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Bratt and Dyke staff and friends, Crown Hotel, Stone

Bratt and Dyke staff and friends pictured at the Crown Hotel Ballroom in Stone. Oliver Dyke and his wife Caroline are seated centre, first row from the front. His sons can be seen in the second row ...

Bratt and Dyke staff at the Crown Hotel, Stone

Staff from Bratt and Dyke's Hanley and Stafford Department Stores at the Crown Hotel, Stone. Seated centre, first row back are Company Directors and brothers Stanley and Tony Dyke. Draper Oliver Dyke ...

Bratt and Dyke staff outing

Staff from Bratt and Dyke's Hanley Department Store on an outing. Standing back left is Company Director Oliver Dyke. Draper Oliver Dyke opened a shop in Hanley in 1890 with the financial support ...

Bratt and Dyke's Department Store, Hanley

Bratt and Dyke's Department Store pictured after the addition of its new 3rd floor in 1937. The building still stands, albeit altered, and is occupied by smaller shops and fast food outlets. Draper ...

Brattt and Dyke Department Store, Hanley

Bratt and Dyke's Department Store pictured in 1924, possibly decorated for Empire Day. The building still stands, albeit altered, and is occupied by smaller shops and fast food outlets. A photograph ...

Bray's, George street, Tamworth

Charles Bray's shop, a fruiterer and confectioner, with its 1930's style frontage. The archway and roadway led to Hamel's George Street Mill.

Bread Delivery Van, Stafford,

Bebbington's bakery was on Foregate Street. This photograph was taken outside John Bagnall's Carriage Works, Pitcher Bank. The delivery van was probably made by Bagnall's.

Bread or Blood: On the Orders in Council - Document from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook

Addressed to manufacturers across the country, this notice lists the woes of the pottery industry during the Napoleonic Wars in the early 1800s - and the word on the street was just as urgent. France ...

Bread queue in Market Square, Stafford

A queue outside the Guild Hall, Stafford, during World War I, waiting for bread tickets. This photograph shows Averil's chemists shop, Boots' chemists , Astons and Sons Ltd Furniture shop and the Guildhall. This ...

Brereton Collieries, Rugeley

A postcard view of Brereton Collieries. The pit on the right was originally known as Brick-Kiln pit, latterly Brereton Colliery which closed in 1960, the same year that production started at nearby Lea ...

Brereton Colliery, near Rugeley

Latterly known as Brereton Colliery, originally the Brick-kiln Colliery, it ceased production in 1960 and was demolished by the Territorial Army in 1963. It was Originally developed from the earlier, ...

Brewery from western gate, Charrington & Co., Burton-on-Trent

Brewery Locomotives, Burton-upon-Trent

Two locomotives pictured at the Marston, Thompson & Evershed Brewery in Burton-upon-Trent. The locomotive on the left is thought to be a Baguley diesel shunter. The steam locomotive on the right was ...

Brewery staff day trip, Burton upon Trent

A postcard view of Bass brewery staff pictured in Burton-upon-Trent on their way to or returning from a day trip Photographer: J.S. Simnett, Burton upon Trent

Brewery Street, Hanley

Looking along Brewery Street towards the junction with Bryan Street. Beyond is the site of the old Port Vale football ground, a car park by the time this photograph was taken. The building on the right ...

Brewery workers at Bass, Burton-on-Trent

Group photo possibly taken in the Maltings, of men and women workers standing with sack trucks.

Brewery Yard from the railway, Albion Brewery, Shobnall Road, Burton-on-Trent

Brewery, Great Haywood,

There had been a brewery in Great Haywood since the mid-1800s, situated in what is now Brewery Lane. The brewery had a steam engine which pumped water for making beer. When the well was in use the ...