3 Market Place, Cannock
A postcard showing the rear of 3 Market Place (Church Street), Cannock with a man and woman in doorway and Croquet hoops in the lawn. It is postmarked Cannock, 1909. This house was later Lloyds Bank ...
Alton Towers, Novelty Postcard
This 'Moving Pictures' novelty postcard contains several views of Alton Towers, one of which, the "T" Room, is shown in the inset viewer on the left. The “T” Room forms part of a series of views that ...
Armistice Day Ceremony, Cannock Chase
The Reverend is leading the Day Service at the Commonwealth War Cemetery on Cannock Chase. Facing him are Leonora, Cointess of Lichfield; PatrickEarl of Lichfield; and Capt. Philip Whitehouse.
Armistice Day Ceremony, Cannock Chase
A group of ex-servicemen and dignitaries waiting to lay their poppy wreaths at the Remembrance Day Service at the Commonwealth War Cemetery at Broadhurst Green, Cannock Chase.
In the centre, holding ...
Armistice Day Ceremony, Cannock Chase
Leonora, Countess of Lichfield, and Patrick, 5th Earl of Lichfield laying a wreath at the annual Remembrance Day Serice at the Commonwealth War Cemetery at Broadhurst Green on Cannock Chase.
Bagnall Lock Bridge, Alrewas
Bridge number 49 on the Trent and Mersey Canal at Bagnall Lock, close to the Kings Bromley road at Alrewas. This postcard scene is of younsters feeding swans from a narrow boat with lots of young onlookers ...
Brereton village
A postcard view of Main Road, Brereton looking south-east towards Lichfield. On the right is the Church of England school building which replaced an earlier school on the same site It was opened in ...
Bus Station and Mining College, Cannock
The original Mining College was founded 1891. The 1920s building which replaced it was enlarged and opened in October 1929 by Viscount Chelmsford. It cost about £25,000 of which £18,000 was a grant from ...
Cannock St. Luke's Football Team
Cannock St. Luke's Bible Class football team for the season 1911-1912. The etched glass window in the background indicates that the team met at a public house. Note the trainer at the far right, holding ...
Church Hill, Hednesford
The postcard view looks down Hednesford's Church Hill to its junction with Uxbridge Street and Rugeley Road, and across into Market Street. The coal miners' houses on the right have been demolished but ...
Edward Buckley with carved wooden chain, Heath Hayes
'Teddy' Buckley worked on the underground pumps at the 'Fair Lady' Colliery at Heath Hayes; so named unofficially by the miners of the Coppice Colliery in tribute to the owner's wife Mrs Bowring Hamilton ...
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 ...
Hall Lane, Norton Canes
A framed postcard view of Hall, Lane Norton Canes showing ladies in a pony and trap talking to man. Steep bank on right, pailings on left. This is believed to show the Old Hall Lane leading to Leacroft ...
High Green, Cannock
Taken in the High Green area of Cannock. Behind the boys can be seen Linford's store, now (2018) a Wetherspoon's public house, 'The Linford Arms'. On its right is 'New Hall' built in 1891 primarily ...
Hill Street, Hednesford
This area, old 'Hedgford' or 'Hedgeford', near the Cross Keys Inn is the original 'centre' of Hednesford, prior to its mid-Victorian expansion due to coal mining which led to Market Street becoming the ...
Horsefair and Upper Brook Street, Rugeley
A fine postcard view of Rugeley at the junction of Horsefair (right), Elmore Lane (left, in front of the Globe Hotel) and Upper Brook Street (ahead). The fine creeper clad building was Dilger's, House ...
Horsefair, Rugeley
A postcard view of Horsefair, Rugeley, looking towards the railway arches. Note the finger direction posts on the traffic island. At this time the north-south traffic would have passed through the narrow ...
Horsefair, Rugeley
A view of Horsefair, Ruugeley looking north-west towards the Globe Hotel. The man on the left appears to be carrying a window frame past a single horse and cart. There is a caravan, possibly belonging ...