Plant's Hole outcrop pit, Lightwood, Cheadle
This outcrop pit is 'Plant's Hole', at Lightwood, Cheadle. During the General Strike outcrop pits (about 4 feet square) were dug for coal getting. From left to right: Arthur Plant, Jack Alcock, Albert ...
Plate Maker. Photographed by William Blake.
Lantern slide showing a plate maker at work.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.”
A small folder containing ...
Plate Maker. Photographed by William Blake.
Portrait of a plate maker at work.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.”
A small folder containing approximately ...
Platemakers.
Pottery factory interior showing a man making plates on a revolving mould.
The rotating mould is being powered by the young boy.
This is often called jolleying. The upper side of the plate is shaped ...
Plate-Making using a Jigger.
Pottery factory interior showing a man making plates using a powered jigger.
A flat piece of clay is placed on the rotating mould and a levered profile tool is brought down upon it.
The mould shapes ...
Plate-Making.
Pottery factory interior showing aq man making plates using a jigger.
A flat piece of clay is placed on the rotating mould and a levered profile tool is brought down upon it.
The mould shapes the ...
Plate-Making.
Pottery factory interior showing a man using a jigger for plate-making.
A flat piece of clay is placed on the rotating mould and a levered profile tool is brought down upon it.
The mould shapes ...
Plate-Making.
Pottery factory interior showing a man using a jigger for plate-making.
A flat piece of clay is placed on the rotating mould and a hand held profile tool is brought down upon it.
The mould shapes ...
Play in St. Chad’s Church, Stafford
A dramatic scene from Stafford Theatre Guild’s production of Christopher Fry’s ”A Sleep of Prisoners”, presented in St. Chad’s Church. Left to right: Edwin Price, Denis Dunsford, Derek Knight and Francis ...
Plough Maltings, No.22 Malthouse, Bass, Horninglow Street, Burton-on-Trent
The last coal fired kiln in Burton. The photograph was taken at 9pm in the evening, January 1967.
Plum Pudding Opening, British Food Research Association
In 1958 Mrs. Lillian Astbury of Stone (left) donated a plum pudding to the British Food Research Association, based in Leatherhead, Surrey. It had been canned in 1900 for soldiers serving in the Boer ...
Pointon's sweet shop, Cannock Road, Hednesford
Mr Pointon was known locally as "Sucky". He started out in business selling sweets from a tray and then expanded to open his own shop.
Pointon's sweet shop, Cannock Road, Hednesford
Mr "Sucky" Pointon stands in his shop doorway. The shop was in a row of buildings that were knocked down in the late 1960s/early 1970s.
The family carried on in the confectionery business, and in 2003 ...
Police Escorting a Heavy Load, Weeping Cross, Stafford
A Wynns tractor and trailer is seen here carrying a large Transformer and navigating the junction at the top of Radford Bank, heading towards Milford.
Vehicles like this were a fairly common sight ...
Police Group, Stafford
Police group at Friar's Terrace Barracks.
The original police barracks were at the back of the Guildhall on Market Square. These were demolished in 1867 to make way for the covered market. The military ...
Police Group, Stafford
Police group at Friar's Terrace Barracks.
The original police barracks were at the back of the Guildhall on Market Square. These were demolished in 1867 to make way for the covered market. The military ...
Police Group, Stafford
Police group at Friar's Terrace Barracks.
The original police barracks were at the back of the Guildhall on Market Square. These were demolished in 1867 to make way for the covered market. The military ...
Police Group, Stone,
The first Police Station in Stone was on Newcastle Street. In 1912 a new station was established on Radford Street and remains little changed to this day.
This photograph was taken at the rear of ...