Clearing House Staff, Trentham Gardens
A group of clearing house staff taken during the 2nd World War when Trentham Gardens Ballroom was used as the Bankers' Clearing House. Back row, third from left is Maria Darlington.
Planning for the ...
Clearing House, Trentham Gardens Ballroom
The interior of the Ballroom at Trentham Gardens when it was being used as the Bankers' Clearing House.
Planning for the move of Clearing Banks from the City of London began in 1938, and in February ...
Coal Exchange
Lithograph print by Edward Bawden (1903-1989). The Coal Exchange, Manchester.
Dimensions: height - 410mm, width - 450mm
Colin McNeal Ltd, Ashford Street, Shelton.
Colin McNeal, ceramic materials supplier on the corner of Stoke Road and Ashford Street, Shelton. The company advertised themselves as suppliers of "all materials for the Potter". Colin McNeal also occupied ...
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 ...
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. ...
Dilhorne Post Office
The Post Office has since been converted to housing but the post box, which can just be discerned in the front edge of the gable-end, remains.
It is opposite the junction of High Street and Sarver ...
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 ...
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 ...
Forgery - notice from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
As concern spreads across the Potteries, this notice guides traders and townspeople in how to recognise a forged £1 note.
In the early 1800s not all bank notes were issued by the Bank of England; these ...
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 ...
Freedom of Entry into the Borough for RAF Stafford
The Borough of Stafford conferred the Freedom of Entry into the Borough to RAF Stafford (16 MU) on 16 December 1954. This honour was celebrated by a March Past the Mayor Mr Charles Jones in the Market ...
Freedom of Entry into the Borough Parade with RAF Stafford
On a sunny winter's day RAF Stafford service personnel march from Gaolgate Street into Market Square, Stafford while exercising their Freedom of Entry into the Borough of Stafford.
The Borough of ...
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 ...
Greengate Street, Stafford
A view looking from Market Square along Greengate Street. On then left is Brookfield and Windows department store, first opened in 1743 by George Boulton, on the corner of Market Square and Greengate ...
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
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 ...