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Coton Hill Hospital, Stafford

Coton Hill Asylum was built in the 1850s and opened in 1854. It was originally built as an extension to the County Asylum in order to house private patients. It was to be known as the Institution for ...

Coton, Gnosall

Looking along Newport Road towards Gnosall village centre from Coton. On the extreme left is the Navigation Inn, then Joseph James Walwyn's grocers shop and slightly further along can be seen the bridge ...

Cotton College, Cotton

An Aerofilms postcard view of Cotton College, also known as St. Wilfrid's College. Cotton Hall was built in the 18th century by the Gilbert family. In 1844 it was sold to the Earl of Shrewsbury and ...

Coulthwaite's Training Stables, Hednesford

Tom Coulthwaite's stables are the red-roofed buildings in the left middle distance in this colour-tinted postcard view taken from Hednesford Hills, near the present day Raceway. They have since been ...

Council School, Great Wyrley

Built in 1882, the average attendance then being 160. It was enlarged in 1906. By 1910 the premises were unsatisfactory and the school managers were instructed to reduce numbers by excluding children ...

County Buildings, Stafford

The buildings were designed by an emerging young architect, Henry Hare and opened in October 1895. Henry won £150 in a competition in 1892 to design the new council hall in which County Councillors could ...

County Road, Stafford

County Road looking toward the Gaol.The pub on the corner is the King's Head, built in 1810. When this picture was taken the licensee was John Wade who ran the pub from 1906 until 1937.

Creswell Chapel Ruins, near Stafford

Creswell Chapel of Ease dates from around 1150. The only visible remains of this chapel is a partial ruin standing in fields to the northwest of the village proper. It was a subsidiary chapel of the ...

Cross Keys, Penkridge

The Cross Keys public house, Filance Lane, Penkridge stands next to Filance Bridge and the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal. Postcard published by District View Publishing Co., 117 Loughborough ...

Crossley Stone and Bow Street, Rugeley

Crossley Stone runs off Elmore Lane near the park in Rugeley. The three-storey house on the right is number 20 Crossley Stone, a late 18th century Grade II listed house, and it is a side return of the ...

Crown Bridge, Penkridge

Looking west across Crown Bridge, Penkridge towards the tower of St. Michael's Church.

Croxton Church, near Eccleshall

Built in 1853-1854, the architect of St. Paul's Church, Croxton was Ewan Christian. A postcard published by E.J. Hurlstone of High Street, Eccleshall.

David Hollin Nurses Home, Stafford General Infirmary

David Hollin was a boot and shoe manufacturer. He lived in Highfield Manor on Newport Road. In 1916 he left £12,000 in his will 'for the erecting and furnishing of a Nurses' Home'. The David Hollin Nurses' ...

Dean Street, Brewood

Looking north-east along Dean Street, Brewood. The building seen here on the left is known as the Old Smithy Cottage and was originally a single-storey house, built in about 1350. The spire of Church ...

District Hospital, Rugeley

The Rugeley District 'Cottage' Hospital and Provident Dispensary was built by public subscription in 1871 after the designs of W. A. Bonney C.E. and stood on Brereton Road on land donated by the Earl ...

Dolphin Fountain, Alton Towers

The Dolphin Fountain in its own lake and adjacent to the Pagoda Fountain. This postcard view was franked at 9.00 PM on 11 August 1938 in Wolverhampton and posted to an address in Tarporley, Cheshire. Alton ...

Doxey, Stafford

These houses had recently been built, The plots were intended to attract railway workers, being a few minutes walk from the engine sheds. Coal has been delivered to one of the houses on the left. Postcard ...

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 ...