An interview with George Hackett 1896-1992 about growing up in Armitage-with-Handsacre in the early 1900s
Category: Surnames
Samuel Morecroft 1850-1934 – a life lived in Armitage
Samuel Morecroft was a man of many parts – basket maker, cycle maker, inventor, photographer, undertaker, postmaster and Methodist preacher
Jack Whitehouse MM
Jack Whitehouse earned his Military Medal in WW1 by rescuing a comrade from no-mans land.
Antoine Albena Mountsoy – an Armitage celebrity
The oldest ever inhabitant of Armitage
Edward Johns
What sort of a person was Edward Johns?
Cannock tramp – native of Armitage
A native of Armitage – tramp enters Cannock Workhouse
William Conway 1817-1901
William Conway killed a man with one punch