Whist League Presentation, Doxey
Mr W T Richardson, wearing a characteristic buttonhole, presents the shield bearing his name, to Mr W Plant, Captain of the Doxey team, who were the Stafford Whist League champions. Others in the group ...
Whitfield Colliery employees
Whitfield employees of 1897 muster in the colliery yard in front of the Hard Mine haulage engine-house for their photograph.
Before the 18th century, mining was only a part-time occupation. As the ...
Whitfield Colliery Prize Band, Audley
Whitfield Colliery Prize Band from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. They are pictured in Audley having won the Silver Challenge Cup for 1924.
Whitfield colliery surface ambulance team
From the 1880's ambulance teams were formed at many collieries to administer first aid prior to the arrival of the local doctor. Besides medical officers at the various levels, there were ambulance and ...
Wild Beasts Cage, St. Anne's new building (2)
The author of this photograph was based in Rugeley, so it is possible that the picture was taken somewhere near to this area.
William Marson and Christ Church Choir, Stafford,
Christ Church opened on Foregate Street in 1839. The church closed in 1976 and was demolished in 1983; sheltered housing for the elderly now stands on the site.
In the centre is William Albert Marson, ...
Wilmot Martin and Sir Harry Lauder, Stowe-by-Chartley
A fishing party seated by a pool. On the front row, far left is Wilmot Martin of Hixon. Next to him, holding a fly-fishing rod, is Sir Harry Lauder. At the back, far left is Arthur Thomas Radcliffe. ...
Winners enclosure, Uttoxeter Racecourse
Owners and winning horse pictured in the winners enclosure.
Wolstanton Church School class 5, Wolstanton, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Before the days of free state education many school were run by churches and charitable organisations who took it upon themselves to educate the lower classes who could not afford to pay for education. ...
Women ale loaders, Bass, Burton-on-Trent
Women workers rolling casks between the brewery buildings during World War I.
Women from the Army Catering Corps, Brocton Military Camp,
A group of women from the Army Catering Corps, wearing overalls, standing in the doorway of an army hut at Brocton Camp. With them is a young boy.
Cannock Chase had been used as a military training ...
Women workers packing Bass bottles, Shobnall Ale Stores, Bass, Burton-on-Trent
Women packing bottles of pale ale into wooden crates with straw inside at Shobnall Ale Stores. In the background are stacked casks.
Women workers, Shobnall Bottling Stores, Burton-on-Trent
Women working at Shobnall Ale Stores, Bass, Burton-on-Trent
Group of women working around a bottle filling machine in the Shobnall Ale Stores.
Women’s Land Army, Sugnall
This photograph was taken at Sugnall and shows Brenda Williams (on the left) who was in the Women’s Land Army from 1947 to 1949. In 1950 she married Robert Fulford and they lived in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire ...
Women’s Land Army, Sugnall
This photograph was taken at Sugnall and shows Brenda Williams (third from left) who was in the Women’s Land Army from 1947 to 1949. In 1950 she married Robert Fulford and they lived in Gainsborough, ...
Women’s Royal Naval Service training station, Mill Meece
A group of WRENS at HMS Fledgling E-15, Mill Meece. Mrs Chrys Hill (nee Wood), is sitting in the front row third in from the right.
In April 1943 the Admiralty decided to release more men for wartime ...
Women's Institute Market, Leek
A group of Women's Institute members posing in front of their stall in Leek market in 1982.
A charter was granted by King John to the Earl of Chester in 1207 giving permission to hold a Wednesday market ...