Pageant Dance Troupe, Stafford
These young dancers are pictured in action at Stafford Common after the Stafford Pageant procession, which started in Stychfields, progressed through the town centre and finished at the Common. Please ...
Pageant Party, Stafford
Watched by some of the 80 children who attended, Miss Wynne Porter is pictured as she cuts the large iced cake at a party for her pupils, held at the Oddfellows Hall in Stafford on Friday 24 October to ...
Pageant Procession, Gaol Road, Stafford
The parade of decorated floats seen in Gaol Road during the annual Trades and Friendly Societies' Pageant. A prize was awarded to the best decorated entries and along the route collections were made ...
Pageant Queen and Flower Girl, Stafford,
The annual Stafford Pageant included a procession through the town, and ended with a fair on the town common.
A prize was awarded to the best decorated entries and along the route collections were ...
Pam Rose and maids, Shugborough
Pamela Rose (daughter of George Rose, Head Chauffeur to the Earl of Lichfield between about 1920 and 1962) standing with two maids on the cricket ground at Shugborough.
Pancake tossing, Fernleigh Hospital, Stafford
The head cook at Fernleigh Hospital, Mrs L. Cook, tosses one of 270 Shrove Tuesday pancakes she made for the old people resident there. The assistant cook, Mrs V. Harrison and the principal, Mr J.W. ...
Panelled Room at Beaudesert Hall
Beaudesert Hall was the mansion of the Pagets, Marquesses of Anglesey. Its core was medieval, with later alterations. James Wyatt and Joseph Potter remodelled the interiors of the original Elizabethan ...
Paradise Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Paradise Street in Newcastle-under-Lyme was one of the first areas to be demolished and its residents re-housed in new council housing after the Second World War.
As the photograph shows the terraced ...
Parkgate, Wootton
A postcard view of cottage in the small Hamlet of Parkgate, near Wootton.
Photographer: H.P. Hansen, Ashbourne.
Pencil box, Newcastle Under-Lyme
Wooden pencil box made by Ernest Bloor Joiner and Cabinet maker. Lid slides out of top. Top tray swivels out to reveal lower section. Contains eraser and nib and pen.
Dimensions Length 238mm Width 56mm ...
Penkhull Street, heading towards its junction with Stubbs' Gate, Newcastle-under-Lyme
An almost unrecognisable scene compared to today's landscape.
At the top-left of the image, you can just about make out the roof of the Holy Trinity Catholic Church on the adjoining London Road.
The ...
Penkhull Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This is an view of Penkhull Street, now High Street, looking north-east.
Philip Husselbee on a toy engine, Walton on the Hill
Philip Husselbee on a toy engine owned by John Beech, a neighbour of the Husselbees in Walton-on-the-Hill, Stafford. Mr. Beech, who had worked as a butler for the Salt family, had a house full of Victorian ...
Phoebe Clarke and family, Hednesford
Phoebe Clarke, nee Woollams, married James William Clarke at Pershore in 1886. After the birth of their first child they moved to Hednesford in about 1888 where James worked (and died) in the booming ...
Phyllis Clark, Seighford
Phyllis Clark is pictured feeding chickens at Rose Cottage, Seighford.
Acknowledgement: thank you to Mr Terry and Mrs Jan Harrison (nee Lawton) for the additional information.
Pig killing in back yard, Cannock area
Pigeon loft, Rugeley
In the 1920's Pigeon keeping was a very popular pastime and there were two pigeon flying clubs in the area, one at Rugeley and another in Bereton.
Pigeon race winners, Rugeley
Mr J. Jones and his sons holding their prize winning racing pigeons, pictured outided their pigeon loft in Rugeley. A Rugeley Times photograph (courtesy of the Birmingham Post).