The War Memorial, Anson Street, Rugeley
The 1921 War Memorial in its original Mutton Green location on Anson Street, Rugeley. The Police station (built 1907) is on the left and the Post Office (built in about 1910) is on the right. The memorial ...
Thomas Day
Thomas Day (1748-1789) was a barrister and author, and was born in Wellclose Square, London. Day lived at Stowe House in Lichfield and as a member of the Lunar Society in Lichfield knew Erasmus Darwin ...
Thomas Edwin Haywood, Stafford Fire Brigade
Thomas Edwin Haywood (1886-1958) was a member of the Stafford Fire Brigade, as was his elder brother Ernest, who drove the fire engine, and his father Alfred, who was Chief Fire Officer. He is pictured ...
Thomas Harris in Police Uniform, Coton Clanford,
Photograph taken at St. Faiths.
Thomas Harris was born in Audley. He was a miner and was injured in the Minnie Pit disaster. With his compensation money he bought St. Faiths, a smallholding at Coton ...
Thomas Harris, Policeman, Coton Clanford,
Thomas Harris was born in Audley. He was a miner and was injured in the Minnie Pit disaster. With his compensation money he bought St. Faith's, a smallholding at Coton Clanford.
Thomas was a member ...
Thorneycroft fire engine, Rugeley
A 1954 Thornycroft fire engine that spent most of its life at Rugeley fire station and was found on a Powys farm. It is now (2023) with Staffordshire Fire and Rescue awaiting restoration.
Three fire hose branchpipes and nozzles
Two copper and gunmetal branchpipes and nozzles. Also one small bore nozzle, with two valves near coupling end.
This item is part of the Staffordshire Fire Service collection held within the Staffordshire ...
Tichborne Case cartoon
A strip cartoon of Leeds Assizes, 1873 by Sir Frank Lockwood (1846-1897).
One of a series of cartoons relating to the infamous criminal trial of Arthur Orton, 'the Tichborne Claimant', in 1873. Orton ...
Timber yard blaze with emergency services, Wilnecote Tamworth
This fire involved three stacks of 40ft long Swedish high tension cable poles that were lying alongside the main Newcastle-upon-Tyne to Birmingham railway line at Wilnecote sidings. Tamworth, Atherstone ...
Tipping Street and South Walls, Stafford
This bird's-eye view was taken looking south-east from the top of the Wedgwood building, Tipping Street, Stafford.
Top left is the former Fire Station on Lammascote Road which later moved to Hydrant ...
To the members of the Union and the working classes generally - a notice from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
An address to members of the potters' union, urging them not to be tempted into violence against their opponents.
In the early 1800s, times were hard and trade unions were barely recognised. Many employers ...
To the Nobility, Gentry, and all Descriptions of Persons interested in preserving or producing Fac-similies of their writings. Document from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
Ralph Wedgwood the Inventor
Ralph Wedgwood had patented an idea for a device that allowed writers to make numerous copies of documents as they were being written.
The idea was basically similar ...
To the People - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Reform
Printed notice advocating the use of non-violent means to achieve reform of the political system.
Britains political system was dominated and maintained by aristocratic landowners. The growing ...
To the Public - notice from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
John Carey of Lane End will no longer face charges that he has been involved in misconduct involving Wedgwood's employees.
This public notice confirms that he has not been guilty of obstructing the ...
Town Hall and Market Hall, Rugeley
A postcard view taken in Anson Street, Rugeley, with the Town Hall and Market Hall on the left, the Police Station in the centre and on the right is a Hillman Minx car by a petrol pump arm outside Degg's ...
Treadwheel, Stafford Gaol
Treadwheels were introduced as a form of prison punishment in 1817, often serving no other purpose than to enforce hard, monotonous work, though some powered pumping or grinding machines.
At Stafford ...
Treadwheel, Stafford Gaol
Treadwheels were introduced as a form of prison punishment in 1817.
The treadwheels at Stafford Gaol powered the corn mill and pumped water from wells within the prison grounds.
Trial and execution of two boatmen
An incomplete broadsheet detailing the trial and execution of James Owen and George Thomas, who were convicted at Stafford Assizes for the murder of Christina Collins.
In 1838 Robert Collins, an out ...