Number 7 Pit, Himley Wood
Men and boys with their pony and the 'Boss' in the bowler hat standing in front of the wooden winding frame at Number 7 Pit, Himley Wood. Also seen in the background is the winding 'gin', probably horse-drawn, ...
O. Boonham's, 5 Silver Street, Tamworth
Oliver Boonham can be seen on the right of this photograph with Billy Smith on the left. Boonham was the proprietor of this wine and spirits vaults. An advert for the Empire, in George Street, can be ...
Officers group at Whittington Barracks, nr Lichfield
Old Cottage, Wootton, near Eccleshall
A picturesque view of a woman and boy outside a cottage door at Wootton, near Eccleshall.
This colour tinted postcard was posted from Eccleshall by Miss Annie Ainsworth to Miss A. Bolton at the Winton ...
Old Hanford
This is a photograph of a postcard showing Hanford village with four ladies in a dog cart. The sign outside the shop reads "(Agent for) Perth Dye Works" and is possibly Mrs Finney's Drapers shop.
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 ...
Pegg family, Cheddleton
Thomas and Sarah Pegg and family in the garden of their home, Hale House Farm, Ostlers Lane, Cheddleton. Thomas worked as a woodman.
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' ...