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Brereton Bible Class

Pictured in front of the old Brereton Vicarage (demolished 1963) is the Rev. Arthur M. Harding's Bible Class of 1909. Rev. Harding was a curate at Brereton from December 1906 to April 1911. Identification ...

Brereton Chapel: wash drawing

View of the chapel built in 1837, in the lancet Gothic style.'T.P.W.,' [Thomas Peploe Wood.] Originally a Chapel of Ease for Rugeley Parish, it was built of ashlar stone. The 2nd Earl Talbot donated ...

Brereton Collieries, Rugeley

A postcard view of Brereton Collieries. The pit on the right was originally known as Brick-Kiln pit, latterly Brereton Colliery which closed in 1960, the same year that production started at nearby Lea ...

Brereton 'Old' Vicarage

A rear view of Brereton Old Vicarage. The Reverend Evelyn Henry Hill and his wife, Ida Lucy Hill in the garden of their Brereton Vicarage home. After a period as a curate at Rugeley, he was the Vicar ...

Brereton 'Old' Vicarage?

This is the front of a post card written by Mrs Miller, headteacher at St. Michael's School, Brereton expressing Christmas greetings to a Miss Robinson and is thought to have been written between 1920 ...

Brereton Road, Rugeley

A postcard view of a quiet scene in Brereton Road, Rugeley looking south. Over the years the road was widened and the houses on the right demolished. Most of the houses on the left remain (May 2018).

Brereton Road, Rugeley

A view looking south-east along the A51 just past the railway arches in Rugeley, which is part of Brereton Parish. On the right, a little past Wharf Road, is an area which was know as 'The City' and beyond ...

Brereton Road, Rugeley

A postcard view looking towards Brereton from the corner of Wharf Road. On the left is the old Britannia Inn, replaced along with most of the cottages when Brereton Road was widened in the 1930s.

Brereton village

A postcard view of Main Road, Brereton looking south-east towards Lichfield. On the right is the Church of England school building which replaced an earlier school on the same site It was opened in ...

Brereton War Memorial

View of Brereton War Memorial, located by the main road into Rugeley. The memorial takes the form of a rough stone cross with truncated arms, upon which is carved a downward-pointing sword. Names of the ...

Brereton, near Rugeley

This colour-tinted postcard shows a view of Main Road, Brereton probably taken from the front of the church grounds. The old Castle Pub is on the left with barrels on the pavement edge. This was demolished ...

Brewery from western gate, Charrington & Co., Burton-on-Trent

Brewery Locomotives, Burton-upon-Trent

Two locomotives pictured at the Marston, Thompson & Evershed Brewery in Burton-upon-Trent. The locomotive on the left is thought to be a Baguley diesel shunter. The steam locomotive on the right was ...

Brewery Offices, High Street, Uttoxeter

Thomas Fradgley designed the offices for the Uttoxeter and Dove Valley Brewery (Buntings). In later years the building was used as an off licence, electricity showroom, and public library, before its ...

Brewery Street, Hanley

Looking along Brewery Street towards the junction with Bryan Street. Beyond is the site of the old Port Vale football ground, a car park by the time this photograph was taken. The building on the right ...

Brewery workers at Bass, Burton-on-Trent

Group photo possibly taken in the Maltings, of men and women workers standing with sack trucks.

Brewery Yard from the railway, Albion Brewery, Shobnall Road, Burton-on-Trent

Brewery, Great Haywood,

There had been a brewery in Great Haywood since the mid-1800s, situated in what is now Brewery Lane. The brewery had a steam engine which pumped water for making beer. When the well was in use the ...