Schoolchildren practising maypole dancing, Hednesford
Children dancing around a maypole in the playground. The boys are wearing short trousers and knitted jumpers or jackets and boots. Most of the girls are wearing pinafores, with long socks or stockings ...
Schoolgirl boarders at Cannock Grammar School
The teacher at the front with two girls seated on his lap is Mr T.R. Parton, headmaster.
Scotch Brook, Kibblestone Camp, Stone
Boy Scouts posing on a fallen tree trunk crossing the Scotch Brook at Kibblestone Scout Camp
The Copeland family owned the Kibblestone estate from the mid-nineteenth century. Ronald Copeland started ...
Scout Camp, Brewood
A postcard view of a Scout camp in Brewood, possibly at Church Fields.
Scrubbing the floor, Rowley Street Methodist Schoolroom, Stafford
On the left is 15 year-old Muriel Dodd, one of the members of the 15th Stafford Girl Guides who volunteered to clean Rowley Street Methodist Schoolroom following its redecoration. Please contact us if ...
Silk Christening Gown, 1800s
The christening gown that we recognise today started in the mid eighteen century.
These early gowns were made out of soft fabrics, such as silk or satin, until the 1800s when cotton became more readily ...
Silverdale
A Charity in Abbey Street – a group of schoolchildren collecting money for Sunday School funds – from a village sunk in the stupour of Sunday morning and old age. A village largely built between 1840 ...
Silverdale Carnival
Young competitors at Silverdale Carnival.
Silverdale Council Girls' School, Silverdale, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Silverdale County Primary School music lesson
Mrs Hand and pupils in a music lesson.
In 1872 a school was opened in the Primitive Methodist Sunday school building on Earl Street. In 1875 the school was taken over by Wolstanton School Board and ...
Slater Family and Domestic Servants, Stone,
Thomas and Emily Slater with their children Kathleen (aged 12) and Edward (aged 8) and servants. The family lived on Lichfield Road in a house now known as The Rectory.
On retirement the family moved ...
Small Boy Climbing a Tree, Stafford,
This photograph was taken in Tillington, Stafford.
Small Girl with a Rabbit, Eccleshall,
Smithy Lane Cottages, Seighford
Left to right: Roger Bunn, Janet Lawton and Susan Jenks are pictured by Smithy Lane cottages which in later years were demolished and the area redeveloped with private housing.
Acknowledgement: thank ...
Snow scene, Seighford
This photograph was taken on a road known as the Cumbers in Seighford. On the left is Margaret Lowe, second from left is Kath Taylor, the woman in the light coloured coat is Mrs Blanche Waterfall, the ...
Soup distribution at the Star Hotel, 152 High Street, Burton-on-Trent
A large group of children stand at the back of the hotel, some with bread in their hands.
Spectators at Hixon Horticultural Show
This newspaper cutting has the caption: 'Three Fine Old Grannies' and shows 'three interested spectators at Hixon Horticultural show whose ages total 246'. In the centre is Mrs Martha Plasida Malpass ...