The Cottage, Slitting Mill, Rugeley
This postcard picture is of a thatched cottage which stood in Slitting Mill Road, adjacent to the quarry, near the junction with Penkridge Bank and the Stone House, Rugeley. It was demolished in about ...
Slitting Mill, Rugeley
On the reverse of this postcard is a message, thought to have been written in 1910, as follows: “Church Lane, Slitting Mill before the Church was built to the far end of the house in the picture. Rugeley ...
Horns Inn, Slitting Mill, Rugeley,
A building on this site known as "The Horns' can be seen on the tithe map of about 1845. The house, buildings and several nearby fields were allocated to James Dutton, a carpenter and in later life, a ...
Demolition of Slitting Mill Post Office and Stores
Demolition of Slitting Mill's only Post Office and stores which was run by M. L. Evans. This made way for a road and small housing development now called 'Millside'.
Mr Stephen Adams kindly contributed ...
Dilhorne Endowed Primary School
The Victorian school building is thought to date from the late 1870s and is still in use.
Mr John Williams has kindly provided some further details:
'A new Trust was formed in 1873 under the 1869 ...
Opening of Sunday School, Dilhorne
Officials of the Cheadle Wesleyan Methodist Circuit, guests and children pictured during celebrations to mark the opening of a new Sunday School at Godley Brook Methodist Chapel, on Godley Barn Lane, ...
The Drawing Room, Wolseley Hall, Rugeley
Pictured is the Drawing Room at Wolseley Hall photographed by Country Life and featured in their magazine in 1910.
The Wolseley family had lived on the estate since Norman times. In the eighteenth ...
Wolseley Hall, Rugeley
The Wolseley family had lived on the estate since Norman times. In the eighteenth century Wolseley Hall was rebuilt, but suffered from a serious fire in the early 1950s. In 1954 the Hall was in a great ...
St. Paul's Church, Beech, near Stone
Built as a Mission Church 1906-7, St. Paul's Church stood on the Newcastle Road at Beech and also included a school room, which doubled up as a vestry. Designed and built by R. Scrivener and Sons of Hanley, ...
Bridge Street, Stafford
This view looks towards the Public Free Library and Stafford Museum & Art Gallery, built in 1914, in the centre of the photograph.
The building on the left, behind the road sign, houses: T.A. Rowney's ...
Bridge Street, Stafford
Left to right: Rowney's T.V. radio, and electrical goods, Chatfield's Funeral Directors and Hudson's leather goods and stationery shop. The building was later demolished and the site is now (2025) occupied ...
Foregate Street, Stafford
This view looks north along Foregate Street from Gaol Square, Stafford.
On the extreme left the buildings are 87 to 91 Foregate Street, demolished in 1964. In the centre are the Staffordshire Advertiser ...
Wolverhampton Road, Stafford
This view shows the Wolverhampton Road at the junction with White Lion Street on the right.
On the left at No. 5, Wolverhampton Road is Anne Giles: "Stafford's Leading Ladies Hairdresser" who also ...
Wolverhampton Road, Stafford
This view was taken on the Wolverhampton Road, near The Green by the entrance to the present Friary Retail Park (2025). The terrace of houses on the left were demolished in the late 1970's and replaced ...
Slaughter House, Broad Street, Stafford
Pictured is the rear view of 8, Broad Street, Stafford seen from between 6 & 7, Queen Street. It had been a butchers with slaughter-house facilities for many years. Stafford Corporation's gasometer can ...
Queen Street, Stafford
A warehouse in Queen Street, Stafford. (photographer's note: "No. 3 Cruck and Gable") prior to demolition to make way for the Guildhall shopping development. An adjoining building has already been demolished....
Gordon Mills, St Patrick's Street, Stafford
Louis Sandy's three-storey 'Gordon Mills' textile distribution warehouse at 8, St. Patrick's Street., Stafford. Note the sign on the front edge of the roof.
It is thought that the building may date ...
General Stores, Water Street, Stafford
This view of the General Stores on the corner of Water Street was taken from by Tenterbanks and Mill Bank.
Note the advertisements on the shop for Woodbines cigarettes with a dispensing machine below ...