Chaseley Road and Penkridge Bank Road, Rugeley
A view clearly recognisable today: Chaseley Road on the left joins Penkridge Bank Road, looking towards Rugeley. The current Chase Inn can be seen amongst the trees on the left. It had previously been ...
The War Memorial, Anson Street, Rugeley
The 1921 War Memorial in its original Mutton Green location on Anson Street, Rugeley. The Police station (built 1907) is on the left and the Post Office (built in about 1910) is on the right. The memorial ...
Sister Dora Convalescent Hospital, Milford
The Sister Dora Convalescent Home. Royalties from Margaret Lonsdale's book "Sister Dora" were used to built the Convalescent Home at Milford. Dorothy Pattison, or Sister Dora, was famous for her work ...
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 ...
White Bridge, Stafford
The White Bridge over the River Sow. The Brine Baths and the tower of St. Mary's Church can be seen in the background. The boy in the picture is identified on the postcard as 'the son of Bally Hill'. ...
Ladder Bridge, Stafford
The Ladder Bridge spanned the River Penk at its junction with the Sow. It no longer exists although a new cycle track connecting Baswich Lane with Tixall Road has been built close to the site. The postcard ...
Ladder Bridge and River Sow, Stafford
The Ladder Bridge spanned the River Penk at its junction with the Sow. It no longer exists although a new cycle track connecting Baswich Lane with Tixall Road has been built close to the site. The postcard ...
Hednesford War Memorial
A postcard view of Hednesford's War Memorial. Note the two shells positioned at the front corners. It looks different without today's screen of birch trees behind.
It was built on land at the edge ...
Bowcroft, Penkridge
Bowcroft Cottages in New Road is a restored timber-framed range of three bays, dating from the 16th or 17th centuries.
Postcard published by A.L. Pearson and postmarked 26 April 1907.
3 Market Place, Cannock
A postcard showing the rear of 3 Market Place (Church Street), Cannock with a man and woman in doorway and Croquet hoops in the lawn. It is postmarked Cannock, 1909. This house was later Lloyds Bank ...
Bishton Hall
Bishton Hall was built by John Sparrow, a banker, in the 1770s. When he died his daughter, Charlotte, added the two bowed blocks on either side of the main entrance.
The hall became the home of a ...
Marston Road, Stafford
A colour-tinted view looking north along Marston Road. On the right is the junction with Peel Terrace and behind the railings to the left was Stafford Union Workhouse, later Fernleigh Hospital and Old ...
Near the Brick Bridge, Stafford
This young man appears in several photographs from a group dated 1913 to 1915. Brick Bridge spanned the River Sow.
This image is likely to have been taken about 18 to 20 metres east by south of the ...
Cannock War Memorial
Positioned in front of Cannock's town centre 1902 bandstand, the war memorial was dedicated on May 22nd 1923 and formally handed over the the Town Council the following June. It was originally intended ...
M and N line huts along Old Acre Valley, Brocton Military Camp
This view of Brocton camp shows two types of accommodation hut, those for officers and those for enlisted men. The officers each had their own stove and the photograph shows the hut in the foreground ...
Hagley Road, Rugeley
A view of the second turning off Hagley Road looking towards Cannock Chase. The road leads off to the stables and pool belonging to Hagley Hall. The rooflines of the houses in the distance have been touched-up ...
Walk Mill, near Eccleshall
Walk Mill dates from the late eighteenth century and was used for grinding corn. There was an earlier mill on this site which was used for fulling or “walking” cloth, hence the name.
The waterwheel ...
Main Road, Great Haywood
Looking along the Main Road, from close to the Square, away from the centre of the village towards Tolldish.
Postcard published by R.W. Dawson, Bridge Street, Stafford. postmarked 7 December 1911.