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Bednall School

The school was built in 1856 by public subscription, the principle benefactor being Lord Hatherton. It was designed to take upto 20 children, both boys and girls. Until 1920 the school was the focal ...

Brereton village

A postcard view of Main Road, Brereton looking south-east towards Lichfield. On the right is the Church of England school building which replaced an earlier school on the same site It was opened in ...

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 ...

Central Schools, Brownhills

Central Schools on the corner of Chester Road North and Pelsall Road, Brownhills. Designed by G.H.Cox in a Queen Anne style dating and built in 1893, the school housed both boys and girls until 1932 ...

Church of England School, Brewood

Class 1 of Brewood Church of England School. The National School was built in 1859-1860 on School Road, replacing the original 1818 building which stands closer to the Market Place. The Monckton family ...

Commonwealth War Cemetery, Cannock Chase

Cannock school children pictured on a trip tot the Commonwealth War Cemetery at Broadhurst Green, Cannock Chase

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 ...

Corporation Street Council Schools, Stafford

Built in 1895. The first headmaster was John Wheeldon, who first came to Stafford in 1880 as Headmaster of the British School in Earl Street. In 1895 he became the first Headmaster of Corporation Street ...

Cotton College, Cotton

An Aerofilms postcard view of Cotton College, also known as St. Wilfrid's College. Cotton Hall was built in the 18th century by the Gilbert family. In 1844 it was sold to the Earl of Shrewsbury and ...

Council School, Great Wyrley

Built in 1882, the average attendance then being 160. It was enlarged in 1906. By 1910 the premises were unsatisfactory and the school managers were instructed to reduce numbers by excluding children ...

Free Library, Stafford

The former Borough library of Stafford, originally known as the ‘New Free Library’, was designed by the Liverpool architects Briggs, Wolstenholme and Thornely in 1912 and extended in 1962 by the Borough ...

Hawkesyard College, Rugeley

Armitage Park, a mid-18th century house, was originally built by Nathaniel Lister. In 1839 it was bought by the widow of Josiah Spode III, who lived there with her son Josiah IV. The house was much improved ...

Hawksyard Priory and College, Rugeley

Armitage Park, a mid-18th century house, was originally built by Nathaniel Lister. In 1839 it was bought by the widow of Josiah Spode III, who lived there with her son Josiah IV. The house was much improved ...

Hospital and School of St. John, Alton

A postcard view looking north of the right range of the Hospital and School, Alton. It was begun in 1840 by A.W.N. Pugin around three sides of a quadrangle, facing Alton Castle. The left range and half ...

King Edward VI Grammar School, Stafford

King Edward VI Grammar School Chemistry Laboratory. Postcard published by Marshall, Keene & Co. of Hove. From the mid 1920s they specialised in producing halftone cards of schools and institutions ...

King Edward VI Grammar School, Stafford

The school from the Newport Road showing extensions built in 1906. Postcard published by Marshall, Keene & Co. of Hove. From the mid 1920s they specialised in producing halftone cards of schools ...

King Edward VI Grammar School, Stafford

The Dining Hall, King Edward VI Grammar School. Postcard published by Marshall, Keene & Co. of Hove. From the mid 1920s they specialised in producing halftone cards of schools and institutions by ...

King Edward VI Grammar School, Stafford

Stafford Grammar School viewed from the Newport Road. In 1551 King Edward VI, in response to a petition from the inhabitants and burgesses of Stafford, granted a Charter establishing one Grammar School ...