Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
This postcard view was taken quite early on in the development of Rugeley Camp as parts of it are still being built and the roadway is requiring its finishing coating. Initially the materials were brought ...
Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
A heavily re-touched postcard view of Penkridge Bank Road. Interestingly, the caption has been censored by removing the location of the military camp. Of the many hundreds of thousands of postcards that ...
Penkridge Bank, Rugeley
Penkridge Bank was the main road to the Rugeley Camp from Rugeley. Rugeley Camp was also known as Penkridge Bank or Hednesford Camp on some postcards.
The house on the right is still there today. ...
Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase
A wider view of the Camp from the east, looking at Battalion Line numbers 17 to 19 nearest the camera. Interesting to see the conifer trees on the right hand side which proves that there had been some ...
The Village, Great Haywood
View of the north side of The Square. On the left is the Clifford Arms Hotel showing the new building built in the early 1930s. opposite can be seen the butcher's shop advertising 'Cold Storage' and ...
The Vicarage, Stowe by Chartley
The Vicarage was built in 1895 and was the home of Rev. Walter Kyte Coles at the time of this photograph.
Postcard published by Raphael Tuck & Son Ltd., London.
Trent Lane, Great Haywood
A view of Trent Lane, Great Haywood looking from the railway bridge towards the village centre. The cottages in this lane were built around 1800 to 1805 to house tenants and domestic servants of the Anson ...
Pershall, near Eccleshall
A colour-tinted postcard view of the road through Pershall, near Eccleshall. On the left is Cromwell House. All the buildings in this photograph still stand.
Postcard published by William Shaw of ...
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 ...
New Zealand Rifle Brigade, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
Three special trains moved the 5th Reserve Depot from Salisbury Plains to Brocton on 27 September 1917. From then on fresh troops arriving from New Zealand to the New Zealand Rifle Brigade were sent directly ...
NZRB in the snow, Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
The New Zealanders are playing happily in the snow of 1917 which must have arrived not long after they came to Brocton Camp in the September of that year. Named the ‘Cannock Chase Reserve Centre’ the ...
Back of the Golf House, Brocton, Cannock Chase
A couple are seen walking down the narrow track at the rear of the Cannock Chase Golf Course Clubhouse which is now a private home. The Golf Club moved to their present location at Brocton Hall in 1922. ...
Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
This photograph has been taken from the Parade Ground of either "P" or "Q" Battalion Lines. Judging by the angle it could be "P" otherwise the YMCA Hut would be in view. In the distance to the right ...
Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
The white lines to the right of the road show the freshly dug earth covering some of the many miles of sewerage pipes laid below both Camps. The large building to the right is the YMCA, one of numerous ...
Oldacre Valley, Brocton, Cannock Chase
Long before the gravel pit was opened at the bottom of Old Acre Lane, Brocton there were fields lined with hedgerows. The land rising to the right is Tar Hill where "J" Lines were situated. Centre of ...
Brocton Camp, Cannock Chase
8th Training Reserve Battalion at the top of Chase Road in "J" Lines before it descends down into Brocton village. Behind the four standard accommodation huts is the Regimental Institute and the building ...
St. Thomas Mill, Stafford
St. Thomas' Mill was built on the site of a medieval priory which was dedicated to St. Thomas Becket. The priory was broken up during the Dissolution.
In 1765 the property passed to the ancestors ...
Springslade Lodge, Cannock Chase
Springslade Lodge, on Camp Road, is a popular café with walkers, cyclists and horse riders on Cannock Chase. Close by is the Katyn Memorial.
Postcard published by E.T.W. Dennis & Sons Ltd., Scarborough ...