Fighter Plane, Hixon Airfield
Curtis Tomahawk 1686 Bomber training Flight, whose job was to simulate enemy fighters to train bomber crews to defend their aircraft. The flight was formed in July 1943 and disbanded in August 1944.
The ...
Final Parade at RAF Stafford
A Hercules Transport aeroplane is pictured flying over RAF Stafford during the flag lowering ceremony at the final Parade for the Station which closed on 31 March 2006. The site was then occupied by ...
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 ...
Firing practice, Great War Camps, Cannock Chase
Although this card is applicable to both Brocton and Rugeley Camps it includes rare images of recruits undertaking firing practice. It demonstrates the recruits in one of the firing positions that were ...
First baby to be born at Duncan Hall, Yarnfield
Christine Cooper (the image donor) a few months old, outside Duncan Hall being held by Ann Howard, one of the other, older children also resident at Duncan Hall. Christine had the honour of being the ...
First World War ammunition, Burton upon Trent
Lantern slide view of ammunition ready for transport to thecontinent during the First World War, photographed at railway sidings in Burton upon Trent.
Copyright: Burton Library.
First World War Memorial, Newborough Church
This engraved brass plaque commemorates those men of the parish of Newborough who laid down their lives in the service of their country during the First World War. It can be found in All saints' Church, ...
First World War photographs by Frederick Everitt of Clayton, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Frederick Everitt lived at 'Sunnyside' on Northwood Lane, Clayton in the early part of the 20th century.
He was employed as a chauffeur and was an amateur photographer.
Whilst at home on leave he took ...
Fleet Air Arm Voluntary Band, RAF Hednesford
Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm personnel were trained at RAF Hednesford. This photograph shows No. 3 Wing's Band with Bandmaster, Flight Sergeant Broadgate, RAF, in the front centre.
Florence Thorneycroft OBE
Miss Florence Thorneycroft (died 1944) was a Staffordshire County Councillor from March 1919 to May 1936 and a County Alderman between May 1936 and February 1944. She lived at Tettenhall Towers, Wolverhampton ...
Foregate Street, Stafford
Bedford ‘S’ type lorries are pictured transporting Hawker Sea Fury aircraft along Foregate Street, Stafford.
The lorries came from H.M.S. Sanderling, Abottsinch which had acted as a Royal Naval aircraft ...
Former Battalion Headquarters, North Staffordshire Regiment, College Road, Hanley
This building was the Headquarters and Drill Hall of the Hanley Companies of the 1st Volunteer Battalion of the North Staffordshire Regiment between 1837 and 1897. The tablet over the main entrance has ...
Forsbrook Road, Blythe Bridge. Photographed by William Blake.
Village scene taken at Forsbrook Road, Blythe Bridge, Nr. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
A soldier and a postman pose for the photograph as a cyclist rides by.
Foxfield Colliery and War Memorial
The entrance to Foxfield Colliery on Whitehurst Lane, taken around the time of its closure in 1965. A view of the War Memorial with the derelict Foxfield Colliery in the background.
Foxfield Colliery ...
Foxfield Colliery and War Memorial
The entrance to Foxfield Colliery on Whitehurst Lane, taken around the time of its closure in 1965.
Foxfield Colliery was situated in the Cheadle coalfield, where coal-extraction goes back to the seventeenth ...