Blacksmith's shop, Cotes Heath
Photographs shows Tom Giles' blacksmith's shop which stood opposite the church in Cotes Heath, which can be seen in the background, to the left. Tom Giles, farmer and blacksmith, was born in Farndon, ...
Blacksmiths shop, Whiston,
The building behind the blacksmith's workshop is the Sneyd Arms public house.
Boatman and family on the Trent & Mersey Canal at Rugeley
Boer War New Year Card, Westhorpe, Stafford
New Year card sent by the Peach family, referring to the Boer War (1899 - 1902). This was one of two wars (the first was 1880 - 1881) fought by the British in South Africa against the Boer settlers.
The ...
Boydon's Butchers Shop, Stafford,
Mr R. Boydon in the doorway of his butcher's shop on the corner of Marston Road and Lovatt Street.
The building is now used by an insurance brokers.
Brewery, Great Haywood,
There had been a brewery in Great Haywood since the mid-1800s, situated in what is now Brewery Lane.
The brewery had a steam engine which pumped water for making beer. When the well was in use the ...
Brewood Show, Somerford Park
Posing for the Newsletter photographer at the Brewood and District Agricultural Society’s 43rd annual show. Please contact us if you recognise anyone in the photograph.
Reproduced by kind permission ...
Brewood Show, Somerford Park
Chewing some hay and posing for the Newsletter photographer at the Brewood and District Agricultural Society’s 43rd annual show.
Reproduced by kind permission of the Staffordshire Newsletter who retain ...
Brewood Show, Somerford Park
Spectators watch the judging in one of the strongly-supported bull classes at the Brewood and District Agricultural Society’s 43rd annual show, held on Bank Holiday Monday 2 August at Somerford Park, ...
Bridgewater's brewhouse yard, Dudley Wood
The brewhouse yard at the rear of the Victoria Inn, Dudley Wood Road, one of a series of photographs taken showing subsidence of buildings due to coal mining. Geese and a horse and cart surrounded by ...
Broad Hill, Gnosall
A postcard view of a labourer taking a rest with a horse and a cart loaded with wood on Broad Hill, near Gnosall.
In the background the railway bridge spans the former L&NWR Shropshire Union Railway ...
Brocton Village
View from The Green looking down towards Chase Road.
On the left, just out of sight, was the smithy; a horse-drawn cart is awaiting repair.
On the right is Green Farm.
Burston, Sandon,
The thatched cottage on the right has since been demolished.
Calton Moor House
Thatched hay ricks and a horse-drawn farm wagon at Calton Moor House. The owner, John Phillips, is standing to the right, with two young farm hands to the left.
Calton Moor House stands at the crossroads ...
Canal boat, Shebdon
The canal boat 'Gifford' belonging to canal ware artist and sign writer Martin Bunford of Shebdon, near High Offley pictured on the Shropshire Union Canal. Martin leads the horse and his wife and three ...
Canal Boats In The Potteries
A pottery works fireman remembers the people on the working canal boats:-
They’d moor the boat at the side of a firm, and they’d come on site and say “Have you got a bucket of coal?”. Because they’d ...
Canvassing during a General Election, Eccleshall,
Major Hugh Fraser, Conservative candidate, successfully contested the Stafford Constituency in the 1951 General Election.
He is seen here canvassing in High Street.
Carting bracken, Harts Hill, Cannock Chase
Two men and a horse-drawn wagon loaded with bracken near Harts Hill the north-west part of Cannock Chase. Bracken was gathered on the Chase and used for packing pottery.