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Armitage Views

This multi-view postcard of Armitage shows scenes of the moorings on the Trent and Mersey canal by the Plum Pudding public house, Lodge Cottage on the Rugeley Road, a flower border by the canal cutting ...

Armitage Village and Church

This Armitage pictorial postcard picture was taken in Church Lane, Armitage and shows Church Farm on the left and in the centre is St. John the Baptist Church. A note about this early postcard: due ...

Armitage Village War Memorial

View of the calvary-style war memorial commemorating the fallen of both world wars from Armitage. A service marking the centenary of the 1918 Armistice had recently been held, hence the large number of ...

Army chaplain, Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase

Rev. John Reay, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. He conducted ANZAC services at the Army Training Camps on Cannock Chase and was Vicar of Hednesford in 1919 having previously been Curate at St Barnabas ...

Arnold Bennett's grave in Burslem Cemetery

Burslem Cemetery was consecrated in 1879. It lies between Hanley Road, Leek New Road and the grassed over spoil tip of Sneyd Colliery. The cemetery chapel was demolished in 2008. Arnold Bennett died ...

ARP at the Vicarage, Cheddleton

Air Raid Precaution personnel outside the Old Vicarage, Cheddleton. The wearing of battledress and berets date this photograph from 1941 onwards. Seated in the middle row, to the left of the lady, ...

Arthur Inett and daughter Gladys, St. Chad's Church, Pattingham

Arthur lived in Hall End Lane, Pattingham.

Article from the Public Enquirer, taken from the Enoch Wood scrapbook - "The Wellington Quick-Step to Anarchy"

Moderate readers of the Public Inquirer on Saturday April 23 1829 might have choked on this partisan account of the movement for Catholics' civil rights in Britain. Thomas Mulock's rage The author ...

Ashfield Wesleyan Mission, Nelson Place, Newcastle-under-Lyme

Ashley Church - Ashley Tomb : pen and wash drawing

'In the Chancell of Alabaster.' Showing a tomb with the effigies of a man and a woman. The tomb is elaborately carved with pinnacles and a coat of arms above the effigies.Anonymous [J. R. Fernyhough]....

Ashley Church: sepia drawing

'N. W. View of Ashley Church.' North west view from the churchyard. Showing the east end of the chancel and the north and south aisles.'T. P.W.,' [Thomas Peploe Wood]

Ashley Church: sepia drawing

'North West View of Ashley Church, Staffordshire.' ?South west view from the road. Showing the tower (over the west window), the south porch and the churchyard wall. 'J. Buckler.'

Ashley Church: sepia drawing

'South East View of Ashley Church, Staffordshire,' [altered to north east.] Taken from the churchyard. Showing the east end of the chancel and the north and south aisles.'J. Buckler.'

Assembly Hall, Chamberlain Avenue, Stoke on trent

The photograph was taken on the corner of London Road and Chamberlain Avenue, Stoke on Trent. In 1912 a group of unsectarian Christians set up an Assembly Hall in Welch Street in Stoke upon Trent, and ...

Assize Judges, St. Mary’s Church, Stafford

Assize Judges, Mr Justice Pearson and Mr Justice Hallett are seen with a Police guard of honour as they enter St. Mary’s Collegiate Church for the service which traditionally preceded the opening of the ...

Aston Memorial, St Mary's Church, Stafford

This memorial, in the form of a 'Ledger stone' above the tomb of James, Lord Aston, can be found in the floor of the north transept at St Mary's, Stafford. Below the worn family crest, the inscription ...

Audley Church: sepia drawing

'South East View of Audley Church, Staffordshire,' showing the west tower, the chancel, the south aisle and the clerestory of the nave. The east window has seven lights.'J. Buckler.'

Audley Church: sepia drawing

'S. E. View of Audley Church.' South east view, showing the west tower, the chancel, the south aisle, and the clerestory of the nave. The east window has seven lights.'T. P.W.,' [Thomas Peploe Wood].