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1910 Air Race - click for more details

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These photos are included here with the permission of Staffordshire Past Track, an on-line archive of over twelve thousand historical images of Staffordshire.
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23 April 1910 - Crowds gathered at Hademore when word got around that Claude Grahame-White's plane was on the ground.

The plane was blown over and damaged in the gale of Sunday night - 24 April.

Grahame-White (with leather flying cap and white scarf) accompanying his damaged plane to Lichfield Railway station for transporting back to London

 

Railway Accident at Hademore, May 1938 - click for transcription of article

 

Coronation Celebrations - 1953 - click for Whittington's programme

Miss Whittington chosen at dance organised by youth club, first event of coronation festivities.

L to right: Helen Peck, Freda Boston, Gillian Allsopp, Barbara Phillips, June Phillips, Sheila Farnsworth

Coronation Carnival Procession - Saturday 6 June 1953

Queen - Freda Boston, attendants left to right, back to front Gillian Allsopp, June Phillips, Sheila Farnsworth, Barbara Phillips

 

Whittington float at Lichfield August Bank Holiday Parade 1953

Left to right: Freda Boston, Gillian Allsopp, June Phillips, Sheila Farnsworth, Barbara Phillips

 

Pancake Race - click for more details

Pancake Race on Shrove Tuesday - the old custom revived in 1954

Another race from the 1950's

Brenda Hood won the pancake race 12 times out of her 13 entries. This photo shows her winning in 1965, the second year she entered.