Primrose Cottage, Mill Street, Stafford
On a bright spring morning a thatcher can be seen working on a new layer of thatch by the ridge of the roof of Primrose Cottage in Mill Street, Stafford.
After Jackson’s County Fruit Stores closed ...
Shakeshaft and Playfer, Market Street, Lichfield
TA Rowney & Son Ltd., Bridge Street, Stafford
T A Rowney & Son Ltd., had a shop on Bridge Street, Stafford and a shop on the High Street in Stone. They specialised in televisions, radios, gramophone records, electrical appliances sales and service.
In ...
The funeral of Elizabeth Gaskin, Hednesford
Postcard photo of the internment of the body of Elizabeth Gaskell on March 2nd, 1919 at St Peter's Church, Church Hill, Hednesford. Elizabeth was 23 years old. A cordon of police had been drawn up around ...
The funeral of Elizabeth Gaskin, Hednesford
Postcard photograph of the funeral cortège of Elizabeth Gaskell in Market Street, Hednesford on March 2nd, 1919. The local Funeral Director, George Stacey's, horse drawn hearse is passing the Market ...
The Hednesford Murder
A postcard with four views of places associated with the murder of Mrs Gaskin in Hednesford in 1919. The murder of Mrs Gaskin is not Hednesford's only murder but it is still probably the most infamous.
Henry ...
W.J. Robins undertakers, Stafford
W.J. Robins' horse-drawn hearse and carriage outside the North Western Hotel, Station Road, Stafford. Walter James Robins was born in Aylsham, Norfolk in 1846 and by 1881 was working in Stafford as ...