Black Evening Bag, c.1920 -1930
This small bag is made out of black crepe fabric with a circular diamante clasp.
It has a short fabric handle and is a little worn from use along the top edge.
Black Straw Poke Bonnet, c.1850-1880
This example is made out of straw and is trimmed in lace and feathers.
A beautiful floral decoration on the left hand side breaks up the dark colouring and makes it less formal.
The cotton ribbon ...
Blue and White Clasp Bag, c.1920-1970
This handbag is made out of small metal discs sewn on to a metal frame with a metal chain.
The bag is made entirely out of metal and was used as evening wear, as the bag is quite small.
We're not entirely ...
Blue Girl Guides Cap, 1990s
The Girls Guides started as a side organisation from the Boy Scouts. Lord Robert Baden-Powell set up a camp for boys in 1907 at Brownsea Island in Dorset to test his scouting ideas.
By 1908 girls started ...
Bone Belt
This belt is made out of bone from an unknown origin.
It forms part of our small 'ethnographic' collection and unfortunately know very little about it.
Boot box, Buckingham Brand
Shoe box lid, for black boots size 5/4.
Boot pull
A household item used to help take off tight boots. Collected from a house in Barlaston, near Stoke on Trent.
From the collections of Staffordshire County Museum.
Bostock Shield, Stafford
This postcard view shows a group of unknown people, the man on the extreme right of the front row is holding the Bostock Shield.
The picture is thought to have been taken at the Lotus Shoe Factory ...
Bostock's Factory Fire, Stafford,
Edwin Bostock's shoe factory was originally in Foregate Street, Stafford, but was destroyed by fire in 1901. This resulted in a new factory being built on Sandon Road, which opened in 1903.
Bostock's ...
Boy scout Investiture, Kibblestone Camp, Stone
A Scout investiture taking place in the woods at Kibblestone Scout Camp.
The Copeland family owned the Kibblestone estate from the mid-nineteenth century. Ronald Copeland started the first Scout Troop ...
Bracelet
Circular bracelet of silver and gold leaf. Silver painted with gold leaf on one side. Cut into strips, each pierced through ends. Strips bent backwards and held in place by silver wire treaded through ...
Bracelet
Bracelet. Double half circle extending into a vertical asymmetric arch. Blue and silver striped titanium, mounted in silver.
Designed and made by Kathy Morrell.
Dimensions: diameter 74mm, height ...
Bracelet
Blue toned opaque perspex in a rhomboidal shape, the centre cut out to fit the wrist, cut out edge laquered red.
Designed and made by Susanna Heron (born 1949, England), a London-based craft jeweller,
Dimensions: ...
Bracelet
Double spiral of purple aluminium rods, the ends are mounted in silver.
Designed and made by Su Vernon, an Aberdeen-educated craft jeweller.
Diameter: 197mm
Bracelet
Pink, mauve and clear coloured bracelet. The bracelet contains pink, mauve and clear beads on folded acetate with pink and mauve stars strung on the thread.
Designed and made by Sue Studholme, a Cumbria-based ...
Bracelet
Spiral anodised aluminium bar bracelet. Coloured black with gold, red and blue marks.
Designed and made by Jenny Albrecht, a Birmingham-based craft jeweller.
Dimensions: length 62mm, diameter ...
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Square flexible arm piece in black coloured pvc. having a central slit to admit the wrist.
Designed and made by Susanna Heron (born 1949, England), a London-based craft jeweller,
Dimensions: 138mm ...
Brassington Bros., Campbell Place, Stoke-on-Trent
This photograph showing one of the Brassington Brothers shoe shops is thought to have been taken between 1920 and 1935. It is situated in Campbell Place, Stoke. Notice how the window area is used to a ...