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Bishops Offley

Looking west along Dorley Road, Bishops Offley. On the immediate left is the Mission Room. The timber-framed house on the right is Coachman's Cottage. A postcard view published by E.J. Hurlstone, ...

Blymhill Grange, Blymhill

Blymhill Grange is a mid 19th century farm house. Just to the west of the present house is a medieval moated site.

Brancote Wood, near Stafford

Brancote Wood is in Tixall parish, near Stafford. Postcard published by Valentine & Sons Ltd., Dundee and London.

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 ...

Brewood views

A colour-tinted postcard with five views of Brewood: the Canal, Four Ashes Road, Dean Street, the Roman Catholic Church and Market Square. Published by F. Frith & Co. Ltd., Reigate.

Brindley Valley, Cannock Chase

This is Brindley Heath Road in 1980, one of a number of photographs Jake Whitehouse took of locations that feature in postcards from the Great War era. This is the route that the military railway took ...

Brindley Village, Cannock Chase

The Ministry of Pensions Hospital at Brindley Heath on Cannock Chase. The Military Hospital was built in 1916 to serve both Brocton and Rugeley army training camps. The hospital had twelve wards with ...

Brocton Military Camp,

Cannock Chase had been used as a military training ground since the 1870s. During the First World War two military camps were built on the Chase - Brocton Camp, which was located near to Anson's Bank, ...

Brocton Village

The Green, Brocton. Postcard published by W.H. Smith & Son, Stafford. The message on the reverse is from Joe, a soldier at Brocton Camp to his mother. He writes that he has started firing training ...

Brocton Village, near Stafford

Looking up Chase Road from Brocton Green with Pinfold Cottage on the left and Green Farm on the right. Printed by W.H. Smith & Son, Greengate Street, Stafford

Bull Bridge, Penkridge

Bull Bridge was built around 1796 and widened in 1822. In 1963 the road was further widened and the bridge was reconstructed . It is believed to be named after a nearby place name 'Bold'. The bridge ...

Byanna, Eccleshall

The name Byanna (or, as in the postcard caption, 'Biana') means 'beyond the dean', or out of the town. The Bishops of Lichfield lived here after Eccleshall Castle was destroyed in 1643 during the Civil ...

Camp Road, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase

This photograph shows a section of Old Camp Road, close to the Sycamore's where "S" and "T" Battalion Lines were laid out. In the distance is Chase Road where it meets the main road as it bends to the ...

Canal and Locks, Great Haywood

The lock on the Trent and Mersey Canal by Trent Lane in Great Haywood, with the lock keeper's cottage on the right. This was later (until 2017) the Lock House Restaurant and Tea Rooms. Postcard publisher ...

Canal and River Sow, Milford

The Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal near Milford at the point where it crosses the River Sow via an aqueduct. A 'Teesee' postcard published by E.J. Garside, Rock House, Milford.

Canal Bridge, Great Haywood

Postcard view of the towpath alongside the Trent and Mersey Canal at Great Haywood, looking south. The iron bridge seen in the picture carried the drive from Shugborough Hall to Little Haywood over the ...

Canal junction, Great Haywood

View of the canal bridge and wharf from the Trent and Mersey Canal; the bridge marks junction of the canal with the Staffordshire and Worcester Canal. The building on the far left was a corn mill, ...

Cannock Chase

A 'Teesee' series postcard published by Praill's, Couriers Office, Cannock and Hednesford. postmarked 9 September 1933. The exact location of this view is not known.