Munitions workers, ROF Swynnerton
Walking along the cleanway at R.O.F. Swynnerton.
Workers at R.O.F. Swynnerton, a high percentage of which were women, filled shells, bombs and other armaments, including 20mm shells for Spitfires, ...
Munitions workers, ROF Swynnerton
Munitions workers, Nessie, Doris , Dorothy(?) and Gwen at R.O.F. Swynnerton.
Workers at R.O.F. Swynnerton, a high percentage of which were women, filled shells, bombs and other armaments, including ...
National Fire Service, Hanley, Stoke on Trent
The Auxiliary Fire Service was formed from volunteers at the outbreak of war, to assist the regular Fire Brigades. The name was changed to The National Fire Service in August 1941 when the regional regular ...
Nellie Kizis, Frobisher Hall, Swynnerton
Photograph of Nellie Kizis, possibly taken at Frobisher Hall before she returned to Scotland after the 2nd World War.
Nellie Kizis was born in 1921 near Edinburgh. She worked at the canteen at the ...
Nelson Hall, Cotes Heath
Yarnfield acted as a transit camp for United States Air Force personnel during the Second World War and was named Army Air Force Reinforcement Depot, AAF Station 594. This photograph was taken at one ...
No.1 Wing Volunteer Band, RAF Hednesford
It is thought that the Bandmaster was Flight Sergeant J. Broadgate.
North Staffordshire Regiment
The 2nd Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment pictured in 1939.
Officer's Mess, Yarnfield
An image from the 'Yarnfield Yank', a booklet published in 1945 to commemorate the presence of US Army personnel at transit camps in Yarnfield, near Stone during World War II. The camps at Yarnfield were ...
Ordnance and chemical warfare offices, Yarnfield
An image from the 'Yarnfield Yank', a booklet published in 1945 to commemorate the presence of US Army personnel at transit camps in Yarnfield, near Stone during World War II. The camps at Yarnfield were ...
Ordnance Workers, Radway Green, near Alsager, Cheshire
Ordnance workers at Radway Green, Alsager collecting for the war effort. The plaque reads 'A Local Bomb For Hitler. Carriage paid by RAF'.
P-47 Thunderbolt crashed in the Shropshire Union Canal at RAF Wheaton Aston
Lt Richard Dunlap was on a flight from the American air base at RAF Atcham near Shrewsbury when his engine failed at 3,000 feet. He attempted an emergency landing at RAF Wheaton Aston but undershot the ...
Pals at Colwich Junction Signal Box
The photograph, taken by Jones, photographer of Bow Street, Rugeley was used in a local newspaper article featuring Herbert Shelley of Colwich and his Army pal of 45 years, Len Cleminson from Essex. ...
Pantomime playbill, Frobisher Hall, Swynnerton
A playbill produced for a pantomime performance of Cinderella in the Social Centre at Frobisher Hall, Swynnerton, Christmas 1944. Playing the lead role of Cinders was Jeanette 'Janet' Jewell (nee Brown). ...
Pantomime, Drake Hall, near Eccleshall
Page 16 of 'Drake Hall - A War-Time Hostel', a souvenir book produced for staff and residents at the Swynnerton Royal Ordnance Factory hostel at Drake Hall, produced in 1945. The first pantomime produced ...
Party at Frobisher Hall, Swynnerton
The Social Centre at Frobisher Hall, Swynnerton. Standing 4th from right in the front row, wearing a short dark jacket and scarf, is Jeanette 'Janet' Jewell (nee Brown). She lived at 16 Foyle while ...
Passing Out Parade, Newcastle-under-Lyme Air Training Corps
Newcastle-under-Lyme Air Training Corps, Squadron 435 Passing Out parade, possibly taken at their headquarters at Knutton High School, Newcastle-under-Lyme. Maurice Procter is nearest to the camera.
Patshull Hall Rehabilitation Centre, Pattingham
Soldiers undertaking occupational therapy on the Terrace at Patshull Hall Rehabilitation Centre. They did cane work, making baskets and cradles, sewing, weaving and making rugs, as well as woodwork (e.g. ...
Patshull Hall Rehabilitation Centre, Pattingham
Soldiers at Patshull Hall Rehabilitation Centre. The Centre gained a worldwide reputation for its physiotherapy results, and Australia and Sweden sent persons to be trained there.
Patshull Hall was ...