Edwardian Green Silk Dress
This Edwardian period dress is typical of the era.
It is full at the chest creating the ‘pigeon breast’ effect and slopes down at the back and front with a narrow waist that is emphasised by the black ...
Edwardian Pink Petticoat
The petticoat had a dual role as underwear and a structural garment, as it helped to shape the dress and mirrored the cut of the skirt.
It also protected the dress from sweat and provided the wearer ...
Edwardian Wedding Dress
This wedding dress was worn by Winnifred Mary Leeke (nee Robinson). She was married in Stone Roman Catholic Church in around 1909.
It is made of cream silk and has an inner hem lining specially made ...
Edwardian Wedding Dress
This cream satin dress was in the typical style of the day, it has a high waist and a high collar and would have been worn with a corset.
Gigot sleeves were popular during the period, as the sleeves ...
Egg and Spoon Race, Siemen's Sports Day, Stafford
In August 1906 the first Stafford Sports Day was organised by Siemen's Social and Athletics Association, to raise funds for the society to take over part of Hough House as a 'Club House for recreation, ...
Eighteenth Century Slippers
During the 1700s womens fashion went by a simple idea of big and tall, to the extent that arms on chairs had to be taken off to accommodate for the width of womens dresses and some women had such vastly ...
Eleanor Maud Johnson and niece, Tean
Eleanor Maud Johnson was born in Upper Tean in 1898, and married John T Snow at Cheadle in 1928. She died 1974. She was a daughter of William Henry and Frances Johnson, grocers and drapers at Bon Marche, ...
Electricity Exhibition, Assembly rooms, Tamworth
The machine being demonstrated here is the Braiding Machine, presumably then in use at the Hamel Mill. Fourth from the left is Mr W. Wright, Mill Manager of Hamel's Mill, with Miss Dorothy May Wright ...
Elizabeth and Clara Blake, Longton
William Blake’s mother, Elizabeth (left), and his aunt Clara (right), outside the Blakes’ house at Woodside Villas, Sandford Hill, Longton. The Blakes are recorded as living here in a 1907 directory.
Photographer: ...
Elizabeth and Clara Blake, Southampton
William Blake’s mother, Elizabeth (left), and his aunt Clara (right). A cat is perched on Elizabeth’s shoulder. Taken during a visit to Blake’s father’s family in Southampton.
Photographer: William ...
Elizabeth Briscoe, Croxton
Studio photograph of Elizabeth Briscoe (née Smith, 1853-1926) born at Denby, Derbyshire. Her mother farmed and kept a shop and Post Office and was widowed when Elizabeth was young. At the time ...
Elizabeth Mary Blake, Southampton
Portrait of a young lady in a garden setting. This is possibly Elizabeth Mary Blake, sister of Longton photographer William Blake. Probably photographed in Southampton where her grandparents and aunts ...
Elizabethan cottage, Horsefair, Rugeley
Rugeley would once have had many timber-framed cottages, most of which were lost in the extensive fires of 1646 and 1708. This thatched cottage stood in the site now occupied by James Furnishers. On ...
Elkes' Jazz Band, Dove Valley Bakery, Cheadle Road, Uttoxeter
Group photograph of the biscuit factory's mainly female marching band, pictured in front of the large doors at Elkes' factory.
Ella Gilbert, Burton-upon-Trent
Ella Gilbert was from Needwood, near Burton-upon-Trent and during 1928 she was a patient at Yarnfield Hospital which was near to Stone. Ella died from tuberculosis at age the age of 17.
This photograph ...
Elsie James, Yarlet
Elsie Elaine James (1928-1921), later Robinson, pictured with the family dog outside the front door of 27 Yarlet, one of the Staffordshire County Council farms around Yarlet and Whitgreave, tenanted at ...
Embroidered bag, 19th century
Bag with embroidered floral decoration.
Embroidered Indian slipper, about 1960
Grey velvet slipper with leather sole. The slipper is embroidered in tambour work (chain stitch) in an all over floral pattern. The slipper is lined with grey velvet and has an orange flower motif outlined ...