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Uttoxeter Carnival Parade

Photograph of Uttoxeter Carnival Parade in 1926, looking down Carter Street. Note the petrol pumps of Atkey's Garage on the left and the Post Office on the right. In the distance on the left can be seen ...

Uttoxeter Carnival Queen, Uttoxeter Race Course, Uttoxeter

At Uttoxeter Racecourse during the Uttoxeter carnival. The Carnival Queen is Miss Eva Rock. Her ladies in waiting were Miss Maud Tooth (from Leigh), Miss Kathleen Cockersole (from Uttoxeter), Miss Kathleen ...

Uttoxeter Girls High School, Dove Bank, Uttoxeter

Members of the cast of a play in a scene called 'Home they brought the warrior'. The school was taken over by Staffordshire Education Committee in 1919, and re-named Uttoxeter Girls High School. It ...

Uttoxeter Girls High School, Dove Bank, Uttoxeter

Members of the cast of a play, in a scene called 'The Princess'. The school was taken over by Staffordshire Education Committee in 1919, and re-named Uttoxeter Girls High School. It had formerly been ...

Uttoxeter Y.M.I. Carnival

Group photograph of the Y.M.I. in fancy dress inside the Town Hall. Mr Paul Wilson is among the group.

Veronica Hurst and Humphrey Lestocq at the Borough Hall, Stafford

Film stars Veronica Hurst and Humphrey Lestocq are pictured during the Hawaiian Press Ball charity fundraising dance held at the Borough Hall, Stafford. It was reported in the Staffordshire Advertiser ...

'Victorian Grandeur of East Lynne' Pageant Float, Stafford,

The pageant included a class for floats representing a film shown in Stafford over the previous year. This float was based on the 'Victorian Grandeur of East Lynne', and was photographed on Foregate ...

Victorian Ivory Wedding Bodice and Skirt

This garment is a bodice and skirt which would have been typical of the day. It has a silk bodice with long sleeves and is fastened at the front with many silk covered buttons. The skirt is unlined and ...

Waiting for the bus outside St Marys Catholic Church, Uttoxeter

Waiting for the bus outside St Mary's Catholic Church on Balance Street to take them to a competition in Stafford. Frances Holllins is 2nd in the queue from the right, behind the Mayor.

Wakes Sports Day, Alstonefield

Fancy dress at Alstonefield Wakes Sports Day, July 1973.

Wakes Sports, Gnosall

A postcard photograph taken at Gnosall Wakes in 1906. Sports and entertainments took place in a field by Gnosall railway station. Pictured here are contestants in the Best Decorated Bicycle competition ...

Wedding of Arthur Campbell and Elizabeth Brown, Stafford

Wedding photograph of Arthur Campbell and Elizabeth (Lizzie) Brown, nee Gee. Possibly taken behind houses on Lichfield Road or at Queensville, Stafford. Front row: Ellen Gee, Elizabeth Brown, Arthur ...

Wedding photograph of Charles and Emily Haynes, Stone

Wedding photograph of Charles and Emily Haynes taken at the rear of the Bridge Inn (later renamed Langtry's) in Stone, where their reception was held.

Wedding at Abbots Bromley

The bride (the future Mrs Fuller) walking with her father to the church. Her future husband is the vicar of Hoar Cross.

Wedding at Beacon Farm, Stafford

This photograph was taken at the wedding of Frederic Bamford and Catherine Shelley. The Shelley family lived at Beacon Farm for nearly a hundred years, from 1842 until 1944. On the back row are, from ...

Wedding at Offley Grove, Adbaston

A wedding group outside Offley Grove, Adbaston. This is the wedding of Miss Emily Halstead Vickers of Offley Grove and James Cecil Wrigley of Bent House, Meltham, Huddersfield, which took place on 15 ...

Wedding at Pattingham Church

Walking along the path from the Lych Gate to St. Chad's Church in Pattingham is Jack French Snr with his daughter Flossie.

Wedding couple, Cannock,

The marriage of Colonel Hease and Miss Barbara Richards took place at St Nicholas' Church, Cannock in the early 1920s.