Chillington Hall
The east front of Chillington Hall, designed by Sir John Soane for Thomas Giffard in 1786-9.
The Giffard family purchased the Chillington Estate in 1178, and have owned it ever since. In 1547 a new ...
Gaol Square, Stafford
This view taken on Gaol Square shows Gaolgate Street on the left and Mount Street in the centre which is unrecognisable today (2026).
Henry Porter's menswear shop is on the left and a gents hairdressers ...
Stafford Market Hall and Overhead Car Park
During 2025 part of the Guildhall Shopping Centre, all the Market Hall and the overhead car park were demolished to make way for a major redevelopment of the area. This view was taken on Broad Street ...
St John's Market, Stafford
This photograph taken in 2017 shows one of the original entrances to St. John's Market which still stands (2026) on Crabbery Street, Stafford.
In the early 1990s St. John's Market Hall was demolished ...
Notice of charges, St. John’s Market, Stafford
This photograph taken in 2021 shows a notice of charges (date unknown) for stallholders at St. John’s Market, Stafford, with the daily and weekly prices at pre- decimalisation rates in £sd. The British ...
Stafford Market Hall
This interior view, taken by one of the entrances to Stafford’s indoor market hall, shows some of the stalls shortly before the market closed for good.
It was reported in the Staffordshire Newsletter ...
Clayton Cricket Team, Newcastle-under-Lyme
We do not have records of where the cricket team played but there were recreation grounds in the Clayton area at Redgate, near Northwood Lane.
Fred Everitt (who owned the camera that took this photograph) ...
Demolition, Stafford Co-op Department Store
This view taken on the corner of Crabbery Street and Princess Street Precinct shows the remains of the former Stafford Co-op Department Store, which closed on Friday 26 April 2013. The building was being ...
Mill Street, Stafford.
Viewed from Earl Street, the buildings in the right foreground: No's 19 - 20, Mill Street and Hall & Son, Butchers adjoining on the corner of Water Street, have since been demolished. The white building ...
Hall's Butchers Shop, Stafford,
Hall's was located at 19, Mill Street, at the junction with Water Street.
Waltonhurst Farmhouse, Eccleshall
Farmhouse at Waltonhurst near Eccleshall.
Teddesley House Farm
This photograph of Teddesley House Farmhouse, which is also known as Teddesley Home Farmhouse, was taken in 1964 by Dr. J.E.C. Peters. Home Farm was built in the 1760s and enlarged for Lord Hatherton ...
Greenhill Farm Sale, Norton Bridge
This milk cooler was one of the items at a dispersal sale at Greenhill Farm, held by South & Stubbs Auctioneers occasioned by the retirement of Mr F. Toon. The sale included 88 grand cattle, 108 sheep, ...
Alice Read, Great Wyrley
Alice Read, born in Cheslyn Hay in 1898 was a nurse at Burntwood Asylum in 1921. This photograph may be her 21st birthday studio portrait.
High Street, Eccleshall
A snowy view on the south side of Eccleshall High Street.
The houses in the centre were numbers 73-75 which were later demolished to make way for John Pershall Court, a development of retirement housing ...
Eastgate Street, Stafford
This winter scene shows numbers 38 to 41 Eastgate Street, looking south.
On the extreme left there is a part view of James & Moore Ltd.'s Turf Accountant's premises. Next door is number 38, which was ...
Thomas Amies, Mayor of Stafford
Thomas Amies was Mayor of Stafford in 1889. He is wearing his chain of office.
Born in 1830, Thomas Amies founded the company Amies Ltd., boot and shoe sellers and manufacturers. He started a small ...
Carpenter’s workshop, Milford Hall
The carpenter’s workshop at Milford Hall was formerly a cart shed. The building remains (2025) in the grounds of Milford Hall. The photographer's Mini is parked in the foreground.