Main Road, Wetley Rocks
View of the Main Road, Wetley Rocks taken from the millstone grit rock outcrops, looking towards the junction with Cheadle Road.
A colour tinted postcard.
Asylum under construction, Cheddleton
Workmen with partially installed waste water pipes at Cheddleton Asylum.
In 1890 Staffordshire County Council’s Lunacy Committee decided to build a new asylum for the north of the county due to overcrowding ...
Walter Chetwynd of Ingestre
Walter Chetwynd (1633-1691) of Ingestre Hall, was an antiquary and politician. He was Member of Parliament for Stafford 1674-1679 and 1685-1689, and M.P. for Staffordshire 1690-1691. His work as a historian ...
St. Mary's Church, Tutbury
Tutbury church originally formed part of a priory founded by Hugh de Ferrers in the 1080s. The church has a wonderful Norman west front built in about 1160-70. The nave piers and south door are also 12th ...
Church and Vicarage, Keele
St. John's Church and the Vicarage, Keele. The parish church of St. John the Baptist pictured here was built in the 1780s and probably replaced a thirteenth century Templar chapel. It was rebuilt 1868-1867 ...
Cat in a pram, Walton-on-the-Hill, Stafford
11 year old Daphne Dyde of 23, The Village, Walton-on-the-Hill taking her month-old tabby kitten for a ride in a pram. Allegedly the cat enjoyed the dressing up! In the background are delivery vans ...
Hairdresser, Greengate Street, Stafford
Mrs Sarah Owen of 78, South Walls receiving her 83rd birthday present of a new 'hair do' from her hairdresser Ron Seeley of Greengate Street, Stafford.
Photograph published in the Staffordshire Newsletter ...
Sweeping leaves, Victoria Park, Stafford
A workman sweeping up autumn leaves in Victoria Park, Stafford.
Photograph published in the Staffordshire Newsletter in October 1955. Reproduced by kind permission of the Staffordshire Newsletter who ...
Assize Judges, St. Mary’s Place, Stafford
Pictured in St. Mary's Place, Mr Justice Stable and Mr Justice Cassels are approaching St. Mary's Church for the traditional service which preceded Stafford Assizes. In the background can be seen the ...
Residents of Fernleigh Welfare Hostel, Stafford
Some of Fernleigh Welfare Hostel’s oldest residents amongst a party of 40 who were taken on a coach trip to New Brighton by Stafford Round Table.
From 1948 the former Stafford Union Workhouse, built ...
Aqualate Hall
Aqualate Hall as rebuilt by John Nash, viewed from the west. The original Hall was built for Edwin Skrymsher in the early seventeenth century. Sir John Boughey bought the house in the late eighteenth ...
Bamfords advertisement, Uttoxeter
A metal advertisement advertising a Bamfords New Super 7R Oil Bath Mower.
Bamfords was founded in Uttoxeter in 1871 by Henry Bamford and made water pumps, taps and agricultural machinery at the Leighton ...
Bamfords advertisement, Uttoxeter
A metal advertisement advertising barn machinery made by Bamfords of Uttoxeter. Pictured are a chaff cutter, grinding mill, cake breaker, root cutter and circular saw, all driven by a stationary engine.
Bamfords ...
Bamfords advertisement, Uttoxeter
A metal advertisement advertising horse-drawn haymaking machines made by Bamfords of Uttoxeter. Pictured are a side rake and swath turner, a hayloader and a mower.
Bamfords was founded in Uttoxeter ...
Cheddleton Historical & Archeological Society display, Leek
A display of photographs by Cheddleton Historical and Archaeological Society at the Nicholson Institute's Centenary Event in 1984.
Amongst the items on the display board, an item featuring Cheddleton ...
Dr. Robert Plot
A portrait of Dr. Robert Plot, based on a painting at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
Dr. Robert Plot (1640-1696) was an antiquary, naturalist, writer and was the first Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum ...
Monument to Thomas Kinnersly, Ashley
Monument to Thomas Kinnersly (1751-1819) of Clough Hall, near Kidsgrove, which stands in St. John the Baptist Church, Ashley. Later, a medallion was added showing a profile of his widow, Mary Kinnersly, ...
Old Manor House, Little Haywood
The Old Manor House, also known as Hall Flats, which stood on Coley Lane, Little Haywood. It had been owned by the Whitby family but much of the house was demolished around the 1720s. Part of the building ...