Last Sitting of the Stone Bench of Magistrates,
The last sitting of the Stone Bench of Magistrates before being amalgamated into the Stafford Bench.
From left to right are (back row) Joan Holland, Shirley Bloor, Ellis Bevan, Joyce Farnham, Eileen ...
Magistrates from the Borough of Stafford,
This photograph was taken outside Friars Cottage during the year of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887.
The mayor is possibly Alfred Ward, who was in office 1887 - 1888.
Some of the magistrates ...
The Life, Trial, Character & Behaviour of Thomas Oliver - A local tragedy from the Enoch Wood Scrapbook
This is the tragic life story of 28-year old former apprentice surgeon Thomas Oliver, once of Stourbridge and Rugby, then of Burslem.
"A diligent, regular and humane young man..."
The people of ...