Brocton Lodge
Brocton Lodge, formerly Brocton Villa dates from the early 19th Century. It orignally belonged to the Chetwynd family of Brocton Hall.
Published by William Shaw of Burslem.
Brocton village
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. Posted in 1920.
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
Brookfield's, Stafford
Brookfields shop was on the corner of Market Square and Greengate Street. It was run by brothers Arthur and Stuart Brookfield. In 1909 Stuart died when he fell from his horse at the top of Baswich Lane. ...
Brookfield's, Stafford
Brookfield's shop was on the corner of Market Square and Greengate Street. One of a series of cards used for advertising, this one depicts the furniture department. The shop was owned by brothers Arthur ...
Broughton Hall
Broughton Hall was built for Sir Thomas Broughton in the mid-sixteenth century, possibly on the site of an earlier building. During the eighteenth century the ornate timber work was covered in plaster, ...
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 ...
Bungalow interior, Kings Bromley
An interior of a cottage in Kings Bromley. Postcard by an unidentified publisher.
Bus Station and Mining College, Cannock
The original Mining College was founded 1891. The 1920s building which replaced it was enlarged and opened in October 1929 by Viscount Chelmsford. It cost about £25,000 of which £18,000 was a grant from ...
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 ...
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
Taken from elevated ground, a cottage somewhere on Cannock Chase. Open heathland behind with a conifer plantation on horizon
Cannock Chase views
A composite postcard with five views of places around Cannock Chase: Shugborough Hall; Ingestre Hall; Essex Bridge; the Bottle Lodge, Tixall; Main Road, Great Haywood.
Postcard published by W.H. Smith ...
Cannock Chase views
Written from Sister Dora Nursing Home on Milford Common. A father writing to his daughter on 30 Oct 1917 about the area and the food he is expected to eat: obviously a patient in the Nursing Home. From ...
Cannock Chase views
Five views on and around Cannock Chase and Hednesford: No. 3 Pit, west Cannock Colliery, Hednesford; The Camp, Cannock Chase; West Cannock Colliery, Hednesford; Hednesford, from Church Hill; near the ...