Union Inn, Measham, March 31st 1796 - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Post in the Potteries - 1796
In 1796 a national postal system using a fleet of coaches was growing in coverage but still did not directly serve the Potteries.
Many towns and cities not served by ...
Unlawful Oaths - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
Twenty Pounds Reward
Notice from the North Staffordshire Coal Masters offering twenty pounds reward for information leading to the prosecution of anyone breaking the law under the Unlawful Oaths Act.
Abstracts ...
Unlawful Oaths - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
A law devised to deter naval mutiny
The Unlawful Oaths Act of 1797 was initially enacted during the early period of the Napoleonic Wars to curb mutinous behaviour in the navy.
This act was not repealed ...
Vernon Cotter, Uttoxeter
Vernon Cotterill, retired butcher and local character. Vernon is pictured at a local event wearing in a colourful jacket and bow-tie, with a traditional butcher's straw hat. He is carving a roasted pig's ...
View along Church Street, Leek
The main building in the picture is the crown Hotel (later the Conservative Club). The author of this drawing, Abraham K. Mosley was born in Kingsley to parents Mr and Mrs Anthony Mosley.
He married ...
View of the market on High Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
View of High Street looking south.
Village Green, Lower Leigh
A view of village green at Lower Leigh showing William Emery's smithy to the left and the Police Station to the right. Three blacksmiths can be seen standing on the green and one (possibly William Emery) ...
Village Green, Lower Leigh
A view of village green at Lower Leigh showing William Emery's smithy to the left and the Police Station to the right. The white building at the far end of the green is the Railway Inn. Amongst the group ...
Wagon built by Haynes and Sons, wheelwrights, Stone
Flat bed wagon built by Haynes and Sons, wheelwrights, Stone, for Mr Harrison of Manor Farm, Wall, Lichfield. Price £26. The photograph was taken in Station Road. Haynes and Son moved from this site to ...
Wain's shop, Ashley
Wain's grocers and tea dealers, on the corner of Sovereign Lane and Church Road, Ashley. Miss Mary Wain and James Wain standing in the doorway.
Wain's shop, Ashley
Wain's grocers and tea dealers, on the corner of Sovereign Lane and Church road, Ashley. Alice and Mary Wain are standing in the doorway. The sisters took over the business after their mother, Sarah ...
Walton on the Hill Smithy
Mr W.M. Giles, the village blacksmith, shoeing a horse at Walton on the Hill Smithy in the early 1970s.
War work at Lotus Ltd, Stafford
A large pyramid shaped stack of munitions shells with woman using machine in background
From album of photographs of Lotus Ltd. shoe factory, Sandon Road, Stafford taken by Oswald Wild for 'Fortune' ...
War work at Lotus Ltd, Stafford
A woman worker using a machine with 25-pounder high explosive munition shell casings either side of her.
From album of photographs of Lotus Ltd. shoe factory, Sandon Road, Stafford taken by Oswald ...
War work at Lotus Ltd, Stafford
A woman worker weighing munitions shells on scales. On the noticeboard on the wall is a poster with the message "Lotus shells 'not shoes' are best for Jerry".
From album of photographs of Lotus Ltd. ...
Watchmaker, Stone
Mr A.J. 'Tony' Thornton in his workshop at Old Road, Stone holding a mechanism used for cutting the teeth in clock wheels. Mr Thornton opened his clock making business in Stone in 1926 and continued ...
Weatherby & Sons, Town Road, Hanley
The photograph shows two bottle kilns belonging to J H Weatherby's Falcon Pottery. In the foreground is the entrance to James Topham's Cooperage, manufacturing wooden barrels mainly for the pottery trade. ...
Westhorpe's, Jewellers, 22 High Street, Uttoxeter
This picture was taken after some renovation work had been completed.