Wakes Sports, Gnosall
A postcard photograph of the Wheelbarrow Race taken at Gnosall Wakes Annual Sports Day on Monday 12 August 1907. Prizes for this race for first, second and third places were presented by Mr D. Hall. Sports ...
Wakes Sports, Gnosall
A postcard photograph taken at Gnosall Wakes in 1906. Sports and entertainments took place in a field by Gnosall railway station. Here beer is being poured straight from the cask for the thirsty visitors ...
Wakes Sports, Gnosall
A postcard photograph taken at Gnosall Wakes in 1910. Sports and entertainments took place on the Moors, a field by Gnosall railway station, and other attractions were in a nearby field at the Royal Oak. ...
Wakes Sports, Gnosall
A postcard photograph taken at Gnosall Wakes in 1909. Sports and entertainments took place on the Moors, a field by Gnosall railway station; the embankment can be seen in the background. Here, eighteen ...
Wakes Sports, Gnosall
A postcard photograph taken at Gnosall Wakes in 1906. Sports and entertainments took place in a field by Gnosall railway station: the station buildings can be seen on the embankment in the background.
Standing ...
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 ...
Wakes Sports, Gnosall
A postcard photograph taken at Gnosall Wakes in 1909. Sports and entertainments took place on the Moors, a field by Gnosall railway station. Mr George Lloyd is making a speech during the distribution ...
Wakes Sunday Procession, Alstonefield
Procession of children entering the Church gates for the Wakes service.
Alstonefield Wakes was held on the Sunday after 29th June, the feast day of St Peter. The procession set off from the school ...
Wakes, High Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The busy market merges with the fair ground rides in this scene of a Wakes in Newcastle. Swing-Boats can be seen in the foreground and were a popular ride at the time.
The first tall building on the ...
Walking Competition, Stafford,
Walking competition seen in Gaolgate Street. Gaol Square can just be seen in the background.
Mr Espley, who came second, is in the white vest.
War Veteran's Parade, George Street, Tamworth
A St George's Day parade of Veterans of the First World War, seen in George Street.
Washing Up, Memorial Hall, Hixon,
Washing up outside the Memorial Hall on High Street, possibly after celebrating the opening of the hall in 1926.
The hall was built to commemorate the Hixon men who were killed in the First World War.
Sir ...
Wedding Carriage, Gnosall High Street,
The High Street decorated for a wedding.
The public house on the right is the Horns Inn, with the Duke's Head on the right.
Wedgwood Foundation Stone Laying Ceremony, Barlaston
Josiah Wedgwood V, Managing Director, addressing the workforce at a ceremony to mark the laying of the foundation stone for the new factory at Barlaston.
Tom Wedgwood, who worked on the plans for the ...
Well Dressing, Endon
Endon has the the longest tradition of well dressing in Staffordshire, beginning when the stone well head was built in 1845 at the expense of Thomas Heaton, a local landowner. The well dressing formerly ...
Well dressing, Newborough
Well dressing at Newborough began when village school headmistress Mrs Bernice Brown introduced it in 1978, and has taken place every year since, with the exception of 1986 wen mains sewers were being ...
Well dressing, Newborough
1996 Olympic games floral display.
Well dressing at Newborough began when village school headmistress Mrs Bernice Brown introduced it in 1978, and has taken place every year since, with the exception ...
Wetley Rocks Show
A postcard view of villagers and onlookers along with several children dressed in special clothes for the Village Show, taken on Mill Lane, Wetley Rocks.
The building in the background is the Village ...