Cannock Chase
In the early 1980s Jake Whitehouse took photographs of views of where the Camps once stood. This one unfortunately does not specify its location and it is not possible to identify the view. It is more ...
Cannock Chase Laundry staff and van
Photograph of Cannock Chase Laundry staff and delivery van, possibly delivering to one of the Great War Army training camps on Cannock Chase, Staffordshire.
Cannock Chase views
Five views on and around Cannock Chase and Hednesford: No. 3 Pit, west Cannock Colliery, Hednesford; The Camp, Cannock Chase; West Cannock Colliery, Hednesford; Hednesford, from Church Hill; near the ...
Cannock Chase views
Five views of the Cannock Chase landscape.
The writer says he is "walking around half asleep" and comments on how nice the area is. As there is no mention of military service he may have been a civilian ...
Cannock Chase views
Postcard published by W.H. Smith & Son, Stafford. Postmarked 15 November 1915 and sent from Brocton Camp by a soldier serving in the 9th (Reserve) Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment.
Cannock Chase views
Written from Sister Dora Nursing Home on Milford Common. A father writing to his daughter on 30 Oct 1917 about the area and the food he is expected to eat: obviously a patient in the Nursing Home. From ...
Cannock Chase War Cemetery (Commonwealth War Cemetery)
This photograph was taken looking east across the Stafford to Hednesford road to the main entrance gates of the cemetery.
This cemetery contains the graves of 24 British and 73 New Zealand dead from ...
Cannock Chase, near the Camp, Rugeley
This postcard was published by W.H. Smith, Stafford, with a view of the Sherbrook Valley near Rugeley Camp, one of the two army training camps built during World War I.
Cannock War Memorial
Positioned in front of Cannock's town centre 1902 bandstand, the war memorial was dedicated on May 22nd 1923 and formally handed over the the Town Council the following June. It was originally intended ...
Cannon in Stubbs Walk, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Children are here seen playing on the historic Crimean War cannon which was presented to the Borough of Newcastle by Samuel Christy MP. The cannon was moved from its pictured location opposite the Orme ...
Canteen staff, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
Four women wearing Army Catering Corps overalls and a boy in a suit and waistcoat. They are pictured in the doorway of a hut at Brocton Camp.
Canteen staff, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
A group of seven people standing and seated outside a hut at Brocton Camp. The cook is in the front row, far right. Standing back right is Gladys Harvey of Rugeley who served in the Women's Auxiliary ...
Canteen staff, Drake Hall, near Eccleshall
Canteen staff at Drake Hall during World War II. On the right is Veronica 'Ronnie' Martin from Edinburgh who started work at Drake Hall aged 22. As well as the canteen at Drake Hall, she also worked ...
Canteen staff, Frobisher Hall, Swynnerton
All the canteen staff at Frobisher Hall. Front row, far left are Mr and Mrs Walker, the Manager and Manageress. Mrs Walker's teenage son, Tony Hancock, was later to become a famous comedian.
Frobisher ...
Canteen staff, Frobisher Hall, Swynnerton
Canteen assistants at Frobisher Hall, Swynnerton.
Frobisher Hall was a hostel for workers at the Royal Ordnance Factory at Swynnerton during and just after the 2nd World War. Workers at R.O.F. Swynnerton, ...
Canteen staff, Frobisher Hall, Swynnerton
Some of the canteen staff at Frobisher Hall enjoying some free time. Front row, far right is Alison Webb (then Wharton) who started work at Frobisher Hall in 1940, aged 15. Back row, far left is her ...
Canteen Workers, Brocton Military Camp,
Gladys Harvey (standing) and Ada Potter, who worked in the canteen at Brocton Camp.
Cannock Chase had been used as a military training ground since the 1870s. During the First World War two military ...
Canteen, Post Office Training Centre, Yarnfield
This photograph of catering staff in the kitchen at the Post Office Training Centre was taken by Stafford photographer Tony Boydon.
The General Post Office Engineering Department, Central Training ...