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On the corner of Pinnox Street and Scotia Road, Tunstall

The camera is looking west along Pinnox Street from the junction with Scotia Road. The bridge (now demolished) in the foreground carried the Potteries Loop Line over Pinnox Street. The "half timbered" ...

Pall Mall, Hanley

The view up Pall Mall from the Piccadilly corner. Pall Mall as a street dates from at least 1818 when it was known as New Street and this area of town was part of Shelton. Right at the top is Hanley ...

Parish Hall, Fazeley

Built in 1897 as the Victoria Memorial Hall on land purchased by James Eadie who also paid for its construction. It soon found a new use as the Parish Hall. In 1975, following Fazeley being designated ...

Pelsall Road, Brownhills

The last two buildings to the right of this delightful postcard still exist (2018). The one facing, far right, was built as the offices of Brownhills Board of Health in 1882 on Chester Road opposite the ...

Photography Float, Stafford Pageant,

The annual Stafford Pageant included a procession through the town, and ended with a fair on the town common. A prize was awarded to the best decorated entries and along the route collections were made ...

Police Information Room, Baswich House, Stafford

The interior of the information room at the Staffordshire Police Headquarters,at Baswich house, Weeping Cross, Stafford. The Information Room took all 999 calls and had radio contact with the patrol ...

Post Office Training Centre, Yarnfield

Geoff Monkman is pictured at the Post Office Training Centre where he was the Hostel Manager. He managed a small army of catering staff and housekeeping staff for the student accommodation. The Catering ...

Pottery Workers' Society offices, Hillcrest Street, Hanley

The Pottery Workers' Society building dates from 1907 and stood in Hillcrest Street (then called Hill Street) on land that had once been part of the Old Hall Manufactory. The Society represented many ...

Presentation of Honours and Awards at RAF Stafford

Pictured outside the Headquarters building at the largest honours and awards ceremony ever held at RAF Stafford (involving some 40 medals), are service personnel with their South Atlantic Campaign Medals, ...

Printsetting at the Cannock Advertiser, Cannock

Frank Arrowsmith working at a lynotype printsetting machine at the Cannock Advertiser print works, Market Square, Cannock. He was the Chief Composing Machine Operator until 1964, having joined the firm ...

Proposed Education Centre, English Electric Co., Stafford

This Model is of a proposed New Education Centre for the English Electric Co. at Stafford Works on the Lichfield Road, Stafford. The building in the foreground is the Main Offices (built for Siemens ...

Reliant Drawing Office

Designers seen hard at work at the drawing office of Reliant. The Reliant Motor Company was formed in 1935 when Mr T.L. Williams decided to build his own three wheeled vehicle in his back garden at ...

Retirement presentation at GEC ALSTHOM, Stafford

Geoff Rickards is pictured at his retirement presentation being congratulated by Ian Maskery on achieving fifty years’ service in the Works Cashiers Department. Left to right: Sam Holden, Diane Williams, ...

Royal Overhouse Pottery offices, Wedgwood Place, Burslem

Barratts of Staffordshire occupied the Overhouse Works from 1943. In 1992 the company joined with Royal Stafford China to become Royal Stafford. This building became the factory shop. The Overhouse ...

Ryknield Engine Co. Ltd., Burton-upon-Trent

The Ryknield Engine Company Ltd., factory and offices were based on Shobnall Road, Burton-upon-Trent. In this view there is a date-stone of 1902 on the building just below the flagpole. This short-lived ...

Ryknield Engine Company Ltd., Burton-upon-Trent

A typical Ryknield motor car standing outside the factory offices after the final stages of production. The Ryknield Engine Company Ltd. factory and offices were based on Shobnall Road, Burton-upon-Trent. ...

S A Wood & Sons, Regent Road, Hanley

The registered offices of S A Wood & Sons were in Regent Road just before the junction with Bethesda Street. The buildings date from the early years of the twentieth century. The two properties have ...

Sadler's Wellington Pottery, Burslem

Nos 16 & 18, Market Place, Burslem, Sadler's Offices and Showroom opposite Burslem Town Hall. James Sadler, famous for the manufacture of earthenware teapots, operated the Wellington and Central Pottery ...