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Calash

Purple silk calash lined with hessian. Four hoops with material gathered in between. Belonged to Mary Landor (1777-1860), daughter of John Landor, Rector of Colton. She was a spinster and spent ...

Cottage interior

This oil painting is signed and dated 'Drummond 1879' (Julian Drummond 1824-1906). height - 495mm width - 673mm

Dr. Henry Sacheverell

Dr. Henry Sacheverell (1672-1724), clergyman and politician, was born at Marlborough, Wiltshire. His first post was as Vicar of Cannock, and he was later preacher at St. Saviour's, Southwark. As Vicar ...

Eighteenth Century Slippers

During the 1700s womens fashion went by a simple idea of big and tall, to the extent that arms on chairs had to be taken off to accommodate for the width of womens dresses and some women had such vastly ...

George Anson, Admiral Lord Anson

George Anson was born at Shugborough on 23 April 1697, the second son of William Anson. He married Elizabeth Yorke, daughter of Lord Hardwicke in 1748, and died suddenly at his home at Moor Park, Hertfordshire ...

George Anson, Admiral Lord Anson

George Anson was born at Shugborough on 23 April 1697, the second son of William Anson. He married Elizabeth Yorke, daughter of Lord Hardwicke in 1748, and died suddenly at his home at Moor Park, Hertfordshire ...

George Anson, Admiral Lord Anson

George Anson was born at Shugborough on 23 April 1697, the second son of William Anson. He married Elizabeth Yorke, daughter of Lord Hardwicke in 1748, and died suddenly at his home at Moor Park, Hertfordshire ...

George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth

George Legge, 3rd Earl and 5th Baron of Dartmouth (1755-1810). He was born at Sandwell Hall in 1755 and married Lady Frances Finch (1761-1838), daughter of the 3rd Earl of Aylesford, in 1782. He was Tory ...

Granville Leveson-Gower

Granville Leveson-Gower (1721-1803), 3rd Baron and 2nd Earl Gower and Marquess of Stafford. He was born at Trentham and was a son of John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower, and Lady Evelyn Pierrepoint. He ...

Hannah Longworth

Oil painting. A portrait of Hannah, wife of George Longworth, a surgeon. She was born before 1721 and died in 1780. Dimensions: height - 760mm, width - 610mm Artist: Michael Keeling (b. 1750, Stafford, ...

Henry Bilson Legge

Henry Bilson Legge (1708-1764), Chancellor of the Exchequer. He was the fourth son of William Legge, 1st earl of Dartmouth, and was born at Patshull Hall in Staffordshire. He was Chancellor of the Exchequer ...

Henry Evans Esq., Burton-on-Trent area

Mr Evans (b.1731) was the founder of the brewery on the western side of High Street in 1754, whose daughters married into the Worthington family. When he retired he bought Caudwell Hall in Derbyshire. ...

Josiah Wedgwood. Photographed by William Blake.

Lantern slide with a portrait of Josiah Wedgwood. This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.” A small folder ...

Lady Anne Bridgeman

Lady Anne Newport, wife of Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 4th Baronet and mother of Sir Henry Bridgeman who inherited Weston Park after the death of his uncle, the 4th Earl of Bradford, in 1762. She was the ...

Lichfield - Guildhall [Guildsman]: wash drawing

'Frater Guilde Beate Marie Lich. 1350.' Showing a guildsman in a hooded coat with a patriarchal cross on one arm, holding a hat. Anonymous, ['J.W.']

Nathaniel Barrett, Oaken Hall, near Codsall

Gilt framed oval watercolour portrait of Nathaniel Barrett (died 1795) of Oaken Hall, High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1774. He is wearing a light grey jacket with a black ribbon in his hair.

Nathaniel Barrett's wife, Oaken Hall, near Codsall

Gilt framed oval watercolour portrait of the wife of Nathaniel Barrett of Oaken Hall. She is wearing a low cut blue dress with yellow trim.

Portrait of member of Whitby family

Portrait of a bewigged man in a brown buttoned-up coat and white shirt. Portrait of a member of the Whitby family of Haywood Abbey, Great Haywood in a circular painted surround. Gilt picture frame. Thomas ...

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