Sinking of the staple shaft, Littleton Colliery
View of miners with a sinking shaft underground. The round cage suspended by the cable is descending into the hole. The miner in front of the hole to the left is using a pneumatic drill. Both miners are ...
Sir George Nelson at the New Hough, English Electric Co., Stafford
Sir George Horatio Nelson, Chairman and Managing Director of the English Electric Company is pictured outside the New Hough with the New Zealand Deputy Premier Mr Walter Nash. During the visit to the ...
Sir John Bowyer
Sir John Bowyer (1683-1701), Baronet, of Knypersley, near Biddulph.
Mezzotint, engraved by John Smith after a portrait by T. Gibson.
Sir John Bridgeman, 2nd Baronet
Portrait of Sir John Bridgeman, 2nd Baronet (1631-1710) who married Mary Cradock before 1663. A lawyer, he was admitted to Inner Temple in 1646. He died at West Bromwich and was buried at Aston, Birmingham....
Sir John Bridgeman, 3rd Baronet
Portrait of Sir John Bridgeman, 3rd Baronet (1667-1747) who married Ursula Matthews in 1694. He was educated at Oriel College, Oxford and admitted to the Inner Temple in 1689. He was buried at Blodwell, ...
Sir Michael Armitage visits RAF Stafford
Sir Michael Armitage is pictured during a demonstration of the Station's computer equipment. In 1985 Sir Michael became Air Member for Supply and Organisation and in 1988 the Commandant of the Royal ...
Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet
Orlando (1608-1674) was the son of Dr. John Bridgeman, Bishop of Chester. He became a lawyer and had various government posts, including Custos Roturolum of Cheshire (1644-1646), Lord Chief Baron of the ...
Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 4th Baronet
Portrait of Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 4th Baronet (1695-1764). Born Blodwell, Shropshire, he married Lady Anne Newport and their son Sir Henry Bridgeman inherited Weston Park on the death of Lady Anne's ...
Sir Robert Peel, 4th baronet, Drayton Manor
Sir Robert Peel, 4th Baronet (1867–1925) pictured at his family home, Drayton Manor.
Drayton Manor was the home of the Peel family and was built by Sir Robert Peel's father in about 1790. This house ...
Sir Robert Peel, fifth baronet, and Lady Peel, Drayton Manor, Fazeley
Sir Robert Peel, the fifth baronet, is seen here with his wife, the Canadian actress, Beatrice Lillie. The couple were married at St Paul's Church in Fazeley in 1920.
The Peel family home was Drayton ...
Sir Thomas Wardle, Leek
Thomas Wardle was born on January 26 1831 to parents Joshua and Mary. His father was the owner of a silk dyeing business at Cheddleton Heath, which Thomas joined at the age of about 16, and was soon followed ...
Slaughter House, Broad Street, Stafford
Pictured is the rear view of 8, Broad Street, Stafford seen from between 6 & 7, Queen Street. It had been a butchers with slaughter-house facilities for many years. Stafford Corporation's gasometer can ...
Slip House
Factory interior showing pottery workers in a slip house. Taken at Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Photographed by William Blake.
Snooker Championship, Stafford
Pictured is Mr A Hawkins, of the Lotus Club, winner of the individual snooker championship of the Stafford and District Institutes Billiards and Snooker League, being congratulated by the Chairman, Mr ...
Snow scene, Seighford
This photograph was taken on a road known as the Cumbers in Seighford. On the left is Margaret Lowe, second from left is Kath Taylor, the woman in the light coloured coat is Mrs Blanche Waterfall, the ...
Soldier, Army Veterinary Corps, Milford and Brocton Camp
This postcard picture shows Douglass (last name unknown) wearing his best uniform and having his photograph taken in a studio by a professional photographer.
On the reverse Douglass writes: “Dear Auntie ...
Soldier, Penkridge Bank Camp, Cannock Chase
This Church Army Recreation Hut postcard with a generic view of a soldier was sent from Private J Lawley, 11109 of ‘A’ Company, 10th South Staffordshire Regiment, Penkridge Bank Camp near Stafford, to ...
Soldiers departing for war, Derby Street, Leek
View of local soldiers heading off for World War I.