Printsetting at the Cannock Advertiser, Cannock
Frank Arrowsmith working at a lynotype printsetting machine at the Cannock Advertiser print works, Market Square, Cannock. He was the Chief Composing Machine Operator until 1964, having joined the firm ...
Proposed Education Centre, English Electric Co., Stafford
This Model is of a proposed New Education Centre for the English Electric Co. at Stafford Works on the Lichfield Road, Stafford.
The building in the foreground is the Main Offices (built for Siemens ...
Reliant Drawing Office
Designers seen hard at work at the drawing office of Reliant.
The Reliant Motor Company was formed in 1935 when Mr T.L. Williams decided to build his own three wheeled vehicle in his back garden at ...
Retirement presentation at GEC ALSTHOM, Stafford
Geoff Rickards is pictured at his retirement presentation being congratulated by Ian Maskery on achieving fifty years’ service in the Works Cashiers Department.
Left to right: Sam Holden, Diane Williams, ...
Royal Overhouse Pottery offices, Wedgwood Place, Burslem
Barratts of Staffordshire occupied the Overhouse Works from 1943. In 1992 the company joined with Royal Stafford China to become Royal Stafford. This building became the factory shop.
The Overhouse ...
Ryknield Engine Co. Ltd., Burton-upon-Trent
The Ryknield Engine Company Ltd., factory and offices were based on Shobnall Road, Burton-upon-Trent. In this view there is a date-stone of 1902 on the building just below the flagpole.
This short-lived ...
Ryknield Engine Company Ltd., Burton-upon-Trent
A typical Ryknield motor car standing outside the factory offices after the final stages of production. The Ryknield Engine Company Ltd. factory and offices were based on Shobnall Road, Burton-upon-Trent. ...
S A Wood & Sons, Regent Road, Hanley
The registered offices of S A Wood & Sons were in Regent Road just before the junction with Bethesda Street. The buildings date from the early years of the twentieth century. The two properties have ...
Sadler's Wellington Pottery, Burslem
Nos 16 & 18, Market Place, Burslem, Sadler's Offices and Showroom opposite Burslem Town Hall.
James Sadler, famous for the manufacture of earthenware teapots, operated the Wellington and Central Pottery ...
Salter Street, Stafford
This view looks north-west along Salter Street from the junction with Malt Mill Lane. All of the buildings remain (July 2022) although some have changed use on several occasions. On the left is the former ...
Sculpture, Old Hall Street, Hanley
Bronze sculpture 'Her Head" by Dhruva Mistry. It is sited on the corner of the Potteries Way ring road and Old Hall Street in Hanley.
This sculpture was commissioned for the National Garden Festival ...
Shopping block development, Stafford
A new £30,000 three-storey block of shops and offices under construction on the corner of Stafford Street and Chapel Street, Stafford. It was built by F. Espley & Sons Ltd. and was completed in spring ...
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 ...
South Walls, Stafford
This view was taken looking north-west across South Walls in Stafford, towards the Staffordshire County Council office buildings known as Staffordshire Place. Housing the local County Council, businesses ...
St Peter's Chambers, Glebe Street, Stoke-on-Trent
On the corner of Kingsway and Glebe Street stood St Peter's Chambers, opposite St Peter's Church (Stoke Minster). Just to the right is the edge of Stoke upon Trent Town Hall, and to the left the line ...
St. Mary's Grove, Stafford
A view taken at the east end of St. Mary's Church looking north-east towards the buildings on St. Mary's Grove. The ground in the foreground has yet to be reseeded following recently completed archaeological ...
Stafford Electricity Showroom,
View of the front of the new electricity showroom and offices on Foregate Street. Electric lamps and fires are on display in the window and the lettering on the left reads 'The Key to Comfort'.
The ...
Stafford Gas Works Offices, Chell Road, Stafford
Front doorway of Stafford Gas Works Offices on Chell Road taken during the Spring of 1966.
The town's first gas works were built by William Edwards and Co. on this site in 1829. By 1949, when the ...