Female Munition Workers outside Siemens Factory, Stafford,
Large group of female munition workers outside Siemens factory on Lichfield Road. The banner reads 'Siemens Munition Works - What the girls are doing for the men at the Front'. The photograph was taken ...
Female Workers, Siemens Works, Stafford
Siemens Bros. Electrical Engineering Works opened its Lichfield Road factory in 1903, after relocating from Woolwich with 800 of its employees. The company manufactured generators, electric motors and ...
Female Workers, Siemens Works, Stafford
Siemens Bros. Electrical Engineering Works opened its Lichfield Road factory in 1903, after relocating from Woolwich with 800 of its employees. The company manufactured generators, electric motors and ...
Five-A-Side Football at GEC Turbine Generators Ltd., Stafford
Pictured are the Winners of the annual GEC Turbine Generators Inter-department 5-A-Side Football competition, Machine Shops ‘A’ Team, left to right: Joe Banton, Rob Skelton, Geoff Edensor, Doug Dawson ...
Former Midlands Electricity Board power station, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This is the former power station that served the Midlands Electricity Board (MEB), the electricity board that provided for the midlands area. The MEB functioned from 1947 to 1990 when it was sold to ...
Gas House, Trentham Hall
When Trentham Hall was rebuilt by Sir Charles Barry between 1834 and 1849 a new form of lighting was installed at the Hall: gas.
As the nearest gas supplier was located in Etruria, the Trentham Estate ...
Gas lighting, Jerningham Street, Stafford
Armand Chatfield at home in Jerningham Street, Stafford, operating his CB (Citizens' Band) radio by gaslight. This was the last house in Stafford to be lit solely by gas, only converting to electricity ...
Gas Showroom, Stone
Stone Gas Showroom opened in a shop next to Stone Police Station on Radford Street in 1981, after the British Gas Showroom closed in the High Street. It remained in business until 1996. The former shop ...
Gas Works, Stafford,
Gas Works Retort House, Chell Road.
The town's first gas works were built by William Edwards and Co. on this site in 1829. By 1949, when the works were taken over by the West Midland Gas Board, none ...
Gas works, Tamworth
The Gas Works have since been demolished and in 2003 Saxon Mill Housing and the Aldi Supermarket stood on the site.
Gasometer, Eccleshall
A rare photograph of the gasometer in Eccleshall. Eccleshall gas works stood off the Stone Road. As well as supplying the town's domestic gas supplies, it was also a source of coke and tar for local ...
GE Lichfield Road, Stafford
This large Power Transformer is pictured being transported on a heavy transport girder beam trailer and towed by an enormous tractor on the extreme left, while navigating the Lichfield Road (A34) junction ...
GEC ALSTHOM Employees, Charity Sponsored Run
On a grey Autumn morning in 1989 employees from the adjacent site of GEC ALSTHOM'S Distribution Services Division and the Site Services Division are pictured gathering on the car park of Lloyd’s Bank, ...
GEC ALSTHOM, Hixon, Stafford
Employees and managers are pictured in the Test Laboratory area at the Hixon site on New Road, Hixon, as they celebrate achieving the Investors In People Award (IIP). among those in the photograph are: ...
GEC ALSTHOM, Hixon, Stafford
This Hanger building close to New Road, Hixon, originally formed part of the nearby Hixon Airfield. It was later used as a factory unit by English Electric, GEC and during GEC ALSTHOM’S ownership the ...
GEC ALSTHOM, Lichfield Road, Stafford
A view of porcelain bushings in a storage area adjacent to the Switchgear Division buildings.
Siemens Brothers purchased the land in 1901 and built the factory and offices which were ready to start ...
GEC ALSTHOM, Lichfield Road, Stafford
A view of the One Million Volts Test facility in an area adjacent to the Switchgear Division buildings.
Siemens Brothers purchased the land in 1901 and built the factory and offices which were ready ...
GEC ALSTHOM, Lichfield Road, Stafford
During GEC ALSTHOM’s ownership of the Lichfield Road site in Stafford, several old factory buildings (some dating back to English Electric’s time) were demolished for redevelopment. This view of part ...