Post Exchange, 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 ...
Poultry dressing demonstration, Rodbaston Farm Institute, Penkridge
Women's Land Army recruits watching Mr J.W. Rowland demonstrate poultry dressing at Rodbaston Farm Institute.
Rodbaston College's origins lie in 1919 when the War Agricultural Committee opened an agricultural ...
Prince Bernhard visiting the Dutch Camp at Wrottesley
During World War 2, both Prince Bernhard and Queen Wilhelmina were regular visitors to the Dutch Camp at Wrottesley Park, adjacent to Perton Airfield.
Private John 'Jack' Joyce, 212681 Royal Army Service Corps. Born 1909
John was born 6th October 1909 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. He married Elleanor Annie Thorley, pictured with two of their sons, on 26th September 1942. John and Elleanor had six children.
John ...
Publications, 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 ...
Quarry workers, Rudyard
Quarry workers removing a large stone from Whorrocks Bank quarry in 1887. It was later used as the stone for Rudyard's war memorial, installed for Queen Voctoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897. It commemorates ...
Quartermaster's staff, Whittington Barracks, near Lichfield
Members of the North Staffordshire Regiment Quartermaster's staff pictured at Whittington Barracks.
Back row (left to right): G. Ormsby, A. Landon, C. Brightman, J. Hammer, K. Copestake, D. Roden.
Front ...
Quartermaster's staff, 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 ...
RAF Hixon and Wellington Bombers
This postcard reproduction of a painting shows several Vickers Wellington Mk III bomber aircraft with some being re-fuelled at No. 30, O.T.U. (No. 30, Operational Training Unit), RAF Hixon. They are ...
RAF Memorial Window, St Thomas's Church, Walton on the Hill
Stained glass memorial window to the Royal Air Force, dated 1942 and showing the silhouette of a bomber plane flying over crossed searchlights. At the top, the Greek letters 'Alpha' and 'Omega' flank ...
Recreation facilities, Drake Hall, near Eccleshall
Page 13 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 Games Room, part of the ...
Red Cross Cadets at Pattingham
The picture was taken outside The Vicarage in about 1944.
Left to right: Mrs. Boswell; Mary Lycett; Ethel Lane; Mary Dulson; Dorothy Scriven; Mary Wheeler;not known; Iris Bramall; not known; Kath Russell; ...
Red Cross, Stone
Female US Army personnel relaxing, playing chess and reading magazines at the Red Cross in Stone.
This image is from the 'Yarnfield Yank', a booklet published in 1945 to commemorate the presence of ...
Reginald Mitchell
Reginald Mitchell was born at 115 Congleton Road, Butt Lane, Kidsgrove in 1895 and was educated at Hanley High School. At sixteen, he gained an apprenticeship at Kerr Stuart & Co of Fenton.
After ...
Remembrance Sunday, War Memorial, Stafford
The crosses at the War Memorial in Victoria Square, Stafford, commemorating the Fallen of two World Wars, are examined by three 20 year old Stafford National Servicemen, on demobilisation leave, who have ...
Repatriates and American troops arrive by air
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 ...
RMS Rangitata
This ocean passenger liner is thought to be the RMS Rangitata which was built in 1929. The Rangitata was operated by the New Zealand Shipping Company and usually sailed between the United Kingdom and ...
Rocester Home Guard
This photograph was taken in the early days of the Home Guard as it precedes the full issue of uniform and weapons. Most men are carrying wooden replica guns or double-barrelled shotguns and many are ...