Photographs

Patshull House, near Wolverhampton, the home of the Earl of Dartmouth

A demonstration in Tipton by strikers, June 16, 1913; note the men in the middle carrying brass instruments

Much work in 1914 was heavy, hot and hard. Burton upon Trent was world-famous for brewing; Bass’ steam cooperage made wooden barrels for beer

A pre-1914 photo of the bridge over the River Trent at Burton, looking from the Winshill side. Clifford Gothard would have come from Bearwood Hill Road to the right to go into town

The visit of King George V and Queen Mary to Nottingham, Wednesday, June 24, 1914: the royal procession ‘on the Forest’, the park to the north of the centre

Football spectators at Hull, 1913

A ‘military Sunday’ at York before 1914 passes the Minster

Omnibuses and motor transport on the Strand in central London. Note the bureau de change at Charing Cross station, where Georges Carpentier arrived from France

Westgate Street in Gloucester as retired teacher William Swift would have seen it on shopping trips from his nearby village of Churchdown

Germans at Bitsch in Lorraine, then part of Germany, now part of France, 1914

The new aeroplanes fascinated men. The Englishmen posing behind the aeronautical backdrop are undated, presumably at Blackpool

Burton-on-Trent Territorials posing light-heartedly at summer camp at Bow Street outside Aberystwyth, 1912. The Burton photographers J S Simnett took this picture – evidently they saw the trip as worthwhile business. The firm is still trading in the town

Mobilisation of Croydon Territorials, August 5, 1914; officers on horseback, men march

Admiral Lord Charles Beresford: Conservative politician, public speaker, private bully

A French postcard from 1914 of English wounded

Second contingent of Army volunteers from the Staffordshire village of Abbot’s Bromley, September 9, 1914