Old Post Office with staff standing outside, Bird Street, Lichfield
The Post Office was opened on Bird Street in 1905 and closed in 1968 when it moved to its present location in Bakers Lane.
Old Road Farm, Barlaston
Old Road Farm house with the farmer and his family. The man in the bowler hat is possibly the farmer, John Hassall Kirkham. The farm house no longer exists, although some of the farm buildings have survived ...
Oldacre Cottage, Brocton, (1)
Oldacre Cottage on Oldacre Lane. The two women in this postcard are Elizabeth Smallwood, seated, and her niece also Elizabeth Smallwood outside their tea-shop in Oldacre Lane. The house was where the ...
Oulton, near Stone
Looking north-east through the village. The Police House (with the village policeman), the Wheatsheaf and the Brushmaker's Arms can all be seen on the right hand side.
This postcard view was published ...
Ox Roast on Market Square, Stafford
The Diamond Jubilee celebrations lasted three days. Jubilee Day was a public holiday and two oxen, donated by the Meakins of Creswell Hall, were roasted on Market Square.
Children sang the National ...
Ox Roast on Market Square, Stafford
The Diamond Jubilee celebrations lasted three days. Jubilee Day was a public holiday and two oxen, donated by the Meakins of Creswell Hall, were roasted on Market Square.
Children sang the National ...
Ox Roast on Market Square, Stafford
The Diamond Jubilee celebrations lasted three days. Jubilee Day was a public holiday and two oxen, donated by the Meakins of Creswell Hall, were roasted on Market Square.
Children sang the National ...
Page Boy and Flower Girl, Eccleshall,
Painted silk shoes, about 1820
These blue silk shoes have narcissus and sweet peas or freesias hand painted on to the toes. They date from between 1815-1825. This type of pump or slipper shoe was worn as an evening shoe because the ...
Pair of straights
Straights are shoes without differentation between the left and right foot. They were made from about 1600. During the 1790s right and left shoes were re-introduced because the now popular flatter shoe ...
Pelsall Road, Brownhills
The last two buildings to the right of this delightful postcard still exist (2018). The one facing, far right, was built as the offices of Brownhills Board of Health in 1882 on Chester Road opposite the ...
People seated in a garden
A lantern slide showing two men and a woman seated on bench in garden. A large house with shutters can be seen in the background to the left. Location unknown, but a handwritten caption 'In Switsland' ...
People wearing fancy dress
Lantern slide showing a couple in fancy dress. The boy dressed as clown, the girl may be dressed as Bo-peep. Location unknown, but possibly Stafford.
Photograph believed to have been taken by Walter ...
People with barrows, Stafford area
Lantern slide view of men wearing bowler hats and women wearing shawls with barrows and a cart. A man in uniform is standing back left. Location unknown, but might possibly be Stafford.
Photograph ...
Peter Walker Brewery personnel, Clarence Street, Burton-on-Trent
Twelve men seated on stacks of barrels with 'P Walker Burton' brands on their heads. All of the men are well dressed and are possibly directors.
Philip Dale and son, Stafford
This carte de visite studio portrait shows Philip Dale (1832-1917), brazier and ironmonger of 11 Greengate Street, Stafford with his son, Philip Thomas Dale (1865-1953).
Philip Dale was born in Gaolgate ...
Playground, Standon Boys' Farm Home
Boys in the playground at Standon Boys' Farm Home, including groups who are playing dice games.
The home in Weston Lane, Standon Bridge, near Eccleshall was founded by the Waifs and Strays Society ...
Porter's Ironmongers Shop, Eccleshall,
Porter's in High Street, decorated for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.
The Dolls' Hospital moved here, but today the site is occupied by the National Westminster Bank.