Peace celebrations, Wolverhampton
Peace celebrations in Wolverhampton. Contingents of local hospital nurses and Girl Guides standing at the salute as the Peace day procession reaches the Town Hall in North Street.
Photographer: Albert ...
Penkhull Street, heading towards its junction with Stubbs' Gate, Newcastle-under-Lyme
An almost unrecognisable scene compared to today's landscape.
At the top-left of the image, you can just about make out the roof of the Holy Trinity Catholic Church on the adjoining London Road.
The ...
Pharmacist's cork presser
Metal pharmacist's cork presser with foliage design. The presser operates like a nut cracker, and is designed to compress a cork which was slightly too large so it would fit into the neck of a glass medicine ...
Pharmacist's pill mortar
Pharmacists used mortars and pestles to grind crystals, solids and herbs into a fine powder. Marble mortars such as this were less likely to react with the chemicals in the medicines.
From the Staffordshire ...
Pharmacist's pill tile
Flat glazed ceramic tile, with plain cream glaze. Pills made by a pharmacist on a pill making machine would be finished off by rolling them under a tile such as this in a small boxwood pill rounder.
From ...
Pharmacist's powder folder
Pharmacists would dispense some medicines in powder form. After using a mortar and pestle to grind the medicines into a powder, individual doses would be packaged in paper envelopes. This metal powder ...
Pharmacist's spatula
Steel spatula with varnished wood handle. Pharmacists would use spatulas for a a variety of tasks when making pills, powder medicines or poultices.
From the Staffordshire County Museum collection. ...
Phramacist's powder folder
Pharmacists would dispense some medicines in powder form. After using a mortar and pestle to grind the medicines into a powder, individual doses would be packaged in paper envelopes. This brass powder ...
Pill Machine and Rounder
Medicine powders often tasted unpleasant. Pharmacists would mix these powders with licorice powder and liguid glucose to make a dough-like mixture. This was rolled into a long pipe which was placed ...
Pill Silverer
The pharmacist might finish off pills by silvering or gilding them using this egg-shaped boxwood pill silverer. Some silver or gold leaf would be put in together with a little gum and the pills, and ...
Pipewood Camp School, Blithbury
The school nurse attending to a sprained wrist at Pipewood School, a photograph taken by Miss Evans-Rose, headmistress.
Pipewood Camp School, at Blithbury, near Rugeley was opened in May1940 for evacuee ...
Plaster iron
Plaster spreader; iron head with varnished wood handle. Plasters were made by the pharmacist for external treatments. Ingredients would be mixed with a base of lead plaster, or a mixture of resin and ...
Playground, Standon Boys' Farm Home
Boys in the playground at Standon Boys' Farm Home, including groups who are playing dice games.
The home in Weston Lane, Standon Bridge, near Eccleshall was founded by the Waifs and Strays Society ...
Poor Relief Rate Book, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This book lists all those who were receiving 'Poor Relief' in Newcastle in 1848.
After the Poor Relief Amendment Act of 1834, parishes no longer provided relief to their poor, but were grouped together ...
Portrait of Dr Christopher Greatrex, Eccleshall,
Dr Greatrex arrived in Eccleshall from Birmingham in 1818 at the age of 26. He lived in Stone Road.
He became Eccleshall's principal doctor for over sixty years and died in 1880.
Portrait of Dr Masfen, Surgeon, Stafford,
Dr Masfen was born in 1831. He graduated from London University in 1853, where he won the University Scholarship and the Gold Medal.
He took over his father's practice in Stafford in 1854 and worked ...
Portrait of Mr Ansell, Stafford,
'Old Ansell' was an inmate of the Union Workhouse, Stafford.
He was 100 years old when this photograph was taken.
Portrait of Mr Ross Hughes, Surgeon, Stafford,