Peace Day, Greengate Street, Stafford
This postcard picture is thought to have been taken during the Peace Day celebrations which took part in Stafford on 19 July 1919.
In this scene there are crowds of people mostly moving south along ...
Penkridge Railway Station
This postcard view shows Penkridge Station which was built by the Grand Junction Railway and opened on 4 July 1837. In later years the line became known as the Birmingham branch of the West Coast Main ...
Post Office Training Centre, Yarnfield
This photograph of members of staff and students taking a break at the Post Office Training Centre was taken by Stafford photographer Tony Boydon. If you recognise anyone in this view please contact us.
The ...
Postcard view of the Pigot Arms Hotel, Pattingham
Pottery Workers in a China Warehouse. Photographed by William Blake.
Factory interior with a view of a pottery manufacturing warehouse and pottery workers packing ware.
This image appears elsewhere in the collection and was used for a presentation by Blake entitled ...
Primitive Methodist Church, Heath Hayes
Replacing a smaller 1873 chapel, the Bourne Primitive Methodist Chapel was built in 1899-1900 by T. Mason of Hednesford on the corner of Hednesford Road and Chapel Street. It some seated 400 worshippers ...
Princes Street Precinct, Stafford
This view was taken looking north along the Princes Street Precinct towards Stafford Street.
All of the buildings in the picture remain (June 2022) although most of the individual shops on the left ...
Queen Street, Uttoxeter
This view shows the Queen's Cinema on the right, and opposite can be seen the Vine public house. The bridge joined Orme's shops.
R.A.M.C. Chasetown, Lichfield
A black and white postcard of the Chasetown Detachment of the Royal Army Medical Corps (R.A.M.C.) leaving for active service in 1914. They are pictured at the Goods platform at Lichfield station on the ...
Railway Bridges, Rugeley
Postcard view of the Cannock branch line over the junction of Horsefair with Armitage Road (left) and Brereton Road (right) in Rugeley.
Note the antler light fittings on the pier between the arches. ...
Railway Bridges, Rugeley
Railway bridges over the junction of Horsefair with Armitage Road (left) and Brereton Road (right) in Rugeley.
Note the antler light fittings on the pier between the arches. Originally gas-lit, they ...
Railway model engineer, Stafford
This photograph of a railway model engineer was taken for the Staffordshire Newsletter. If you recognise the man or the location please contact us.
The model being worked on appears to be similar to ...
Railway Viaduct, Penkridge
This postcard view shows the Seven Arches viaduct looking west from the A449 Wolverhampton Road at the old Junction with Levedale Road near Penkridge. In later years this junction was changed. On the ...
Rear of Liverpool Road, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This signed watercolour by M.Stewart shows the rear of Liverpool Road in Newcastle-under-Lyme. A row of houses with television aerials make up the main picture with a paved area to the foreground on which ...
Ricardo Street, Dresden. Photographed by William Blake.
Street scene taken at Ricardo Street, Dresden, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
This is one of many street scenes in the Blake Collection. Most of them were taken in the Normacot and Dresden areas near ...
Roman Gateway. Photographed by William Blake.
Stereoscope slide with a view of the Roman Gateway at Lincoln.
Rothsay Road, Longton. Photographed by William Blake.
Street scene taken at Rothsay Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
This is one of many street scenes in the Blake Collection. Most of them were taken in the Longton, Normacot and Dresden areas ...
Royal Brine Baths, Stafford
In the 1880s a thick bed of salt was discovered on Stafford Common, during the search for a water supply for the town. This led to the opening of the Brine Baths in Greengate Street in 1892, designed ...