Bone Belt
This belt is made out of bone from an unknown origin.
It forms part of our small 'ethnographic' collection and unfortunately know very little about it.
Boot box, Buckingham Brand
Shoe box lid, for black boots size 5/4.
Boot pull
A household item used to help take off tight boots. Collected from a house in Barlaston, near Stoke on Trent.
From the collections of Staffordshire County Museum.
Bostock Shield, Stafford
This postcard view shows a group of unknown people, the man on the extreme right of the front row is holding the Bostock Shield.
The picture is thought to have been taken at the Lotus Shoe Factory ...
Bostock's Factory Fire, Stafford,
Edwin Bostock's shoe factory was originally in Foregate Street, Stafford, but was destroyed by fire in 1901. This resulted in a new factory being built on Sandon Road, which opened in 1903.
Bostock's ...
Boy scout Investiture, Kibblestone Camp, Stone
A Scout investiture taking place in the woods at Kibblestone Scout Camp.
The Copeland family owned the Kibblestone estate from the mid-nineteenth century. Ronald Copeland started the first Scout Troop ...
Bracelet
Bracelet. Double half circle extending into a vertical asymmetric arch. Blue and silver striped titanium, mounted in silver.
Designed and made by Kathy Morrell.
Dimensions: diameter 74mm, height ...
Bracelet
Circular bracelet of silver and gold leaf. Silver painted with gold leaf on one side. Cut into strips, each pierced through ends. Strips bent backwards and held in place by silver wire treaded through ...
Bracelet
Blue toned opaque perspex in a rhomboidal shape, the centre cut out to fit the wrist, cut out edge laquered red.
Designed and made by Susanna Heron (born 1949, England), a London-based craft jeweller,
Dimensions: ...
Bracelet
Double spiral of purple aluminium rods, the ends are mounted in silver.
Designed and made by Su Vernon, an Aberdeen-educated craft jeweller.
Diameter: 197mm
Bracelet
Pink, mauve and clear coloured bracelet. The bracelet contains pink, mauve and clear beads on folded acetate with pink and mauve stars strung on the thread.
Designed and made by Sue Studholme, a Cumbria-based ...
Bracelet
Spiral anodised aluminium bar bracelet. Coloured black with gold, red and blue marks.
Designed and made by Jenny Albrecht, a Birmingham-based craft jeweller.
Dimensions: length 62mm, diameter ...
Bracelets 1 of 5
Square flexible arm piece in black coloured pvc. having a central slit to admit the wrist.
Designed and made by Susanna Heron (born 1949, England), a London-based craft jeweller,
Dimensions: 138mm ...
Brassington Bros., Campbell Place, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph showing one of the Brassington Brothers shoe shops is thought to have been taken between 1920 and 1935. It is situated in Campbell Place, Stoke. Notice how the window area is used to a ...
Bratt and Dyke staff outing
Staff from Bratt and Dyke's Hanley Department Store on an outing. Standing back left is Company Director Oliver Dyke.
Draper Oliver Dyke opened a shop in Hanley in 1890 with the financial support ...
Bread queue in Market Square, Stafford
A queue outside the Guild Hall, Stafford, during World War I, waiting for bread tickets. This photograph shows Averil's chemists shop, Boots' chemists , Astons and Sons Ltd Furniture shop and the Guildhall.
This ...
British Reinforced Concrete, Factory Canteen, 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 ...
Brocton Mission Hall,
The Mission Hall opened in 1891. The building was also used as a schoolroom.
In 1951 the hall was dedicated to All Saints.