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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 ...

Rugeley fire station demolition

The demolition of the second Rugeley fire station, built in 1936 on Taylor's Lane. The demolition contractors are Mason Brothers of Pelsall.

Rugeley Police Station

Oil painting on board of Rugeley Police Station, Staffordshire. An oil painting by C.W. Sheldon, formerly in the collections of the Staffordshire Police Museum, now part of the Staffordshire County ...

Rugeley Volunteer Fire Brigade

In 1900 this volunteer fire brigade, established in 1886, consisted of a captain and 11 men and a manual engine. The fire bell was in the tower of the public building and the keys to the fire station ...

Rules and Orders, Of The Potter's Union Society, Established at the Swan Inn, Burslem, On the Eighteenth Day of April 1825 - Document from the enoch Wood Scrapbook

Potter's Union Rule Book This booklet outlines the rules and orders of the Potter's Union Society, established in Burslem in 1825 at the Swan Inn. The contents of the rule book include coverage ...

Rules, Orders, and Regulations of the Radical Society of Shopkeepers and Others

Just who were the Radical Society of Shopkeepers and Others who produced this list of rules, orders and regulations? It is most likely that anonymous local employers published this notice in order ...

Saying Grace, Standon Boys' Farm Home

Boys saying Grace before a meal St Standon Boys' Farm Home. Cases of stuffed birds are displayed on the far wall. The home in Weston Lane, Standon Bridge, near Eccleshall was founded by the Waifs ...

Scold's bridle

An iron scold's bridle or brank from Stafford. Its date is uncertain, possibly early 17th century. The scold's bridle was generally employed as a punishment for slander and similar minor misdemeanors. ...

Scold's bridle leaflet

A leaflet describing and illustrating a scold's bridle from the Parish Church of Walton, in Surrey.

Scold's bridle, Stafford

Miss J. Greensill, a member of staff at Stafford Library and Museum wearing the scold's bridle for a press photograph. The scold's bridle had been part of Stafford Museum's collections since the museum ...

Sergeant Peter Bartlam, Staffordshire Police

In 1974, Sergeant 330 Peter Bartlam, based with the Southern Traffic Group in Lichfield, was responsible for introducing the use of a speed recording device, VASCAR (Visual Average Speed Computer and ...

Sergeant Peter Bartlam, Staffordshire Police, Baswich

Sgt 330 Peter Bartlam is pictured explaining the role of Traffic and Motorway Patrol Officers to visitors to the Open Day at the old Staffordshire Police Headquarters, Baswich, in August 1974. The ...

Sergeant Stephen Wright, Staffordshire Police

Police Sergeant Stephen Wright was born in Werrington in about 1890, and died in 1952.