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Staffordshire memories
Narrow boat 'Bellatrix'.
This is a photograph of me as a young man operating my passenger carrying narrow boat 'Bellatrix', trading as Midland Navigation Packet Boat Service. 'Bellatrix' is a traditional narrow boat built in 1935 at Yarwoods of Northwich.
A memory of Kinver contributed by Mr C Sherwood
Bailey Bridge Pontoon - Canal Cruisers.
I built the boat shown on the right hand side of the photograph.
Bailey Bridge pontoon MKVI N0.19053 was manufactured by Gee Walker & Slater Ltd, Uttoxeter Road, Derby and sent to Engineers Stores, US Army Depot, Newbury, Berkshire on 29/9/1944. At post-war WD surplus sales, a considerable number of these Bailey Bridge pontoons were bought by Levesley's International and stored at their depot at Alrewas near Burton on Trent.
John Dobson, a local boat builder at Burton, began putting cabins on to these pontoons for sale as canal cruisers. I bought the pontoon hull for £18.00, built the cabin to a Dobson design, fitted out the interior and named it 'Agenor'. In August 1950, powered by a British Anzani 4HP outboard ...read more here
A memory of Great Haywood contributed by Alwyn Davies
Critchlows Corner
The building in view was a Post Office and General Stores, the area was known as "Critchlows Corner" after the name of the family that owned the shop. The post office was the only one in the area. At the age of 10 I would cycle to the Post Office to collect our familys child benefit.
The bridge in the background was used by railway engines taking coal from Hem Heath Colliery to Florence Colliery. The trains travelled slowly and on many occasions I have "caught" the train to Longton Park as the line passed it.
Sadly the shop no longer exists and the gardens in which it stood are now a small housing estate. The rail line is no longer ...read more here
A memory of Blurton contributed by David Moore
Holiday in Rolleston
My mother was taken from Tamworth to Rolleston by her Grannie (nee Maria Pegg) for a holiday in a cottage. My mother remembers that the man in the cottage was a brewery worker. He used to bring black stuff like sweets for them to eat. Mum would have been 7 or 8 as she wrote a letter to her mum. We don't know who this man was but could have been a brother.
A memory of Rolleston-On-Dove contributed by Ann Ball
Extracts From The Blythe & Staffordshire books
The elegant, classical façade of the Shire Hall has dominated the Market
Square since it was built in 1798, replacing an earlier Elizabethan
hall. It housed the county and assize courts and the meetings of the
magistrates, and from 1972 until 1991, the Crown Court. It is now
occupied by the Art Gallery and the Library. To the right are the offices of
the Paramount Building Society and the Co-operative Insurance Society
above the Midland Bank.
An extract from from"Stafford Living Memories Pocket Album".
The elegant, classical façade of the Shire Hall has dominated the Market
Square since it was built in 1798, replacing an earlier Elizabethan
hall. It housed the county and assize courts and the meetings of the
magistrates, and from 1972 until 1991, the Crown Court. It is now
occupied by the Art Gallery and the Library. To the right are the offices of
the Paramount Building Society and the Co-operative Insurance Society
above the Midland Bank.
An extract from from"Stafford Living Memories Pocket Album".
In 1737 a Stafford mercer, John Stevenson, started a bank, one of the
earliest outside London. As other banks opened it became known as
the Old Bank, the name seen here on the building to the left of the
Shire Hall. In 1866 it merged with Lloyds Bank, who still occupy
the premises.
An extract from from"Stafford Living Memories Pocket Album".
The flag flies over the Guildhall, which was built in
1934-5. Underneath the stained glass windows of the
council chamber we can see the arcade of shops leading
to the Market Hall, flanked by Marley Modes, a ladies’
dress shop, and Bradleys, a gentlemen’s outfitters. The
extensive bus shelters and the railings of the underground
public lavatories can be seen in the foreground.
An extract from from"Stafford Living Memories Pocket Album".
Well-known stores occupy buildings of very different periods. F W
Woolworth’s, with its large window display and traditional sign, occupies
a building which dates back to the 15th century, while the foundation
stones of Burton’s menswear shop, with its flamboyant sign, were laid in
1935 by Henry Montague Burton and Stanley Howard Burton.
An extract from from"Stafford Living Memories Pocket Album".