Mums verses Daughters Football Match, Armitage
Pictured at the Croft School, Armitage are the participants of a Mums verses Daughters charity football match. Three men made up the numbers for the Daughters team and water pistols, custard pies and ...
Music Festival, Stafford
This postcard view shows a group of children at a Music Festival in Stafford in 1936. Please contact us if you recognise anyone in the photograph or the exact location.
Photographer: Fred Parsons of ...
Musicians, 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 ...
National Garden Festival
The National Garden Festival on this site between May and October 1986 is a very important event for Stoke-on-Trent. First of all it will see the restoration and reclamation of this 180 acre site – one ...
National Garden Festival, Stoke-on-Trent
The National Garden Festival took place at Etruria between May and October 1986 and was opened by Queen Elizabeth II. It led to the restoration and reclamation of a 180 acre derelict site. The site is ...
Newcastle Cinema, Nelson Place, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The streets are lined with people trying to catch a glimpse of King George V and Queen Mary on their way to their civic reception in the Queens Gardens.
The building in the background is Newcastle ...
Octocentenary Celebrations, Newcastle-under-Lyme
In 1973 Newcastle celebrated its octocentenary to mark the 800th anniversary of the granting of the charter which gave Newcastle-under-Lyme its status as a Borough. A carnival was held to celebrate the ...
Polish dancers, Bridge Street, Stafford
Polish dancers at Stafford Festival, leading the procession along Bridge Street towards the Market Hall. Stafford Morris Men are following behind them. In the background can be seen the Express and Star ...
Pony and Trap, Eccleshall Festival,
The first Eccleshall Festival was held in 1979. The festival takes place every two years.
Programme of Primitive Methodist centenary events, Mow Cop
The front page from the 'Programme of Camp Meetings, Love Feasts, Public Meetings and other Services' held to celebrate the centenary of Primitive Methodism at Mow Cop, 1807-1907.
Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee Commemorative Mug
A souvenir of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee Festival in Leek, held at the Pickwood Recreation Ground on 21 June 1887.
5,000 of these mugs were presented to school children by William Challinor.
This ...
Quickfit and Quartz stand, Festival of Britain, Stone
Quickfit and Quartz stand in the Trades and Industry Exhibition held on Westbridge Park as part of the Festival of Britain events held in Stone.
Quickfit and Quartz, makers of scientific and industrial ...
Rita Whilton, Hednesford
A studio portrait of Rita Edna Whilton with a doll and pram. She was born in July 1911. The reverse of the postcard tells us that the card was addressed to a teacher as a Christmas and New Year greeting ...
Rogationtide, Brocton
Special “country” services were becoming a regular feature in the life of Berkswich parish. Rogationtide is pictured being observed with a procession leaving Brocton Church by the Village Green, on its ...
Rose Queen, Christ Church School, Stone
Christ Church School Rose Queen, Diane Martin, and her retinue, pictured in the school playground on Northesk Street, Stone. Standing in the back row are Trevor Mincher (2nd from right) and Jane Artus ...
Royal Ordnance Factory stand, Festival of Britain, Stone
Royal Ordinance Factory, Stone stand in the Trades and Industry Exhibition held on Westbridge Park as part of the Festival of Britain events held in Stone.
Workers started at R.O.F. Swynnerton in 1940, ...
St Mary the Virgin, Interior
Gratwich harvest festival.
St. Mary's Young People, Brindley Village, Cannock Chase
A group of children and young people outside St. Mary's Church, Brindley Village at an anniversary event in the early 1950s. Originally the chapel for the Military Hospital at Brindley Heath, it was re-dedicated ...