The founding of Armitage potbank
The first issue of the Parish Magazine
Pit ponies and Jack Smith 1899 – 1917
The oldest item in the village – the church font made in the early 1100s
School attendance and prosecutions for non-attendance
School lessons in the late 1800s plus attendance lists
Armitage school logbook 1917 showing epidemics, harvesting and war work
Signing the pledge – Handsacre Primitive Methodists pledge book
Duck stone – prosecuted for playing games in the street
Sixteen years on the run – John Waltho for arson
World champion prune eater – Frank Hodgkiss
The 1937 coronation carnival with lists of committee members and local unemployed
A shipwreck find – a WC from the mid 1850s factory of Robert Hedderwick Penman
What’s in a name – a table or a washbasin?
Guilty or not guilty – three court cases from the mid to late 1800s
The 1921 census and the 1921 miners’ strike
So, what’s a challerpoy then and other records from 250 years ago
Caring for the needy part 1, part 2 and part 3 – how the parish cared for (named) poor people
Drunk and … – pubs and court cases
Soldiers from the Great War – four men who died from the effects of the war years after it had ended
Marriage bonds and the Conway and Morecroft family
Assault and battery in the church
The Silver Fork Society – the novels of Thomas Henry Lister
The centenary of Croft School, Armitage
Armitage – birthplace of science fiction? An 1829 novel
My disappearing landmark – Rugeley power stations demolition