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Boathouse Lane, Armitage

A view looking along Boathouse Lane from the junction with New Road, Armitage. The houses no longer exist. Written from Armitage Rectory on 27 January 1913 saying that they had a lot of snow here. ...

Coton Hill Hospital, Stafford

Coton Hill Asylum was built in the 1850s and opened in 1854. It was originally built as an extension to the County Asylum in order to house private patients. It was to be known as The Institution for ...

Coton Hill Hospital, Stafford

Coton Hill Asylum was built in the 1850s and opened in 1854. It was originally built as an extension to the County Asylum in order to house private patients. It was to be known as the Institution for ...

Coton Hill Hospital, Stafford

Coton Hill Asylum was built in the 1850s and opened in 1854. It was originally built as an extension to the County Asylum in order to house private patients. It was to be known as the Institution for ...

Primitive Methodist Church, Heath Hayes

Replacing a smaller 1873 chapel, the Bourne Primitive Methodist Chapel was built in 1899-1900 by T. Mason of Hednesford on the corner of Hednesford Road and Chapel Street. It some seated 400 worshippers ...

Bagot Street, Abbots Bromley

Bagot Street looking rowards the Market Place. On the right is Church House, on the corner of Church Lane and Bagot Street. Church House is a timber-framed building on a brick plinth, built in 1619 as ...

Bagot Street, Abbots Bromley

Bagot Street looking rowards the Market Place. On the right is Church House, on the corner of Church Lane and Bagot Street. Church House is a timber-framed building on a brick plinth, built in 1619 as ...

Anglesey Hotel, Hednesford

The Anglesey Hotel, Hednesford viewed from Market Street. It was built in 1831 by Edmund Peel of Tamworth, son of Sir Robert Peel of Drayton Manor and brother to Robert, sometime British Prime Minister. ...

Armistice Day Ceremony, Cannock Chase

Leonora, Countess of Lichfield, and Patrick, 5th Earl of Lichfield laying a wreath at the annual Remembrance Day Serice at the Commonwealth War Cemetery at Broadhurst Green on Cannock Chase.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, Broadhurst Green, Cannock Chase

The majority of the graves belong to Servicemen from both sides of the conflict who died within the Cannock Chase Camps. The majority of the men were either German Prisoners of War or New Zealanders and ...

ANZAC Service, Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, Cannock Chase

Jim Preston, a Durham Light Infantry veteran of North-west Europe, Malaya and Korea places a wreath on behalf of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade at the annual ANZAC Service held at the Commonwealth War ...

Commonwealth War Cemetery, Cannock Chase

This postcard is titled 'The German cemetery', although it actually shows the Commonwealth War Cemetery at Broadhurst Green on Cannock Chase. It was known locally as the 'German cemetery' until the creation ...

Commonwealth War Cemetery, Cannock Chase

This colour-tinted postcard is titled 'The German cemetery', although it actually shows the Commonwealth War Cemetery at Broadhurst Green on Cannock Chase. It was known locally as the 'German cemetery' ...

Weston views, near Stafford

Postcard with three views of Weston: the Church, the Green, and a view of the footbridge carrying Boat Lane over the Gayton Brook. Postcard published by William Shaw of Burslem. Postmarked August 1923....

Railway Engine "Isabel", Stafford

The engine is the narrow gauge locomotive 'Isabel', built by W.G. Bagnall Ltd. in 1897 for the Cliffe Hill Granite Company. The engine was named after John Rupert Fitzmaurice's (1865-1949) wife Isabel ...

The Lock up, Gnosall

Gnosall village lock-up, Station Road, built in 1830. Lock-ups, often found in rural communities, were a convenient place to detain vagrants and local drunks. Only three lock-ups survive in the county, ...

The Earl's Drive, Alton

The Earl's Drive at Dimmingsdale, near Oakamoor. The building is Dimmingsdale Lodge, built in the late 19th century in an Italianate style as an entrance lodge for Dimmingsdale, which part of the Earl ...

Hales Hall, Hales

Hales Hall was built in 1806 and extensive extensions were added in the mid 19th century. It belonged to the Buchanan family until the early 20th century. From 1916 it belonged to Ernest Byfield Hall ...