Longton Fire Brigade.
Group photograph of Longton Fire Brigade. Taken in Union Square, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.
This photograph is part of the collections ...
Longton Police Station
Oil painting on board of Longton Police Station, Sutherland Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Glover's brewery was on this Sutherland Road site originally, until Joules of Stone bought them ...
Longton Police Station
Glover's brewery was on this Sutherland Road site originally, until Joules of Stone bought them out in 1903. The police purchased the brewery from Joules, demolished it, and built this building. Longton ...
Lord Justice Wrottesley
The Rt. Hon. Sir Frederick John Wrottesley (1880-1948), Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal and Chairman of the Quarter Sessions for the County of Stafford, 1939-1948. He resigned as Lord Justice in ...
Lord Justice Wrottesley
The Rt. Hon. Sir Frederick John Wrottesley (1880-1948), Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal and Chairman of the Quarter Sessions for the County of Stafford, 1939-1948. He resigned as Lord Justice in ...
Lotus Shoe Factory Fire Brigade, Stafford,
Group portrait of Lotus Shoe Factory fire brigade.
Lotus was originally named Bostock's and was founded in the eighteenth century by Thomas Bostock, a cobbler. His three sons started their own factories ...
Magistrates' Court, Horninglow Street, Burton-upon-Trent
Horninglow Street Magistrates' Courts, old and new, with the new Police Station on the right. The Court was built in 1907 and designed by Henry Beck, architect of Burton-upon-Trent.
This Image is ...
Market Square, Rugeley
A busy early postcard scene by Valentines of Market Square, Rugeley. Abraham Whitworth's grocery shop is on the left and Harris's ironmongers shop is to the right. The Town Hall's clock tower is prominent, ...
Market Square, Stafford
Market day in the Market Square, Stafford during the Second World War. In the background is the Shire Hall with posters advertising National War Bonds and National Savings.
Market Square, Stafford,
Stafford had held a weekly market since the Middle Ages. In 1853 a covered market opened behind the new Guildhall, but some stalls continued to trade from the Market Square.
In 1927 the Borough Council ...
Market Square, Stafford,
The building with the balcony is the Guildhall, designed by Charles Trubshaw and built in 1853. It housed the Borough Council, the courts and on the ground floor was a police station. The entrance to ...
Market Street, Hednesford
Market Street viewed from the junction of Church Hill with the A460 crossing the photograph in the foreground. Market Street, the town's main street, stretches ahead. Crossing the road to the right ...
Martin Street, Stafford
A view of Martin Street in Stafford showing the rear of Eastgate House at 78, Eastgate Street.
Eastgate House was built in 1683 for General John Dolphin. The house was refronted in the early 19th ...
Mayor Choosing Ceremony, Market Cross, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Mayor choosing happened every Charter Day in Newcastle until about 1932. From the 1860s it became the tradition for people to go to the Market Cross and have their photograph taken with the newly chosen ...
Mayor Leason Thanking Firemen after Floods, Stone,
Mayor Philip Leason thanking the fire brigade for their hard work during the floods of August 1987.
Mayor Marson on the Steps of the Borough Hall, Stafford,
Mr William Marson, Mayor of Stafford, on the steps of the Borough Hall. Beside him stand Police Halberdiers.
The Borough Hall on Eastgate Street was designed by Henry Ward, the Borough architect. ...
Mayors Procession, George Street, Tamworth
In the procession are the Military Band, Brass Band, Fire Brigade, Police, and Girl Guides. Notice the excellent terracotta facade of Needhams, done by Gibbs and Canning, which is partly hidden by the ...
Mechanical Apparatus for Firefighting - an advertisement from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
In Enoch Wood's day, factories and coal mines needed more than buckets of sand to put out serious blazes.
The trouble was that there was - as yet - no rapid-response fire service to call upon.
Unsurprisingly, ...