Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase views
A postcard with views of Rugeley Camp and the surrounding area. In the centre is a photograph of Rugeley Town Hall. Published by W.H. Smith & Son, Stafford and postmarked 12 November 1916.
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Firing practice, Great War Camps, Cannock Chase
Although this card is applicable to both Brocton and Rugeley Camps it includes rare images of recruits undertaking firing practice. It demonstrates the recruits in one of the firing positions that were ...
Rugeley Camp verse
The verse on this card has tried to capture the essence of training at Rugeley Camp. It is written in the style of black humour typical of the First World War.
Army Service Corps menu card, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
A farewell dinner menu card. The 240th Company of the Royal Army Service Corps was formed in February 1915. They served as 39 Reserve Park and remained at home (on Cannock Chase), although it had originally ...
Soldiers and W.A.A.C.s, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
Four members of the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (W.A.A.C.) with a sergeant from the Army Service Corps (A.S.C.). On the front row are two officers and a young boy. The officer on the left holds a Staffordshire ...
W.A.A.C.s, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
A portrait photograph of two women in Women's Auxiliary Army Corps uniforms at Brocton Camp. Seated is Gladys Harvey (1894-1977) from Rugeley who was a W.A.A.C. between 1917 and 1919 and worked as a waitress ...
Gladys Harvey, W.A.A.C., Brocton Camp
Pictured in her Women's Auxiliary Army Corps uniform is Gladys Harvey of Rugeley. She was enrolled on 13th September 1917 and discharged on 19th October 1919. She worked as a waitress at Brocton Camp ...
Near Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
This view may show the path leading to the Sherbrook Stepping Stones from the Punch Bowl at the northern edge of Cannock Chase. At the top of the hill there are clumps of Scots pines that were planted ...
Cannock Chase, Rugeley
Judging by the caption and the slope this view is on the north-western perimeter of Cannock Chase and the land is flat in comparison and farmland. The water looks like a man-made feature, possibly a former ...
Urban District Council Offices, Cannock
In 1877 Cannock was divided into the three wards of Cannock, Chadsmoor, and Hednesford under a Local Board which had offices in Church Street from 1880. . The Urban District was established under ...
Top of Market Street, Hednesford
Save for the style of lighting and the road markings, this postcard view was little changed from that of fifty years earlier. Eskrett Street is midway on the left with the Progressive Working Men's Club ...
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 ...
St. James' Church, Ogley Hay, Brownhills
St James', Ogley Hay, then distinct from Brownhills, was consecrated in 1851 to meet the needs of the expanding population. It cost £3,760, was designed by Wolverhampton architect G.T. Robinson and built ...
Convent of the Holy Rosary, Cannock
Opened in 1898 by the Sisters of the Christian Retreat, the Convent later became Lyncroft School in the 1970s and then Chase Academy in 1998, since renamed Chase Grammar School.. The Convent building ...
Pelsall Road, Brownhills
The last two buildings to the right of this delightful postcard still exist (2018). The one facing, far right, was built as the offices of Brownhills Board of Health in 1882 on Chester Road opposite the ...
Milford Village
Brocton Road looking across Milford Common towards the Barley Mow.
Postcard published by Valentine & Sons, Dundee and London, in 1936.
Milford from the Chase
Milford Common looking towards the Barley Mow from the hills on the northern edge of Cannock Chase.
Published by William Shaw, Burslem.
Sydney Fountain and Gaolgate, Stafford.
Looking down Gaolgate from Gaol Square. A fountain was erected on Gaol Square in 1889 in memory of Thomas Sydney who was born in a house on the Square in 1805. It was donated by his wife to honour her ...