Apedale road, Chesterton
This postcard shows the corner of Audley Road and Apedale Road with the Eagle and Child on the corner. Note the very traditional clothes the children are wearing, of pinafores, straw bonnets, and cloth ...
Argyll Road, Longton. Photographed by William Blake.
Street scene taken at Argyll Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
This is one of many street scenes in the Blake Collection. Most of them were taken in the Normacot and Dresden areas near ...
Armistice Day 1918, King Street, Talke Pits
Standing from left to right are Mr James Lewis, Mr William Lewis, Mr David Taylor, Jack Davis, and Miss Nellie Lewis. Joseph or Richard Kennedy is pictured sitting on the floor on the left, with William ...
Armitage Railway Station
Station staff pictured outside the public entrance to Armitage Railway Station during the national railway strike of July and August 1911. This had been the first national strike of railway workers in ...
Armitage School
A view of Armitage School at the junction of Rugeley Road and Church Lane. It became the home of Armitage Youth Centre around 1975. The hall is also used by other community groups. The school was replaced ...
Art Class, Brooklands School, Stafford,
Brooklands opened on Eccleshall Road in 1946 as a private school.
At first only a small number of five and six year olds were admitted, but the number of pupils increased and by 1962 126 children ...
Arthur Hourd, Stafford Millenary Pageant
13 year old Arthur Hourd, dressed in Tudor costume for Stafford's Millenary Pageant, held in 1913. Arthur Egerton Hourd was the son of the founder of the 'Staffordshire Newsletter' and later succeeded ...
Ashbourne Road, Rocester
View of Ashbourne Road, looking towards Church Lane. The yard leading to the Red Lion public house is on the left, next to Dwyer's general store.
Aston-by-Stone school class
Standing 2nd row, first on left (with headband) is Christine Wright (nee Benbow).
Aston-by-Stone school class
Standing in second row, far right, is Christine Wright (nee Benbow).
Aston-by-Stone school class
Aston-by-Stone school group
Babies Shoes, mid 20th century
Silk shoes with hand sewn bird detail.
The button on one shoe is missing.
Baby show winners, Eccleshall Horticultural Show
Baby Show winners pictured at the 6th Annual Eccleshall Horticultural Show which was held in a field off Newport Road lent by Mr J.R. Hawkins. The winning babies were Fresa Dale and John Leslie Hawkins ...
Baby show, Eccleshall Horticultural Show
Participants in the baby show pictured at the 7th Annual Eccleshall Horticultural Show which was held in a field off Newport Road lent by Mr J.R. Hawkins. The Show was opened by Mrs Way, wife of the Rev. ...
Baby Show, Stafford and Stone Co-operative Society, Stafford
Holding a miniature cup in one hand and clutching the winner’s cup in the other is two year old Lynette Georgina Swift, after she had been judged to be the best baby in the show, organised by the Stafford ...
Baby’s Bonnet, 19th century
This bonnet is a typical baby’s bonnet, in that it is similar to the medieval coif; the bonnet is meant to cover the hair and ears but not the forehead.
It was probably worn in the 19th century but ...
Baby’s Bonnet, late Victorian / early 20th century
This bonnet is handmade with a hand sewn ‘M’ on the side, possibly the baby's initial.
The bonnet is simple with no decoration or detail meaning it was probably an everyday bonnet.
Bonnet’s were ...