Westwood Hall, Leek
The original Westwood Hall building dates from the 1600s. Originally it was a fairly simple farm-house, but when John Davenport, a potter and glassmaker bought the property in 1813 he began a series of ...
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 ...
Wheaton Aston School
Group of pupils with their headmaster standing outside St. Mary's School, Wheaton Aston. The school was founded in 1853.
Whiston Village
A general postcard view of Whiston Village, looking west along what is now the busy A52 between Stoke-on-Trent and Ashbourne. At the top left can be seen St Mildred's Church (built in 1910 by J.H. Beckett) ...
William Longson and Annie Longson, Walton School
Photograph of William Longson (1867- 1948) and Annie Longson, nee Fryer (1872- 1950) headteacher and headmistress at Walton School, School Lane, Walton-on-the-Hill, Stafford.
The Longsons came to ...
Winner of choir contest, Christ Church School, Stone
Pupils of Christ Church School in Stone, pictured after winning choir contest for best folk-song.
This is the outcome of a reminiscence session in which Year 4 pupils from Christ Church First School ...
Winshill Playgroup, Burton-upon-Trent
Winshill Playgroup, based at Tower View Primary School, Vancouver Drive, Winshill, Burton-upon-Trent. This Image is from a collection of photographs of Burton upon Trent commissioned and assembled by ...
Wolseley Road, Rugeley
A postcard view of a quiet scene looking north on Wolseley Road in Rugeley. The building on the right is Rugeley Grammar School which in later years became the Chancel Primary School.
Wolstanton Church School class 5, Wolstanton, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Before the days of free state education many school were run by churches and charitable organisations who took it upon themselves to educate the lower classes who could not afford to pay for education. ...
Wolstanton, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Wolstanton County Grammar School was opened in 1928
Wolverhampton - Grammar School: aquatint engraving
'A Front View of the School.' Showing a central block with the entrance door, above which is a bell turret, with two symmetrical wings of two storeys. Taken from I. Taylor's Map of 1751, and reproduced ...
Wolverhampton - Grammar School: engraving
'To the Trustees of the Free Grammar School in Wolverhampton, this Plate being a Front View of the said School, is very respectfully Inscribed by their most Obedient & Obliged humble Servant, R. Paddey.' ...
Wolverhampton - Grammar School: sepia drawing
'Grammar School at Wolverhampton, Staffordshire.' Showing a perspective view looking down the street. The building is of brick with stone dressings, erected 1714 in the classical style of the time. ...
Wolverhampton - 'The New Schools for Boys and Girls': sepia drawing
'The New School for Boys and Girls on the North West side of the Church Yard of St. Peter's Collegiate Church, Wolverhampton.' Showing a building of the Gothic revival with four gables and a bell turret. ...
Woodwork class at Kings Bromley School
A woodwork class at Richard Cross Church of England School, Kings Bromley.
Woodwork class, Dartmouth treet Secondary Modern Boys School, Stafford
The school opened in 1939 as Dartmouth Street Senior Boys School. In 1944 it became a Secondary Modern School for Boys, and was renamed Kingston Secondary Modern School in 1956. A further name change ...
Woodwork Class, Kitchener Institute, Stone
Granville Secondary Modern School's woodwork classroom was in the Kitchener Institute on the corner of Vistor Street and Berkeley Street. the building also housed the school's Domestic Science room. ...
Woodwork class, Knightley School
Woodwork class, students holding woodwork projects.
Knightley School was built in 1874 and enlarged in 1894. In 1912 it had places for 125 children.