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Miners' Rescue Team, Silverdale
The Miners' Rescue Team are pictured here in all of their equipment. A canary in its cage is sitting on the box on the floor, and was used to detect the first evidence of Methane Gas in the mine. Walter ...
Miners underground, Lea Hall Colliery
This was the first colliery planned and sunk by the National Coal Board. The two shafts were started in 1954 and sunk to a depth of 1300ft (396m). The first coal was produced in 1960, and the colliery's ...
Miners wearing breathing apparatus, Mines Rescue Station, Victoria Street, Hednesford
The men wearing the apparatus are, left: Albert Payton, son of Jos Payton and, right: Samuel Davies. In the centre is Jos Payton, Superintendent of the Mines Rescue Station, Hednesford.
The station ...
Mines Rescue Team, Chatterley Whitfield, Stoke-on-Trent
Men of the Chatterley Whitfield No.4 Rescue Brigade pose with their latest respirators. Respirators were used to allow rescue personnel locate and help miners who had been overcome by firedamp (methane ...
Miniature portrait of Elizabeth Brougham born in Wybunbury Cheshire 1769
This is a miniature portrait of Elizabeth Brougham who married John Brougham, a tax officer at St Giles Church Newcastle-under-Lyme. She was born Elizabeth Hall in Wynbury, Cheshire on the 14th May 1769 ...
Miniature portrait of John Brougham, junior born in Betley 1791
This is a miniature portrait of John Brougham, the son of John and Elizabeth Brougham.
He was born in Betley in 1791 and married Maria Tittensor in Leeds in 1824 and they had nine children together. ...
Miniature portrait of John Brougham, senior born in Burslem 1757
This is a miniature profile of a man thought to be John Brougham, a tax officer.
He was born in 1757 and died sometime around the late 1820s or early 1830s.
Much of this information comes from the ...
Ministers and choristers, St Peters Parish Church, Hednesford
Left to Right.
Back Row. 1: Harold Haynes, 2-4, 5: Frank Turner, 6: Mr Casemore, 7: Gerald Timmins, 8?, 9: Tom Shaw, 10?
Middle Row. 1-3, 4: Brian Manley, 5?, 6: Edward Peter Steele, 7: John Bennett, ...
Ministers and St. Peter's Church Choir, Hednesford
Left to Right.
Back Row. 1: Doug Maund, 2: Mr Dangerfield, 3: Mr Haynes, 4: Mr Harvey, 5: Charlie Alcott, 6-7?, 8: Les Higgins (George).
Second Row. 1: Gail Higgins, 2: Susan Jones, 3: Sandra Bowers, ...
Minton Plaque
Plaque. 2002.C.461. 1879. Earthenware. D : 30.4 cm.
Plaque painted by Herbert William Foster with a young woman seated beside a window.
H.W. Foster was a painter and designer born at Endon, Stoke-on-Trent ...
Minton Plaque: Portrait of Leon Arnoux
Plaque, 2002.C.456, c.1890. H: 21 cm.
Portrait plaque of Leon Arnoux, Art Director of Minton 1848-1902, in silhouette form.
Painted by his son-in-law, Louis Solon, using the pâte-sur-pâte technique ...
Miss Amy Lane, teacher [C166; 1YA]
Teacher at St Nicholas' School in Codsall.
Miss Beardmore's private school, Wolstanton
Peace celebrations at Miss Beardmore's School in Wolstanton. All the children are dressed in their best clothes to celebrate the end of the Boer War.
Miss Camilla Gripton's Dancing Troupe Carnival float, Hednesford
Dancers in fancy dress on a float in Hednesford carnival. The girl in the centre wearing the dark jacket is holding a collecting box.
Miss E M Harvey, Retirement, Tenterbanks School, Stafford
Watched by pupils and members of staff, Miss E M Harvey (centre) is presented with the children’s gift, one of many she received, to mark her retirement after 30 years as Headmistress of Tenterbanks County ...
Miss Hilda Stonehouse of Uttoxeter
Hilda Annie Stonehouse was born on 29th April 1905 in Uttoxeter. She trained as a teacher at Dudley Training College and received her Board of Education Certificate.
She held the following teaching ...
Miss Jean Exton, "Miss Co-operator", Stafford
The sash of office for “Miss Co-operator 1952” is being presented to Miss Jean Exton, aged 17, by one of the judges, Mr S H Adamson, at a function held at the Stafford Assembly Rooms on Saturday 11 October. ...
Miss Layng's Preparatory School, Stafford,
A group of school boys with their teacher, Miss Layng, at her private School at 33 Newport Road, Stafford.
The school was in existence between about 1890 and 1896. Miss Layng was probably Lucy Melissa ...