Elford Hall domestic staff
Maids and footman outside Elford Hall.
Elford Hall was built by the Howard family and completed in 1758. In 1936 Francis Paget donated the hall to Birmingham Corporation together with its estate of 650 ...
Eliza Loveday, Great Haywood
Eliza Loveday, laundress at Shugborough and wife of George Loveday, butler at Shugborough. She lived at Rock Cottage, opposite St. Stephen's Church, Great Haywood.
Gamekeepers and Chauffeurs on Cannock Chase
A group of gamekeepers and chauffeurs from the Earl of Lichfield's Shugborough Estate on Cannock Chase.
Back row from left to right: Robert Courtney (Head Gamekeeper 1923-1953); The Hon. Edward Anson; ...
Gardeners at Butterton Hall, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Garden staff and children by the greenhouses at Butterton Hall, near Newcastle-under-Lyme. Charles Robert Gunn can be seen far left, back row, then aged about 16.
At the time this photograph was taken ...
George Loveday, Butler, Shugborough
George Loveday was born in 1860 at Shirburn, Oxfordshire. He was the son of David Loveday, shepherd to Lord Macclesfield at Shirburn. By 1881 George was working as a footman in the household of Francis ...
George Miller
George Miller (1883-1965), Head Gardener at Shugborough, 1918 to 1921.
This portrait was taken for 'Gardener's Chronicle' in 1937 while he was Head Gardener at Lawrenny Castle, near Kilgetty, Pembrokeshire....
George Rose, Head Chauffeur at Shugborough
George Rose in his uniform, standing in the Servants' Quarters courtyard at Shugborough. He was Head Chauffeur to the Earl of Lichfield between about 1920 and 1931, and again from 1933 until his death ...
Gunn family, Butterton, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Samuel Gunn, chauffeur and coachman at Butterton Hall pictured with his family at Butterton Hall Stables. His three eldest sons also worked on the estate. Charles Robert and Henry were gardeners and ...
Head Gardener, Shugborough,
Mr William McMurtrie was the Head Gardener at Shugborough from 1815 to 1836.
He was born in 1781 and died in 1857.
Horace Roome at Salt Station,
Mr Roome was a footman at Shugborough Hall in the 1920s. He is seen here at Salt Railway Station on a day off work.
Note the travel advertisements behind him.
Horace Roome, Footman at Shugborough Hall,
Mr Roome was a footman at Shugborough Hall in the 1920s.
He is seen here in his livery.
Indoor servants preparing food, Patshull Hall, Patshull
The photographer was Bennett Clarke.
Joseph and Lillian Alice Chilton, Great Haywood
Joseph and Lillian Alice Chilton in the garden of their home in Trent Lane, Great Haywood. Joseph at that time was a gardener at Shugborough. The lady next door used to serve refreshments to tourists ...
Kitchen Boy at Shugborough,
Jim Bonshaw, Kitchen Boy, in the gardens at Shugborough.
The post of Kitchen Boy was in effect a trainee Footman.
Kitchen Staff, Shugborough Hall,
Three kitchen maids with Mrs Grieve, the cook (far right), in the courtyard at Shugborough Hall.
Janet Bailey is the second maid on the left.
Lady's Maid and girls, Shugborough
Gertie Hulme, Lady's Maid to Lady Lichfield, with Pam Rose (daughter of George Rose, Head Chauffeur to the Earl of Lichfield from about 1920 to 1962), and Lady Celia Anson. They are picnicing by the ...
Laundry staff, Cheddleton Asylum
Staff pictured in the laundry at Cheddleton Asylum. Standing second from left and wearing a dark dress is one of the female attendants.
In 1890 Staffordshire County Council’s Lunacy Committee decided ...
Lord Nelson taking Afternoon Tea with his Housekeeper and Guests
Pictured standing is Lord Nelson (George Horatio Nelson), 1st Lord Nelson of Stafford, Managing Director of English Electric between 1930 and 1956, taking afternoon tea with his Housekeeper, Mrs Belcher ...