Harvesting Potatoes at Deer Park Farm, Weston
Boys are lending a hand with harvesting a record crop of potatoes. They have filled their baskets and the potatoes are being loaded on to the tractor-drawn cart for removal. Please contact us if you recognise ...
Jiggering Workshop, Sutherland Works, Longton
Pottery factory interior with a view of a jiggering workshop. The picture includes the caption "Jolliers Making Saucers and Plates" but this process is normally known as jiggering. The jiggerers are making ...
Jiggering at Gladstone Pottery, Longton
Pottery factory interior with a view inside a flatmaking workshop.
The worker is seated at a jiggering bench.
Jiggering was a way of fashioning flat wares using a combination of moulds and profile ...
Mayer and Sherrat, Longton
Pottery factory interior showing cup makers in a jolleying workshop. Taken at Mayer and Sherrat's pot bank, King Street, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
The four people are identified on the original copy ...
Friendly Society gavels and pen
Gavel and pen from the Lady Burton Female Lodge, Burton upon Trent, No.7682 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Manchester Unity. Collected from the Red Lion Public House, Rocester, Staffordshire....
Group II Pupils at Hazel Slade Infant School
A class group of infant children pose outdoors with a teacher. This image is undated, but the school's name is evident on the slate being held by two children in the middle of the picture.
Hazel Slade ...
Dingle Farm, Rangemore
Dingle Farm, part of the Rangemore Estate, is situated at the end of a short lane off Tatenhill Lane near The Old Rectory. The wall on the left of the photograph belongs to The Old Rectory which is out-of-frame ...
Rangemore War Memorial
Situated within the churchyard of All Saints’ Church, the memorial was consecrated in June 1919 by the Bishop of Lichfield on ground to the west of the church, given as a churchyard extension by the Dowager ...
Statue of Captain Edward John Smith, Lichfield
E.J. Smith (1850-1912) was born in Hanley and had a long career at sea, working for many years for the White Star Line. Smith is best remembered for his final voyage, as captain of the ill-fated RMS Titanic, ...
Edwardian Shooting Party
An unidentified shooting party pictured on the steps of the porch of a large house. The location maybe somewhere in the Cannock Chase area.
The gentleman standing far right is thought to be John Parker ...
Portrait of uniformed man from Hazelslade
This gentleman, photographed at a studio in Walsall, is thought to have lived in the Hazelslade area, near Cannock. It is uncertain which service or organisation his uniform represents, although it resembles ...
Hazel Slade Primary School, near Cannock
The school was built in 1931. It was enlarged in 1948 with wooden buildings which had previously been part of Rawnsley Board School which can be seen near the horizon on the right. This view is from ...
Ministry of Labour, Newport Road, Stafford
The Ministry of Labour pictured in 1966 at 132 Newport Road, Stafford.
Around the time of this photograph the Ministry of Labour (the precursor to today's (2026) Department for Work and Pensions) was ...
Brewood Grammar School
The school possibly dates back to the mid 15th century, having been founded by the Bishop of Lichfield as a Chantry School. It was certainly refounded in around 1553 by Sir John Giffard, his son Thomas, ...
Darlaston Inn, Stone
Darlaston Inn stood on a traffic island at the junction of A34 Stoke-on-Trent to Stone road and the A51 road to Nantwich. It had been an inn since at least 1811. A former landlord, Martin Donovan, understood ...
Stonehouse Primary School, Rugeley
A classroom at Stonehouse Primary School at Slitting Mill, near Rugeley. This is Miss Merry's class which had three or four school years in one class. There were around 40 pupils attending the school ...
Darlaston Inn, near Stone
A peaceful view of the Darlaston Inn. Due to changes in the surrounding roads, it later stood on a traffic island at the busy junction of the A34 Stoke to Stone road and the A51 to Nantwich. The inn ...
Darlaston Inn, Meaford, near Stone
The Darlaston Inn, near Meaford. It later stood on a traffic island at the busy junction of the A34 Stoke to Stone road and the A51 to Nantwich. A group of soldiers on horseback, probably Staffordshire ...