Members of the Griffin family, Preston Vale Farm House, near Penkridge
It is probable that the passengers in the horse-drawn cart are Thomas & Emily Griffin who farmed here from 1863.
Thomas John Griffin married Emily Ann Pemberton at Dudley in 1857
Christened in Stafford ...
Messrs Bass's Brewery, Burton-upon-Trent
This engraving is entitled 'Old Burton, Messrs, Bass's Brewery in 1834' and shows Bass's town house on High Street to the left with the their first brewery alongside. The house still stands.
Picture ...
Meynell Arms, Hoar Cross
The Meynell Ingram Arms still exists today on the corner of the Abbots Bromley and Newborough Roads. The exterior has been updated and the picket fences are gone but it is still easily identifiable. The ...
Midland Road, Swadlincote, Derbyshire
This view looks north along Midland Road, Swadlincote.
On the left a newly built property is waiting for the windows to be fitted, this would become W. Wilkinson’s, fruit and vegetable supplier. In ...
Milford
A postcard view looking towards The Green (centre distance) at Milford. This picture was taken on the Stafford to Rugeley Road (A513) near to the junction with Holdiford Road and the Milford Lodges access ...
Milford Common
A postcard view of Milford Common.
Militia approaching crossing, Blythe Bridge
The 5th Battallion of the North Staffordshire Territorials onn their way to Burton during general mobilisation in August 1914. They were one of the first Companies to go to France.
In the foreground ...
Milk collection, Kingstone
This photograph of a postcard was taken on Uttoxeter Road, Kingstone. The lorry is collecting milk from local farms and belongs to Wilts United Dairies. The dairy at Weston initially processed milk and ...
Milk delivery, Cheddleton
Mr Edwin Woolley of Shaffalong Farm delivering milk with his horse and cart in Cheddleton.
Milk delivery, Cheddleton
Mr Edwin Woolley of Shaffalong Farm delivering milk with horse and cart in Cheddleton. He has stopped outside Mr Jesson Bold's butchers and grocers shop.
Milk Float, Stafford Pageant
This postcard view of a horse and dray advertises “Milk Nature’s Perfect Food, Builds Bone and Brain”. The float won second prize in Stafford Pageant (unknown year).
The annual Stafford Pageant included ...
Miners outside the Roebuck Inn, Cheadle
The Roebuck Inn stood on The Green in the Brookhouses part of Cheadle. It was in existence by 1834 but closed during the 1960s. The last licencee was Norman Plant
Miners underground at "snap-time", Hawkins Colliery, Cannock
This is a posed photograph, as ordinarily miners wouldn't have sat on the rails. Their snap is wrapped in paper. Other details to note about the photograph are that the man on the left with the stick ...
Modern Egyptian Potter. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide showing an Egyptian Potter selling his ware on the banks of the Nile. This is one of the few coloured slides in the collection.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for ...
Moors Gorse Pumping Station, near Hednesford
Inaugurated in 1880 to extract underground water for the South Staffs Water Works Company, this pumping station stood adjacent the Hednesford to Rugeley Road on land leased from the Marquis of Anglesey. ...
Mr E.J. Chandler and daughter, Lane Green Road, Bilbrook
Mr E. J. Chandler is standing by the pony and trap in which Marjorie, his daughter, is seated in.
The people in the background of the photograph (behind the rails) are unknown.
Mr Kinson with his horse and cart, Skeys, Wilnecote
Mr Kinson with his horse 'Tut' and cart at Skeys work yard, Wilnecote. Mr Kinson worked for Skeys as a General carter, to dump their broken pots. A spoil heap can be seen in the background. Skeys changed ...
Narrow boat and crew, Hednesford
Narrow boat and crew on the Birmingham Canal Navigation, Cannock Extension near Hawks Green. The canal served the nearby collieries, East Cannock and LIttleworth for the transportation of coal.