Haughton Rectory: wash drawing
'Haughton Rectory,' showing a large early Victorian house with castellated bays, apparently stuccoed, viewed from the garden.'T. P. W.,' [Thomas Peploe Wood.]
Hanbury Church: steel engraving
'Servire Christo est Regnare. Revd. Hugh Bailye, A. M. Hanbury, Staffordshire.' North east view of the church tower, from among trees. Apparently the book-plate of Rev. Hugh Bailye, A.M. [he was vicar ...
Fradswell Church: sepia drawing
'South East View of Fradswell Church, Staffordshire,' as rebuilt in the Gothic of that day. Showing the tower, the nave, and the chancel (the latter apparently ancient.)'J. C. Buckler.'
Fradswell Church: pen and ink drawing
South east view of the church, as rebuilt in the Gothic of that day. Showing the tower, the nave, and the chancel (the latter apparently ancient.)'T. P. W.,' [Thomas Peploe Wood.]
Finney's Post, Burton upon Trent
Finney's Post is part of an ornately carved mediaeval oak post, which once stood at the corner of the Market Place and High Street.
The post was for many years displayed in the Burton Museum and was ...
Enville Church - Gravestone: sepia drawing
'Gravestone in the Porch of Enville Church,' showing a quatre-foil cross in a circle [apparently the same as in SV IV. 179b.]'J. C. B.,' [John Chessell Buckler.]
Drayton Bassett - 'Drayton Manor': water colour painting
South west view showing a large low rambling building, much of it half-timber, and apparently of various dates principally Tudor built round a courtyard like a college, with a separate three storeyed ...
Caldon Church: water colour painting
'Caldon Church.' West south west view of a church, apparently of rough stone with larger corner-stones. Showing the west tower with pinnacles and a round-headed window at the top. The body of the church ...
Bradley 'Old Hall': sepia drawing
Shows the hall, which was built in the 16th or early 17th century. Shows a farm house from the stock-yard at the back; apparently half-timber work, plastered over. Also shows the gables. Artist: Thomas ...
Audley Monuments - 'Audley Knight': sepia drawing
'Mutilated Effigy in Audley Church.' [Apparently the same 'mutilated effigy' as SV I. 103.] Shown from above apart from the tomb. He wears a helm with camail, and has his feet on a lion, (but the ...
Gaolgate Street, Stafford
Two-way traffic on Gaolgate Street and Gaol Square. Charles Clark's garage and Christ Church can be seen in the background, with Stafford Gaol in the distance. The shops on the right hand side include ...
The Vicarage, Great Wyrley
The vicarage was built in the 1840s. From 1876 to 1918 it was the home of Reverend Shapurji Edalji and his family. Born in Bombay (Mumbai), India in 1843, he converted to Christianity and was appointed ...
Rushton railway station
No sign of any trains as a mother and her sons wait at Rushton station on a warm day in the early 1960s.
Beyond the station platform, the level crossing remains open to road traffic.
This line once ...
Papering china, Sutherland Works, Longton
Pottery factory interior with a view of a woman wrapping ware with tissue paper. This was part of the packing process and protected the delicate ware whilst in transport.
Possibly taken in the warehouse ...
Handshake at Rushton station
On a wet day at Rushton, station staff and footplate crew exchange a friendly handshake.
This could have been a retirement handshake, or a goodbye handshake due to closure of the station. Who knows?
A ...
French embroidered souvenir postcard
A souvenir postcard sent by May Blankley from France to her sister in Tutbury. May served in the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps during World War I. This card was sent on 29 December 1918.
On back is ...
Edalji trial, Great Wyrley
George Edalji can be seen here standing in the dock.
In 1903 George Edalji was convicted of maiming horses and received a seven year sentence. The charge was unproved however, and it is thought Edalji ...
Pottery Worker "Finishing a Saggar." Photographed by William Blake.
Pottery Worker "Finishing a Saggar". Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.” ...