My Favourite Document

This year, 2007, the Archive Service celebrates 60 years of collecting and preserving Staffordshire's rich and diverse archival heritage. We also celebrate 10 years of provision of a Joint Archive Service between the County of Staffordshire and the City of Stoke on Trent.

As part of our celebrations we want to give people the opportunity to nominate a favourite document to be displayed on the Archive Service web site in our new Archive Discovery Zone. The document can be from the County Record Office, Lichfield Record Office or Stoke on Trent City Archives.

It isn't a competition. It's an opportunity for you to get involved. If you would like to make a nomination, we would ask you to supply a few words explaining why you have chosen this particular document and why it has been important to your research. To nominate your favourite document download the nomination form below. Links to nominated documents are given at the bottom of this webpage.

Word icon nomination form (28kb)

Your Favourite Documents

Here are the documents that you have nominated. Please note that the image sizes on these pages are larger than on most pages on this site, and may take longer to download.

Probate account of Sarah, widow of Thomas Hancock, 1736 (B/C/5/1735/33)

Burton Cricket Club scorebook, 1889 (D442/5/1/4)

Lichfield Notes in the Great War by A D Parker, 1914-1919 (D77/20/11)

Survey of former monastery of Blackladies, late 17th/early 18th cent (D590/360)

Letter from Charles Greaves to his sister, Bessie, including a description of a railway journey from Birmingham to Stafford, 1837

Copy (made 19th cent.) of Peter Lightfoot's map of Uttoxeter, 1658

Copy of a Commonplace Book, mainly garden notes, 1718-1740, for an unknown garden

Letter from Peter Potter to the Earl of Bradford, re Walsall estate matters and the Emancipation question, 1830

Holden probate inventory, Erdington, 1573

Letter from Disraeli to Selina, Lady Bradford, 1877

Will and inventory of Edmund Washington of Leek, 1537

John Fenton's copy book [1688] of the court rolls of the manor of Newcastle under Lyme, 1558-1638 (D(W)1788/V90)