Stationary Volunteer Band, R.A.F. Hednesford
Th Stationary Volunteer Band consisted of both Royal Air Force and Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm personnel. The Bandmaster, Flight Sergeant Broadgate (wearing gloves), is next to the central drum in the front ...
Stoke City v. Manchester City, Victoria Ground
Manchester City goalkeeper, Frank Swift, shaking hands with Stoke City captain Neil Franklin in front of a packed Victoria Ground crowd.
Frank Swift played 19 times for England. After retirement he ...
Stoke War Hospital, London Road, Newcastle-under-Lyme
View of Stoke War Hospital which has now become part of the City General.
Stoke War memorial opening.
Stoke War Memorial was erected to commemorate the men from the Potteries area who lost their lives in the Great War 1914-18.
To the right of the photograph is the Kings Hall, and in the background is ...
Stoke-on-Trent Fire Brigade
Four fire fighters and tender pictured at Longton Fire Station which stood near the junction of Commerce Street and Uttoxeter Road. Note the headlamp dimmers used during blackout in World War II. Jack ...
Stoke-on-Trent Railway Station
The station was opened in 1848 by the North Staffordshire Railway Company, (NSR): it is Grade II* listed. The glazed roof dates from 1893. On the extreme right there is a W. H. Smith newsagents stall, ...
Stoke-on-Trent War Revision Map, 1940
After the evacuation of Dunkirk during World War II the threat of invasion by opposing forces became real.
The military needed maps to help them plan in case of invasion but when they looked at the maps ...
Stone Territorials Parade,
When war was declared in 1914 the Stone Territorial Army immediately volunteered to serve abroad.
They are photographed here on Newcastle Street, on their march from the Town Hall to the railway station....
Stooking corn at Strongford Farm, near Tittensor
Pictured are (left to right) Denis Roberts, Graham Monroe, Ivy Bryan (nee Leycett, Land Army girl) and Tony Austin. Denis's father was the Farm Manager at Strongford Farm and the group are pictured in ...
Stooking Oats, Uttoxeter schoolboys Farm Camp, Lower Cowley Farm, Gnosall
Another job found for the schoolboys was stooking oats. Mr Wilson their leader wrote, "The stooking of oats was not quite such a rush job (as potato picking), but there was a blazing sun at the time, ...
Street Collecting by World War I 'Tommy', Newcastle-under-Lyme
After facing the absolute horror of trench warfare, Britain would have seemed a very different place for soldiers returning home once the war ended.
Not only would they have had to go 'back to normal' ...
Stubbs Walk, Trophy Cannon and Tank, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The First World War tank and the Crimean War cannon were presented to Newcastle-under-Lyme as remembrances of two great conflicts. The cannon was presented to the Borough by Samuel Christie MP sometime ...
Studio Portrait, Stafford
Studio Portrait of an unidentified young couple from the Bertam Sinkinson collection. The man is dressed in Army uniform and the woman in a nurses uniform.
This glass plate was probably taken by Weiss ...
Sturgess Factory, Stoke-on-Trent
One of the machine rooms at the Sturgess factory in Stoke-on-Trent. It is believed to show women workers making tents during World War II in a disused pottery factory building on Sturgess Street, off ...
Supermarine Spitfire
This Mark XVI Supermarine Spitfire is housed in a specially-refurbished gallery at The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent, where it is undergoing restoration by Supermarine Ltd.
Survey of Air Raid Damage
An official surbey of air-raid damage commissioned by the City of Stoke-on-Trent in 1941.
Swynnerton village
On the right is Nellie Kizis walking with a friend through Swynnerton village. Nellie was born in 1921 near Edinburgh. She worked at the Royal Ordnance Factory at Swynnerton during the 2nd World War and ...
T.E. Hulme Memorial Window, St Luke's Church, Endon
Memorial stained glass window dedicated to Thomas Ernest Hulme (1883-1917) the locally-born poet who was killed in action in 1917 during World War 1. He is also commemorated in the Hulme family grave ...