Special Constables, Barracks Road, Newcastle-under-Lyme
During the First World War Police Officer numbers gradually reduced as former servicemen were recalled and others enlisted.
Local men volunteered to become Special Constables to fill the shortfall. ...
Special Orders Team, Yarnfield
An image from the 'Yarnfield Yank', a booklet published in 1945 to commemorate the presence of US Army personnel at transit camps in Yarnfield, near Stone during World War II. The camps at Yarnfield were ...
Special Service Building, Yarnfield
An image from the 'Yarnfield Yank', a booklet published in 1945 to commemorate the presence of US Army personnel at transit camps in Yarnfield, near Stone during World War II. The camps at Yarnfield were ...
Spitfire Type 300. F 37/34. Circa 1936
Reginald Mitchell completed the prototype Spitfire just a year before his death. This aeroplane was capable of 342 m.p.h. and was officially the fastest military aircraft of the time.
This aircraft would ...
Sports at Drake Hall, near Eccleshall
Page 14 of 'Drake Hall - A War-Time Hostel', a souvenir book produced for staff and residents at the Swynnerton Royal Ordnance Factory hostel at Drake Hall, produced in 1945. Outdoor sports at Drake Hall, ...
Springslade Lodge, Cannock Chase
Springslade Lodge is situated on Camp Road. Today it provides a tea room, play equipment for children and a camp site.
A track opposite leads to the Katyn Memorial. In 1940 4,500 Polish men were murdered ...
St John Ambulance Association Sling, World War 1
This sling was used during the First World War to aid serving men and women.
It has numerous images on how to wear it or use it on various injuries. It was made by St. John Ambulance which was formed ...
St. Bartholomew's Church, Butterton
Interior view of Butterton church, decorated to commemorate the centenary of the 1918 Armistice and to give thanks for Butterton's status as a 'Doubly Thankful' village (the only one in Staffordshire), ...
St. Chad's Church at Beacon Barracks formerly RAF Stafford
On 3 February 1961 St. Chad’s Church was dedicated by the Bishop of Lichfield, Dr A.S. Reeve. With accommodation for around 250, the £12,000 building replaced the hutted church that had been in use since ...
St. Chad's Church at Beacon Barracks, formerly RAF Stafford
On 3 February 1961, St. Chad’s Church was dedicated by the Bishop of Lichfield, Dr A.S. Reeve. With accommodation for around 250, the £12,000 building replaced the hutted church that had been in use since ...
St. Chad's Church at Beacon Barracks, formerly RAF Stafford
The stained glass windows pictured inside St. Chad’s Church at RAF Stafford were designed by Mrs Valerie Green at her Stained Glass Studio in Scarborough and donations for the appeal for the windows was ...
St. Chad's Church at RAF Stafford
Prior to the unveiling of St Chad’s Church Foundation Stone (hidden behind the Union Flag), a reading is given by the Chaplain-in-Chief of the RAF, Rev. F.W. Cocks (who later became the Bishop of Shrewsbury), ...
St. Jame's Church Memorial Corner. Photographed by William Blake.
Church interior, including a First World War memorial corner. Taken at St. Jame's Church, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
St. Jame's Church Memorial Corner. Photographed by William Blake.
Church interior, including a First World War memorial corner. Taken at St. Jame's Church, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
St. John the Baptist Church, Wetley Rocks
A postcard view of St. John the Baptist Church, war memorial and lych gate taken from Mill Lane, Wetley Rocks. St. John's is a Grade II listed building built in 1834,. The village became a separate ecclesiastical ...
St. Joseph's Hall, Stone
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Hall stands on Station Road. In January 1915 it was taken over by the Stone Branch of the Red Cross as a convalescent hospital for servicemen from other war hospitals.
A ...
St. Michael’s War Memorial, Stone
St. Michael’s war memorial stands in the churchyard of St. Michael and St. Wulfad’s Church. The granite cross was sculpted by Messrs G. Maile and Son Ltd and was unveiled by General Sir Hill Child, Bart., ...
St. Michael's Church, Stramshall
St. Michael's was built in 1850-2 by Thomas Fradgley of Uttoxeter. The tall cross to the left of the path is the village War Memorial, dedicated around 1920.
Photograph by the Rev. C.F.L. Barnwell ...