The Library, Hawkesyard Priory, Armitage, Staffordshire
A white-robed Dominican Friar seated at study in the Library at Hawkesyard. The Library was built 1901-1902 and opened on December 12th 1904 by by Bishop Castelli. Prior to the availability of a separate ...
The Manor House, Ipstones
Exterior view of the Manor House at Ipstones, Nr. Leek, Stafforshire. This view includes a motor car from the period.
Photographer: William Blake of Longton.
The Mayor and Mayoress of Stafford visit RAF Stafford
Each year soon after their inauguration, the Mayor and Mayoress of Stafford Borough would usually make a civic visit to RAF Stafford. In 1987 the Mayor and Mayoress, Councillor and Mrs D J James are ...
The Mayor of Stafford visits RAF Stafford
The Mayor of Stafford, Miss E.S. Kidman is pictured with a civic party and senior officers during a visit to RAF Stafford.
RAF Stafford was formed 1 December 1939 following the purchase by the Treasury ...
The Mayor’s Sunday Parade and RAF Stafford
During the Mayor’s Sunday Parade RAF Stafford service personnel are pictured marching along Greengate Street towards the Market Square. On the platform on the right taking the salute is the Mayor of ...
The Mayor’s Sunday Parade and RAF Stafford
During the Mayor’s Sunday Parade RAF Stafford service personnel are pictured marching through the Market Square towards Gaolgate Street in Stafford.
On the platform taking the salute is the Mayor of ...
The Military Band Room at RAF Stafford
Pictured are members of the Station's Military Band taking a break and enjoying their refreshments outside the Band Room. The notice on the left of the Band Room door states: “Military Band Room, new ...
The Old Smithy, Wolverhampton Road, Cannock
This postcard, published by Henry Praill of the "Courier" Office, Cannock, shows the Old Smithy, at the top of Wolverhampton Road, Cannock. George Turner was the blacksmith there for many years.
The Potter's Printer at Work.
Pottery factory interior with a view of a potter's printer and his female assistant at work.
They are printing transfers using a 'press print' and an engraved copper plate.
Ink from the engraving ...
The Potter's Wheel, Wellington Works, Longton
Lantern slide showing a thrower and assistant working at a potter’s wheel, with a third worker manually turning the wheel at J.H. Cope’s Wellington Works on the corner of Commerce Street and Stafford ...
The Potter's Wheel. Photographed by William Blake.
Factory interior with pottery workers at the potter's wheel. taken at Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
The Potter's Wheel. Photographed by William Blake.
Factory interior with workers at the potter's wheel. Taken at, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
The Potter's Wheel. Photographed by William Blake.
Factory interior with workers at the potter's wheel. Taken at Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
The Queens Own Staffordshire Yeomanry at Tixall Hall
In this postcard view the soldiers are grouped together outside the Stables at Tixall Hall.
The Aston family from Haywood acquired the Tixall estate through marriage; the hall was rebuilt in 1555. ...
The RAF Mountain Rescue Team at RAF Stafford
Senior Officers are pictured inspecting a display of stretchers, rescue equipment and vehicles organised by the RAF Mountain Rescue Team at their base at RAF Stafford.
RAF Stafford was formed 1 December ...
The Recruiting Sergeant or The King's Shilling
Oil painting by an unknown artist. This painting has been tentatively attributed to the Victorian genre painter Henry Nelson O'Neil (1817-1880).
The painting appears to have been inspired by the Volunteer ...
The Royal Iris, open-topped holiday bus, Uttoxeter
The bus is advertising holidays and cruises in New Brighton and is pictured at the corner of Bradley Street and High Street. Second from lefty is Mr. Sherratt, who had a shop nearby in Bradley Street....
The Sheridan Centre, Stafford
Sales assistants are pictured in a greeting card shop in the Sheridan Centre, which was developed in the 1970s. In later years the centre was partly demolished and given a £5 million redevelopment which ...