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Brewhouse, Trentham Hall,

View taken from the entrance to the coach yard. The brewhouse is on the left, with the poultry house to the right. The brewhouse also contained the bakehouse and laundry. Most country houses had a ...

Brewood Hall

Brewood Hall became the seat of William, son of Roger Fowke during the reign of Edward IV (1461-1483). It later belonged to the Monckton family and in 1930 Major R.F.P. Monckton sold it to Mr C.O. Langley. ...

Brewood Maypole pictured in Church fields, Brewood

Brewood Scouts, church fields, Brewood

A copy of this photograph is held at Staffordshire Arts and Museum Service.

Brewster & Co., Tailors and Outfitters, 49 Market Place, Uttoxeter

Advertisement for Brewsters who were renowned locally for their made to measure suits. Mr John Henry Brewster was a tailor and outfitter whose first premises were on Carter Street. He moved to this shop ...

Bricklayers, Stafford,

Three workmen at 10 Greengate Street. Photograph donated by Stafford Historical and Civic Society, who retain copyright ownership.

Brickmakers, Cradley Heath

Two women brickmakers pictured outside a workshop at Cradley Heath, West Midlands. Image courtesy of Birmingham Library.

Bridesmaid's bonnet, 1940s

This is a child's bonnet that was worn for a wedding. It has the style of a Victorian 'poke' bonnet. It was worn by the donor Beryl Brindley (nee Hope) for her cousin Margaret's wedding. The wedding ...

Bridge Street Fire Station, Stafford,

The fire station was built in 1885 at the junction of Greengate Street and Bridge Street, next to the Royal Brine Baths. The baths incorporated an open-sided tower which was used by the firemen for drying ...

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 ...

Bridgeford Players’ production of ‘The Poltergeist’, Great Bridgeford

A scene from the Bridgeford Players’ production of Frank Harvey’s comedy ‘The Poltergeist’. Left to right: Cyril Whitehouse, John Bedford, Beryl Whitehouse, Gwyneth Williams, Barbara Macleod and James ...

Bridgwood's Pottery staff, Bridgwood Street, Longton

Bridgwood & Son were established in Lane End around 1795. Sampson Bridgwood took over the Anchor Pottery at the corner of Wharf Street (renamed Bridgwood Street in the 1950s) and Goddard Street in Longton ...

Brine Swim, Royal Brine Baths, Stafford,

In the 1880s a thick bed of salt was discovered on Stafford Common, during the search for a water supply for the town. This led to the opening of the Brine Baths in Greengate Street in 1892, designed ...

Bringing in Fuel, Uttoxeter schoolboys Farm Camp, Lower Cowley Farm, Gnosall

In the summer of 1941 schoolboys were recruited across the country to work on the land during the labour shortage caused by the Second World War effort. They were organised in camps under the direction ...

Briscoe and Smith family at Astage House, Croxton

Standing outside of Astage House, Croxton are (from left to right): Amy Smith, her mother Emily Smith, sister Irene Smith, brother Arthur, Sybil Briscoe, her parents Elizabeth and Henry Briscoe, and her ...

Briscoe family at Astage House, Croxton

Elizabeth Briscoe (née Smith) with her daughters Sybil and Daisy at Astage House, Croxton. The Briscoe and Cooke family farmed at Astage House Farm between about 1909 and 1934.

Britannia's Address to her Fair Daughters - a radical call to women from the Enoch Wood scrapbook

Love of country is not sexual; in every age, in every country, it has warmed and animated the female breast... In the early 19th century, women were among the most forward-thinking political activists ...