Strawing china for packing
A pottery worker "Strawing" China as part of the packing process. Photographed by William Blake.
Street party to celebrate VE Day, Burton-on-Trent
Group of people, possibly the residents of Eldon Street, Winshill, celebrating VE day in 1945.
Streets Corner, Walsall Wood
This photograph shows John Jackson a coal miner born in Walsall Wood, and his second wife Hannah Jackson, nee Street, Hannah lived in the house until her death in 1935.
Stubbs' Walks Bandstand, Newcastle-under-Lyme
A group of well dressed gentlemen standing by the Bandstand in Stubbs' Walks, for an unknown occasion. Stubbs' Walks was an old canal route, and before this was a piece of common land called Stubbs' Field....
Students at Rising Brook School, Stafford
These six student musicians, probably a school jazz band, are pictured during rehearsal in the quadrangle at Rising Brook School. Please contact us if you recognise anyone in the photograph.
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Studio portrait of woman and man
Carte de visite photograph of an unidentified woman and man in Victorian costume, from a photograph album dating from the 1860s to 1890s, from Eccleshall.
the photographer is Bates of 264 High Holborn, ...
Studio Portrait, Stafford
Studio Portrait of an unidentified man wearing masonic or friendly society regalia and holding a sword is from the Bertam Sinkinson collection. Written on the edge of the glass negative is the name 'Herbert' ...
Studio Portrait, Stafford
Studio Portrait of an unidentified couple from the Bertam Sinkinson collection.
This glass plate was probably taken by Weiss & Fowke. Charles Fowke was based at the Victoria Road studio from about ...
Summer Staff Dance at Biddulph Grange Orthopaedic Hosptial
Both indoor and outdoor hospital staff are pictured here in the front hall of Biddulph Grange.
Sunbeam Motor Car, Burton-upon-Trent
This Sunbeam two-1seat open tourer motor car is parked outside the former George Street Chapel, which later became the Trinity Free Church. The building remains (2024) and is currently known as ‘Confessions’, ...
Sunday School Demonstration Day, Hednesford
A large group of people gathered at a Sunday School Demonstration Day in front of the Anglesey Hotel, Hednesford, before the First World War.
These annual Methodist gatherings on a Monday in July ...
Sunday School Demonstration, Hednesford
A large group of people gathered at a Sunday School Demonstration Day in front of the Anglesey Hotel, Hednesford, before the First World War.
These annual Methodist gatherings on a Monday in July ...
Sunday School Outing to Trentham Gardens
Members of Rugeley Congregational Sunday School are pictured on an outing on the steps leading from the gardens to the courtyard buildings at Trentham Gardens. The School was on the corner of Heron Street ...
Sunday School Treat at Clayton Green, Newcastle-under-Lyme
An outing to the rural Clayton Green is captured here. Such outings were becoming more popular at the time amongst all classes of society.
Superintendent and Matron, Miners' Convalescent Home, Rudyard
Mr and Mrs John Cooper, Superintendent and Matron of the Miners' Convalescent Home, Rudyard from its opening in 1925. Mr Cooper was President of the North Staffordshire Miners Federation, and his wife ...
Sutton family, Cheddleton
The Sutton family standing in their back yard. James and Louise Sutton lived with their family at Babylon Bank on Cheadle Road, Cheddleton. James Sutton was a papermaker at Brittain's paper mill.
Swainsley Hall, Manifold Valley
Three men standing in a doorway at Swainsley Hall. The man standing in the middle may be Gilbert Charles Wardle.
The house was built in 1867 for a London solicitor called Roscoe. Thomas Wardle (later ...
Swimming Gala, Royal Brine Baths, Stafford
The Mayor of Stafford, Alderman C E Fowke hands the Hastings Medhurst girls’ inter-school shield to Joyce Pearce, representing the successful Riverway School team, at the joint annual gala of the Stafford ...