https://staffordshirebred.com/2023/06/13/pilot/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/986560e8-7659-4ac3-a94e-41574d0b8970.jpeg986560e8-7659-4ac3-a94e-41574d0b8970https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image.jpgimage2023-06-14T07:39:31+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2013/10/30/haunting-memories/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/cnv00029.jpgCNV00029https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/100_3901.jpg100_3901https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/100_7084.jpg100_7084https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_0382.jpgIMG_03822023-01-15T08:42:24+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2018/08/27/are-you-listening/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/fullsizeoutput_20f2.jpegfullsizeoutput_20f2David is a younger infant here - in my mother's arms. It is perhaps the autumn of 1950, and the National Schoolroom is still clearly standing beside the cottage.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/fullsizeoutput_20f7.jpegfullsizeoutput_20f7Caroline Cotteril Leigh, who laid the foundation stone of Church Cottage. Image copyright belongs to Woodchester Mansion Trust woodchestermansion.org.ukhttps://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/fullsizeoutput_20f3.jpegfullsizeoutput_20f3"Church Cottage", Stonnall. 2017. Image from google.comhttps://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/100_6279.jpg100_6279https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/100_6275.jpg100_6275Rene and George marry at St Peter's Stonnall.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/100_6274.jpg100_6274https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/the-bastins.jpgAlbert Bastin ( 1885-1971); Rose-Marie Horton, nee Sheldon (1929-); Gladys Bastin, nee Deeley (1894-1976); Irene Horton nee Bastin (1916-2010)At the rear of Church Cottage, 1952: Albert Bastin ( 1885-1971); Rose-Marie Horton, nee Sheldon (1929-); Gladys Bastin, nee Deeley (1894-1976); Irene Horton nee Bastin (1916-2010)https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/aunt-rene-and-david1.jpgAunt Rene and DavidAunt Rene dandles my infant cousin David outside her home, Church Cottage, Thornes, Stonnall, Spring 1952. 2018-09-18T09:15:28+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2012/09/17/a-shropshire-lad/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/6048_119493063383_7528982_n.jpg6048_119493063383_7528982_nRosa "A Shropshire Lad", growing in my garden. This rose was bred by David Austin, a Shropshire lad himself, and introduced in 1996. It was named after the wistful late Victorian poetic work by A. E. Housman - not a Shropshire lad! It is said he had never visited the landscape he visited at the time he wrote about it. However, the mood of the poem is echoed perfectly by this beautiful, fragrant, peachy pink bloom.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/100_2969.jpg100_29692018-04-09T09:22:53+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2017/10/18/pearls-for-tears/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/img_1578.jpgIMG_1578Llanfaglan Church, near Caernarfon, is Lord Snowdon's final resting place. It's situation, alone in a field, overlooking the waters of the Menai Straits is idyllic, and its interior, not interfered with since Georgian times, could be no more atmospheric. https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/1200px-hoover_building.jpg1200px-Hoover_BuildingThe 1930's Hoover Building in Perivale. An Art Deco Wentworth Woodhouse, said Betjeman. (Wikipedia)https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/img_1665.jpgIMG_1665https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/img_1661.jpgIMG_1661https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/f4eccf351facf9265f3ca4f9f155162c-prinses-margaret-margaret-rose.jpgf4eccf351facf9265f3ca4f9f155162c--prinses-margaret-margaret-rose2017-10-27T10:56:53+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2017/08/30/study-in-light/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/img_1445.jpgIMG_1445Aunt Mary and Uncle Alfred at the Owletts, looking for all the world, like the figures in my Britain's model farm - my favourite childhood toy.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/img_1443.jpgIMG_1443https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/img_1442.jpgIMG_1442https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/img_1441.jpgIMG_1441Timeless farm life. My mom and Aunt Mary.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/img_1440.jpgIMG_1440https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/img_1439.jpgIMG_1439https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/img_1435.jpgIMG_1435My dad and mom enjoy a spot of week end gardening at The Owletts.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/100_2310.jpg100_2310https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/fullsizerender-5.jpgFullSizeRender-5By accident, in the background of a shot of my slender young mother practicing archery, the Free-light's orchard pylon and control shed. 1952. https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/21169300_10155714881868384_1122695119_o.jpg21169300_10155714881868384_1122695119_oThe Owletts Hall Farm from the south in 1952. Now electricity pylons dominate this view.2023-08-10T07:02:33+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2013/12/12/the-road-to-matrimony/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/100_6275.jpg100_6275NOT my parents wedding....My father's brother, Thomas George Horton marrying his pretty bride Irene Bastin at St Peter's Stonnall, in 1941 with full paraphernalia. https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/100_7211.jpg100_7211https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/100_7223.jpg100_7223https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/100_33351.jpg100_3335https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/100_7221.jpg100_7221https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/100_7199.jpg100_7199https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/100_3335.jpg100_3335https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/100_3024.jpg100_3024https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/100_7206.jpg100_72062023-06-11T00:53:09+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2017/07/05/westerly-sets-the-sun/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/img_1183.jpgIMG_1183https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/the-dancing-marquess.jpgThe Dancing MarquessHenry Cyril Paget, 1875-1905, the 5th "dancing" Marquess of Anglesey. Most of us have one in the family.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/img_1274.jpgIMG_1274https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/100_2260.jpg100_2260Topsy, my dad's Red Setter, in the doorway of the barn. She pined, and died, when he went away to fight. https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/henry-dreer-of-philadelphis-1938-cataloge.jpgHenry Dreer of Philadelphis 1938 cataloge"The New Dawn" was bred by Henry Dreer of Philadelphia in the 1920's. Here it appears in his 1938 catalogue.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/1915507_119490183383_3506847_n.jpg1915507_119490183383_3506847_nRosa "The New Dawn" flowering freely from the pergola at Keeper's Cottage, Orgreave, on a fantastically sunny day.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/100_3904.jpg100_3904https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/img_1182.jpgIMG_1182From The Lichfield Mercury, August 8th, 1941. My dad, Edwin Horton, was 15.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/img_1270.jpgIMG_12702017-07-17T08:27:49+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2016/10/17/one-fleeting-image/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/img_01761.jpgimg_0176https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/img_0176.jpgimg_01762019-09-22T16:02:03+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2016/09/30/on-a-clear-day/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/p1000629.jpgp1000629Ted Horton "taking a break" at the Avion in the 1980shttps://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/p1000626.jpgp1000626Precious handwriting. I notice how he is utilising parts of the existing structure to effect the repair. That's very Horton. Me included.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/p1000624.jpgp1000624https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/p1000623.jpgp1000623On the 2nd of May 1985 -(date on the back thanks to Mom) - my dad has photographed me staring forth with my binoculars from the Barr Beacon War Memorial (236 metres) on a visit home. It's the highest point - looking east- until you get to the Ural Mountains, one often heard. The copper dome was still weeping real verdigris onto the stone back then, before repeated vandalism forced its replacement with green zinc sheets.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/p1000620.jpgp1000620The tea lounge of The Avion, as featured in the souvenir opening in 1938. As reproduced in "Aldridge in Old Photographs," by Jan Farrow.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/p1000619.jpgp1000619From "Aldridge in Old Photographs" by Jan Farrow. The most important day in the Avion's history: it's grand opening in September 1938.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/p1000616.jpgp1000616https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/p1000615.jpgp1000615https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/p1000614.jpgp1000614https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/p1000610.jpgp1000610My dad and Mick in the Avion's office. They were close friends, and Mick gave the eulogy at my dad's funeral.2016-09-30T15:45:43+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2016/04/27/footsteps/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/100_58913.jpg100_5891My dad in the garden of the manor house, Hamstall Ridware. C.1982.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/100_58912.jpg100_5891https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/100_58911.jpg100_5891My dad in the garden of the manor house at Hamstall Ridware. C. 1982.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/100_5891.jpg100_5891My dad in the garden of the old manor at Hamstall Ridware. C. 1982.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/100_58901.jpg100_5890Mother appreciating the Tudor Gatehouse at Hamstall Ridware. C. 1982.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/100_5890.jpg100_5890https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/100_5567.jpg100_5567Edward Cooper's rectory at Hamstall Ridware. 2014. https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/image.jpgimage2016-04-27T20:38:56+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/about/2024-05-12T09:24:43+00:00weekly0.6https://staffordshirebred.com/2015/04/11/out-of-the-woods/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/101_0354.jpg101_0354https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/101_0342.jpg101_0342Fishponds Cottages, in the early 20th century. Via oldmapsonline.orghttps://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/101_0340.jpg101_0340https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/100_9678.jpg100_9678https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/100_7954.jpg100_7954https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cnv00005.jpgCNV00005https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cnv00030.jpgCNV00030https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cnv00008.jpgCNV00008https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/pogles-wood_1202444i.jpgPogles-wood_1202444ihttps://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cnv00001.jpgCNV000012018-05-16T16:38:44+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2015/03/23/where-roads-meet/2015-03-24T22:08:36+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2015/01/18/playing-different-parts/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/img_1523.jpgIMG_1523OS 1901 - Following the extension of Orgreave House. www.oldmapsonline.orghttps://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/img_1522.jpgIMG_1522OS 1881 - Prior to the extension of Orgreave House. www.oldmapsonline.orghttps://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/tumblr_mu94zmwr0d1r2ogbfo1_500.jpgtumblr_mu94zmwR0D1r2ogbfo1_500http://castaroundlesmodes.tumblr.com/post/63273035681/mode-aux-courses-1911-1914https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/georgegorringe.jpgGeorgeGorringeFrom the Imperial War Museum. General Gorringe, 1871-1945https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/img_1518.jpgIMG_1518https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/100_8605.jpg100_8605https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/img_1509.jpgIMG_1509https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/img_1502.jpgIMG_1502https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/img_1505.jpgIMG_15052017-06-25T07:57:08+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2015/01/05/add-other-ingredients-and-mix-well/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/100_4592.jpg100_4592https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/cnv00020.jpgCNV00020https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/img_1486.jpgIMG_1486https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/100_5061.jpg100_5061https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/100_8911.jpg100_8911https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/100_8759.jpg100_8759https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/img_0360.jpgIMG_0360https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/image-1.pngImage-1https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/img_1434.jpgIMG_14342015-01-05T20:59:24+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2014/10/24/for-whom-the-bell-tolls/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/100_9903.jpg100_9903Adapted from 1920's Ordnance Survey via OldMapsOnlinehttps://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/100_9869.jpg100_9869https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/100_9868.jpg100_9868https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/100_9870.jpg100_9870https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/100_9898.jpg100_98982023-07-09T22:31:49+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2014/10/14/lets-join-hands/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/100_59521.jpg100_5952https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/100_9679.jpg100_9679https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/100_8935_2.jpg100_8935_2Barr Beacon, late 20's. My grandmother, Elsie May Sheldon, nee Day, and beloved first-born, my "aunt" Winifred, who wouldn't, thanks to meningitis, make 16.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/100_9701.jpg100_9701https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/img_0380.jpgIMG_0380https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/100_5952.jpg100_5952https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/22313-14909-4.jpg22313-14909-4https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/100_9849.jpg100_9849Received, sincere and helpful advice during her "confinement", by my mother in 1961. That she has preserved it thus some indication that the time holds happy memories for her? 2014-10-15T09:07:30+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2014/09/01/ringing-home/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/100_9698.jpg100_9698https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/100_9525.jpg100_9525https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/100_9564.jpg100_9564https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/100_9565.jpg100_9565https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/100_9610.jpg100_9610https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/100_9680.jpg100_9680https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/100_9688.jpg100_9688https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/100_9687.jpg100_9687https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/100_9686.jpg100_9686https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/100_9681.jpg100_96812014-09-01T19:04:50+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2014/06/14/piping-down-the-valleys-wild/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/100_6196.jpg100_6196https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/100_8871.jpg100_8871https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/100_8870.jpg100_8870https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/100_8869.jpg100_8869https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/100_8868.jpg100_8868https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/100_8867.jpg100_8867https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/100_8866_2.jpg100_8866_2https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/100_8866.jpg100_8866https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/100_8863.jpg100_8863https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/100_8861.jpg100_88612014-06-16T12:25:09+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2013/06/07/and-so-it-flows-part-1/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/100_5538.jpg100_5538https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/100_5537.jpg100_5537https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/100_5554.jpg100_5554https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/100_5521.jpg100_5521https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/100_4532.jpg100_4532https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/100_5524.jpg100_5524https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/326417_10150592784493384_356320012_o.jpg326417_10150592784493384_356320012_o2014-06-04T20:27:55+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2014/05/30/dirty-money/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/100_2638.jpg100_2638Ogreave Hall and Keepers Cottage in the 1990s. vegetation and fencing has proliferated, and the two buildings are no longer simultaneously visible.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/836-0.jpg836-0Horace Roome, a liveried footman at Shugborough Hall, an establishment still grand and wealthy enough to support him in the 1920s when this photograph was taken. Horace Roome worked for the 4th Earl of Lichfield, whose g.g.g.grandparents left Orgreave for Shugborough in 1773. https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/100_7511.jpg100_7511The croft in our early days. Does my bum look big in this?https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/100_8548.jpg100_8548We found dummy partridge eggs - as well as china hens' eggs in the croft. https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/100_8462.jpg100_84622014-05-31T20:26:18+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2014/05/14/those-were-the-days/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/100_8295.jpg100_8295Gorton's Yard, Church Hill, Walsall, c. 1900. Reproduced in "For want of due regulations: Public Health and Housing in Walsall, 1800-1914".https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/100_8201.jpg100_8201https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/100_8196.jpg100_8196https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/100_8194.jpg100_8194https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/100_8193.jpg100_8193https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/100_8191.jpg100_8191https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/100_8190.jpg100_8190https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/100_8168.jpg100_8168https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/100_5045.jpg100_5045https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/100_8172.jpg100_8172St Matthew's parish church, Walsall, a church with Norman origins. Victorian tombstones are interleaved with Myosotis....... ****FORGET ME NOT***2021-01-15T13:36:31+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2014/05/07/the-tiny-parlour/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/100_8229.jpg100_8229Among this little Copse where Forge Street stood, there don't seem to have been any birches planted in memory of the landscape of the "Birch-Hills" before the coal working, the lime working, and the metal working began. There is a posy's worth of bluebells in the grass.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/eaw0007821.jpgEAW000782Green Lane, the Wheway & Son Ltd Birchills Hame & Chain Works and environs, Birchills, 1946. Forge Street can be seen running in a short diagonal near the centre top of the photograph.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/100_8246.jpg100_82461950s advert for the Walsall, Wednesbury and District Society for the Blind. From "Walsall ... https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/eaw000782.jpgEAW000782Green Lane, the Wheway & Son Ltd Birchills Hame & Chain Works and environs, Birchills, 1946https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/100_80251.jpg100_8025https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/100_8033.jpg100_8033https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/100_8034.jpg100_8034https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/100_80321.jpg100_8032https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/100_8031.jpg100_8031https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/100_8032.jpg100_80322014-05-15T09:00:27+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2014/03/15/lambs/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/100_2523.jpg100_2523Gorgeous Kerry Hill ewes and lambs at Little Malvern last year.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/100_4059.jpg100_4059https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/100_7772.jpg100_7772https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/100_4585.jpg100_4585https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/100_4580.jpg100_4580https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/100_4577.jpg100_4577https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/100_3979.jpg100_3979https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/397px-im1916walsall-alfredstanley.jpg397px-Im1916Walsall-AlfredStanleyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/100_7785.jpg100_7785https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/100_7770.jpg100_77702014-05-14T13:42:52+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2014/04/01/beyond-the-curtain-wall/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/cnv00026.jpgCNV00026https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/100_7663.jpg100_7663https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/100_7652.jpg100_7652https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/mss3420-me-lm-1.jpgMSS3420-Me-LM-1https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/100_78791.jpg100_7879https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/100_7879.jpg100_7879https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/100_7884.jpg100_7884https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/100_7661.jpg100_7661https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/100_7900.jpg100_7900https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/100_7721.jpg100_77212014-04-02T06:05:45+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2014/01/29/a-figure-in-the-mist/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/100_7561.jpg100_7561https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/100_7575.jpg100_7575https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/img_1291.jpgIMG_1291https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/img_1290.jpgIMG_1290https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/img_1287.jpgIMG_1287https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/img_1286.jpgIMG_1286https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/img_1285.jpgIMG_1285https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/img_1284.jpgIMG_1284https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/img_1283.jpgIMG_1283https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/img_1280.jpgIMG_12802020-02-21T21:25:53+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2014/01/07/come-up-and-see-my-etching/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/100_7476.jpg100_7476https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/100_7474.jpg100_7474https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/100_7473.jpg100_7473St Mary the Virgin, Aldridge. The Church Tower. January 2014https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/manor-farm-5.jpgManor Farm 5https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/manor-farm-4.jpgManor Farm 4https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/manor-farm-3.jpgManor Farm 3https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/manor-farm-1.jpgManor Farm 1https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/manor-farm-2.jpgManor Farm 2https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/100_7461.jpg100_7461https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/100_74571.jpg100_74572023-02-11T21:32:22+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2013/12/24/a-christmas-mystery/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/100_6855.jpg100_6855Guardsman E.N.Horton. at Lake Tiberius (The Sea of Galilee) 1945https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/100_7387.jpg100_7387https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/100_7318.jpg100_7318https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/100_7372.jpg100_7372https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/100_7355.jpg100_7355https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/100_7350.jpg100_73502020-08-05T15:42:12+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2013/11/12/the-well-laid-table/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/100_1299.jpg100_1299https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/100_7146.jpg100_7146https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/0012nd-batt-sherwood-foresters-21.jpg0012nd batt sherwood foresters (21)https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/100_7120.jpg100_71202024-07-21T11:51:54+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2012/09/25/the-house-that-ted-built/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/100_3656.jpg100_3656The perfect 50's home and motor car.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/100_3653.jpg100_3653Finishing touches....https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/100_3648.jpg100_3648"Topping Out"https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/100_3644.jpg100_3644Coming on......https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/100_3634.jpg100_3634The front door, through which I'll pass tens of thousands of times.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/100_36411.jpg100_3641Mom (what a waist!!) gets stuck in, on the few dozen square yards where, strange to think, she will live for the next 50 years.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/100_3645.jpg100_3645https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/100_3641.jpg100_3641Mom gets stuck in. What a waist!https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/100_3659.jpg100_3659https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/545022_4073412677029_1049872738_n.jpg545022_4073412677029_1049872738_nThe first edition of the one-inch Ordnance Survey map of Lichfield and Birmingham shows Bosty Lane clearly marked. Marks where 155 and its neighbours now stand may denote a row of trees. Then as now, you can look from Bosty Lane over the land of Berryfields Farm - then marked "Bury", and what is now called "College Farm", intriguingly marked "Halfway House". Halfway to what?2019-09-22T16:15:46+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2013/10/17/a-site-to-see/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/100_6948.jpg100_6948https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/100_6952.jpg100_6952https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/100_6951.jpg100_6951https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/100_6947.jpg100_6947https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/100_6946.jpg100_6946https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/100_6945.jpg100_6945https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/100_6944.jpg100_6944https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/100_6943.jpg100_6943https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/100_6942.jpg100_6942https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/100_6940.jpg100_69402014-02-16T09:06:14+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2013/10/02/1947-for-you-the-war-is-over/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/100_6853.jpg100_6853https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/100_62601.jpg100_6260https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/100_6302.jpg100_6302https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/100_6289.jpg100_6289https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/100_6848.jpg100_6848https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/100_62592.jpg100_6259https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/100_6283.jpg100_62832017-08-18T13:55:15+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2013/09/06/my-early-years-between-the-red-house-and-the-white-house/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/100_5421.jpg100_5421https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/100_6698.jpg100_6698https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/100_6506.jpg100_6506A decorative band of tile work.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/100_6507.jpg100_6507THe White House Public House today.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/100_6722.jpg100_6722https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/100_6709.jpg100_6709Spot the difference.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/100_6696.jpg100_6696The box of delights in the corner of the living room. As captivating as my own fizzog.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/100_65131.jpg100_6513"In the rear view": Through my wing mirror I can see the erstwhile site of Red House Farm. Those who farmed there are still commemorated, if you look for the evidence.2023-07-13T14:51:19+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2013/07/26/for-the-love-of-trees/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/100_5739.jpg100_5739A typically gorgeous Needwood scene near Dunstall.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/100_5596.jpg100_5596https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/100_5317.jpg100_5317https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/100_5306.jpg100_5306https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/100_6211.jpg100_6211https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/cnv00007.jpgCNV00007https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/100_6151.jpg100_6151A printed protest at the point where the proposed HS2 line will cross the A515. Near Kings Bromley Wharf, Staffordshire.2017-04-17T07:44:47+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2013/01/18/a-fatherdaughter-bond/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/100_4611.jpg100_4611https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/cnv00001.jpgCNV00001https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/cnv00003.jpgCNV00003https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/100_46211.jpg100_4621https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/100_4621.jpg100_4621https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/100_4623.jpg100_4623https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/100_4622.jpg100_4622https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/11555_216058503383_2174543_n.jpg11555_216058503383_2174543_nTaking a keen interest in concrete.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/100_4619.jpg100_4619https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/100_4618.jpg100_46182013-09-04T07:03:41+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2013/08/14/holiday/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/100_6490.jpg100_6490A golden evening walking home under Bwlch Mawr. Me and my dad in the 80's.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cnv00019.jpgCNV00019https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cnv00013.jpgCNV00013https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cnv00025.jpgCNV000252013-11-01T21:31:48+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2013/07/26/other-peoples-houses/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/100_6255.jpg100_6255https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/100_6256.jpg100_6256https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/100_6281.jpg100_62812021-02-15T16:32:31+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2013/07/09/cool-clear-water/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/06-68-09.jpg06-68-09Pipe Hill Pumping Station in 1968 Two Horizontal Tandem Compound Pumping Engines - Hathorn Davey & Co Ltd, Leeds - 1904 & Ashton Frost & Co Ltd, Blackburn - 1915. An image from Peter Ellis's album of stationary engines at ellisdesign.jalbum.nethttps://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/100_3326.jpg100_3326https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/100_45131.jpg100_4513https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/100_5763.jpg100_5763https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/100_5761.jpg100_5761https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/100_4513.jpg100_4513https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/100_3841.jpg100_3841From "Discovering Stonnall" by the Lynn and Stonnall Conservation and Historical Society. The installation of the pumps at Sandhills pumping station.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/100_5764.jpg100_5764https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/100_5904.jpg100_5904https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/100_5906.jpg100_59062021-06-26T07:47:54+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2013/01/12/the-name-of-the-rose/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/100_4588.jpg100_4588https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/100_4587.jpg100_4587https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/100_4574.jpg100_4574https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/100_4573.jpg100_4573Irene Sheldon, right, attended a conference for managers in the Dorothy Perkins organisation at Ashridge in Hertfordshire. Mr Farmer is the thorn amongst the roses. Mrs Brown, front left, and area manager Miss Marriot is front right,https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/100_4571.jpg100_4571https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/100_4568.jpg100_4568The Worcester branch of Dorothy Perkins, managed by Irene Sheldon, photographed for the company magazine. https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/100_4567.jpg100_4567The staff of the Walsall branch of Dorothy Perkins in the early 1950s. A young Irene Sheldon, second row, left, has one hand on the shoulder of Mrs. Rathbone, the cleaner. Mrs. Brown, manageress, is at the front. https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/100_4225.jpg100_4225https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/100_3979.jpg100_3979https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/100_3978.jpg100_3978Then this happened..but Irene's career at Dorothy Perkns continued, and Miss Marriot suggested further promotion...2019-02-04T11:35:40+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2013/06/19/dynasty/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/438px-shugborough_arcadia.jpg438px-Shugborough_arcadiahttps://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/100_5604.jpg100_5604https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/100_5704.jpg100_5704https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/100_5676.jpg100_5676https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/100_5709.jpg100_5709https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/ntiii_sudh_653137_624x5441.jpg(c) National Trust, Sudbury Hall; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundationhttps://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/ntiii_sudh_653137_624x544.jpg(c) National Trust, Sudbury Hall; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation2013-06-19T18:57:15+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2012/05/22/ha-ha-but-not-as-funny-as-it-used-to-be/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/154333_10150099994963384_685968383_7341700_3329392_n.jpg154333_10150099994963384_685968383_7341700_3329392_nOrgreave Hall, South Elevation, December 2010https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/100_2618.jpg100_2618Orgreave Hall, South Elevation. May 2012https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/100_2615.jpg100_26152013-06-19T14:55:00+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2013/05/31/its-a-carousel/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/100_4520.jpg100_4520https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/100_1298.jpg100_1298Ethel Mary Cooper. 1913-2011https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/100_5438.jpg100_5438https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/100_5437.jpg100_5437https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/100_5436.jpg100_5436https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/100_5435.jpg100_5435https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/100_5434.jpg100_5434https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/100_5433.jpg100_5433https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/100_5432.jpg100_5432https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/100_5431.jpg100_54312013-06-16T14:04:41+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2013/05/14/a-long-way-from-the-seaside-thankfully/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/100_2316.jpg100_2316https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/100_3329.jpg100_3329A hazy image of Keepers Cottage from Owletts in the 1940shttps://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/100_2279.jpg100_2279View of Owletts Hall Farm in the 1940s, down the tree lined drive to the Lodge on Lynn Lane. How did my dad take this photo?https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/t2ec16fhjggffme5y-bbriwtpqo60_12.jpg$T2eC16FHJGgFFme5(Y-BBRiW(tpqO!~~60_12https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/100_2262.jpg100_2262https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/london-evacuee-train-2.jpglondon-evacuee-train-22015-12-05T11:42:52+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2013/04/18/spite-hill/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/100_48861.jpg100_4886https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/100_4888.jpg100_4888https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/100_4887.jpg100_4887https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/100_4886.jpg100_4886https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/100_4885.jpg100_4885https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/100_48841.jpg100_4884https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/100_4883.jpg100_4883https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/100_4882.jpg100_4882https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/100_4881.jpg100_4881https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/100_4880.jpg100_48802015-10-28T12:01:14+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2013/03/24/children-and-animals-in-the-street/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/tumblr_lvpcijgpxr1qbxdq1o1_1280.pngtumblr_lvpcijGPXR1qbxdq1o1_12802013-03-29T12:43:05+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2013/03/19/house-to-let/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/cmi-statue-cropped-3.jpgcmi statue Cropped-3https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/100_4819.jpg100_4819https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/100_4824.jpg100_4824https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/00051u.jpeg00051uhttps://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/100_4814.jpg100_4814https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/100_4813.jpg100_48132013-03-22T06:29:01+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2013/03/05/memory-at-my-bidding/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/100_4749.jpg100_4749https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/100_4752.jpgPictureshttps://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/100_4735.jpg100_4735https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/100_4748.jpg100_4748https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/keeps.pngKeeps2013-09-14T16:10:57+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2013/03/12/the-mcgonagall-of-gaia-lane/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/100_4806.jpg100_4806https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/100_4799.jpg100_4799A short piece about Albert Sperrin, "Royal" Poet, appeared in the Lichfield and Tamworth Magazine in September 1972.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/100_4733.jpg100_4733https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/100_4731.jpg100_4731Albert Sperrin (1903–1987) by J. Buchanan. Date painted: 1979 Oil on canvas, 53 x 42.5 cm https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/100_4728.jpg100_47282017-07-13T13:20:49+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2013/01/03/queen-countess-and-paupers/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/100_4511.jpg100_4511https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/100_4449.jpg100_4449https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/100_4447.jpg100_4447https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/100_4461.jpg100_4461https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/100_4463.jpg100_4463https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/100_4455.jpg100_44552017-04-02T16:37:15+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2012/12/08/getting-tears-from-a-stone/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/20121208-163458.jpg20121208-163458.jpghttps://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/20121208-163428.jpg20121208-163428.jpghttps://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/20121208-163340.jpg20121208-163340.jpghttps://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/20121208-163257.jpg20121208-163257.jpghttps://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/20121208-163158.jpg20121208-163158.jpghttps://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/20121208-163127.jpg20121208-163127.jpghttps://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/20121208-163057.jpg20121208-163057.jpg2022-12-01T19:44:18+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2012/12/02/went-to-wyrley-started-early/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/100_4358.jpg100_4358THE ENTRANCE FRONT WITH THE KITCHEN AND BREW-HOUSE WING ON THE LEFThttps://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/100_4359.jpg100_4359SPORTING TROPHIES IN THE BARN WHICH WAS BUILD IN 1664. ITS DIMENSIONS ARE 70 BY 19 FEET.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/100_4368.jpg100_4368OLD ENGLISH CATTLE AT LITTLE WYRLEY: AN OIL PAINTING SIGNED BY E.M. FOX AND DATED 1855https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/100_4361.jpg100_4361THE DINING-ROOM. REGENCY DECORATION VICTORIAN FURNITUREhttps://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/100_4360.jpg100_4360THE LIBRARY FORMED BY PHINEAS HUSSEY ABOUT 1822https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/100_4364.jpg100_4364https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/100_4363.jpg100_4363https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/100_4362.jpg100_4362THE FOOT OF THE CAROLEAN STAIRCASE IN THE SOUTH EAST CORNER OF THE HALL https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/100_4365.jpg100_4365THE WIND INDICATOR SURMOUNTING THE STAIRWELLhttps://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/100_4373.jpg100_4373Ron, Betty, and Mom, acting daft for my dad's camera in the "Duke of Wellington" pub on the Birmingham Road, Lichfield. 1950's2015-07-07T18:34:57+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2012/11/27/faces-in-the-flames/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/100_4295.jpg100_4295Frederick Bakewell and George Hackett were buried, side by side, in the graveyard of All Saints Church, Alrewas.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/100_4337.jpg100_4337https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/100_43391.jpg100_4339https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/100_4339.jpg100_4339https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/100_4341.jpg100_4341https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/100_4227.jpg100_4227The Lichfield Mercury featured Ros and her books. At that time Librarian of Cheadle and Blyth Bridge, Ros has had several volumes published on the subjects of Staffordshire Crimes, Curiosities, and Castles.2012-12-06T15:38:22+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2012/11/20/the-long-and-the-short-of-it/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/20121119-234410.jpg20121119-234410.jpgMary Cooper, nee Horton, 1913 - 2011.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/20121119-234056.jpg20121119-234056.jpghttps://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/100_1299.jpg100_1299Bold and beautiful. The "Eton Crop" as sported by a young, flame haired Mary Horton.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/100_4127.jpg100_4127https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/100_4129.jpg100_4129From the "Girls' Own Annual" 1927" - dropped waistline and short hair for all.2012-11-20T10:52:38+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2012/11/15/the-long-and-the-short-of-i/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/100_4074.jpg100_4074https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/img_1151.jpgIMG_11512012-11-19T14:43:11+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2012/11/11/when-we-were-very-young/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/100_5923.jpg100_5923Aunt Mary, on a visit back to Staffordshire in 1992 for my wedding. Her little brother, Ted, who spent the first four years of his life at The Vigo, has his arm around her. They always remained close.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/img_1138.jpgIMG_1138https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/img_1146.jpgIMG_1146The site of 1- 6 "Aldridge Road, Vigo", now Northgate, today.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/100_4063.jpg100_4063https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/100_4050.jpg100_40502012-11-19T14:41:09+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2012/11/06/with-a-cough-that-seemed-to-make-us-feel-ill/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/100_2354.jpg100_2354My great grandmother, Elizabeth Horton, nee Shingler, born Cartersfield Lane, Stonnall, 1862.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/100_4040.jpg100_4040A simplified plan of part of the Horton family tree, showing the surprising extent of cousin-marriages in my grandfather, Alfred Noah Horton's generation.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/britisharmywwiservicerecords19141920_h_ho_hor_49_90411916.jpgBritishArmyWWIServiceRecords19141920_H_Ho_Hor_49_90411916Part of the Service records of Arthur Enoch Horton, 1879-1920https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/img_1115.jpgIMG_1115Military graves in a corner of Brookland Road cemetery, Walsall Wood. November 20122012-11-09T19:26:44+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2012/11/03/murder-she-said/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/100_4009.jpg100_4009https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/100_3987.jpg100_3987In the farmyard at The Owletts, Aunty Mary shows recalcitrant "Billy" who's boss. A murderess is no match for her!!2017-01-20T08:00:48+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2012/10/16/a-cast-from-the-past/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/100_3810.jpg100_3810https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/100_3815.jpg100_3815The sound of that steam whistle is very evocative of train journeys past.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/100_3806.jpg100_3806"Chasewater", October 2012https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/100_3834.jpg100_3834"Norton Pool, July 1957". Alfred Noah Horton and Thomas George Horton are fishing.2012-11-03T20:42:22+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2012/10/30/riches-and-poverty/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/100_3924.jpg100_3924https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/100_3922.jpg100_3922https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/100_3930.jpg100_3930https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/cnv00016.jpgCNV00016Me, Mom and Grandad in the garden at Keepers Cottage in the early 1970shttps://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/100_3949.jpg100_3949https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/100_3950.jpg100_3950https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/cnv00010.jpgCNV00010Alfred Noah Horton, "Pop" to everyone, with Suki, at the top of the field at Keepers Cottage, Footherly.2021-09-22T08:15:37+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2012/10/23/and-did-those-feet/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/100_3849.jpg100_3849https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/100_3878.jpg100_3878At Owlett Hall Farm, Lynn Lane, Shenstone. Mom, left, and Aunt Mary.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/100_3882.jpg100_3882Marie Sheldon and Ted Horton outside the Land Army Hostel, Lynn Lane, Shenstone. 1948.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/100_3880.jpg100_3880My mother, (far right) and her best friend Betty Green, (far left), lean out of the window of the Land Army Hostel in Lynn Lane, Shenstone - 1948https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/100_3889.jpg100_3889Receipts for fundraising for the Borough of Walsall War Aid Fund, 1941https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/100_37571.jpg100_3757A pair of Women's Land Army shoes at the Staffordshire County Museum at Shugborough. Stafford has a long history of shoemaking, and the "Lotus Shoes" collection is a great resource at the museum.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/100_3757.jpg100_37572013-11-27T06:45:32+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2012/08/10/sombre-at-the-sea-side/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/cnv00021.jpgCNV00021https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/cnv00014.jpgCNV00014https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/cnv000191.jpgCNV00019https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/cnv00023.jpgCNV00023https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/cnv00020.jpgCNV00020https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/cnv00013.jpgCNV00013https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/cnv00019.jpgCNV00019https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/cnv00018.jpgHorton MenLlandudno 1966. Alfred Noah Horton, Thomas George Horton, David George Horton, Alfred William Horton. Photograph by Edwin Noah Horton.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/100_2463.jpgHorton FamilyMary Elizabeth Horton, nee Blann, Alfred Noah Horton, and their youngest child, Edwin Noah Horton, my father. Lizzie suffered from a goitre.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/100_3266.jpgMostyn Street, Llandudno.Mostyn Street Llandudno. This postcard was mailed in 1911, when my grandmother, Mary Elizabeth Blann was in service at number 46, the upper windows of which are visible on the extreme left centre of the picture.2015-09-25T10:45:40+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2012/07/27/currant-affairs/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/100_32521.jpg100_3252https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/100_3257.jpg100_3257https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/100_3255.jpg100_3255"Prize" currants which won't get to show their mettle.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/100_3252.jpg100_3252Jam todayhttps://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/100_3251.jpg100_3251https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/100_3244.jpg100_3244The 2012 crop, captured in situ before harvest.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/100_3242.jpg100_3242Harvesting blackcurrants2012-07-30T11:38:52+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2012/06/06/a-multi-lane-byway/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/100_2927.jpgErnald Lane, D.D.Dean Ernald Lane, by Aubrey WaterfieldErnald Lane was the seventh son of John Newton Lane of Kings Bromley Hall had a distinguished career in the Church of England, rising to be Dean of Rochester Cathedral from 1904- 1913. Kings Bromley Village Hall, originally known as the Dean Lane Memorial Institute , was built in his memory in 1914.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/100_2911.jpgPolishing the brass2013-03-10T17:22:23+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2012/07/09/temple-belles/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/eastfield1.jpgeastfield1Eastfields House. Image from the Temple's website at http://www.watthaiuk.comhttps://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/100_3098.jpg100_3098https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/100_31111.jpg100_3111https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/100_3119.jpg100_3119Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire, Mr. Humphrey David Sneyd Scott-Moncrieff, says a few very well chosen words.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/100_3111.jpgDancers in front of the portrait of queen sirikithttps://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/100_3128.jpgBuddhaMy treasured Buddha was a present in my teens.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/100_3091.jpgDr PanyarsiriDr Phramaha Laowa Panyarsiri, newly bestowed with the title of Phrapanyabuddhiwithet.https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/100_3108.jpgThai dancersThe monks of the Wat Mahathat, Kings Bromley, and their guests, are entertained by traditional Thai dancing.2012-07-09T12:01:47+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.com/2012/05/09/the-new-old/https://staffordshirebred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/6728_129822078383_685968383_3119175_2316943_n.jpgRhyl, 19652012-05-24T19:30:14+00:00monthlyhttps://staffordshirebred.comdaily1.02024-07-21T11:51:54+00:00