Railway to Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
The "Tackeroo" railway was originally sent up Brindley Heath Road which was found to be too steep and therefore had to be diverted left up Brindley Valley which had less of a gradient. It entered what ...
Railway Viaduct, Penkridge
This postcard view of ‘The Seven Arches’ viaduct over the River Penk, near Penkridge, was sent along with several other postcards in an envelope from ‘Ginge’ (name unknown) to his Mother (name and address ...
Range Corner, Penkridge Bank, 1917
Range Corner at Rugeley Camp on Cannock Chase during World War 1.
Oil on board painting by Jake Whitehouse painted in 1985 from a photograph taken in 1917.
Range Corner, Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
A later view of a postcard scene from Rugeley Camp, taken from Rifle Range corner looking up Penkridge Bank Road and the White House would have been in the far distance on the left. It was in the middle ...
Raven Hill Auxiliary Hospital Staff Party at Park House, Rugeley
This photograph includes: Miss Lambert, Col. Wetherall, Mr. W.S. Rogers, Miss Hattersley (cook), Mrs Rogers, Miss L. Lees, Mrs Rawlins, Miss R. Borne, Miss E. Tait, Mrs Darcy, Mildred Hulme & sister, ...
Ravenhill House, Brereton
he house had been briefly unoccupied when, in March 1915, the War Office intimated that Lady Zouche had offered the house as a V.A.D (Voluntary Aid Detached) Hospital to be operated by the Red Cross for ...
Recreation facilities, Drake Hall, near Eccleshall
Page 13 of 'Drake Hall - A War-Time Hostel', a souvenir book produced for staff and residents at the Swynnerton Royal Ordnance Factory hostel at Drake Hall, produced in 1945. The Games Room, part of the ...
Recreation of Field Firing Range on Cannock Chase
Based on photographs and site visits, this recreation shows one of several field firing ranges installed on Cannock Chase as part of the training camp complexes set up during World War I. These firing ...
Recreation of German Prisoner of War inscription on Cannock Chase
Based on written evidence, this reconstruction shows an inscription created by German PoWs held at Brocton Camp on Cannock Chase in the later stages of World War I. Made out of painted stones, the inscription ...
Recreation of 'N' Lines at Brocton Camp, Cannock
Based on period photographs, maps and site visits, this reconstructed view of the World War I army training camp at Brocton on Cannock Chase shows the huts that made up an area known as 'N' lines. The ...
Red Cross Cadets at Pattingham
The picture was taken outside The Vicarage in about 1944.
Left to right: Mrs. Boswell; Mary Lycett; Ethel Lane; Mary Dulson; Dorothy Scriven; Mary Wheeler;not known; Iris Bramall; not known; Kath Russell; ...
Red Cross fundraising, World War 1
This photograph is listed in our photographic archive as showing a group of young ladies collecting for 'Hospital Saturday' during World War 1.
Hospital Saturday raised funds for local hospitals in ...
Red Cross Hospital, Burton-upon-Trent
Beds, wounded soldiers and staff at the Red Cross Hospital in Burton Town Hall. Burton Red Cross Hospital was opened on 11 August 1914 and had 55 beds for soldiers wounded on the Western Front during ...
Red Cross Hospital, Burton-upon-Trent
Nursing staff and recuperating soldiers outside the Red Cross Hospital at Burton Town Hall.
Burton Red Cross Hospital was opened on 11 August 1914 and had 55 beds for soldiers wounded on the Western ...
Red Cross Hospital, Burton-upon-Trent
The Quarter-master's Store at the Red Cross Hospital in Burton Town Hall. Burton Red Cross Hospital was opened on 11 August 1914 and had 55 beds for soldiers wounded on the Western Front during the First ...
Red Cross Volunteers, Eccleshall
Members of the Red Cross and soldiers in a field near Eccleshall Church.
The Red Cross is an international organisation, founded according to the Geneva Convention of 1864, for the treatment of those ...
Red Cross, Stone
Female US Army personnel relaxing, playing chess and reading magazines at the Red Cross in Stone.
This image is from the 'Yarnfield Yank', a booklet published in 1945 to commemorate the presence of ...
Refugee Day Flag Poem, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This is a poem written for Flag Day, where small flags would be sold to help raise money for Belgian refugees escaping to Britain in September 1914. Newcastle-under-Lyme was reported to have 'rallied ...