Bloor family, Cheddleton
From left to right, Percy Bloor Junior, Percy Bloor Senior and Bernard Bloor taken in the back garden of Bankside, Crony Bank, Cheddleton. Bernard was 19 in 1939 and so was in uniform (RAF) almost immediately ...
Bob Simpson at Royal Doulton, Burslem
Australian cricket captain Bob Simpson pictured on a visit to the Royal Doulton Showroom at Nile Street, Burslem.
Robert Baddeley Simpson was born in 1936 in New South Wales, Australia. He played ...
Boer War New Year Card, Westhorpe, Stafford
New Year card sent by the Peach family, referring to the Boer War (1899 - 1902). This was one of two wars (the first was 1880 - 1881) fought by the British in South Africa against the Boer settlers.
The ...
Bomb damage to Richards' Butcher's Shop, High Street, Burton-on-Trent
Scene showing the destruction of the zeppelin raid on Messrs. Richards' butcher's shop, 156-7 High Street. A few of the butcher's pigs were killed but the horse escaped.
Bomb Damage, Bucknall, Stoke-on-Trent
Bomb damage at the rear of Heathouse Lane, Bucknall, photographed on 23 August 1942.
Comment by David Salt:
"I was born on 29 January 1941, in 10 Hulton Road, Abbey Hulton. The earliest memory, that ...
Bomb damage, Chesterton, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Chesterton Salvation Army pictured amongst ruined buildings after a bombing raid on Chesterton during World War Two.
Bomb Damage, May Bank, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Bomb damage at Taylor Avenue, May Bank, Newcastle-under-Lyme, in June 1941.
Note the crater in the foreground, and surviving furniture being loaded onto the back of a truck immediately beyond.
Part ...
Bomb Damage, Old Stoke Road, Stoke-on-Trent
Old Stoke Road pictured after a bombing raid in January 1941.
On this particular night the target was the Michelin tyre factory, with Stoke railway goods yard as a secondary target.
Recalling the ...
Bomb damage, Pitts Hill, Stoke-on-Trent
During the early years of World War Two, Stoke-on-Trent was a strategic high priority target. The main targets were the Michelin factory, the railway goods yard, the British Aluminium Works and Radway ...
Bomb Damage, Pittshill, Stoke-on-Trent
Photograph of a bomb damaged shop on the High Street in Pittshill, Stoke-on-Trent.
Part of an official survey commissioned in 1941 by the City of Stoke-on-Trent.
Bomb damage, Pittshill, Stoke-on-Trent
Bomb damage on High Street, Pittshill.
This photograph is part of an official survey of bomb damage commissioned by the City of Stoke-on-Trent in 1941.
Bomb damage, Stoke-on-Trent
Bomb damage at Old Stoke Road, Stoke-on-Trent, 1941.
Bomb Shelter, Sandon Road, Stafford
Second World War bomb shelter in rear garden on Sandon Road.
Bomb shrapnel, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This is a small piece of bomb shrapnel from one of the two German Zeppelin air raids on the Midlands in 1916. One was recorded on the 31st January 1916 and the other on the night of 27th and 28th of November ...
Borough War Memorial, Stafford
This Stafford Borough memorial consists of a soldier standing on the top of a pedestal which lists names of soldiers lost in the war. The memorial is engraved with the words: "The Great Task Accomplished, ...
Boxers, army camp, Milford Common
Men from the North Staffordshire Regiment pictured at a camp on Milford Common during the Great War. Third from right, in shirtsleeves, is Jack Harper. In civilian life he was a ganger on the railway ...
Boxing at Yarnfield
An image from the 'Yarnfield Yank', a booklet published in 1945 to commemorate the presence of US Army personnel at transit camps in Yarnfield, near Stone during World War II. The camps at Yarnfield were ...
Boys' Brigade Parade, Market Square, Stafford
Alderman A.G.B. Owen, OBE, President of the West Midland District of the Boys' Brigade, takes the salute at a march-past of district units outside the Stafford Guildhall after a service at the Baptist ...