Portrait of Mr and Mrs W.M. Hilliard, Leek
William Michael Hilliard was the son of Francis Hilliard, a bookseller, printer and stationer in the town. Francis Hilliard moved from Bristol to Leek in about 1760, and became the earliest known printer ...
Portrait of Mr Ansell, Stafford,
'Old Ansell' was an inmate of the Union Workhouse, Stafford.
He was 100 years old when this photograph was taken.
Portrait of Mr Benjamin Barlow, Leek
Mr Barlow was the organist of St. Edward's Church, Leek. He died in 1873, aged 60.
Portrait of Mr Critchlow, Leek area
Portrait of Mr Poole, Murdered near Eccleshall,
This man, named Poole, was murdered by George Bentley in 1866. The two men stopped for a drink at the inn at Offley Brook. Poole paid with a sovereign. They continued walking to Eccleshall. Poole ...
Portrait of Mr. Tatler, Church Street, Leek
Mr Tatler was born in 1826, and died in 1895. His father was proprietor of the George Hotel on Church Street, Leek.
Portrait of Mrs Hambleton, Cheddleton
Mrs Hambleton was born Sarah Hall on June 1st 1810 at a farm called High Street, about one and a half miles from Cheadle. She was one of eight children, having four brothers and three sisters. The family ...
Portrait of Mrs Mary Ashton, Church Eaton
Portrait of Mrs Mary Ashton who lived at Little Onn Hall. She died at the age of 48 in 1893.
Mrs Ashton is wearing a silk dress with narrow sleeves and a lace collar, with a bustle (a pad or frame ...
Portrait of Mrs Mary Broster, Leek area
Mrs Broster was the wife of William Broster, the owner of Waterloo Mill. Mr Broster employed 63 women and 40 men in 1881. The business was taken over in the second half of the 20th century by Lux Lux ...
Portrait of Mrs Mary Edith Watson, Leek
Mrs Watson was born in 1858, the daughter of William Challinor the lawyer, of Pickwood Hall. In 1881 she was recorded as living at home with her father, and their three servants. She married Charles Watson, ...
Portrait of Mrs Sarah Flower, Leek
Mrs Flower, wife of Joseph Flower who built Portland House in Leek. Their children were Joseph Henry Flower (born 1862) who died aged 22 years of tuberculosis, Alfred Flower (born 1864) who had livery ...
Portrait of Mrs Sneyd of Ashcombe
Mary was the daughter of Charles March Adams of The Abbey, Shrewsbury. She became the second wife of the Rev. John Sneyd, and together they had a daughter Ada Mary, who married R.P. Carew Hunt in 1871. ...
Portrait of Mrs Tudor and Mary Ann Tudor, Lapley
Black and white glass positive photograph of Mrs. Tudor and Mary Ann Tudor, her daughter. They lived at Lapley Fort, Lapley. Mrs Tudor was the wife of Major Tudor of Lapley Fort, who spent all of his ...
Portrait of Nan Brammer, Leek
Portrait of Rev. James Badnall, Vicar of Endon
James Badnall was born in Wavertree, Liverpool in 1839. His father was vicar of Wavertree in the city, but he had family connections with the Staffordshire Moorlands as his grandfather was Richard Badnall, ...
Portrait of Rev. William T. Nelson, Wesleyan Minister, Leek
Reverend Nelson was a preacher on the Leek Wesleyan Methodist Circuit between 1862 and 1865.
The map location is the site of the Primitive Methodist Chapel, Fountain Street
Portrait of Silas Gibson, Leek
Silas Gibson was born in Leek in 1793. He was a silk manufacturer, who lived in Queen Street and latterly at Wall Hill with his son, Silas Jnr., also a silk manufacturer. Mr Gibson Snr. died in 1887, ...
Portrait of the Pickford family, Leek