Staffordshire History Centre

Gallery

Discover a thousand years of Staffordshire History through our three outstanding collections

The oldest document in the William Salt Library, dating from 956 (King Eadwig grant to Aethelnoth, S.MS. 84/1/41)
Richly embroidered undress cap belonging to Charles I in the Staffordshire Arts & Museum collection (67.087.0001)
The nationally important Carriage Collection
(Staffordshire Arts & Museum collection)
Victoria Park, Stafford by Jean Margaret Peace (1950) in the Staffordshire Arts & Museum collection (G94.129.0001)
‘Alton Castle’ adit mine, near Cheadle, 1920, a photograph in the Staffordshire Arts & Museum collection (P75.065.0002)
Detail from the Great Seal of Elizabeth I, in the
Staffordshire Record Office collection (D1798/99c)
Charter of Aethelred II confirming the will of Wulfric Spot, 1004
in the Staffordshire Record Office collection (D603/A/Add/1)
‘Scold’s Bridle’, belonging to Stafford Borough, in the
Staffordshire Arts & Museum collection (86.024.1259)
The Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, a photograph in the Staffordshire Record Office collection (D5748/6/2)
Wooden gramophone with horn amplifier
(Staffordshire Arts & Museum collection 75.027.0001)
Tea Taster figure, formerly a rooftop decoration
(Staffordshire Arts & Museum collection)
Mill Meece Police Training Centre (1954), a photograph in the Staffordshire Arts & Museum collection (P2021.015.0001)
North Staffordshire oatcake toaster in the
Staffordshire Arts & Museum collection (P77.063.0002)
Leek Rocks on the Road to Flash by L.J. Wood, in the
William Salt Library collection (SV/V/105a)
Rolleicord Camera from Cannock, 1960s, in the
Staffordshire Arts & Museum collection (2004.007.0004)
Victorian Mourning Dress in the
Staffordshire Arts & Museum costume collection
Illustration of a Coal Mine in Wednesbury
(Staffordshire Record Office collection D3186/8/7/9)
Homemade Wooden Toy Horse, 1940s
(Staffordshire Arts & Museum collection 92.006.0039)
‘Trussing a Cooper’, 1960, photograph in the
Staffordshire Arts & Museum collection (P95.017.0002)
Royal Ordnance Factory, Swynnerton (1945), aerial image (Staffordshire Record Office, 106G/UK/646 frame 4060 )
Staffordshire Arts & Museum collection store, Stafford
Death mask of William Palmer, the ‘Rugeley Poisoner’,
in the William Salt Library collection
The Hon. Mary Anne Jervis (1834) in the
Staffordshire Arts & Museum collection (66.188.0001)
John and Isabel de Weston, from a family pedigree
(Staffordshire Record Office collection, D1287/17/1)