English Electric Welfare Camp, Rhyl
Siemens Brothers became English Electric after the outbreak of World War 1. This postcard published by Rae Pickard Studios of Rhyl shows a group of young employees from the factory on Lichfield Road, ...
Essex sow, Staffordshire County Show, Uttoxeter
Essex sow 'Cheddleton Daisy 13th', owned by Cheddleton Mental Hospital in competition at the Staffordshire County Show, held at Uttoxeter Racecourse.
Photographer: Gerald McCann of High Street, Uttoxeter....
Fanny Deakin Hospital, Chesterton, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The Fanny Deakin Maternity Home opened in 1947.
Fanny Deakin's 80th Birthday Party, Silverdale
Fanny Deakin was a Labour councillor who campaigned for better maternity care. She was also involved in the early miner's strikes and protests. She is remembered through her maternity home (opened in ...
Female imbecile ward, Stoke workhouse, Newcastle Road, Stoke-on-Trent
This plan is of the female imbecile ward (so called at the time) built in 1894 at Stoke workhouse on Newcastle Road. Workhouses were originally meant to be places where the poor could work in return for ...
Female Provident Society - Document from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
This 'benefit club' claimed to offer women a fighting chance of avoiding hopeless poverty - many years before any worker paid a National Insurance contribution.
This notice details the monthly payments ...
Female Provident Society - Document from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
This 'benefit club' claimed to offer women a fighting chance of avoiding hopeless poverty - many years before any worker paid a National Insurance contribution.
If a woman fell ill, she could expect ...
Fern Cottage, Trentham parish workhouse
This plan is of Fern Cottage, Trentham parish workhouse. Parish workhouses began in the 17th and 18th centuries as places where the poor worked in return for food and board. The workhouses were frequently ...
First aid demonstration, Cannock area
Photograph of first aid demonstration in Cannock area. Four men are taking part in the demonstration, with a crowd of onlookers behind rope barrier, including Police Constable H. Rickuss, a member of ...
First Aid Team, Mossfield Colliery, Longton
This group includes Tom Ibbs sitting on the front row, far left.
Mossfield Colliery was sunk in the 1850s, with up to four shafts, and closed in 1963. The colliery was located near Adderley Green near ...
First Aiders event, Cannock area
St. John Ambulance cadets and nursing officers gathered for an unknown occasion. A lady in civilian clothes shakes hands with a lady officer, while the rest of the group look on.
Florence Thorneycroft OBE
Miss Florence Thorneycroft (died 1944) was a Staffordshire County Councillor from March 1919 to May 1936 and a County Alderman between May 1936 and February 1944. She lived at Tettenhall Towers, Wolverhampton ...
Food collection at Weston Coyney, Stoke-on-Trent
The miner's strike of 1984 - 1985 saw many families suffer great hardship as striking workers lost all their pay and benefits. Food collection and distribution points like this one at Weston Coyney were ...
Foresters Convalescent Home, Walton Pool, Stourbridge
This nursing home was founded by the Ancient Order of Foresters and built in 1893.
During World War II the home was arefuge for children evacuated from Birmingham and Felixstowe. It has been a private ...
Gallipots
Set of 5 nesting gallipots. Cream coloured unglazed ceramic. They were used by apothecaries and pharmacists to hold medicines. Nowadays they are still used but are often disposable.
From the Staffordshire ...
General Booth and Mayor William Marson, Stafford,
William Booth (1829 - 1912), known as 'General Booth', founded the Christian Mission in 1865.
The movement aimed to help the poor and needy of London's East End, and as it developed was renamed the ...
George VI's Coronation Decorations, Bridge Street, Stafford,
George VI's Coronation Decorations, Brine Baths, Stafford,
View taken from Green Bridge.
The Brine Baths opened in 1892 on Greengate Street, after a thick bed of salt was discovered on Stafford Common during the search for a water supply for the town. Its ...