Home Guard, Burton upon Trent
Members of the 8th Staffordshire (Burton) Batalion of the Home Guard pictured in Burton upon Trent during World War II. This photograph belonged to Eric Donald Torr (1923-1994) who was a member of Burton ...
Home Guard, Cheddleton
Cheddleton Home Guard, E Company, 5th Battalion holding mugs standing by a table with bottles of beer with an Army tent in background at Consall Camp.
The tall man at the front of the queue is Sergeant ...
Home Guard, Cheddleton
A group photograph of Cheddleton Home Guard with R.A.F. and Air Raid Precautions personnel. Sgt. Percy Bloor is 5th from left of the front (seated) row, next to Jack Hedley. Sgt. Bloor enlisted in the ...
Home Guard, Cheddleton
Cheddleton Home Guard, E Company, 5th Battalion.
Front row (from left to right): 3rd from left Johnny Jackson; 5th from left Bill Arbuthnot; 9th from left Horace Grindrod; 13th from left Ernest Stone; ...
Home Guard, Cheddleton
Cheddleton Home Guard, E Company, 5th Battalion holding mugs standing by a table with bottles of beer with an Army tent in background at Consall Camp.
The tall man at the front of the queue is Sergeant ...
Home Guard, Cheddleton
A Home Guard troop marching up Hollow Lane, Cheddleton, opposite St. Edward’s Church.
Sgt. Percy Bloor is in the left-hand column, 2nd from the front, behind Jack Hedley. Sgt. Bloor enlisted in the ...
Home Guard, Cheddleton Railway Station
No. 1 Squad, No.38 (Railway) Platoon, 'F' Company 5th (Leek) Staffordshire Home Guard, winners of the Field Firing Competition in 1943, pictured outside Cheddleton Station.
Home Guard, Clifton Campville
Clifton Campville Home Guard pictured outside the Rectory.
Back row (left to right): C. Browne, A. Simpson, J. Salt, H. Briscoe, W. Quartermain, W. Orton, R. Orton, F. Thorpe, J. Coleman, A. Sidwells, ...
Home Guard, Forsbrook
E Company, Stone Battalion of the Home Guard marching through Forsbrook village after a dive bombing attack exercise, December 1st 1941.
Home Guard, Stone
Standing on the left, holding a rifle is Eustace Dunkley. Standing 9th from left is Stan Holland. 6th from the left on the back row is Raymond Gilbert, 7th from left on the back row is Raymond's father ...
Hot Lane, Burslem
5 Hot Lane, Burslem. Originally this two storey building was built as a public house called The Dog and Partridge. Today its function is that of a scout hut. The ground floor has two large beaded windows ...
Howard Hall Theatre, Yarnfield
An image from the 'Yarnfield Yank', a booklet published in 1945 to commemorate the presence of US Army personnel at transit camps in Yarnfield, near Stone during World War II. The camps at Yarnfield were ...
Howard Hall, Yarnfield
UAS Forces troops marching to Barracks at Howard Hall, Yarnfield.
An image from the 'Yarnfield Yank', a booklet published in 1945 to commemorate the presence of US Army personnel at transit camps in ...
Humber House residents, Frobisher Hall, Swynnerton
Each of the accommodation blocks at Frobisher Hall was named after a river, starting with Avon, and moving alphabetically through to Humber, Irwell, Jordan and Kennet.
Frobisher Hall was a hostel for ...
Hunger on the Home Front - A satyrical document from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
Wartime
In times of war, the fortunes of both tradespeople and townspeople could nose-dive - and in 1812 the Potteries were feeling the intense strain of Britain's long war with Napoleon's France.
Soup ...
Inspecting Bass & Co. horses, Burton upon Trent
Lantern slide view of war officials inspecting Bass & Co.'s horses for war transport work. The horses are being inspected in Guild Street. The law courts can be clearly seen in the background and what ...
Inspection of Bass horses on Mobilization Day, Burton-on-Trent
A crowd watches as a Bass horse is led from the stables in Guild Street, to be sent to war in 1914.
James Jones, Chesterton
James Jones lived in Roggin Row, off Audley Road in Chesterton. Born in 1876, James enlisted for the North Staffordshire Regiment during World War I when aged 42. He fought in Gallipoli before joining ...