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Percival Hill, Spot Acre

Percival Hill, son of John Hill, who lived at Fox Earths at Spot Acre, near Moddershall. Percival Hill took over his father's nursery business in the 1890s and remained as managing director until his ...

Percy and Kathleen Bloor, Cheddleton

Percy and Kathleen (Kaye) Bloor, probably taken in the back garden of Bankside, Crony Bank, Cheddleton. Kaye ran Bloor’s Newsagents from the house for many years. Kaye was born in 1899.

Peter Atkin's 'Trussing In' Ceremony, Bass Brewery, Burton

Peter Atkin is pictured here in the barrel being 'trussed in', at the termination of his coopers apprenticeship at Bass Brewery. The young men who are carrying out the ceremony are the three senior apprentices, ...

Peter De Wint

Peter De Wint (1784-1849) was a landscape painter. His father, Henry, was born in the Netherlands but settled in Stone to pursue his medical career. Peter was born in a house next to the Crown Hotel in ...

Peter Walker & Co. Brewery workers

Seven brewery workers sitting on an ale dock at the brewery. Standing in the centre of the group is Harry Stephens. He worked in the brewery and returned there after World War I. When the Brewery closed ...

Peter Walker Brewery personnel, Clarence Street, Burton-on-Trent

Twelve men seated on stacks of barrels with 'P Walker Burton' brands on their heads. All of the men are well dressed and are possibly directors.

Pheasant shoot at Mill Meece Farm

A pheasant shoot at Mill Meece Farm, near Eccleshall, shortly before the First World War. The shoot was arranged by the tenant farmer, William Bennison.

Philip Astley

Born in Newcastle-under-Lyme in 1742, Philip Astley was the son of a cabinetmaker who grew up to become a military hero, the original ringmaster and ‘father of the modern circus’. This silhouette portrait ...

Philip Astley

Born in Newcastle-under-Lyme in 1742, Philip Astley was the son of a cabinetmaker who grew up to become a military hero, the original ringmaster and ‘father of the modern circus’. In 1768, Astley acquired ...

Philip Dale and son, Stafford

This carte de visite studio portrait shows Philip Dale (1832-1917), brazier and ironmonger of 11 Greengate Street, Stafford with his son, Philip Thomas Dale (1865-1953). Philip Dale was born in Gaolgate ...

Philip T. Dale, Stafford

A cabinet card studio portrait of Philip Thomas Dale, who was born in Birmingham on 13 September 1865, the son of Philip and Fanny Dale. He was the third generation of his family to be brazier, ironmonger ...

Philip T. Dale, Stafford

Philip Thomas Dale was born in Birmingham on 13 September 1865, the son of Philip and Fanny Dale. He was the third generation of his family brazier, ironmonger and shopkeeper at 11, Greengate Street, ...

Phoenix Tannery, Rugeley

A group of six workers at Stokes & Co.'s Phoenix tannery yard, Bryans Lane, Rugeley, Staffordshire, with a stack of cow hides. There had been a tannery on this site from at least the 18th century. ...

Photographic Society, at Worfield, Shropshire

A Wolverhampton Photographic Society during a trip out to Worfield in Shropshire, with the spire of St. Peter's church in the background. Albert Henry Yelland (1966-1937), an Inland Revenue excise officer ...

Physical jerks before breakfast, Uttoxeter ACF Camp

The young cadets had an inspection parade at 7.30am, before physical jerks (exercises), which Edward Wilson, one of the cadet leaders recalled, "soon dispelled any remains of sleepiness".

Picnic at Norbury Junction

Norbury Junction was the junction between the Shrewsbury and the Liverpool and Birmingham sections of the Shropshire Union Canal. The Newport branch of the canal was little used after 1920 and was closed ...

Picnic party at The Brooms, Stone

A large group of people pictured at The Brooms on Stafford Road, Stone. This could be the occasion of a works treat for the staff of McIlroy's department store in Hanley. At the time of this photograph ...

Pierrette dancing troup at the Lichfield Greenhill Bower