7, Market Square, Stafford
No. 7, Market Square, Stafford, viewed from close to the Shire Hall which is on the left.
This Grade II listed building dates from around 1800. Note the 'Catherine Wheel' glazing over the central ...
Greenfield, Cramer Street, Stafford
'Greenfield' is situated on the corner of Garden Street and Cramer Street opposite St Austin's Primary School: here it is viewed from Cramer Street.
The Lodge, Wolseley Hall, near Rugeley
Although Wolseley Hall was demolished in 1966, this estate lodge house still exists on the corner of the A51 and Orchard Lane as part of a modern housing development. The frontal aspect has since been ...
Oldcroft Cottage, Acton Trussell
Oldcroft Cottage, the home of the Norbury family, Cooks Bank, Acton Trussell. The cottage was re-thatched in 1960-61.
Old Stafford and Uttoxeter Railway Gate, Saltworks Lane, Weston
George Marston was aged 4 in 1939, when he moved with his parents and siblings to Saltworks Farmhouse, Weston on Trent, near Stafford.
He has kindly supplied the following information on the old railway ...
Chapel Street, Stafford -The Wesleyan Chapel Tower
Once again, the tower, all that remains of the Wesleyan chapel built in 1863 and which closed in 1985, stands alone. The other parts of the chapel were demolished in the early 1990s to make way for the ...
Izaak Walton's birthplace plaque, Eastgate Street, Stafford
Mounted on the wall of the Eastgate Street Police Station to the left of the entrance, the plaque indicates the reputed site of Izaak Walton's birth in 1593. it was positioned on an earlier building on ...
Police Station, Eastgate Street, Stafford
A plaque commemorating Izaak Walton's reputed birthplace is mounted on the wall to the left of the entrance to the Police Station on Eastgate Street, Stafford. This building dates from around 1977, the ...
Parkers Croft Road, Stafford
A view of Nos. 4 – 7, Parkers Croft Road, which stood off the Wolverhampton Road, Stafford.
On the left, an iron gate led to the rear yard of Frederick H. Burgess, Agricultural Engineers and Ironmongers, ...
Victoria Road, Stafford
This row of houses on Victoria Road, Stafford, were later demolished and replaced by an office building known as Kemley House. On the extreme left is a part view of the wall of the Station Hotel which ...
The Hollies Farm, High Offley Road, Woodseaves
The Hollies Farm, High Offley Road, Woodseaves. The building remains (2025) very much as in this photograph.
County Mental Hospital, Stafford
Nurses in an antenatal ward at the County Mental Hospital in Stafford. Standing behind the bed is Nancy Davies (nee Shelley) who was conscripted as a mental nurse during World War II.
Originally built ...
Chemist's 'Next Dose' Labels
Box of 'Next Dose' labels. They would be attached to a customers medicine to let them know when their next dose should take place. They are stored in a small card box labelled on lid "The 'Allenburys' ...
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 ...
8, Chapel Street, Stafford
In the centre of the picture is No. 8, Chapel Street, Stafford, the former home of the Methodist Minister to the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel next door, which was designed by Manchester architects, Hayley ...
Street scene, possibly Mill Street, Penkridge
This photograph of an unknown street was taken by Dr. J.E.C. Peters in 1963, and may show the south side of Mill Street in Penkridge looking east. Please contact us if you recognise the precise location.
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Band of the 1st Bn North Staffordshire Regiment, India
Until India was granted its independence in 1947, there was a large part of the British Army that was integrated with the Indian Army – ‘policing’ the Empire’, and keeping order in case of racial tension ...
Victory Celebrations in the cutting room, Lotus, Stone
The Lotus factory on Longton Road manufactured ladies' shoes.
Lotus was originally named Bostock's and was founded in the eighteenth century by Thomas Bostock, a cobbler. His three sons started their ...