Bronze Relief Plaque of Dr Henry Faulds
Dr Henry Faulds (1 June 1843 - 24 March 1930) was a scientist noted for developing fingerprinting. Faulds became a doctor having studied mathematics and medicine. He spent time in India before travelling ...
Coal pickers, Wimblebury
Following the Great War (1914-18) the British government returned the coal mines to private ownership on 31 March 1921 having taken direct control of the mines in 1916. The mine owners demanded that miners' ...
County Road, Stafford
View from outside the entrance of HMP Stafford on Gaol Road, along County Road towards Foregate Street. The road in the immediate foreground was the site of the hanging of Dr William Palmer (the 'Rugeley ...
Dr Wiilam Palmer's Instument Case
This medical instrument case once belonged to Dr. William Palmer, born in Rugeley on 6th August 1824, who was hanged at Stafford 14th June 1856. Christened by the Newspapers as "The Rugeley Poisoner" ...
Dr William Palmer's House, Rugeley
William Palmer was hanged for the murder of John Parsons Cooke in 1856 and this was his home at the time. It was rented from the Earls of Lichfield. The murder took place in the Talbot Hotel, directly ...
Forebridge Lock-up, Stafford
The lock-up on Lichfield Road dates from the early eighteenth century. It was built from stone taken from the medieval St. John's Hospital and Chapel which once stood on this site.
Lock-ups were used ...
Funeral of Mrs Mary Weir and her daughter Margaret Weir in Kidsgrove
Widow, Mrs Mary Weir, her four year old daughter and their seventeen year old maid Ellen Hambleton were murdered by Karl Karmer during a robbery on 2 October 1911. Kramer was tried at Stafford Assizes ...
Great Wyrley Outrage
This black and white postcard shows two horses killed in the nationally infamous Wyrley Outrages of 1903-15. The two mares belonging to Captain Harrison of Harrison's Colliery were attacked in August ...
The funeral of Elizabeth Gaskin, Hednesford
Postcard photo of the internment of the body of Elizabeth Gaskell on March 2nd, 1919 at St Peter's Church, Church Hill, Hednesford. Elizabeth was 23 years old. A cordon of police had been drawn up around ...
The funeral of Elizabeth Gaskin, Hednesford
Postcard photograph of the funeral cortège of Elizabeth Gaskell in Market Street, Hednesford on March 2nd, 1919. The local Funeral Director, George Stacey's, horse drawn hearse is passing the Market ...
The Industrial School for Boys, Werrington
The Stafford County Industrial School for Boys opened in 1868 accomodating 107 boys aged or over. Initially the premises were based around an old farmhouse and an adjacent barn and cottages. It originally ...
The murder of Elizabeth Gaskin, Hednesford
Postcard photograph captioned “where the victim was last seen alive” showing the offices of the Valley Colliery, since demolished, at the corner of Rugeley Road and Valley Road, Hednesford. The woodland ...
The murder of Elizabeth Gaskin, Hednesford
Postcard photograph of Henry Gaskin leaving Wolverhampton Road, Cannock following his trial at Cannock Magistrates Court on 13 and 14 March 1919. He had been committed for trial at Stafford Assizes.
Henry ...
The murder of Elizabeth Gaskin, Hednesford
Postcard photograph with the caption ‘The Chase Murder, Feb 1919. Showing 5ft wall over which the body was taken. Tank is several yards from the wall’.
Henry Gaskin climbed the wall to place his murdered ...
The murder of Elizabeth Gaskin, Hednesford
Postcard photograph captioned ‘Where the body was found’ with a group of people at the base of a gasometer. Henry Gaskin hid his wife's dismembered head and clothing in the water below the disused gasometer ...