Trentham parish workhouse
This plan is of Trentham parish workhouse. Parish workhouses began in the 17th and 18th centuries as places where the poor worked in return for food and board. The workhouses were frequently set up in ...
Trying on clothes, Hem Heath Colliery , Trentham
Life during the miner's strike of 1984 / 1985 was hard for mining families, with striking miners receiving no pay and no state benefits. People donated clothes and food to the strikers and these were ...
Tutbury Health Centre
This view of the Health Centre on Monk Street, Tutbury, was taken by Stafford photographer Tony Boydon.
Underground rescue ambulance, Lea Hall Colliery
Ambulance with seats of wooden slats and spring loaded bars to carry stretchers.
Lea Hall was the first colliery planned and sunk by the National Coal Board. The two shafts were started in 1954 and ...
Union Workhouse, Stafford
The Stafford Union Workhouse was built on Marston Road in 1838.
From 1948 the building was used as an old people's home and the Fernleigh Hospital.
It was demolished in 1971.
Union Workhouse, Stafford
The Stafford Union Workhouse was built on Marston Road in 1838.
From 1948 the building was used as an old people's home and the Fernleigh Hospital.
It was demolished in 1971.
Uttoxeter St. John Ambulance Brigade Cadets
Uttoxeter St. John Ambulance Brigade Cadets
Uttoxeter St. John Ambulance Brigade Cadets with Countess Mountbatten.
Uttoxeter Town - Almshouses: sepia wash drawing
'Almshouses at Uttoxeter, Staffordshire.' Showing a long low building with four small dormer windows and one gable with a coat of arms. There are two pilasters and a scrolled tablet above a stone course ...
Vagrant ward, Stoke workhouse, Newcastle Road, Stoke-on-Trent
This plan is of the vagrant ward at Stoke workhouse which was built in 1842. Homeless people wishing to enter the workhouse had to obtain a ticket from the police station and were then allowed in at six ...
Veedee Massager
Vibration and or massage were thought to have curative effects and to cure anything from headaches to 'female hysteria'. The name Veedee is thought to be a pun of the Latin phrase ‘Veni Vidi Vice’ meaning ...
Victoria Hospital from the air, Lichfield
Copyright and ownership of this image is retained by Aerofilms Ltd.
View of Bridge Street, Stafford
On the far right is Burgess' agricultural engineers, now replaced by Allied Carpets.
The clock tower belongs to the Royal Brine Baths, built in 1892. The open-sided tower was used by the fire brigade ...
View of Stafford from the Coton Hill Asylum,
View of Stafford from Coton Hill. St. Chad's (far left) and St. Mary's Churches are to the left of the hill, upon which stand the remains of Stafford Castle.
The building on the right is the County ...
View of Stafford from the top of the Gasometer,
View from the gasworks on Chell Road.
To the left is St. Mary's Church, the parish church of Stafford. Originally the church possessed a spire, but it was blown down in 1593 during a storm, bringing ...
View of the Pharmacy, High Street, Kinver
The Pharmacy building was built in 1816. It was divided into two shops in 1856, in order to service a growing population. The left hand side remained as the Pharmacy, and the right became a Post Office ...
Visitors' area, Ward 13: Female Admission Ward, St. Edwards Hospital
Wall Grange Pumping Station, near Cheddleton
The building to the right of the image is the Staffordshire Potteries Water Works Company's Wall Grange Pumping Station, built in 1849 was the first one locally to have provided water to Stoke on Trent. ...