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.
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Essex Bridge, Great Haywood
Postcard postmarked 28 February 1912.
Essex Bridge, Great Haywood
There has been a bridge crossing the River Trent at Great Haywood since the sixteenth century. It was rumoured that the bridge was built by the Earl of Essex, to allow Queen Elizabeth I to visit him at ...
Essex Bridge, Great Haywood
There has been a bridge crossing the River Trent at Great Haywood since the sixteenth century. It was rumoured that the bridge was built by the Earl of Essex, to allow Queen Elizabeth I to visit him at ...
Essex Bridge, Great Haywood
There has been a bridge crossing the River Trent at Great Haywood since the sixteenth century. It was rumoured that the bridge was built by the Earl of Essex, to allow Queen Elizabeth I to visit him at ...
Essex Bridge, Great Haywood
There has been a bridge crossing the River Trent at Great Haywood since the sixteenth century. It was rumoured that the bridge was built by the Earl of Essex, to allow Queen Elizabeth I to visit him at ...
Essex Bridge, Great Haywood
Postcard postmarked 18 July 1906.
Four Ashes, Brewood
Four Ashes is an area in Brewood parish named after the inn which was distinguished by four ash trees which stood by it. The Four Ashes Inn still stands on the corner of Station Drive on what is now ...
Gailey Pool, near Cannock
The pool is one of three canal-feeding pools or reservoirs at the highest point of the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal. The pool was engineered by John Robinson McClean and was completed in 1855.
Gailey Wharf
Gailey Wharf stands on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, which was engineered by James Brindley and opened in May 1772. The embattled tower is a cottage designed by Brindley. The bridge carries ...
George Taylor, Foreman on the Military Railway, Cannock Chse
George Taylor was foreman of the gang who laid the military railway track from Hednesford to Rugeley Camp. He was apparently a tough character and was in charge of the Irish workers who had to complete ...
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 ...
Grocery Depot, Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
The Navy and Army Canteen Board Central Grocery Depot. The canteen grocery depot at Rugeley Camp, with civilian staff, many of whom were local people.
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 ...
Haywood lock, Great Haywood
A canal boat passing through the lock on the Trent and Mersey Canal by Trent Lane in Great Haywood. The stone canal bridge links Great Haywood (left) with the Essex Bridge and the Shugborough estate ...
Haywood Marina, Great Haywood
View of Haywood Marina from the canal bridge at Haywood Junction. The bridge marks e junction of the Trent and Mersey Canal with the Staffordshire and Worcester Canal.
Postcard photographed by Don ...
Hednesford Road, Brownhills
A deserted Hednesford Road, Brownhills, probably near the junction with the A5 (Watling Street) with gas street lamp and shop front on right.
Postcard published by Evans The Printers, Hednesford.
Hednesford views
A colour-tinted postcard with five views of Hednesford: West Hill (Green Heath Road) looking towards Market Street (the house on the right was the home of Albert Stanley M.P. and Trade Unionist around ...