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Dancing, Festival of Diwali, Stafford

Festival of Diwali at The Blessed William Howard School, Rowley Avenue. Diwali is a Hindu and Sikh festival, also known as the 'Festival of Light' as it celebrates that darkness is driven away by light. The ...

Dancing, Festival of Diwali, Stafford, (2)

Festival of Diwali at The Blessed William Howard School, Rowley Avenue. Diwali is a Hindu and Sikh festival, also known as the 'Festival of Light' as it celebrates that darkness is driven away by light. The ...

Dorman's Annual Children’s Party, Stafford

The Mayor of Stafford, Alderman Miss Iris Moseley, was guest of Honour at the Dorman’s annual children’s party for around 150 children aged from five to eight years old, organised by the Sports and Welfare ...

Dorman's Dinner Dance, Stafford

The Mayor of Stafford, Alderman Miss Iris Moseley, was guest of Honour at the Works Annual Dance organised by the Dorman Social Committee and held in the Borough Hall, Stafford on 11 December 1964. Left ...

Dorman's Dinner Dance, Stafford

Pictured is a Dinner Dance held in the Works Canteen at W.H. Dorman's Tixall Road site. Founded by William Henry Dorman in 1870 on Foregate Street, Dorman's began by manufacturing cutting tools for ...

Electric Palace and Skating Rink, Anglesey Street, Hednesford

Built in 1910 as a roller-skating rink, it was said to have a maple floor the equal of any in the Midlands. It was refurbished in 1912 and the name changed to the Electric Palace, showing films and holding ...

Endon Well Dressing, Circa 1960

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This is a record of Endon well dressing around 1960. Puddled clay is put onto boards which have been soaking in the local stream for a week – to prevent them taking moisture from the clay. Only natural ...

English Electric Co., Publicity Department, Stafford

Members of the English Electric Publicity Department are pictured with guests during their annual dinner and social at the Crispin Hotel, Stafford. the Publicity Department was based in Foregate Street, ...

Folk dancing in the Brewery Yard, Uttoxeter

Folk dancers pictured in the brewery yard, Uttoxeter. The dancers are from the annual tour of the English Folk Song and Dance Society Staffordshire Group, which visited various villages and towns in ...

Girls dancing, Lapley

A group of girls from St. Joseph's Convent School, Stafford, pictured country dancing at Lapley Garden Fete. The fete took place at Lapley Vicarage and was in aid of church funds. Photograph by ...

Horn Dancer, Abbots Bromley

A horn dancer standing in front of the Goats Head Inn in Abbots Bromley. The horn dance is an annual event which takes place on the first Monday after the first Sunday after the 4th of September. The ...

Junior Disco, Rugeley Youth Club

A Rugeley Times photograph (courtesy of the Birmingham Post).

Line Dancing, Eccleshall Festival,

Line dancing High Street. The first Eccleshall Festival was held in 1979. The festival takes place every two years.

Maypole dancers, Endon

Maypole dancing is part of the Endon Well Dressing celebrations. Endon has the the longest tradition of well dressing in Staffordshire, beginning when the stone well head was built in 1845 at the expense ...

Maypole dancers, Hollington

A postcard view of Maypole dancers and teachers from Hollington School.

Maypole dancers, Uttoxeter

Girls dancing around a maypole at Uttoxeter carnival, with a large crowd of people seated on the grass. Photographer: Gerald McCann of High Street, Uttoxeter.

Maypole Dancing at Sandon Hall

Maypole dancing in the grounds of Sandon Hall. Lady Harrowby is second from left in the foreground.

Maypole dancing, Barlaston

Schoolchildren taking part in Maypole dancing during a garden fete held at Barlaston Hall in order to raise funds for a new Parish Room for the village. Mrs H.J. Broughton-Adderley of Barlaston Hall ...