Photography Float, Stafford Pageant,
The annual Stafford Pageant included a procession through the town, and ended with a fair on the town common. A prize was awarded to the best decorated entries and along the route collections were made ...
Police Information Room, Baswich House, Stafford
The interior of the information room at the Staffordshire Police Headquarters,at Baswich house, Weeping Cross, Stafford.
The Information Room took all 999 calls and had radio contact with the patrol ...
Post Office Training Centre, Yarnfield
Geoff Monkman is pictured at the Post Office Training Centre where he was the Hostel Manager. He managed a small army of catering staff and housekeeping staff for the student accommodation. The Catering ...
Pottery Workers' Society offices, Hillcrest Street, Hanley
The Pottery Workers' Society building dates from 1907 and stood in Hillcrest Street (then called Hill Street) on land that had once been part of the Old Hall Manufactory. The Society represented many ...
Presentation of Honours and Awards at RAF Stafford
Pictured outside the Headquarters building at the largest honours and awards ceremony ever held at RAF Stafford (involving some 40 medals), are service personnel with their South Atlantic Campaign Medals, ...
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 ...