May Queen, Rowley Street, Methodist Hall, Stafford
In the absence of the traditional village green, the Rowley Street Methodist Church Hall, with its attractive decorations of streamers and flags, provided an excellent substitute for the crowning of the ...
Methodist Sunday school meeting, Oakamoor
A Methodist Sunday school meeting taking place at Jimmy's Yard, Oakamoor. The preacher is standing on a North Staffs railway three-plank wagon.
Methodist Sunday School Procession, Hednesford
The Methodist Sunday School procession was held annually, ending in front of the Anglesey Hotel, Market Street, Hednesford. Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist sunday School banners can be seen. There were ...
Methodist Sunday School, Hot Lane, Burslem
This single storey building is three room wide by three rooms deep. The front of the building has a row of stone plaques above the skirting. Two decorated iron figures extend from the external buttress.
The ...
Methodist Sunday School, Swan Bank, Burslem
This Sunday School building has two sections. The first is two storeys high, six rooms wide by two rooms deep. The second building also has two storeys but is five rooms wide by two rooms deep. They were ...
Mill Dale Primitive Methodist Sunday School, Alstonefield
A dissenters' chapel was opened at Mill Dale in January 1836, but was transferred to the Ashbourne Primitive Methodist circuit in 1886. Occasional services are still held.
Mr Thomas Rylands Parton, Principal of Cannock Grammar School
Son of a coal miner, born in Madeley, Shropshire in 1873. A Baptist Church preacher, President of Chadsmoor Sunday-morning Adult School and Principal of Cannock Grammar School.
As Principal, he advertised ...
Norman chapel at Dosthill, Tamworth
A view of the Norman Chapel on Church Road, Dosthill viewed from the north east. The chapel dates from the 12th century and stands in the churchyard of St. Paul's Church which can be seen to the right ...
Peace Celebrations, Stone
Peace Day on Granville Square. The sign for the Crown and Anchor public house can be seen to the far right, close to Christ Church Sunday Schools banner.
Peace Day celebrated the end of the First ...
Portrait of Mrs Hambleton, Cheddleton
Mrs Hambleton was born Sarah Hall on June 1st 1810 at a farm called High Street, about one and a half miles from Cheadle. She was one of eight children, having four brothers and three sisters. The family ...
Procession to mark the accession of King George V, Leek
Sunday School pupils and Boy Scouts are seen here taking part in the town's procession in celebration of the accession of King George V.
Ragged School banner, Leek
Mill Street Wesleyan Ragged School banner, from Leek. Blue embroidered silk with blue, white and yellow silk tassels and fringe.
The side shown features a painted inscription (apparently a later ...
Ruxley Road Methodist Chapel, Bucknall
Ruxley Road Methodist Chapel at the corner with Corneville Road. The brick built chapel was completed in 1891 with an adjoining Sunday School. The houses in this part of Townsend date from the 1900s. ...
Salt and Hopton Sunday School Party, Salt
Five year old Paul Thomas is pictured presenting a box of chocolates to the Countess of Shrewsbury at the end of the prize distribution to children of Salt and Hopton Sunday Schools, at the annual party ...
Stafford Wesley Methodists Sunday School, Earl Street, Stafford
150th anniversary celebrations of Stafford Wesley Methodists Sunday School, Earl Street, Stafford. Below is an extract from an article published in the Staffordshire Newsletter on 23 April 1956:
For ...
Stone Congregational Sunday School fancy dress parade
Standing, left to right: unknown snowman,Jean Gilbert, Gill Dale, unknown, Shirley Sherratt, Pat Egerton as part of the Darby and Joan couple, Jill Astbury, unknown, ? Pearson, Shirley Rigby, Pat Egerton, ...
Stone Laying at George Street Sunday school, Burton-on-Trent
A large crowd posed on the site of George Street Sunday School for a stone laying ceremony. The large banner (at the top of the picture) illustrates the finished sunday school design, with Bass Middle ...
Sunday School at the Victoria Road Methodist Chapel, Tamworth
This photograph was taken at the anniversary of the Sunday School in 1963, at the Victoria Road Methodist Chapel.