Fire Engine, Codsall
Codsall Auxillary Fire Service Tender and Crew at The Terrace, Oaken. The Auxiliary Fire Service was created in July 1938 to assist the Fire Brigade during wartime.
Fire helmet and breathing apparatus
This is a metal Auxillary Fire Service helmet. It is painted red with BRWP Crewe painted on the front. It has a chin strap and adjustable skull protection. Max diameter (rim): 305mm.
The breathing ...
Fire watching team, Bratt and Dyke Department Store, Hanley
The Fire Watch team at Bratt and Dyke's Hanley Department Store. It was their responsibility to provide early warnings and protect the building from incendiary bomb attack during the Second World War.
Draper ...
Fireman's lamp
This type of lamp was used by breathing apparatus wearers in the National Fire Service during the Second World War.
This 'CEAG' copper lamp has a cylindrical copper body with a brass bulb housing projecting ...
Gas Mask
This is a 'Service Respirator', issued to the Army/Navy/Air Force, also the Police and some Civil Defence etc. but generally not a civilian item.
Forty million masks were distributed to the civilian ...
Gas Mask
This is a child's gas issued during WW2. They were made in bright colours in an attempt to make them more acceptable to the child than the standard ominous black type. Known by collectors as the 'Mickey ...
Gas Mask
A gas mask and holder dating from World War Two. This is a standard civilian issue mask. These were always provided in a plain card box with string for a shoulder strap. The tin holder shown here is likely ...
Heap family, Walled Garden, Shugborough
The Heap family with Women's Land Army girls at the Walled Garden, Shugborough. The Head Gardener's house is in the background. James A. Heap, tenant at the Walled Garden between 1939 and 1947, is standing ...
HMS Daedalus camp military band, Clayton Hall, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This photograph was taken during the Second World War when Clayton Hall was used as a training base for Fleet Air-Arm apprentices.
Home Guard at Hagley Hall, Rugeley
12th North Staffordshire Home Guard 'A' Company at their new headquarters at Hagley Hall, Rugeley.
Home Guard at Hagley Hall, Rugeley
12th North Staffordshire Home Guard 'A' Company at their new headquarters at Hagley Hall, Rugeley.
Home Guard at Hagley Hall, Rugeley
12th North Staffordshire Home Guard 'A' Company at their new headquarters at Hagley Hall, Rugeley.
Top row (left to right): Pte Harvey , unknown, Pte Hill, Pte P. Harrison, Pte Bott, Pte Barry, unknown, ...
Home Guard at Haselour Hall
Home Guard Christmas Party, West Bromwich
A party for families and children of the 29th Battalion of the South Staffordshire Home Guard, Christmas 1941. The 29th Battalion were based at West Bromwich Albion's football ground, The Hawthorns, ...
Home Guard, Cheddleton
Cheddleton Home Guard, E Company, 5th Battalion holding mugs standing by a table with bottles of beer with an Army tent in background at Consall Camp.
The tall man at the front of the queue is Sergeant ...
Home Guard, Cheddleton
Cheddleton Home Guard, E Company, 5th Battalion holding mugs standing by a table with bottles of beer with an Army tent in background at Consall Camp.
The tall man at the front of the queue is Sergeant ...
Home Guard, Cheddleton
A group photograph of Cheddleton Home Guard with R.A.F. and Air Raid Precautions personnel. Sgt. Percy Bloor is 5th from left of the front (seated) row, next to Jack Hedley. Sgt. Bloor enlisted in the ...
Home Guard, Cheddleton
Cheddleton Home Guard, E Company, 5th Battalion.
Front row (from left to right): 3rd from left Johnny Jackson; 5th from left Bill Arbuthnot; 9th from left Horace Grindrod; 13th from left Ernest Stone; ...