Page Boy and Flower Girl, Eccleshall,
Pageant Party, Stafford
Watched by some of the 80 children who attended, Miss Wynne Porter is pictured as she cuts the large iced cake at a party for her pupils, held at the Oddfellows Hall in Stafford on Friday 24 October to ...
Pageant Queen, Stafford,
The Pageant Queen is Nellie Hooper. Miss English Electric Co. is Vera Pearce, Miss Acton is Thelma Looker (right) and Joan Butler is Miss Cannock (far left). The photograph was taken on Corporation ...
Painted silk shoes, about 1820
These blue silk shoes have narcissus and sweet peas or freesias hand painted on to the toes. They date from between 1815-1825. This type of pump or slipper shoe was worn as an evening shoe because the ...
Painted wooden box containing Button Man
'Button Man' in a decorated box. Sides: buttons, stars and moons.
Top and bottom: eyes, nose and mouth. Front: button and moon on right side.
Glass framed by blue triangle on top and tree on left ...
Painting Dolls Heads. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide showing paintresses decorating porcelain dolls heads.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.” ...
Painting of the narrowboat 'Farmer's Friend'
A painting by Albert Allen. The Farmer’s Friend was a working narrowboat owned by Bowers and Thorley, limestone burners and hauliers. It was used for carrying limestone mined from Cauldon Low quarry ...
Pair of child's clogs
Pair of child's clogs from Derrington, near Stafford. Black leather uppers and wooden soles, iron shod.
This type of low cost footware kept the feet warm and dry. In the early twentieth century clogs ...
Pair of ladies sandles, Indian
Traditional type of evening shoe from Delhi. Turquoise leather sole and strap with gold braid. Impressed pattern on main strapping which has red, pink and blue painted decoration. Undersole of leather, ...
Pair of straights
Straights are shoes without differentation between the left and right foot. They were made from about 1600. During the 1790s right and left shoes were re-introduced because the now popular flatter shoe ...
Pair of women's stockings
A pair of red machine knitted stockings with black embroidery over foot and up ankle.
Belonged to the Griffin family of Preston Vale Farm, near Penkridge.
Passageway next to the Old Fire Station, Eccleshall,
Passageway beside the old fire station.
The house on the right belonged to Mr Challenor, who established his plumbing business in 1848. The rolls are of lead pipe. Mr Challenor fitted gas and hot ...
Peace Celebrations, Stone,
Peace Day on Granville Square.
Peace Day celebrated the end of the First World War and commemorated those who had fought for victory.
Peace Day, Victoria Park, Stafford,
Peace Day on Victoria Park, celebrating the end of the First World War and commemorating those who had fought for victory.
Entertainment was provided by the Borough Military Band, a water carnival ...
Pendant
Rectangular pendant with plain Sterling silver mount. Pendant contains coloured resins for a landscape effect. One side is a deep blue resin representing sky with black and pink clouds. The reverse is ...
Pendant
Silver and gold pendant in the form of a house and colonnade, suspended from a black leather thong.
Designed and made by Vicki Ambery-Smith (born 1955, Yorkshire), a London-based craft jeweller.
Dimensions: ...
Pendant
Two curved silver rectangular cross-section bars suspended from hemp cord.
Made and designed by David Poston (born 1948, Moscow) a Loughborough-based craft jeweller.
Dimensions: length 35mm, width ...
Petrifactions, Stone,
The Petrifactions can be found at Cotwalton Drumble.
Petrifaction occurs when minerals in flowing water build up over time to form features. There is no evidence of petrifaction at Cotwalton Drumble, ...