Post Office Training Centre, Yarnfield
A member of staff at the Post Office Training Centre is pictured by a Pulvermatic Shredding Machine. In the centre there are several catering size empty food tins (including carrots, apricot halves and ...
Potteries Dispensary and House of Recovery statistics - from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
This Annual General Meeting meeting of the local Dispensary and House of Recovery gave its committee an opportunity to confirm that 3407 patients had passed through its doors since it was founded:
Number ...
Present giving, Children's Ward, Biddulph Grange Orthopaedic Hospital
This young patient has just opened her Christmas presents, and is being offered a cup of tea in her new tea-set by the Mayor. Standing around them are two older girls as well as a number of nursing staff, ...
Presentation of an Ambulance, Stone,
Ambulance presented to Stone by Joules Brewery.
Presentation to Stafford District General Hospital by RAF Stafford
Pictured is Station Commander, Group Captain Carter presenting a cheque for £3,000 to be used for a cardiac monitor for Stafford District General Hospital. The donation was from part of the proceeds ...
Presentation, St. John Ambulance, Stafford
Dr F. L. Richard of Walsall (right) Commissioner of the St. John Ambulance Brigade in Staffordshire, wearing the vestments of a member of the Chapter General with which he was presented at the Brigade ...
Primitive Methodist Chapel, Rugeley
A view of the Primitive Methodist Chapel which was built in 1870 on the corner of Church Street and Lion Street in Rugeley. The Chapel closed in 1955. At the time this photograph was taken the building ...
Prince's Road, Hartshill and the Royal Infirmary, Stoke-on-Trent
The main entrance to the Royal infirmary is on the right. In the centre,beyond the entrance is the Outpatients Hall, dating from 1911, and the later King Edward II Memorial extension. Further down Prince's ...
Private Bath, Royal Brine Baths, Stafford,
The brine baths were believed to cure rheumatism, the warm brine improving circulation. Each patient was allotted a private bath and dressing room.
In the 1880s a thick bed of salt was discovered ...
Private Sitting Room, Coton Hill Asylum, Stafford
Coton Hill Asylum was built in the 1850s and opened in 1854. It was originally built as an extension to the County Asylum in order to house private patients. It was to be known as The institution for ...
Public Baths, Moorland Road, Burslem
This plan is of the public swimming pool in Moorland Road, Burslem. In the late Victorian period baths were seen as an important move towards improved public health and many were built across Stoke-on-Trent. ...
Public Baths, Moorland Road, Burslem
This is an overall plan of the public baths on Moorland Road in Burslem. It shows the position of the various pools and the different entrances for first class men, second class men and ladies. Rooms ...
Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation Decorations, Stafford,
View of Bridge Street from the roof of the library building, showing Queen Elizabeth's Coronation decorations.
On the right can be seen the tower of the Royal Brine Baths.
Queen Mary's Army Ambulance Corps pictured at Whittington Barracks
During the First World War there was a miliatary hospital in the Barracks.
RAOB Orphanage, Aldridge
The RAOB Orphanage on Walsall Wood Road, Aldridge was opened in 1904 by the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes (Grand Lodge of England), a fraternal organisation founded in 1822. It had space for 40 ...
Raven Hill Auxiliary Hospital Staff Party at Park House, Rugeley
This photograph includes: Miss Lambert, Col. Wetherall, Mr. W.S. Rogers, Miss Hattersley (cook), Mrs Rogers, Miss L. Lees, Mrs Rawlins, Miss R. Borne, Miss E. Tait, Mrs Darcy, Mildred Hulme & sister, ...
Recreation Hall, Coton Hill Asylum, Stafford
The large recreation hall was used in the winter as a dance hall, cinema and theatre.
Coton Hill Asylum was built in the 1850s and opened in 1854. It was originally built as an extension to the County ...
Red Cross Annual General Meeting and Awards Presentation, Stafford
Miss A L Green County Director, accompanied Viscountess Falmouth, who is pictured presenting the Coleman Cup for the best men’s first aid and nursing detachment, to Mr A Lander, Captain of the Staffs. ...