Stone Fire Brigade and Horse-drawn Fire Engine,
Stone from Stafford Road,
Stonefield Square, Stone,
Suffolk geldings, The Wood, Adbaston
Seven pure bred Suffolk geldings. Holding them are, left to right: J. Moult (aged 37), W. Boulton (aged 32), F.W. Moult (aged 12) and Women's Land Army girl Miss Iris Penn (aged 26). Photographed for ...
Suffolk stallion, Wynterdyne, Tamworth
Col. G. Blewitt, D.S.O., M.C. and Mr. A.W. Macnamara with Suffolk stallion and handler at Winterdyne Farm, Tamworth, Staffordshire. The farm was owned by Mr A.W. Macnamara.
Photographer: Gerald McCann, ...
Swan Hotel, Stafford,
Situated in Greengate, the Swan Hotel was originally built as two private town houses in the seventeenth century, joined by a central archway. The buildings were converted into a coaching inn in 1752 ...
T.I. Plucknett's Mowing and Reaping Machine - an advertisement from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
In an age before tractors or even steam engines were used in farming, every advance in agricultural technology promised a better, more profitable crop.
The makers of T.I. Plucknett's mowing and reaping ...
Team of Suffolk horses, Weston Park, Weston-under-Lizard
A team of four Suffolk horses in harness and ear covers pictured with a timber wagon in Weston Park. Owned by the Earl of Bradford, and photographed for Mr Albert R. Craig who was the Estate Bailiff at ...
Thatched Cottage, Milford,
The Albrighton Hunt gathered at Penkridge
This postcard view shows the Albrighton Hunt meeting in St. Michael’s Square, Penkridge. On the extreme left is a glimpse of the Litttleton Arms Hotel and in the background is St. Michael and All Angels' ...
The Caldon Canal and Bolton's Copper Works
The Caldon Canal with Thomas Bolton & Sons Ltd. Copper Works in the background. In the foreground a boy is fishing.
Thomas Bolton & Sons set up a copper works at nearby Oakamoor in 1852-3. By 1890 ...
The Green Man Inn, Clifton Campville
The Green Man is a listed 18th century inn with an earlier, 15th century core. The inn is of painted brick construction which replaced an earlier timber-frame, although it does retain a substantial cruck ...
The Harvey family at a ploughing match, the Toft, Dunston
First prize winning shire horses, Stockton Bounce and Captain at Stafford Ploughing Match, held at The Toft, Dunston, which was farmed at the time by Mr B.C. Griffin. The team also won second prize for ...
The Hunt at Seisdon
The Albrighton Hunt Meet at the Seven Stars, Seisdon.
The Seven Stars stands on the corner of Fox Road and Tinker's Castle Road.
This building was demolished and a new pub was built by Ansell's ...
The Hunt at Seisdon
The Albrighton Hunt crossing the bridge over the Smestow Brook at Seisdon.
The Obelisk, Tixall
The Tixall monument bears the date 1776 and the inscription 'Stafford 3.5 miles'.
Postcard publisher unidentified.
The old smithy, Coppenhall
A blacksmith filing the hoof of a horse outside the old smithy which was sited on the west side of Hyde Lea Bank, between Coppenhall and Hyde Lea. The blacksmith at the time was George Fletcher. The ...
The Parkes family logging in Patshull Park
The trees were cut down and taken to John S. Hickman's Timber Company in Wolverhampton. The Parkes family would collect timber from as far afield as the Welsh border, on a sub-contract basis for Hickman.
Jim ...