Recreation facilities, Drake Hall, near Eccleshall
Page 13 of 'Drake Hall - A War-Time Hostel', a souvenir book produced for staff and residents at the Swynnerton Royal Ordinance Factory hostel at Drake Hall, produced in 1945. The Games Room, part of ...
Red Cross Cadets at Pattingham
The picture was taken outside The Vicarage in about 1944.
Left to right: Mrs. Boswell; Mary Lycett; Ethel Lane; Mary Dulson; Dorothy Scriven; Mary Wheeler;not known; Iris Bramall; not known; Kath Russell; ...
Red Cross, Stone
Female US Army personnel relaxing, playing chess and reading magazines at the Red Cross in Stone.
This image is from the 'Yarnfield Yank', a booklet published in 1945 to commemorate the presence of ...
Reginald Mitchell
Reginald Mitchell was born at 115 Congleton Road, Butt Lane, Kidsgrove in 1895 and was educated at Hanley High School. At sixteen, he gained an apprenticeship at Kerr Stuart & Co of Fenton.
After ...
Remembrance Sunday, War Memorial, Stafford
The crosses at the War Memorial in Victoria Square, Stafford, commemorating the Fallen of two World Wars, are examined by three 20 year old Stafford National Servicemen, on demobilisation leave, who have ...
Repatriates and American troops arrive by air
An image from the 'Yarnfield Yank', a booklet published in 1945 to commemorate the presence of US Army personnel at transit camps in Yarnfield, near Stone during World War II. The camps at Yarnfield were ...
RMS Rangitata
This ocean passenger liner is thought to be the RMS Rangitata which was built in 1929. The Rangitata was operated by the New Zealand Shipping Company and usually sailed between the United Kingdom and ...
Rocester Home Guard
This photograph was taken in the early days of the Home Guard as it precedes the full issue of uniform and weapons. Most men are carrying wooden replica guns or double-barrelled shotguns and many are ...
Roman Catholic Church at RAF Stafford
The interior of the Roman Catholic Church built by Prisoners of War at RAF Stafford. By the autumn of 1944 the Allies were on track for victory and peaceful preparations began with the inauguration of ...
Roy Rawl and Terry at Shooting Butts Camp School, Rugeley
Pictured left to right are Roy Rawl and Terry (unknown) at Shooting Butts Camp School, near Rugeley.
Shooting Butts Camp School, Penkridge Bank Road, Rugeley was opened in 1940 for evacuee boys from ...
Royal Pioneer Corps
In front row, fourth from left is Harry Evans of Stone (b.1907). Before he was called up to the North Staffordshire Regiment in World War Two, he was in the Territorials. He is pictured here wearing ...
Royal Pioneer Corps
In front row, second from left is Harry Evans of Stone (b.1907). Before he was called up to the North Staffordshire Regiment in World War Two, he was in the Territorials. He is pictured here wearing ...
Rugeley Civil Defence Rescue team
Members of Rugeley Civil Defence Rescue team pictured in the yard of 16 Albion Street.
Salute the Soldier Parade, Uttoxeter
British and U.S. Army personnel standing at ease in the Market Place, Uttoxeter. This parade was part of the Salute the Soldier week, which was to raise money for the war effort. In all around £336,979 ...
Sandon Road VE Day Party, Stafford
The adults in this photograph are (left to right): Phyllis Hardy, Mrs Smith, Mrs Lamb, Mrs Hewitt, Mrs Dutton, Mrs Beasley (seated holding a little girl), Eileen Yates and Mr Yates. The boys seated to ...
Sandon W.I. at Sandon Hall
During World War II Sandon Hall was used by the Red Cross as a convalescent home for wounded servicemen. Sandon Women's Institute helped by mending clothing and bedding, and by making bandages.
Standing ...
Scything nettles, Rodbaston Farm Institute, Penkridge
Women's Land Army recruits scything nettles at Rodbaston Farm Institute. On the right is their instructor, Mr J.W. Rowland.
Rodbaston College's origins lie in 1919 when the War Agricultural Committee ...
Sharp Brothers and Knight War Memorial, Burton-upon-Trent
Memorial to the workers from Sharp Brothers and Knight joinery manufacturers killed in the two world wars. Originally displayed on the factory building, the two memorial plaques were later remounted on ...