Bomb Damage, Bucknall, Stoke-on-Trent
Bomb damage at the rear of Heathouse Lane, Bucknall, photographed on 23 August 1942.
Comment by David Salt:
"I was born on 29 January 1941, in 10 Hulton Road, Abbey Hulton. The earliest memory, that ...
Bomb damage, Chesterton, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Chesterton Salvation Army pictured amongst ruined buildings after a bombing raid on Chesterton during World War Two.
Bomb Damage, May Bank, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Bomb damage at Taylor Avenue, May Bank, Newcastle-under-Lyme, in June 1941.
Note the crater in the foreground, and surviving furniture being loaded onto the back of a truck immediately beyond.
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Bomb Damage, Old Stoke Road, Stoke-on-Trent
Old Stoke Road pictured after a bombing raid in January 1941.
On this particular night the target was the Michelin tyre factory, with Stoke railway goods yard as a secondary target.
Recalling the ...
Bomb damage, Pitts Hill, Stoke-on-Trent
During the early years of World War Two, Stoke-on-Trent was a strategic high priority target. The main targets were the Michelin factory, the railway goods yard, the British Aluminium Works and Radway ...
Bomb Damage, Pittshill, Stoke-on-Trent
Photograph of a bomb damaged shop on the High Street in Pittshill, Stoke-on-Trent.
Part of an official survey commissioned in 1941 by the City of Stoke-on-Trent.
Bomb damage, Pittshill, Stoke-on-Trent
Bomb damage on High Street, Pittshill.
This photograph is part of an official survey of bomb damage commissioned by the City of Stoke-on-Trent in 1941.
Bomb damage, Stoke-on-Trent
Bomb damage at Old Stoke Road, Stoke-on-Trent, 1941.
Bomb Shelter, Sandon Road, Stafford
Second World War bomb shelter in rear garden on Sandon Road.
Bomb shrapnel, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This is a small piece of bomb shrapnel from one of the two German Zeppelin air raids on the Midlands in 1916. One was recorded on the 31st January 1916 and the other on the night of 27th and 28th of November ...
Borough War Memorial, 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, ...
Boxers, army camp, Milford Common
Men from the North Staffordshire Regiment pictured at a camp on Milford Common during the Great War. Third from right, in shirtsleeves, is Jack Harper. In civilian life he was a ganger on the railway ...
Boxing at 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 ...
Boys' Brigade Parade, Market Square, Stafford
Alderman A.G.B. Owen, OBE, President of the West Midland District of the Boys' Brigade, takes the salute at a march-past of district units outside the Stafford Guildhall after a service at the Baptist ...
Bread or Blood: On the Orders in Council - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Addressed to manufacturers across the country, this notice lists the woes of the pottery industry during the Napoleonic Wars in the early 1800s - and the word on the street was just as urgent.
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Brereton War Memorial
View of Brereton War Memorial, located by the main road into Rugeley. The memorial takes the form of a rough stone cross with truncated arms, upon which is carved a downward-pointing sword. Names of the ...
Brigadier JV Campbell addresses troops from Riqueval Bridge, Bellinglise, France
This colourised images shows the 137th (Staffordshire) Brigade (46th North Midland Division) being addressed by Brigadier JV Campbell from the Riqueval Bridge over the St Quentin Canal, having carried ...
Brindley Heath Hospital, Cannock Chase
The caption For this photograph was "Farewell to Matron" and she is beaming as she is waved off by staff and patients along the main driveway in front of the wards. Above the windscreen can be seen one ...