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 ...
Wesley Place Sunday School outing to Trentham Gardens
David Cooke is on 2nd row, fifth from the left. Two rows directly behind David are Sid and Brenda Bailey. Also in the photograph are four of the Naylor Family. Harold Naylor was Lord Mayor of Stoke on ...
Wesleyan Band, Stafford,
The band are seated in front of the Wesleyan Mission Hall on Rowley Street, opened in 1885.
West Cannock Collieries, No.1 Pit, First Aid Team
The only named members of the winning team are third from the right: Samuel Davies and second from right : Jeavon Burton. The caption underneath the picture reads: "West Cannock Collieries, No.1 Pit. ...
West Cannock Colliery Rescue Team, Hednesford
Pictured are Miners in the West Cannock Colliery Team, who won the Cannock Chase Coal-Owners Association Mines Rescue Challenge Cup in 1934.
Back row left to right: E Archer (Capt.), E Rutter, P Stanley ...
West Cannock Colliery Rescue Team, Hednesford
The miners were winners of Cannock Chase Coal Owners Challenge Cup 1943.
West Cannock Colliery Company had 5 sites:
No.1 plant (pit) was sunk in 1869 and closed in 1958 it had a downcast shaft and ...
West Hill School, Football Team, Hednesford
Football team members pictured with staff and wining trophies.
Wetmore Maltings workers, Burton-on-Trent
Group photograph taken outside Wetmore Maltings.
'What is home without a mother?', Glascote
This photograph was entered and won a competition in a national newspaper, for the best photograph. The photograph was taken in a neighbours kitchen and shows two of the three Brain children, Leslie or ...
Wheelwrights, Wetwood, near Eccleshall
Johnson and Boulton, wheelwrights, carpenters and undertakers pictured with family members outside their workshop at Wetwood, near Eccleshall.
From left to right: Sam Johnson, Sam Thornley, Elizabeth ...
Whist League Presentation, Doxey
Mr W T Richardson, wearing a characteristic buttonhole, presents the shield bearing his name, to Mr W Plant, Captain of the Doxey team, who were the Stafford Whist League champions. Others in the group ...
Whitfield Colliery employees
Whitfield employees of 1897 muster in the colliery yard in front of the Hard Mine haulage engine-house for their photograph.
Before the 18th century, mining was only a part-time occupation. As the ...
Whitfield Colliery Prize Band, Audley
Whitfield Colliery Prize Band from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. They are pictured in Audley having won the Silver Challenge Cup for 1924.
Whitfield colliery surface ambulance team
From the 1880's ambulance teams were formed at many collieries to administer first aid prior to the arrival of the local doctor. Besides medical officers at the various levels, there were ambulance and ...
Wild Beasts Cage, St. Anne's new building (2)
The author of this photograph was based in Rugeley, so it is possible that the picture was taken somewhere near to this area.
William Marson and Christ Church Choir, Stafford,
Christ Church opened on Foregate Street in 1839. The church closed in 1976 and was demolished in 1983; sheltered housing for the elderly now stands on the site.
In the centre is William Albert Marson, ...
Wilmot Martin and Sir Harry Lauder, Stowe-by-Chartley
A fishing party seated by a pool. On the front row, far left is Wilmot Martin of Hixon. Next to him, holding a fly-fishing rod, is Sir Harry Lauder. At the back, far left is Arthur Thomas Radcliffe. ...
Winners enclosure, Uttoxeter Racecourse
Owners and winning horse pictured in the winners enclosure.