Remembrance Parade and RAF Stafford
RAF Stafford personnel and other service personnel along with members of the British Legion are pictured marching from Greengate Street into the Market Square, Stafford, during the 2002 Remembrance Parade. ...
Renovation of St. George's Hospital, Stafford
Renovation of St. George's Hospital buildings during conversion into flats and housing, a view of the main building from St. George's Parkway.
The County Asylum on Corporation Street opened in 1818, ...
Report of the Committee of Police - from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
This notice summarises the resolutions of a general meeting in the Potteries.
Local men are calling for a local police force to be established in the area.
They resolve that a committee of local ...
Resolutions of a meeting of the inhabitants of Lane End - from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
In 1795 the people of Lane End had reached the end of their tether over suspicions that they were being ripped off.
Disputes arose at market as some dishonest traders knowingly used false weights and ...
Resolutions of a meeting of the inhabitants of Lane End - from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
In 1795 the people of Lane End had reached the end of their tether over suspicions that they were being ripped off.
Disputes arose at market as some dishonest traders knowingly used false weights and ...
Resolutions of Burslem Parish Officers - from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
This notice warns the people of Burslem about Sabbath-breaking, or misconduct on a Sunday.
Drunkenness, Tippling, Gaming...
The alleged wrong doings are described here in the following way:
"...the ...
Restored Fire Engine, Eccleshall,
Restored fire engine 'Eagle', now housed in the new fire station on Newport Road.
The original fire station was erected in High Street in 1891. Today the building is a hairdressing salon.
Rev. Shapurji Edalji, Great Wyrley
George Edalji's father, Revd. Shapurji Edalji. Born in Mumbai in about 1842, Shapurji Edalji was a Parsee Indian who is believed to have been the first South Asian to be made vicar of an English parish. ...
Road Safety Quiz, Guildhall, Stafford
Stafford Borough team beat the Stafford Rural District team in a road safety quiz held at the Guildhall, Stafford, answering questions put by the quiz-master, Police Sergeant T.H. Potts. The Stafford ...
Robbery and Murder - notice from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
On 5 April 1813 at 7.30pm, Ralph Bowers of the Dolphin, in Shelton, was returning home across the fields from Lane Delph.
A violent and bloody attack
At Botteslow Green he was supposedly assaulted ...
Robert George Paterson
Oil painting. Half-length portrait of Robert George Patterson, O.B.E. (died 1945). Justice of the Peace for Staffordshire 1917-1942, member of Staffordshire County Council 1907-1913, Alderman 1913-1942, ...
Rocester School
A single storey schoolhouse with gable bay, and a wooden bellcote. The entrance door has a gabled dormer with large shield shaped plaque.
The main school building was built in 1830 for 100 children. ...
Roof view from Stafford Gaol Tower
Family living in one of Stafford Gaol's three towers. The towers were built in the mid-nineteenth century as accommodation for prison warders and their families. During the housing shortage of the 1920s ...
Rowley Hall, Approved School, Stafford
At the date of this photograph Rowley Hall would have been an Approved School. Note the security fencing.
In 1808, the Rowley Hall estate was auctioned at the Swan Hotel and bought by a prominent local ...
Roy Eustace Joy, Clerk of the Peace
Oil painting. Three-quarter length portrait of Roy Eustace Joy, M.A., Clerk of the County Council and Clerk of the Peace for the County of Stafford, 1907-1933. He is dressed in the robes of the Clerk ...
Rugeley Court House
This view of Rugeley Magistrates Court House was taken by Stafford photographer Tony Boydon. On the left is Rugeley Fire Station, this was later demolished and rebuilt as Rugeley Community Fire Station ...
Rugeley Court House and Fire Station
This aerial view shows Rugeley Magistrates Court House on the left and the Fire Station on the right, and was taken by Stafford photographer Tony Boydon. The Fire Station building was later demolished ...
Rugeley Fire Station
This view of Rugeley Fire Station was taken by Stafford photographer Tony Boydon. The building was later demolished and rebuilt as Rugeley Community Fire Station which cost £3 million pounds and opened ...