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Common Centaury, or Centaurium erythraea

This plant frequents dry banks, woodland clearings, gravel pits and other open places on sandstone heaths. Flowering between June and October, it can grow up to 15cm in height. This example was ...

Common Chickweed, or Stellaria media

Flowering all year long, this weed pops up at the road-side, in your garden, and all over wastelands. This one was found growing at Hawkesyard, near Armitage in Staffordshire, by local naturalist Henry ...

Common Cottongrass or eriophorum angustifolium

Common Cottongrass is a perennnial abundant in wet places on the moors. It differs from the hare's-tail cottongrass by having more than one flowering head. Flowering between May and June, and fruiting ...

Common Dog Violet, or Viola riviniana

You will find this common perennial plant in woods, and on hedgebanks, heaths and grassy hillsides. Flowering between April and July, it can grow up to 20cm in height. This example was found growing ...

Common Lane, Walton, Stone

A postcard view looking along Common Lane towards Stone.

Common Milkwort, or Polygala vulgaris

This perennial plant lives on limestone hillsides and pastures. It can produce a wonderful display of flowers in white, blue, or purplish pink. Flowering between May and December, it can grow up ...

Common Nettle, or Urtica dioica

You can find this perennial plant across waste ground, rubbish tips, ditches and wet woodland. Stinging nettles are in flower from May to September. Nearly everybody has experienced their stinging ...

Common Rock-Rose, or Helianthemum nummularium

You will find this undershrub straggling across Staffordshire's limestone slopes. But while this wild plant grows on rural pastures, it owes its name to the varieties used for garden rockeries! Flowering ...

Commonwealth War Cemetery, Cannock Chase

This colour-tinted postcard is titled 'The German cemetery', although it actually shows the Commonwealth War Cemetery at Broadhurst Green on Cannock Chase. It was known locally as the 'German cemetery' ...

Commonwealth War Cemetery, Cannock Chase

This postcard is titled 'The German cemetery', although it actually shows the Commonwealth War Cemetery at Broadhurst Green on Cannock Chase. It was known locally as the 'German cemetery' until the creation ...

Computer Operator, Reliant Works, Tamworth

The Reliant Motor Company were early adopters of technology and were using computers as early as 1972. The Reliant Motor Company was formed in 1935 when Mr T.L. Williams decided to build his own ...

Confectionary kiosk, Royal Show, Wrottesley Park

A confectionary kiosk selling Barker & Dobson sweets at the 1937 Royal Sow, held at Wrottesley Park, operated by Letheby & Christopher Ltd., a Birmingham based catering company founded in 1900 and still ...

Congleton Edge, From Cloud End. Photographed by William Blake.

Landscape with a view of Congleton Edge taken from Cloud End, Cheshire.

Congleton Edge. Photographed by William Blake.

Landscape looking towards Cloud End from Congleton Edge in Cheshire.

Consall Falls, River Churnet

One of the rocky falls on the River Churnet, just south of Consall Forge.

Consall Flint Mill

Consall Flint Mill was built by John Leigh (the Lord of the Manor) in the 1830s and the site was complete by 1845. At this time there were three iron waterwheels and 17 or 18 flint grinding pans. The ...

Consall Flint Mill

A postcard view of the flint mills and the Caldon Canal at Consall in the Churnet Valley. The back of the card is signed "T.H. Podmore 18/12/18": he was the owner of the flint mill at the time. Consall ...

Consall Forge

Consall Forge in the Churnet Valley, showing a row of cottages on the left, since demolished. Just be your to the right can be seen the bridge over the River Churnet, at the point where the river and ...