The Old Gaol, Penkridge
Built in the early 19th century, the Old Gaol was the village lock-up and stands on Bellbrook. The building was carefully restored by Penkridge Civic Society in the late 1990s and opened as Penkridge ...
The Old Law Courts, Cannock
The court building dated from 1862, but it was demolished in the latter part of the 20th century and replaced by the current main Police station in Wolverhampton Road, Cannock which was built in the early ...
The Old Police Station, Burton upon Trent
Lantern slide view of the old Police Station, built in 1848, which stood at the junction of Guild Street and Station Street. It was replaced in 1910 when a new Police Station was opened alongside the ...
The Old Town Hall, Leek
The building used to stand at the junction of Sheepmarket and Stanley Street (formerly Custard Street), on the site of the old Market Cross. It was built in about 1806 and used for a variety of purposes. ...
The Police House, 138 Ford Green Road, Smallthorne
This plan is of the police house in Smallthorne which was a two storey building with a small cellar. Diagrams (clockwise from top):
- Site plan (Scale 1:100)
- The front of the police house
- The back ...
The Pound, Pattingham
The village pound was a lock-up which stood on the north side of Newgate near the junction with Westbeech Road. It was demolished in about 1961.
The Round House, Alton
This solidly built structure with stone walls, roof and cupola dates from c1815. It was erected as the village's lock-up, with the purpose of housing felons. Clearly it would have been virtually impossible ...
The Round House, Alton
This is a view of the village lock-up, built in 1819 and renovated in 1977.
The Spitfire, Bethesda Street, Hanley
The temporary "greenhouse" being built to house the Spitfire RW 388 outside the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in Bethesda Street. This aircraft was manufactured in Castle Bromwich in 1945. Mounted ...
The Station Drama Club, RAF Stafford
The Station Drama Club presents the comedy 'Queen Elizabeth Slept Here' at Stafford Prison.
RAF Stafford was formed 1 December 1939 following the purchase by the Treasury of 362 acres of land near ...
The Stocks, Penkridge
This colour tinted postcard view shows the village stocks which stand in front of the Old Gaol in Penkridge. Built in the early 19th century, the Old Gaol was the village lock-up and stands on Bellbrook. ...
The Stocks, Penkridge
This postcard view shows the village stocks which stand in front of the Old Gaol in Penkridge. Built in the early 19th century, the Old Gaol was the village lock-up and stands on Bellbrook. The building ...
The Stocks, Penkridge
In the foreground can be seen the village stocks which stand in front of the Old Gaol. Built in the early 19th century, the Old Gaol was the village lock-up and stands on Bellbrook. The building was ...
The Towers, Stafford Gaol,
A tower was built at each corner of the gaol in the mid-nineteenth century to provide living accommodation for prison warders, and would have afforded some supervision over the site. When the Crescent ...
The Village, Wetley Rocks
The War Memorial, Anson Street, Rugeley
The 1921 War Memorial in its original Mutton Green location on Anson Street, Rugeley. The Police station (built 1907) is on the left and the Post Office (built in about 1910) is on the right. The memorial ...
The White Lion Inn and lock up, Stafford
The White Lion Inn was built on the site of the medieval St. John's Hospital and Chapel on Lichfield Road; the rear structure of the inn included stonework from the old chapel. On the right is the eighteenth ...
Treadwheel, Stafford Gaol
Treadwheels were introduced as a form of prison punishment in 1817, often serving no other purpose than to enforce hard, monotonous work, though some powered pumping or grinding machines.
At Stafford ...