Souvenir postcard, Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
A souvenir postcard with a verse "To the Children at Home", publsihed by T.H. Pemberton, Leigh Street, Burslem. Sent by Harry Varley from Rugeley Camp to his little sister, Doreen, in York.
Souvenir postcard, Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
A souvenir postcard with an illustration of an Army haversack which unfolds to reveal a series of 12 generic images of army life. It has been overprinted with the message: "I have a sack (haversack) ...
Souvenir postcard, Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
A number of generic novelty cards were created that could be used at any training camp in the country. All the supplier had to do either overprint or or write in the location.
This postcard was published ...
Souvenir postcard, Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
A novelty postcard with the caption "There's some fine lassies aboot here at Rugeley". Published by Photochrom Co. Ltd., London and Tunbridge Wells, in their 'Celesque' series.
Spansbroekmolen Crater, Messines, Belgium
Painting, oil on board by Robert Perry RBSA (1944-). The water-filled Spansbroekmolen crater is the site of a mine explosion, one of 19 detonated by allied troops at the Battle of Messines Ridge in June ...
Special Orders Team, Yarnfield
An image from the 'Yarnfield Yank', a booklet published in 1945 to commemorate the presence of US Army personnel at transit camps in Yarnfield, near Stone during World War II. The camps at Yarnfield were ...
Special Service Building, Yarnfield
An image from the 'Yarnfield Yank', a booklet published in 1945 to commemorate the presence of US Army personnel at transit camps in Yarnfield, near Stone during World War II. The camps at Yarnfield were ...
Spitfire Type 300. F 37/34. Circa 1936
Reginald Mitchell completed the prototype Spitfire just a year before his death. This aeroplane was capable of 342 m.p.h. and was officially the fastest military aircraft of the time.
This aircraft would ...
Sports at Drake Hall, near Eccleshall
Page 14 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. Outdoor sports at Drake ...
St John Ambulance Association Sling, World War 1
This sling was used during the First World War to aid serving men and women.
It has numerous images on how to wear it or use it on various injuries. It was made by St. John Ambulance which was formed ...
St. Bartholomew's Church, Butterton
Interior view of Butterton church, decorated to commemorate the centenary of the 1918 Armistice and to give thanks for Butterton's status as a 'Doubly Thankful' village (the only one in Staffordshire), ...
St. Jame's Church Memorial Corner. Photographed by William Blake.
Church interior, including a First World War memorial corner. Taken at St. Jame's Church, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
St. Joseph's Hall, Stone
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Hall stands on Station Road. In January 1915 it was taken over by the Stone Branch of the Red Cross as a convalescent hospital for servicemen from other war hospitals.
A ...
St. Michael’s War Memorial, Stone
St. Michael’s war memorial stands in the churchyard of St. Michael and St. Wulfad’s Church. The granite cross was sculpted by Messrs G. Maile and Son Ltd and was unveiled by General Sir Hill Child, Bart., ...
Staff outing from Frobisher Hall, Swynnerton
Staff from Frobisher Hall, on the way to a party or an outing. Nellie Kizis is on the bus looking out the window.
Nellie Kizis was born in 1921 near Edinburgh. She worked at the canteen at the Royal ...
Stafford Borough War Memorial, Victoria Place, Stafford
This Stafford Borough memorial consists of a soldier standing on the top of a pedestal which lists names of soldiers lost in the war. The memorial is engraved with the words, "The Great Task Accomplished, ...
Stafford Borough War Memorial, Victoria Square, Stafford
This postcard view is believed to show the unveiling of the Stafford Borough memorial in 1922.
The Borough War Memorial was unveiled in 1922 in memory of the Stafford men who lost their lives in the ...
Stafford Rifles, Stafford
A lantern slide view captioned 'Stafford Rifles going to church'. We have been unable to identify the location of this view. can you help?
Photograph believed to have been taken by Walter Williams ...