it could not be brought in ...
Pulling lorry out of mud, Staffordshire County Show, Uttoxeter
A lorry, registration number E3258, is being hauled out by two lines of men and boys with ropes at the Staffordshire County Show, held at Uttoxeter Racecourse on Thursday 4 June 1936.The show was hit ...
Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Celebrations, Stone
Coronation Celebrations float.
Queen Elizabeth II Coronation celebrations, Stone
Coronation Celebrations procession. The Quickfit and Quartz science float, pictured outside the Swan Inn on Stafford Street.
Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation Celebrations, Uttoxeter
Mrs Cavendish of Crakemarsh Hall speaking at an event during Uttoxeter's celebrations for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
Julia Florence Cavendish, nee Siegel (1886-1963) was born in Chicago, ...
Queen's Cinema Palace, Jupiter Street. Smallthorne, Stoke-on-Trent
This cinema was on the north side of Jupiter Street (formerly King Street South) near the corner of Mars Street, just off Ford Green Road. Around the time this photograph was taken, the Palace became ...
R.A.F. Vehicles, Hixon Airbase
After the Second World War the airbase was used for the storage of surplus R.A.F. vehicles. The runways were filled from one end to the other with lorries and cars.
The site is now an industrial estate....
Racing pigeon carrier, Uttoxeter
A racing pigeon carrier pictured in the Carter Street car park, Uttoxeter.
Radford Street from Granville Square, Stone,
The war memorial to the soldiers from Stone, Meaford and Darlaston who died in the First World War was unveiled by Lord Dartmouth, Lord Lieutenant of the County on 10 January 1921.
The statue was designed ...