School Class Group, unknown Location
This photograph shows a class group at an unknown School thought to be in the Cannock area. Please contact us if you recognise anyone in the picture or the precise location.
Balk Passage, Broad Street, Stafford
This view looks along Balk Passage towards Broad Street, Stafford.
On the left at the time of the photograph is the Catholic Club. In the centre at No. 1 Broad Street is Arthur Seaborne's Bakery. He ...
Seaborne's Bakery, Stafford,
This view shows Seaborne's Bakery at 1 Broad Street. Previously the shop had been Hollier's Bakery. Arthur Seaborne baked throughout the night to ensure the shop was freshly stocked the next morning.
On ...
Market Square and Greengate Street, Stafford
Pictured on the corner where Market Square meets Greengate Street is the Midland Bank which is now (2025) the HSBC Bank.
This Grade II listed building dates from around 1810 with around 1890 additions ...
7, Market Square, Stafford
No. 7, Market Square, Stafford, viewed from close to the Shire Hall which is on the left.
This Grade II listed building dates from around 1800. Note the 'Catherine Wheel' glazing over the central ...
Greenfield, Cramer Street, Stafford
'Greenfield' is situated on the corner of Garden Street and Cramer Street opposite St Austin's Primary School: here it is viewed from Cramer Street.
The Lodge, Wolseley Hall, near Rugeley
Although Wolseley Hall was demolished in 1966, this estate lodge house still exists on the corner of the A51 and Orchard Lane as part of a modern housing development. The frontal aspect has since been ...
Oldcroft Cottage, Acton Trussell
Oldcroft Cottage, the home of the Norbury family, Cooks Bank, Acton Trussell. The cottage was re-thatched in 1960-61.
Old Stafford and Uttoxeter Railway Gate, Saltworks Lane, Weston
George Marston was aged 4 in 1939, when he moved with his parents and siblings to Saltworks Farmhouse, Weston on Trent, near Stafford.
He has kindly supplied the following information on the old railway ...
Chapel Street, Stafford -The Wesleyan Chapel Tower
Once again, the tower, all that remains of the Wesleyan chapel built in 1863 and which closed in 1985, stands alone. The other parts of the chapel were demolished in the early 1990s to make way for the ...
Izaak Walton's birthplace plaque, Eastgate Street, Stafford
Mounted on the wall of the Eastgate Street Police Station to the left of the entrance, the plaque indicates the reputed site of Izaak Walton's birth in 1593. it was positioned on an earlier building on ...
Police Station, Eastgate Street, Stafford
A plaque commemorating Izaak Walton's reputed birthplace is mounted on the wall to the left of the entrance to the Police Station on Eastgate Street, Stafford. This building dates from around 1977, the ...
Parkers Croft Road, Stafford
A view of Nos. 4 – 7, Parkers Croft Road, which stood off the Wolverhampton Road, Stafford.
On the left, an iron gate led to the rear yard of Frederick H. Burgess, Agricultural Engineers and Ironmongers, ...
Victoria Road, Stafford
This row of houses on Victoria Road, Stafford, were later demolished and replaced by an office building known as Kemley House. On the extreme left is a part view of the wall of the Station Hotel which ...
The Hollies Farm, High Offley Road, Woodseaves
The Hollies Farm, High Offley Road, Woodseaves. The building remains (2025) very much as in this photograph.
County Mental Hospital, Stafford
Nurses in an antenatal ward at the County Mental Hospital in Stafford. Standing behind the bed is Nancy Davies (nee Shelley) who was conscripted as a mental nurse during World War II.
Originally built ...
Chemist's 'Next Dose' Labels
Box of 'Next Dose' labels. They would be attached to a customers medicine to let them know when their next dose should take place. They are stored in a small card box labelled on lid "The 'Allenburys' ...
Rowley Hall, Approved School, Stafford
At the date of this photograph Rowley Hall would have been an Approved School. Note the security fencing.
In 1808, the Rowley Hall estate was auctioned at the Swan Hotel and bought by a prominent local ...