Piccadilly Lane, Upper Mayfield
This postcard scene looks east along Piccadilly Lane towards the cross-roads in Upper Mayfield. All the buildings remain (January 2023). The barn on the right is adjacent to Old Hall Farm which is just ...
Police Escorting a Heavy Load, Weeping Cross, Stafford
A Wynns tractor and trailer is seen here carrying a large Transformer and navigating the junction at the top of Radford Bank, heading towards Milford.
Vehicles like this were a fairly common sight ...
Portrait of young man with bicycle, Cannock area
This unidentified young man is pictured standing with his 'Sunbeam' bicycle manufactured by John Marston Ltd. of Wolverhampton. Note the carbide front light. The oil-bath chain case contains oil which ...
Post men and boys outside the Post Office, George Street, Tamworth
Post men and boys, bicycles and mail bags, outside the Old Post Office, on the south side of George Street, eastern end. A recruiting poster can be seen on the wall of the Post Office, possibly for the ...
Post Office, Walton on the Hill
The Old Post Office, Walton on the Hill, Stafford.
This postcard view was published by W. Shaw, Burslem.
Postcard view of 'Blyth marsh'
This view shows Uttoxeter Road. On the right is the original Post Office, with a telegram boy and his bicycle outside.
On the left is at the base of the telegraph pole is a wall which used to mark ...
Postcard view of the High Street, Pattingham
Presentation, Manor Hill County Primary School, Walton, Stone
Presentation to Philip Belcher of Manor Hill County Primary School who gained 100% marks in Stone Cycling proficiency Tests in 1964.
Primitive Methodist Chapel, Stafford,
Thomas Russell was a travelling Primitive Methodist preacher who first came to Stafford in 1835.
The congregation met in a room in north Stafford until their first chapel opened in New Street. It ...
Promotional stunt for Odeon Cinema, Stafford
Dennis Holland riding a motorcycle and dressed as a character from the film 'Anatomy of a Murder' staring James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Eve Arden, George C. Scott, Arthur O'Connell, Kathryn ...
Purton's, High Street, Stone
A display stand of prams, bicycles and toy cars stocked by Purton's of High Street, Stone pictured in a marquee, possibly at the Staffordshire County Showground, Hopton, Stafford.
Purton's sold prams, ...
Rear of Thorn & Co., Gaolgate Street, Stafford
This view taken on Salter Street looks through a gateway into the rear yard of Thorn & Co., whose ironmongers and builders merchants shop was round the corner at 37 Gaolgate Street. The yard included ...
Rear Yard of the Bear Inn, Stafford,
Rear yard of the Bear Inn on Greengate Street, which included a coach house.
The Bear Inn was built in the seventeenth century Bear Inn on the site of the Old Black Bear Inn; it is possible some of ...
Red Lion Public House, Little Haywood,
This public house on the Main Road was once named The Bowyer Arms, after the family who owned Bishton Hall at that time. The inn sign was the family's coat of arms, which included a rampant red lion. ...
Reliant Stand, Earls Court, London
The Reliant stand at the Bicycle & Motor Cycle Show at Earls Court London.
The Reliant Motor Company was formed in 1935 when Mr T.L. Williams decided to build his own three wheeled vehicle in his ...
Rough Close. Photographed by William Blake.
View of Rough Close, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Rowley Park, Stafford,
The Rowley Hall estate was bought by the Stafford Land Building and Improvement Company in 1866.
The company built a model suburb, which was to have its own church and pleasure gardens. The scheme ...
Rudyard Lake
This postcard view was taken near to the dam wall at the south end of Rudyard Lake.
Rudyard Lake is a reservoir constructed in 1797 by engineer John Rennie to feed the Caldon Branch of the Trent & ...