Military Conscription Appeal, Tamworth
George Kemper, 21, and his brother Bert, 19, from Bonehill Road, Tamworth appealed against conscription in World War I because their father had been interned as an enemy alien. You can read George’s appeal ...
Motorcycle Dispatch Riders, Milford Common
North Staffordshire Home Guard dispatch riders pictured during training on Milford Common. John (Jack) Finney is third from the right, George Brassington is second for the left. In the background is ...
Motorcycle Dispatch Riders, Milford Common
North Staffordshire Home Guard dispatch riders pictured during training on Milford Common. The trees in the background mark the boundary of the Shugborough estate. On the far left is John (Jack) Finney ...
Motorcycle Dispatch Riders, Milford Common
North Staffordshire Home Guard dispatch riders pictured during training on Milford Common. On the far left is John (Jack) Finney and on the far right is George Brassington seated on their motorcycles. ...
National Fire Service, Hanley, Stoke on Trent
The Auxiliary Fire Service was formed from volunteers at the outbreak of war, to assist the regular Fire Brigades. The name was changed to The National Fire Service in August 1941 when the regional regular ...
Pantomime playbill, Frobisher Hall, Swynnerton
A playbill produced for a pantomime performance of Cinderella in the Social Centre at Frobisher Hall, Swynnerton, Christmas 1944. Playing the lead role of Cinders was Jeanette 'Janet' Jewell (nee Brown). ...
Pantomime, Drake Hall, near Eccleshall
Page 16 of 'Drake Hall - A War-Time Hostel', a souvenir book produced for staff and residents at the Swynnerton Royal Ordinance Factory hostel at Drake Hall, produced in 1945. The first pantomime produced ...
Party at Frobisher Hall, Swynnerton
The Social Centre at Frobisher Hall, Swynnerton. Standing 4th from right in the front row, wearing a short dark jacket and scarf, is Jeanette 'Janet' Jewell (nee Brown). She lived at 16 Foyle while ...
Pattingham Royal Observer Corps
The observation post during the Second World War for the Royal Observer Corps, was in the field in Clive Road, opposite Warner's Garage. It was a hut for living, sleeping and feeding in, and had a square ...
Portrait of Mrs Jane Ridgway, Hednesford
Studio portrait of Mrs Jane Ridgway wearing her ARP (Air Raid Precautions)Warden's uniform during World War II. She wears a great coat with ARP badge, and a felt hat with metal badge on front.
Public Dinner - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Organising a Public Dinner for the local volunteer corps
Hand-written letter seeking subscriptions from local businessmen for a public dinner in honour of the Longport Volunteer Corps "return from ...
Recreation facilities, Drake Hall, near Eccleshall
Page 13 of 'Drake Hall - A War-Time Hostel', a souvenir book produced for staff and residents at the Swynnerton Royal Ordinance Factory hostel at Drake Hall, produced in 1945. The Games Room, part of ...
Red Cross Cadets at Pattingham
The picture was taken outside The Vicarage in about 1944.
Left to right: Mrs. Boswell; Mary Lycett; Ethel Lane; Mary Dulson; Dorothy Scriven; Mary Wheeler;not known; Iris Bramall; not known; Kath Russell; ...
Red Cross Nurses on practice exercise, Uttoxeter
Red Cross Nurses carry a 'patient' into the Elkes' ambulance outside a heavily sandbagged building during a training exercise.
Sandon W.I. at Sandon Hall
During World War II Sandon Hall was used by the Red Cross as a convalescent home for wounded servicemen. Sandon Women's Institute helped by mending clothing and bedding, and by making bandages.
Standing ...
Setting up a Volunteer Corps - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
The Defence and Preservation of KING and Country
Printed public notice announcing the resolutions from a meeting that took place in the Legs of Man in Burslem on July 28th, 1803.
A number of businessmen ...
Smallthorne Miners' Hostel, Chell Heath Road, Stoke-on-Trent
Looking north east from the corner of Duddell Road and Chell Heath Road with Chatterley Whitfield spoil tip in the distance. A signal on the Biddulph Valley branch line is visible on the right. The buildings ...
Soldiers of Military Police TA unit, Bloxwich
Seven police officers in Territorial Army uniform looking at a map.