Satnall Hills, Cannock Chase

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Date:1950 - 1955 (c.)

Description:Travelling towards Stafford just before the Shugborough main entrance. On the right can be seen part of the Milford gravel quarry worked in 1923 by Hubert Nickolls. In the 1930s and 1940s the company ran the local bus service to Stafford as well as ferrying children to and from school. During World War II coal was delivered to Milford station and the company would then deliver it to local homes.

Published by A.W. Bourne, Leicester. A.W. Bourne of 32 Babingly Drive, Leicester, was a real photographic postcard publisher who published postcards widely throughout the Midland Counties in the 1950s and 60s.

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Source: Mr Jake Whitehouse

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