Portrait outside house, Woodseaves area
A couple and their dog pictured outside a house. The location and people are unidentified, but it is believed to have been taken in the Woodseaves area. Please let us know if you recognise the house.
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Post Office and General Stores, Hixon,
A postcard view of the Post Office and General Stores in Bath Lane, Hixon, which was owned by the Hammond family. The building was extended and later became known as Hixon Pet Shop.
This postcard was ...
Post Office and Stores, Hopwas
A postcard view of Hopwas Post Office and Stores on School Lane. At the time of this photograph the postmistress and shopkeeper was Lizzie Wilson. The Post Office closed in 1994 and a sub-Post Office ...
Post Office Counters, Chetwynd House, Stafford,
Chetwynd House was built around 1712-1715 by William Chetwynd, 3rd Viscount Chetwynd (1683?-1770), Member of Parliament for Stafford 1715-1722 and 1734-1770. The house was sold in the 1780s to William ...
Post Office Training Centre, Yarnfield
A member of staff at the Post Office Training Centre is pictured by a Pulvermatic Shredding Machine. In the centre there are several catering size empty food tins (including carrots, apricot halves and ...
Post Office Training Centre, Yarnfield
This photograph of members of staff and trainees relaxing in the Bar at the Post Office Training Centre was taken by Stafford photographer Tony Boydon.
The General Post Office Engineering Department, ...
Private Sitting Room, Coton Hill Asylum, Stafford
Coton Hill Asylum was built in the 1850s and opened in 1854. It was originally built as an extension to the County Asylum in order to house private patients. It was to be known as The institution for ...
Prize garden, Moss Pit, Stafford
William Varley, aged 48 at the time of this photograph, winner of Stafford Borough Allotments Competition tending his prize-winning garden at his home at 83, Sidney Terrace, Moss Pit, Stafford.
This ...
Prize winning garden, Cooksland, Seighford
Mr C.A. Norton of The Bungalow, Cooksland, Seighford showing a visitor his runner beans. Mr Norton won the prize for best cottage garden in the district at the recent Seighford Horticultural Show. He ...
Prize winning Pointer from Stafford
Winning points is Mr W Kerr, of Sidney Avenue, Stafford, who shows to advantage his 16 month old Pointer, Clunvale Dynamic, best exhibit in the show and also winner of four first awards at Uttoxeter and ...
Promotional stunt for Odeon Cinema, Stafford
Dennis Holland, with bulldog, dressed as a naval character from the film 'The Bulldog Breed', a 1960 British comedy film starring Norman Wisdom and directed by Robert Asher.
Dennis, a member of the ...
Pulling teeth in the back yard, Glascote, Tamworth
Reginald, Lesley and Dorothy Brain shown here as children about to pull teeth. Lesley is playing the dentist here, and later became Headmaster at Dosthill and then at Kingsbury. Reginald Brain later became ...
Pupils and staff, Cheddleton School
Pupils and staff of Cheddleton School with the Vicar of Cheddleton, Rev. William Gaisford Burgis. The photograph was probably taken in the Vicarage garden.
Back row (left to right): unknown, Mrs Parnell, ...
Purton's, High Street, Stone
A display stand of prams, bicycles and toy cars stocked by Purton's of High Street, Stone pictured in a marquee, possibly at the Staffordshire County Showground, Hopton, Stafford.
Purton's sold prams, ...
Queensville, Stafford,
View from the Radford side of the railway bridge.
Until 1838 this area was known as Spittal Brook, but was changed in honour of the Coronation of Queen Victoria. The former name was a reference to ...
Rachel Haggis and children, Gnosall
Mrs Rachel Haggis (nee Plant) pictured with her two oldest children, Violet (1 year and ten months) and George 6 months. At the time (circa 1910) the Haggis family lived at Fern Lea, The Rank, Gnosall. ...
Rachel Plant , governess, Stafford
Rachel Plant as governess. Rachel was the daughter of Thomas Dalton Plant of Stafford and she is seen in this Edwardian photograph with her two charges and their parents, Mr and Mrs Cundy.
Railway at Stafford
A view of the Trent Valley Junction. The signalbox is in the process of being demolished. To the left can be seen Dinham's Wagon Repair Works.