VE Day Celebrations at RAF Stafford
Pictured are service personnel celebrating VE Day with a ‘knees up’ in the Accounts Department at RAF Stafford. Following the Prime Minister's Victory broadcast all ranks ceased work and joined in the ...
Vestiges of 1914-18 Barrack Concrete Base, Cannock Chase
Drawing, charcoal and ink on paper. Sketch made at White House site on Cannock Chase, remains of Rugeley Camp, a First World War army training camp on Cannock Chase.
Commissioned for 'The Fields of ...
Victoria Park, Stafford
The County War memorial dedicated in 1923. The memorial stands on four steps. The upper stage of the base has an inset bronze plaque with an inscription. It is surmounted by the plinth, which is decorated ...
Victoria Park, Stafford
The land between Izaak Walton Walk and the railway station were marshy and liable to flooding. In 1903 the Corporation bought the land and raised its level by three feet. The area was laid out as Victoria ...
Victoria Park, Stafford,
In the centre is the County War Memorial on Victoria Road, unveiled in 1923. The office building is Kemley House.
The land between Izaak Walton Walk and the railway station was marshy and liable to ...
Victoria Park, Stafford,
The land between Izaak Walton Walk and the railway station were marshy and liable to flooding. In 1903 the Corporation bought the land and raised its level by three feet. The area was laid out as Victoria ...
Victoria Square, Stafford
A view of Victoria Square with the Technical School on the left and the Stafford War Memorial in the centre. The memorial made by Joseph Whitehead and sons was dedicated on 28 October, 1922. St. Mary's ...
Victory Celebrations at English Electric Co., Stafford,
Female factory workers at the English Electric Co. factory on Lichfield Road celebrate victory at the end of World War Two.
The company had changed to war work on the outbreak of war, as they had ...
Victory Celebrations in the cutting room, Lotus, Stone
The Lotus factory on Longton Road manufactured ladies' shoes.
Lotus was originally named Bostock's and was founded in the eighteenth century by Thomas Bostock, a cobbler. His three sons started their ...
Victory celebrations, Frobisher Hall, Swynnerton
Mary Wayte (third from left) with performers in a 'V for Victory' show held at Frobisher Hall.
Frobisher Hall was a hostel for workers at the Royal Ordnance Factory at Swynnerton during and just after ...
Victory Celebrations, Lotus Shoe Factory, Stone,
The closing room decorated to celebrate victory at the end of the First World War.
The Lotus factory on Longton Road manufactured ladies' shoes. The cutting room was where the various shapes required ...
Video presentation of the Messines Terrain Model, Cannock Chase
It has long been known that there was a Great War terrain model on Cannock Chase, indeed there are documents, photographic records, and oral histories to prove it existed. However, it was not until a ...
View from Messines Ridge, Belgium
Painting, oil on board by Robert Perry RBSA (1944-). A view of countryside, the site of the Battle of Messines Ridge in June 1917.
This painting was commissioned for 'The Fields of Battle 1914-18; ...
View from Messines Ridge, Belgium
Drawing, charcoal and ink on paper by Robert Perry RBSA (1944-). Landscape Sketch made at the site of the Battle of Messines, Belgium.
Commissioned for 'The Fields of Battle 1914-18 - Paintings and ...
View from near the Glacial Boulder, Cannock Chase
Painting, oil on board by Robert Perry RBSA (1944-). This area of Cannock Chase was occupied by Brocton Camp, one of two army training camps on Cannock Chase during the First World War.
This painting ...
View from Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
A general view from the Camps showing how open the landscape was at the time and how bleak the men found it during the winter months. Being on a raised plateau the biting winds can be inhospitable almost ...
View from Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
A general view from the perimeter of Rugeley Camp. This appears be Sherbrook Valley descending away from the Camp. The far side of the valley is now covered in Forestry Commission plantations.
View near Rifle range Corner, Cannock Chase
Painting, oil on board by Robert Perry RBSA (1944-). This area of Cannock Chase was occupied by rifle ranges associated with the two army training camps which occupied Cannock Chase during the First World ...