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Colouring Doll's Heads In The Potteries. Photographed by William Blake.

Factory interior with paintresses decorating doll's heads. This images appears elsewhere in the collection and was used for a presentation by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.” A small folder ...

Colton Bridge

A postcard view of Brook Bridge over Moreton Brook in Colton village. The photograph was taken by William Bird of Nuneaton. The postcard was franked in Rugeley on 23 October 1904 and sent to an address ...

Colton Post Office

Colton's Postmistress, Mrs Connie Deacon with Post Lady, Miss Nellie Rotchell, outside of the village Post Office which was situated in the end Martlin Cottage on Martlin Lane, Colton. The post box can ...

Colton Village, Rugeley

Postcard view of a village lane in Colton, near Rugeley. There are a young boy and girl in the picture standing at the side of the lane.

Colwich Football Club,

Colwich Football Club were in the Stone Stafford and District League when this team photograph was taken.

Colwich Mothers' Union

This group is believed to be the Colwich branch of the Mothers' Union with toddlers and babies. The woman in the centre holds twins. This photograph was possibly taken on the driveway of Colwich Vicarage....

Colwich Old Signal Box

Pictured in the Old Signal Box at Colwich are (left to right): David Buckley, Telephone Attendant and Gordon Axten, Signalman ('Box Lad'). David lived in the railway cottages nearby to the Stoke-on-Trent ...

Colwyn Bay. Circa 1933

During the years between the first and second world wars the holiday seasons saw hoards of people flooding into resorts such as Colwyn Bay in North Wales. Other popular seaside towns were Rhyl, Llandudno ...

Comic football match, Abbots Bromley

A postcard view of a group posing for the camera at a comic football match between the village's football club's first and second teams held in Abbots Bromley on Christmas Day 1923. The procession from ...

Coming of Age of Viscount Anson, Shugborough Hall,

A group photograph taken on the occasion of Viscount Thomas Edward Anson's Coming of Age. He later became the 4th Earl. Although his 21st birthday was on 9 December 1904, Viscount Anson was travelling ...

Coming of Age party, Uttoxeter

Miss Audrey Stegar (born 1928) with her family and friends at her Coming of Age party which was held at the Uttoxeter Rotary Club in the Haddon Room at Elkes' Cafe, on the corner of High Street and Carter ...

Commemorative window, St. Luke’s Church, Cannock

This commemorative window, 'the Last Communion on the Battlefield', was given by Charles Loxton in memory of his son Charles Edward Holden Loxton, known as Edward. He was a 2nd Lieutenant in the North ...

Committee of Ball Haye Flower Show, Leek

Members of the committee standing outside one of the tents at the show on 'Back Field'. The field later became and is still (in 2003) Ball Haye Green football pitch.

Committee of the Association of Potters - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook

Joseph Machin, Chairman of the Committee of Potters, addressed this notice to fellow manufacturers in the Potteries. Ruin A ruinous war with France had brought Britain's business to its knees - ...

Comparative Calculations - Pamphlet from the Enoch Wood scrapbook

During 1796, a fierce debate was raging in Stoke-on-Trent over controversial proposals to build a new canal. The new canal promised to link Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire with the Cheshire Canal ...

Competition Winners, St. John Ambulance cadets

Concert at the Town Hall, Burslem - Concert programme from the Enoch Wood scrapbook

Entertainment in Burslem Programme for a concert taking place at Burslem Town Hall in October 1805. The concert goers were to be treated to an eclectic selection of instrumental music and songs ...

Concert party, Grindley Lane, Blythe Bridge

This photograph was taken in the tennis pavillion. It is now the site of a bank and doctor's clinic. This group could be either the Ray or the Abbots families, both of whom ran concert parties at this ...