Cutlery, Cheddleton Asylum
Cutlery, if needed for a meal time, was dispensed to patients in a strictly controlled way. It was specially made for the asylum, with knives having a very small cutting edge to prevent the danger of ...
Darning Socks, Standon Boys' Farm Home
Boys darning socks at Standon Boys' Farm Home, being overseen by a member of staff.
The home in Weston Lane, Standon Bridge, near Eccleshall was founded by the Waifs and Strays Society in 1885. This ...
David Hollin Nurses Home, Stafford General Infirmary
David Hollin was a boot and shoe manufacturer. He lived in Highfield Manor on Newport Road. In 1916 he left £12,000 in his will 'for the erecting and furnishing of a Nurses' Home'. The David Hollin Nurses' ...
David Hollins Nurses Home, Stafford,
David Hollin was a boot and shoe manufacturer. He lived in Highfield Manor on Newport Road.
In 1916 he left £12,000 in his will 'for the erecting and furnishing of a Nurses' Home'. The David Hollin ...
Dental nurse, Walton on the Hill
Laura Dutton in her dental nurse's uniform at Walton-on-the-Hill, Stafford in the early 1920s. Laura worked for Mr.A.E.Henry, a well-known dental surgeon in Stafford for four years until 1927 when she ...
Dentists, Earl Street, Stafford
Diamond Jubilee celebrations, New Street, Burton-on-Trent
The decorations in New Street for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee 1897, as viewed from the end of the street nearest High Street. New Street No.1 Crossing can be seen in the distance. The arch over ...
Doctor and chauffeur, Cheddleton
A North Staffordshire doctor paying a visit in his chauffeur driven car. The reverse of this postcard has a note stating that the photograph was taken at Cheddleton Asylum but we have been unable to ...
Doctor's glass stirring rods
Glass stirring rods for medical use.
Collected from the medical practice of Dr. S.E. Godwin, G.P. of 44 Stockwell Street, Leek, Staffordshire, from the 1920s until c.1973.
Doctor's Surgery, Wheaton Aston
The Surgery is situated on Pinfold Lane near its junction with High Street. The building was replaced by modern housing consisting of four flats, named the Old Surgery in 2020-21.
Dora Wiles at Yarnfield Hospital
Dora Wiles from Rugeley is pictured at Yarnfield Hospital, near Stone.
This photograph is from a collection of photographs relating to Dora who was a patient at Yarnfield Hospital in 1928 and in ...
Dora Wiles with Patients and Nursing Staff, Yarnfield Hospital
Back row (left to right): Mrs Fernyhough, Miss Somers, Nurse Barnett, Edna Terry and Dora Wiles.
Centre row: unknown, E Bancroft, Miss Topliss, R Danks, Florrie and Ella Gilbert.
Front row: Maisie Bentley ...
Dora Wiles, Rugeley
This photograph is from a collection of photographs relating to Dora Wiles who is pictured outside her home 16 Hill Street, Rugeley. Dora was a patient at Yarnfield Hospital in 1928 and in 1930 and during ...
Double ended measure
Turned wooden double-ended egg cup shaped measure. One end slightly larger than other. Use not known, but probably used by a chemist or pharmacist to measure medical powders by volume.
From the ...
Dr Hewson, Coton Hill Asylum, Stafford,
Coton Hill Asylum was built in the 1850s and opened in 1854. It was originally built as an extension to the County Asylum in order to house private patients. It was to be known as The institution for ...
Dr. A.M. McAldowie
Born in Aberdeen in 1852, Alexander Morison McAldowie moved to Staffordshire in 1876 when he was appointed House Physician at the North Staffordshire Infirmary. He later had a private practice at Brook ...
Dr. John Kerr Butter, Cannock
Dr. John Kerr Butter sitting in his BSA car with his chauffeur, John William Wardle. He lived at Highfield House on Wolverhampton Road, Cannock. The house later became the Police Station, but was demolished ...
Dr. Parkes' surgery, Normacot Road, Longton
This property, possibly 84, Normacot Road, had been the local headquarters of the Blackshirts, a fascist organisation of the inter-war period. Their posters (reading "India Betrayal") were still visible ...