Women's day dress
Purple silk day dress in purple silk with darker purple velvet decoration. Hand and machine sewn.
Bodice: separate to skirt. Front opening with 12 purple fabric covered buttons and 13 buttonholes. ...
Women's dress
This dress belonged to Mrs Mary Ashton (1845-1893) of Little Onn Hall. Trained skirt, bodice and waistcoat made from maroon velvet and peach satin fabrics. Trained skirt has alternating vertical panels ...
Women's evening dress
Evening dress in yellow and beige brocade silk. Hand sewn. Bodice has front opening, no fastening. Front forms V with two rows of cotton lace along edge. Two pleats either side of opening which extend ...
Women's evening dress
Red silk open weave dress trimmed with metallic gold thread. Gold thread dots woven into material. High waisted with wide neck, bodice darted. Short puff sleeves. Red satin band at waist with double rolled ...
Women's hat, late 19th century
A blue and black velvet hat decorated with blue ostrich feathers. t has long blue silk ribbon ties. From Burton-upon-Trent.
Women's hat, late 19th century
A black net hat trimmed with grey, black and white ostrich feathers and a black velvet bow. There are also sprigs of heather made from fabric and feathers. The hat belonged to Miss Kathleen Simms of ...
Women's hat, late 19th century
A cream silk hat with long cream ties, decorated with artificial flowers and foliage. It belonged to Mrs Helen Mayne of Queensville, Stafford.
Woodall's Drapers Shop, Stafford,
Woodall's shop was at 55 Greengate Street.
It closed in the 1970s.
Woods Family, The Post Office, Walton on the Hill
Samuel Woods, Plumber & Decorator at the rear of the Post Office, Walton on the Hill with his children Bill, Rita and George.
Wool jacket, c.1890-1910
This is a grey wool jacket probably worn at the end of the Victorian period or beginning of the 20th century.
It is lined with silk and is very tightly fitted, with a heavy embroidered pattern and mother ...
Work Room, Lichfield Diocesan Labour Home, Stafford,
The Diocesan Labour Home opened in 1891 on the corner of Austin Friars and Friars Terrace. The site was later occupied by the Police Garage, and in 2003 is a County Council depot.
The home kept unemployed ...
Workers at Wall Grange Brickworks, near Cheddleton
Group of workers pose in front of a kiln at Wall Grange Brickworks. Some of the men and boys are holding brickmaking tools and moulds. The foreman or 'gaffer' is to the right, wearing a bowler hat.
The ...
Worshippers outside the Quaker Meeting House, Stafford,
The Society of Friends, or Quakers, established themselves in Stafford around 1650. As a minority religion they were heavily persecuted.
Quakers refused to be buried in St. Mary's churchyard, so they ...
Worthington & Co. staff, Burton-on-Trent
Worthington & Co. staff, 1891. Bottom row, left to right: J.J. Bound, G. Mayon, W. Smithard, R. Ingram, J. Coxon, Jnr Wilks. Second row: W.C. Buxton, J.P. Coulton, W.S. Dunwell, W.P. Manners, J. Green, ...
Worthington family
From left to right: Alice Worthington (nee Harrison, 1881-1968) and her daughters Ivy Alice Worthington (born 1916) and Rose Worthington (1912-1999).
Alice was born in Tettenhall, near Wolverhampton, ...
Worthington family, Seighford.
Members of the Worthington family outside Churchyard Cottage, Seighford. From left to right: Evelyn Mary (born 1898), Emily (1859-1923 ), and Edith May (born 1902).