Crown Hotel, Stone,
The Crown Hotel on High Street was damaged by fire in 1778. The new building was designed by Henry Holland in 1780.
The inn was a stop for stage coaches from London, Manchester and Birmingham; there ...
Croxden Abbey. Photographed by William Blake.
View of Croxden Abbey, Nr. Alton, Staffordshire.
Demolition of the Old Guildhall, Stafford
The original Guildhall was built in 1853. It housed the Borough Council, the courts and on the ground floor was a police station. By the 1930s a new police station was needed and one was constructed ...
Demolition of Trentham Hall
A postcard view of demolition in progress at Trentham Hall in May 1912. In the centre just behind the ruin is St. Mary and All Saints Church which is still standing.
This postcard photograph was taken ...
Devadason Family Wedding, Stafford Registry Office,
Wedding group on the steps of Stafford Registry Office on Eastgate Street.
Doric Temple , Enville Hall
The Enville Hall estate was landscaped between 1745 and 1755 by the 4th Earl of Stamford, using the services of the poet and landscape designer William Shenstone of Halesowen, and Sanderson Miller, a ...
Doric Temple, Shugborough Park,
Built c.1760 this is one of two copies of the Temple of Hephaistos in Athens by James 'Athenian' Stuart. The first version was commissioned by Hagley Hall In Worcestershire in 1758, and is believed to ...
Eastgate Street, Stafford
This view looks north-west along Eastgate Street, Stafford, towards an area known as Pitcher Bank.
Over the years most of the buildings in this scene have changed use on several occasions. On the ...
Eccleshall Methodist Chapel
This chapel stands on Stone Road, Eccleshall. The foundation stone was laid on 21 September 1871 by Mrs Broadhurst, wife of a local tanner, and was constructed by local builder Charles Barratt. The total ...
Electric Construction Company, Bushbury
Gorsebrook House was used as the head office of the Electric Construction Company adjacent to their Bushbury Engineering Works on Stafford Road, Wolverhampton. Since demolished, it is now (2025) the site ...
Elizabethan Cottage, Horse Fair, Rugeley
The thatched cottage in the centre and the cottage on its right were demolished and later replaced by a parade of shops and a cinema.
The building on the left adjoining the thatched cottage remains ...
Elizabethan House, Stafford,
The Elizabethan House was built on Gaolgate Street in the late Tudor period.
The building was destroyed by fire on 1st October 1887. The alarm was raised by a shoemaker, but it was too late to save ...
Excavation of Roman villa, Engleton, Penkridge
Workmen standing with a Roman column. A Roman villa of the 2nd to 4th century AD was excavated in summer 1937 by Wolverhampton Archaeological Society with the support of Kathleen Kenyon. The site is ...
F. W. Woolworth & Co. Ltd. Market Square store, Stafford
A view of Woolworth's Stafford store which was at 18, Market Square from 1928 to 1962 when it then transferred to larger premises in Gaolgate Street.
Originating in the U.S.A. in 1878 as 'Woolworth's ...
Family group photographed outside Enville Hall, Enville
The 7th Earl and Countess of Stamford and Warrington can be seen wearing white in the centre of the photograph.
Fireplace overmantle at Loxley Hall, near Uttoxeter
Close up view of an overmantle depicting the royal crest and surrounded by heraldic devices of various nobility. A frieze of more heraldic devices runs around the room.
Loxley Hall was built around ...
Fireplace, Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton
The fireplace in the Billiard Room at Wightwick Manor.
A billiard room was often a feature of Victorian country houses. In the billiard room at Wightwick Manor there is a large ingle-nook' fireplace ...
Floods, Bridge Street, Stafford
This view was taken from outside The Picture House. In the centre is the public library which occupied this site until 1999, when it moved to part of the Shire Hall on Market Square. The building on ...