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Contract Signing, Stafford Rangers,

Ian Sandiford signing for Stafford Rangers Football Club. Behind him are the club chairman Paul Butters (left) and Colin Hutchinson.

Cook and Helpers at the Cooking Range, Uttoxeter schoolboys Farm Camp, Lower Cowley Farm, Gnosall

When the schoolboys and their leaders arrived at their campsite for the second year camp, they noticed several welcome improvements. They didn't have to build their own stove, instead there was a large ...

Cooke family, Astage House, Croxton

Cooke family group at Astage House, Croxton. The Briscoe and Cooke family farmed at Astage House Farm between about 1909 and 1934.

Cookery class, Knightley School

Knightley School was built in 1874 and enlarged in 1894. In 1912 it had places for 125 children.

Co-operative Society at Tamworth carnival

Co-op gala photo of 1926, taken on the 7th July, showing the Co-op Society's entry for Tamworth Carnival. The girls, bicycle and converted pram are decorated with advertisements and packaging from the ...

Coopering family outside the Middle Yard Cooperage, Bass, Burton-on-Trent

Three generations of cooper posed outside the Middle Yard Cooperage with a union jack still in trussing hoops behind them. On the back of the photograph is written, "Teddy, Teddy's father and grandfather"....

Coopers' Initiation Ceremony, Wedgwood Factory, Barlaston,

This ceremony was known as 'trussing the cooper'. The newly qualified cooper was placed in a barrel, which he had made himself. The barrel was then filled with a mixture which contained soot, feathers, ...

Cooper's night class, Victoria Road School, Burton-on-Trent

Coopers' apprentices and lecturers at the first night class for coopers at Victoria Road School.

Coronation Baby presentation, Stafford

A photograph taken in the Mayor's Parlour in the Guildhall, Stafford on the occasion of the presentation of a silver Coronation mug to babies born in Stafford Borough on Coronation Day, June 2nd 1953. ...

Coronation Baby presentation, Stafford

A group of proud mothers in the Mayor's Parlour, Stafford, holding babies born in Stafford Borough on Coronation Day, June 2nd 1953. John Davies of Little Haywood is being held by the Mayor, Charles ...

Coronation celebrations, The Rectory, Haughton

This postcard view shows a Coronation pageant held at the Rectory in Haughton during July 1911 to celebrate the recent Coronation of King George V and Queen Mary at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 22 June ...

Coronation Decorations, Lotus Shoe Factory, Stafford,

Lotus was originally named Bostock's and was founded in the eighteenth century by Thomas Bostock, a cobbler. His three sons started their own factories in Stafford, Stone and Northampton. Edwin Bostock's ...

Coronation of King George V commemorative medal, Stafford

Medallion commemorating the coronation of King George V. Hole punched through with metal link. Obverse: 'GEORGE V. - MARY'. Profile view of crowned King George and Queen Mary. Reverse: 'TO COMMEMORATE ...

Coronation Party Guests, Mossfield Colliery, Longton

Included in this group of Coronation party guests is Kath Ibbs (nee Landon), the little girl with a doily on her head. Mossfield Colliery was sunk in the 1850s, with up to four shafts, and closed in ...

Coronation Party, Elkes' Biscuits, Dove Valley Bakeries, Uttoxeter

Hundreds of Uttoxeter children attended a coronation party held in the packing room at Elkes, to celebrate the accession of Queen Elizabeth II in June 1953. Each child was given a commemorative mug.

Coronation Party, Uttoxeter

Corporal Alfred Wood, Stafford

A remembrance card for Corporal Alfred (Alf) Wood 201974, North Staffordshire Regiment. Before the war he was an assistant at Messrs. Watkins, Price and Webb's grocers on Eastgate Street, Stafford. ...

Corporal Alfred Wood, Stafford

A studio portrait of Corporal Alfred (Alf) Wood 201974, North Staffordshire Regiment. Before the war he was an assistant at Messrs. Watkins, Price and Webb's grocers on Eastgate Street, Stafford. ...