Canteen, British Reinforced Concrete, Stafford,
The British Reinforced Concrete Engineering Company manufactured reinforced concrete structures and made steel mesh for reinforcing concrete. The company moved from Manchester to Stafford in 1926, building ...
Canteen, Post Office Telephones Central Training School, Yarnfield
A view of the temporary student canteen in the New Training Building at the G.P.O. Training Centre in Yarnfield. Notice the lack of tables and chairs - the G.P.O. did not want the students to get too ...
Canteen, Post Office Training Centre, Yarnfield
This photograph of catering staff in the kitchen at the Post Office Training Centre was taken by Stafford photographer Tony Boydon.
The General Post Office Engineering Department, Central Training ...
Canteen, Post Office Training Centre, Yarnfield
This photograph of catering staff serving meals to staff and trainees at the Post Office Training Centre was taken by Stafford photographer Tony Boydon.
The General Post Office Engineering Department, ...
Canteen, Post Office Training Centre, Yarnfield
This photograph of catering staff serving meals to staff and trainees at the Post Office Training Centre was taken by Stafford photographer Tony Boydon.
The General Post Office Engineering Department, ...
Children involved in a shopping activity, Christ Church School, Stone
This picture was taken in the Main Hall of Christ Church First School in Stone. It may have been a School Fair.
Peter Ridgway is at the back next to the Post box.
This is the outcome of a reminiscence ...
Child's Birthday Party, Stafford,
Mrs Shanka Devadason (centre) holding a birthday party for her son Dev (to her left) in Weeping Cross.
Christ Church Mothers' Union, Stafford,
Christ Church opened on Foregate Street in 1839. Its mission church, St. Aidan's, was consecrated in 1902 on Marston Road.
Mothers' Union meetings were held on the first Wednesday of every month, ...
Christmas Menu, The Old Farmhouse Restaurant, Armitage
This 1990 Christmas Dinner menu at The Old Farmhouse Restaurant describes the first, second and main courses available. We do not have details of the desert menu which was printed on a separate sheet....
Codd mineral water bottle, W.D.B. Batkin, Stafford
This Codd bottle is made of green tinged glass, and is moulded in the side. It was used by W.D.B. Batkin Ltd, mineral water manufacturers based at 13 Gaol Road, Stafford.
Designed by Hiram Codd, this ...
Cooking Kitchen, Stafford Gaol
Ovens and cooking equipment in the cooking kitchen.
The kitchen block was built in the 1860s.
Co-operative bakery, Kings Avenue, Stone
George Bradshaw, Eric Poole, Mr Healy and Mr Glover at work in the bakery at the Stone Co-operative shop and bakery at the junction of Radford Street and Kings Avenue.
The Stone Co-operative Society ...
Cow Creamer
With the fashion for taking tea, coffee and chocolate in the mid 18th century came the need for equipment for preparing and serving it.
One of the more fanciful inventions of potters (and silversmiths) ...
Crystal Glass, Royal Castle Flint Glass Works, Hatton
Crystal glass decoration by Francis and Charles Crossley.
The Crossleys worked for the Royal Castle Flint Glass Works which stood on Scropton Lane, Hatton, near Tutbury. The Castle Works was founded ...
Customers at the Soup House, Tutbury
Children and adults collecting soup from the Charity House on Duke Street. The Charity House was built in 1844 and is known locally as 'the Soup House'.
Since 1988 the Charity House has been the home ...
Cutlery, Cheddleton Asylum
Cutlery, if needed for a meal time, was dispensed to patients in a strictly controlled way. It was specially made for the asylum, with knives having a very small cutting edge to prevent the danger of ...
Dig for Victory Campaign Poster
This poster shows the type of crops to plant, and the yearly rotation.
During World War Two the Dig for Victory campaign encouraged people to transform gardens, parks and sports fields into allotments ...
Dinner Ladies, Holmcroft Primary School, Stafford,