The Loyal Pottery Volunteer Cavalry - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Printed notice announcing the decisions made at a meeting on May 1st 1798 at the Swann Inn, Hanley.
The meeting was due to discuss arrangements for the Pottery Volunteer Cavalry and to enlist more ...
The Mayor and Mayoress of Stafford visit RAF Stafford
Each year soon after their inauguration, the Mayor and Mayoress of Stafford Borough would usually make a civic visit to RAF Stafford. In 1987 the Mayor and Mayoress, Councillor and Mrs D J James are ...
The Mayor of Stafford visits RAF Stafford
The Mayor of Stafford, Miss E.S. Kidman is pictured with a civic party and senior officers during a visit to RAF Stafford.
RAF Stafford was formed 1 December 1939 following the purchase by the Treasury ...
The Mayor’s Sunday Parade and RAF Stafford
During the Mayor’s Sunday Parade RAF Stafford service personnel are pictured marching along Greengate Street towards the Market Square. On the platform on the right taking the salute is the Mayor of ...
The Mayor’s Sunday Parade and RAF Stafford
During the Mayor’s Sunday Parade RAF Stafford service personnel are pictured marching through the Market Square towards Gaolgate Street in Stafford.
On the platform taking the salute is the Mayor of ...
The Messines Ridge Model, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
A view of the scaled terrain model of the Battle of Messines at Brocton Camp. When the New Zealand Rifle Brigade left Brocton Camp in 1919 they presented the Messines Ridge Model to the local town of ...
The Meynell Hunt, Wychnor Wood
Huntsmen, horses and hounds from the Meynell fox hunt.
The Military Band Room at RAF Stafford
Pictured are members of the Station's Military Band taking a break and enjoying their refreshments outside the Band Room. The notice on the left of the Band Room door states: “Military Band Room, new ...
The N.Z.R.B. Walk, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
View from the top of Chase Road down to Brocton Village. The farmhouse on the right hand side Stands on a lane which was the original track before the military road was laid. This area would later be ...
The Old Drill Hall, Victoria Street, Hednesford
The hall was built in 1894 for the South Staffordshire Territorial Army to train in. It is a low, brick-built, tiled building with a smaller building to the left. The hall has arched windows and a doorway ...
The Parkes Timber Fallers, Pattingham & Patshull
Left to right: James Parkes jnr; John Pooler; Arthur Parkes. The picture was taken in about 1943.
The Potteries
A general view of then Potteries, an image taken 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 ...
The Prince of Wales’s, North Staffordshire Regiment
The Prince of Wales's (North Staffordshire) Regiment was officially formed in 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms when the 64th and 98th Regiments of Foot were amalgamated. However, the Regiment can ...
The Queens Own Staffordshire Yeomanry at Tixall Hall
In this postcard view the soldiers are grouped together outside the Stables at Tixall Hall.
The Aston family from Haywood acquired the Tixall estate through marriage; the hall was rebuilt in 1555. ...
The RAF Mountain Rescue Team at RAF Stafford
Senior Officers are pictured inspecting a display of stretchers, rescue equipment and vehicles organised by the RAF Mountain Rescue Team at their base at RAF Stafford.
RAF Stafford was formed 1 December ...
The Recruiting Sergeant or The King's Shilling
Oil painting by an unknown artist. This painting has been tentatively attributed to the Victorian genre painter Henry Nelson O'Neil (1817-1880).
The painting appears to have been inspired by the Volunteer ...
The Royal Shoot at Rangemore
A phorograph taken during King Edward VII's visit to a shoot at Lord Burton's estate at Rangemore. At the time Lord Burton was unable to leave London, so the King stayed with the Earl of Shrewsbury at ...
The Royal Shoot at Rangemore
A phorograph taken during King Edward VII's visit to a shoot at Lord Burton's estate at Rangemore. At the time Lord Burton was unable to leave London, so the King stayed with the Earl of Shrewsbury at ...