Victorian White Pettipants
Pettipants were popular female underwear in the nineteenth century, and were usually made out of cotton and lace with ruffles on each leg. They were worn underneath clothes for modesty and comfort. These ...
View of Horse Road, Alton
This photograph shows where Horse Road meets Red Road which goes to Oakamoor. The building that can be seen in the middle distance is the bottom lodge of Alton Towers on Farley Lane.
View of the Market Place, Leek
Village Stores, Hilderstone,
On the right, next to the delivery cart horse, is Matthew Henry (Harry) Meddings, age 30, grocer and baker. The woman in the doorway (front) is most likely Mary Ann Meddings, the small boy is possibly ...
Visit of the Duchess of Teck, Old Stockwell House, Leek
The photograph was taken in the garden of Old Stockwell House, which used to back onto the Nicolson Institute. Old Stockwell House was owned at this time by the Worthington family.
The lady with the ...
Walton Heath, near Stone
A tinted postcard view published by A.W. Tilley, Newsagent and Stationers of 7 Radford Street, Stone.
Washday in Longnor
Three generations of the Knowles family washing laundry. Mrs Knowles is using a dolly peg and tub, with her are her daughters Edith and Alice and granddaughters Jessie and Alice.
Watery Lane, Outlanes, Stone
A tinted postcard view published by A.W. Tilley, Newsagent and Stationers of 7 Radford Street, Stone.
Wedding of Arthur Campbell and Elizabeth Brown, Stafford
Wedding photograph of Arthur Campbell and Elizabeth (Lizzie) Brown, nee Gee. Possibly taken behind houses on Lichfield Road or at Queensville, Stafford.
Front row: Ellen Gee, Elizabeth Brown, Arthur ...
Wedding Celebration, Eccleshall,
Party to celebrate the marriage of Miss V.A. Millward and Mr F.J. Turner, in the garden of a house on High Street.
Wedding Dress
A grey silk wedding dress consisting of a bodice, skirt and overskirt. It is trimmed with darker grey silk satin and is machine sewn.
It was worn and made by Emma Boulton (nee Machin, 1855-1921) for ...
Wedding dress, Waterfall
Wedding dress consisting of brown silk bodice and skirt. the bodice is long sleeved with upturned cuffs, button fastening down full length of the front, and all buttons are intact. The skirt is long and ...
Wedding Group at Rectory Farm, Checkley
The wedding of Miss Evelyn Mary Bagnall of Tean Leys and Mr. Frederick Loton Shoebotham of Rectory Farm, Checkley.
Wedding Group outside Izaak Walton's Cottage, Shallowford,
Izaak Walton was a famous angler and author whose best known work 'The Complete Angler' was published 1653 and is still in print.
Born in Stafford in 1593, Walton moved to London to become an apprentice ...
Wedding Group, Lichfield area
Wedding of John Fenton and Elizabeth Morris, Milwich,
Photograph taken outside The Manor, then known as The Grange.
Wednesbury Church: lithograph
'Wednesbury Church. To the Revd. J. Clarkson, Vicar of Wednesbury. This Plate is most respectfully dedicated.' Showing the church from the roadway on the south side of the church-yard. There is a ...
Whiston Eaves, Whiston
A large group of people, possibly including the Smith family of Whiston Eaves, pictured outside Whiston Eaves.
Photographer: J. Lowndes of Cheadle.