Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
This is a very difficult photograph to identify the location of. The caption 'Brocton Camp N' is misleading as the hut alignment does not match the Camp's 1916 plan if it is referring to "N" Lines. Another ...
Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
A postcard view looking toward “F” & “G” Battalion Lines at Brocton Camp.
In the foreground beyond the upgraded track that used to come up from Brocton Village is the Farmhouse. Behind are the officer’s ...
Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
The roadway separates "M" and "N" Lines whist in the distance on the other side of Old Acre Valley are "S" and "T" Lines upon Sycamore Hill. Behind the tree-line runs Old Camp Road. Another photograph ...
Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
Behind the original old farmhouse centre left of the photograph are the Officers' Huts of "F" Battalion Lines. In front of the original track is the newly constructed military road (now called Chase Road) ...
Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
In this postcard caption 'R.B.' refers to one of the many reserve Battalions that trained at Brocton Camp. The cart is heading down Chase Road towards Brocton Village. The original track can be seen ...
Brocton Military Camp
Chase Road Corner. The Anson's Bank portion of Brocton Camp lies in the background. Alternate image is a digitally colourised version of the image.
Cannock Chase had been used as a military training ...
Brocton Military Camp,
Cannock Chase had been used as a military training ground since the 1870s. During the First World War two military camps were built on the Chase - Brocton Camp, which was located near to Anson's Bank, ...
Brocton Village
A postcard view of road works in Brocton along with a group of labourers there is a steam roller on the right in the background, also on the right is a soldier possibly from the nearby Brocton Camp.
This ...
Brocton Village
The Green, Brocton. Postcard published by W.H. Smith & Son, Stafford. The message on the reverse is from Joe, a soldier at Brocton Camp to his mother. He writes that he has started firing training ...
Brocton Village
This postcard view of Brocton was sent from Brocton Camp on 2 April 1918 to an address in New Zealand.
Brucheville Hall, Normandy, France
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 ...
Buccleuch Road, Longton. Photographed by William Blake.
Street scene taken at Buccleuch Road, Normacot, Nr. Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
This is one of many street scenes in the Blake Collection. Most of them were taken in the Normacot and Dresden ...
Bungalow on Cannock Chase, Brocton
This wooden bungalow stood next to what is now the site of the gravel pit at Brocton. It was originally built for a Canadian stationed on The Chase between 1914-1918.
After the war, it was the home ...
Burgess family, May Bank, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Private Stan Burgess showing off his new uniform, with his young brothers, Graham, Frank and Alan. This view was taken from Highfield Avenue, May Bank, and shows the awful air pollution that existed around ...
Burnhill Green Football Team, near Pattingham.
Back row L.to R: Fred Glassey, Eric Gregory, Arthur Truss, Alec Hextall, Doug Salter, Len Hall
Front row L.to R:Fred Savigar; Jack Glassey; Tom Cotterill; Wilf Plain; Ted Shaw.
Burnhill Green/Patshull Home Guard, near Pattingham
Back row, left to right: Bill Salter; Fred Glassey; Fred Potter; Tom Hall; Mr. Williams.
Front row: Albert Salter; Bill Taylor; Jack Newton; Frank Jackson; Frank Salter; Fred Davis.
Burslem June 20th. 1804 - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Hand-written invoice from Enoch Wood to a group of wealthy local men who have agreed to pay for a dinner taken by the Longport Volunteer Corps.
Volunteer Corps
The French Revolution in 1789 signalled ...
Burslem Volunteer Corps - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
THAT a VOLUNTEER CORPS of INFANTRY be formed
Printed public notice announcing the resolutions from a meeting that took place in the Legs of Man in Burslem on June 2Oth, 1797.
A number of businessmen ...