Co-op Building Society building, Stafford,
Construction of the Co-operative Permanent Building Society building on corner of South Walls and Greengate Street by Costains Ltd. The society changed its name to Nationwide Building Society in 1970....
Co-operative Bank, Greengate Street, Stafford
View of the Co-operative Bank on the west side of Greengate Street, a relatively modern building which replaced older Victorian structures on the same site.
Crown Bridge, Penkridge
This postcard view looks south-east from Stone Cross towards Crown Bridge in Penkridge.
On the left can be seen a Post Office K8 type telephone box, centre right there is the former Barclays Bank and ...
Dains Mill, Upper Hulme
Thomas Hine loading corn at Dains Mill, Upper Hulme. The water powered mill at Dains Mill dates back to around 1600. Four generations of the Hines family worked the mill from 1802. For a while, the ...
Demolition of the Old Guildhall, Stafford
The original Guildhall was built in 1853. It housed the Borough Council, the courts and on the ground floor was a police station. By the 1930s a new police station was needed and one was constructed ...
Derby Street, Leek
A shop on Derby Street, Leek with the entrance of the District Bank, built by William Larner Sugden in 1882 on the left. The timber-framed wall of the Roebuck Hotel can be seen at the right hand edge.
J.H. ...
District Bank, Market Square, Hanley: lithograph
'District Bank, Hanley. Erected, 1833.' Showing a Gothic building and other houses/shops in the street. There are people in the street outside the bank, selling their wares.Inscribed 'To the General ...
District Bank, Stafford,
The Manchester and Liverpool District Banking Company opened a branch in Stafford in 1832, having taken over the Stafford Bank (which had been declared bankrupt in 1830). Its first premises, Bank House, ...
Dr Johnson’s Statue, Market Square, Lichfield
A postcard view of the Statue of Dr Samuel Johnson in the Market Square, Lichfield. It is by R.C. Lucas and was erected in 1838. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), lexicographer, critic and poet, was born on ...
Fountain Square from Stafford Street, Hanley
This was the view north from Stafford Street into Fountain Square with Market Square visible beyond. Now pedestrianised, there is no longer a roundabout in the square. The shops on the left (Willerbys ...
Fountain Square, Hanley
The camera is looking across Fountain Square towards Tontine square with Tontine Street in the distance. The area is now pedestrianized, so has lost the roundabout, traffic and array of road signs. The ...
Gaolgate Street, Stafford
This view was taken looking north from Market Square to Gaolgate Street in Stafford. In 1992 the town centre became pedestrianised and the A34 was re-routed around the town.
All of the buildings in ...
GEC ALSTHOM Employees, Charity Sponsored Run
On a grey Autumn morning in 1989 employees from the adjacent site of GEC ALSTHOM'S Distribution Services Division and the Site Services Division are pictured gathering on the car park of Lloyd’s Bank, ...
Granville Square, Stone,
Granville Square was originally named Pump Square, but when the pump was removed the square was renamed after Earl Granville of Stonepark. Trees were planted to commemorate the coronation of Edward VII ...
Granville Square, Stone,
Granville Square was originally named Pump Square, but when the pump was removed the square was renamed after Earl Granville of Stonepark. Trees were planted to commemorate the coronation of Edward VII ...
Greengate Street, Stafford
A view of Greengate Street taken in 1966.
On the extreme left there is a part view of a parade of shops completed around 1963, replacing Dale’s Ironmongers shop which was demolished in the early 1960s. ...
Greengate Street, Stafford
A colour-tinted view looking along Greengate Street towards Market Square. On the left are the Staffordshire Advertiser Offices. The newspaper was founded in 1795 and moved to these premises in 1860. ...
Greengate Street, Stafford
This view was taken looking south from Market Square to Greengate Street in Stafford. Later in 1992 the town centre became pedestrianised and the A34 was re-routed around the town.
All of the buildings ...