Women's Land Army, Walled Garden, Shugborough
A group of Women's Land Army girls photographed at the Walled Garden, Shugborough. Some were working in the Walled Garden while others would have been employed in agricultural work at Shugborough Park ...
Women's Timber Corps workers, Cannock Chase
Women's Timber Corps forestry workers on Cannock Chase, transplanting young trees.
The Women's Timber Corps was set up in 1942 to work in forestry, replacing the men who had been called up to the armed ...
Women's Timber Corps workers, Cannock Chase
Women's Timber Corps forestry workers on Cannock Chase, stripping side shoots and removing lower branches ('snedding') to let air and light into the plantation.
The Women's Timber Corps was set up ...
Women's Timber Corps workers, Cannock Chase
Women's Timber Corps forestry workers on Cannock Chase, weeding young trees at Lady Hill nursery.
The Women's Timber Corps was set up in 1942 to work in forestry, replacing the men who had been called ...
Women's Voluntary Service, Cannock
A group of Women's Voluntary Service members in Cannock. Brenda Corp is first left on the back row.
Workers and Military Band, Siemens Factory, Stafford,
Large group of female munition workers and military musicians outside Siemens factory. The photograph was taken during the annual hospital pageant and the band hold collecting boxes for Staffordshire ...
Workers' Educational Association, Drake Hall, near Eccleshall
Page 41 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. Describing the work of the ...
Workers Travel Association, Drake Hall, near Eccleshall
From '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.
Mr E. W. Wimble, Secretary ...
World War 1 'Vases'
These brass vases are in fact made of used shell cases.
Spent shell cases were often bought back as souvenirs by soldiers and made into useful items such as vases or ashtrays.
World War II Evacuee's doll
Baby ‘John’ was an evacuee’s doll belonging to a little girl named Sheila.
She was evacuated to the area to escape the bombs at Tilbury Docks. She lived with a family in Blythe Bridge and went to a ...
World War II Police Helmet
Many police during the war were Special Constables, fit and able men in reserved occupation, they were issued with a steel helmet with ‘police’ marked on the front. The helmet was meant to withstand the ...
World War One Voluntary Aid Detachment Uniform
This uniform belonged to Emily ‘Queenie’ Baker (nee Pond) who joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD’s) during the First World War.
She worked in military hospitals in London, Enfield Cottage Hospital, ...
Wounded soldier, Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
Thomas Gray(ling?), 11th Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment). He is wearing 'Hospital blues' and appears to have an arm injury. The 11th (Reserve) Battalion Green Howards ...
Wounded soldiers at a nursing home, Uttoxeter
Soldiers in inactive service uniforms are seen being entertained in the garden of Eversley, a large house on the Bramshall Road, belonging to T.S. Wilkins.
Wounded soldiers at Milford Hall, Stafford
Wounded soldiers wearing 'Hospital Blues' convalescing at Milford Hall, near Stafford during the First World War. The alternate image is a digitally colourised version of the image.
Wounded soldiers from WW1 with a Red Cross Nurse, College Lane School, Tamworth
During the 1914-1918 War, wounded soldiers were billeted at College Lane School and the resident caretaker Mrs Ada Hillman (pictured here) was the Red Cross Nurse in charge. This photograph was taken ...
Wounded soldiers, South Africa
Wounded soldiers from the 1st South Staffords, seen here in a church in Mafaling Basutoland, before beds were got from them, after the relief of Wakkerstroom.
WRVS Tea Van, Stoke-on-Trent
The Lord Mayor, Lady Mayoress, Council Officials and Civil Defence members photographed in front of a mobile tea van during the Second World War.
Mobile tea vans like this would have been operated ...