The Spread Eagle Hotel, Rolleston-on-Dove, pictured in 1920. Originally known as the Eagle & Child, it was renamed the Mosley Arms in the 1840s, but was known as the Spread Eagle by 1851. The Spread Eagle was part of the arms of the Mosley family. Image courtesy of Bryan Chinn.

Here's another 3 photographs of staff at the Stafford Lotus shoe factory from 1980.

A couple of photographs of Stafford's Lotus shoe factory taken in 1980, showing staff in the packing and closing departments. we'd like to put names to faces, so if you can help please let us know. We've just published more of this set of images on www.staffspasttrack.org.uk

Carnival Queens from Tamworth and surrounding villages pictured at Castle Dell in 1934. They are, from left to right, Miss Wood End, Miss Two Gates, Miss Mile Oak, Miss Leys, Miss Hopwas, Miss Weale, Miss Fazeley, Miss Drayton, Miss Clifton, and Miss Canwell. Image courtesy of Tamworth Castle Museum

Recently added to www.staffspasttrack.org.uk is a fascinating collection of postcards of Wetley Rocks, kindly lent by Peter Crawford. Here's one of them: a postcard view taken from the rocks above the village showing the Main Road. The Powys Arms is on the opposite side of the road, and St John the Baptist Church can be seen in the distance. The Masons' Arms is in the group of buildings to the left, since demolished and now the site of a petrol station.

This fine Shire stallion, Leek Blusterer, was owned by Colonel A.F. Nicholson of Stockwell House, Leek. He is pictured here winning First and Walsall Cup at Staffordshire Show at Wolverhampton, 1934. The photographer was Gerald McCann of Uttoxeter.