The old 'home' county - Staffordshire : official handbook, c1950
I love these 'official' handbooks. Most counties and boroughs issued them and whereas rural locations were usually 'holiday' based those for more industrial locations are often fascinating glimpses into a town or city's history and their manufacturing backgrounds. You do sometimes smile wryly as a photographer obviously struggled to make a certain place look 'beautiful'; for some of these places that wasn't easy! Staffordshire is straddling an interesting line here. We tend to forget that the old county was fairly rural, as this cover shows, but it also had two areas that formed part of the first Industrial Revolution in the Black Country and The Potteries. These two vignettes show those aspects of the old county. The typeface for the titling is rather fun. I say 'home' county as although born in Lancashire I grew up as a child in West Bromwich, part of the county, and there in school we were taught a lot about 'civic' and county pride learning a lot about the place we lived!
The old 'home' county - Staffordshire : official handbook, c1950
I love these 'official' handbooks. Most counties and boroughs issued them and whereas rural locations were usually 'holiday' based those for more industrial locations are often fascinating glimpses into a town or city's history and their manufacturing backgrounds. You do sometimes smile wryly as a photographer obviously struggled to make a certain place look 'beautiful'; for some of these places that wasn't easy! Staffordshire is straddling an interesting line here. We tend to forget that the old county was fairly rural, as this cover shows, but it also had two areas that formed part of the first Industrial Revolution in the Black Country and The Potteries. These two vignettes show those aspects of the old county. The typeface for the titling is rather fun. I say 'home' county as although born in Lancashire I grew up as a child in West Bromwich, part of the county, and there in school we were taught a lot about 'civic' and county pride learning a lot about the place we lived!