OfficerTraining Corps, Denstone College
A postcard view taken in 1913 of the Officer Training Corps (OTC) at Denstone College. Officer and Cadet Training was began at Denstone College on 11 July 1908.
Denstone College was begun in 1868 and ...
Open Day at RAF Stafford
A Puma helicopter carrying an Air Portable Fuel Container (suspended from the helicopter) provides an aerial demonstration for the crowds of people during the 1987 Open Day which also featured the RAF ...
Outgoing Group Captain and Train, RAF Stafford
Pictured is the outgoing Station Commander, Group Captain P J Probyn ,departing by the RAF Stafford train on 8 March 1974.
In 1943 there were three Fowler Diesel engines carrying out shunting and transit ...
Outside the entrance to Whittington Barracks, nr Lichfield
A recruiting poster for the Guards can be seen on the wall behind the soldiers here.
Pageant Procession, Stafford,
View of the pageant procession in Oxford Gardens.
The annual Stafford Pageant included a procession through the town, and ended with a fair on the town common. A prize was awarded to the best decorated ...
Parade by RAF Stafford, Market Square, Stafford
The Mayor of Stafford is pictured with Senior Officers on a platform in the Market Square, Stafford. This photograph may have been taken during a Battle of Britain Parade by service personnel from RAF ...
Parade group in Lichfield
2nd Volunteer Battalion North Staffords parade group in Lichfield, possibly on return from South Africa.
Parade passing Biddle’s Stores, Brook Square, Rugeley
This postcard view shows a parade passing John Biddle’s Stores in Brook Square, Rugeley. The decorations by the upper floor windows suggest that at the time this photograph was taken the town was celebrating ...
Parade, Brocton Military Camp
9th Lincoln Regiment church parade.
Cannock Chase had been used as a military training ground since the 1870s. During the First World War two military camps were built on the Chase - Brocton Camp, ...
Peace celebrations, Pattingham
The celebrations pictured were held outside The Bakehouse.
Penkridge Bank Road, Cannock Chase
This winter scene postcard was sent by Private Frank N Smith, service number 22448, of the 11th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment, who was quartered at Hut No. 15, No. 3 Battalion Line, Rugeley Camp, ...
Penkridge Bank, near Rugeley
Penkridge Road, Cannock Chase
The three soldiers walking are from Rugeley Camp on the Chase, near to Rifle Range Corner.
Physical jerks before breakfast, Uttoxeter ACF Camp
The young cadets had an inspection parade at 7.30am, before physical jerks (exercises), which Edward Wilson, one of the cadet leaders recalled, "soon dispelled any remains of sleepiness".
Play in St. Chad’s Church, Stafford
A dramatic scene from Stafford Theatre Guild’s production of Christopher Fry’s ”A Sleep of Prisoners”, presented in St. Chad’s Church. Left to right: Edwin Price, Denis Dunsford, Derek Knight and Francis ...
Plum Pudding Opening, British Food Research Association
In 1958 Mrs. Lillian Astbury of Stone (left) donated a plum pudding to the British Food Research Association, based in Leatherhead, Surrey. It had been canned in 1900 for soldiers serving in the Boer ...
Police Uniforms, Stafford
Police tunics from the 1920s.
From the left the uniforms belong to the rank of Superintendent, Inspector and Sergeant. Belts were not withdrawn from most forces until the 1960s. Note the pill-box ...
Policemen and motorcycle, Stone
Three uniformed policemen, a man in civilian clothing and two dogs with a motorcycle and sidecar combination. Photograph believed to have been taken at the rear of the Police Station on Radford Street, ...