Shooting Butts Camp School, Rugeley
Boys from Shooting Butts helping with weeding of crops.
Shooting Butts Camp School, Penkridge Bank Road, Rugeley was opened in May1940 for evacuee boys from Birmingham. There was also a similar Camp ...
Shropshire Rams, Pipe Ridware
Mr. Chamberlain of Church Farm, Pipe Ridware, near Rugeley, with three Shropshire rams.
Photographer: Gerald McCann (1897-1970) of Uttoxeter.
Shropshire Shearling Ewes, County Show, Stone
Three Shropshire Shearling ewes being judged at the Staffordshire County Show, Stone. Staffordshire Agricultural Society held its first show in Stone in 1844. The annual County Show was originally held ...
Sileage making, Rodbaston Farm Institute, Penkridge
The permanent concrete silo at Rodbaston. The men are loading grass into the tower via a chopper blower, driven by the Fordson tractor on the right. The wooden tower contained the stairway which led ...
Singling mangolds, Home Farm, Keele
Men singling mangolds on Mr T.C. Heath's farm, Home Farm, Keele. The town of Newcastle-under-Lyme can be seen in the distance, including the tower of St. Giles' church.
Home Farm was built in 1833 ...
Spectators at Hixon Horticultural Show
This newspaper cutting has the caption: 'Three Fine Old Grannies' and shows 'three interested spectators at Hixon Horticultural show whose ages total 246'. In the centre is Mrs Martha Plasida Malpass ...
St. Mary's Church, Colton
A view from the south showing the 13th century tower and the 19th century south porch. The church was restored by G.E. Street in 1850-1852. The man and horse are standing in a field belonging to the ...
Stafford Young Farmers Football Team
Back row (left to right): G. parrott, E. Turner, S.N. Hill, R. Embrey, G. Bourne, C. Shilton, T. Ball, E. Knight.
Front row: A. Shilton, D.H. mercer, R. Parrott (captain), H. Ball, E.T. Bennison, J. ...
Staffordshire Farm Institute, Rodbaston, Penkridge
Mr G. Dunn, Machinery Officer, and Dr G.H. Bates, Principal of the Staffordshire Farm Institute, Rodbaston Hall. Dr Bates was Principal at Rodbaston from 1935 until his sudden death in 1951.
Rodbaston ...
Staffordshire Farmers striking at Birkenhead Docks
Members of the National Farmers Union Leek and Rushton branch picketing at Birkenhead Docks in 1974. Four coachloads of North Staffordshire livestock farmers travelled to Birkenhead to protest against ...
Staffordshire War Agricultural Executive Committee Officials, Manor Farm, Harlaston
A group of eight officials standing in farm yard with buildings behind. Photograph taken during the visit of Minister for Agriculture, Mr R.S. Hudson M.P., to the Staffordshire War Agricultural Executive ...
Statfold Farm, Statfold, Lichfield
Stone - Groundslow Ploughing Match: tracing
'Sketch of the Key of the Groundslow Ploughing Match taken from the print in Messrs. Boultons' Office, The Goods Yard, Stafford, The print is dated 1840. Sketched by J. S. Horne, Nov 1931.'Showing a ...
Stooking corn at Strongford Farm, near Tittensor
Pictured are (left to right) Denis Roberts, Graham Monroe, Ivy Bryan (nee Leycett, Land Army girl) and Tony Austin. Denis's father was the Farm Manager at Strongford Farm and the group are pictured in ...
Stooking Oats, Uttoxeter schoolboys Farm Camp, Lower Cowley Farm, Gnosall
Another job found for the schoolboys was stooking oats. Mr Wilson their leader wrote, "The stooking of oats was not quite such a rush job (as potato picking), but there was a blazing sun at the time, ...
Suffolk geldings, The Wood, Adbaston
Seven pure bred Suffolk geldings. Holding them are, left to right: J. Moult (aged 37), W. Boulton (aged 32), F.W. Moult (aged 12) and Women's Land Army girl Miss Iris Penn (aged 26). Photographed for ...
Suffolk stallion, Wynterdyne, Tamworth
Col. G. Blewitt, D.S.O., M.C. and Mr. A.W. Macnamara with Suffolk stallion and handler at Winterdyne Farm, Tamworth, Staffordshire. The farm was owned by Mr A.W. Macnamara.
Photographer: Gerald McCann, ...
Sugar Beet at Clive Farm, Pattingham
Award winning farmer Mr John Roberts, of Clive Farm, Pattingham with his crop of sugar beet.