Date:February 1946
Description:A long period of rainy weather resulted in the River Sow rising to its highest level ever recorded, flooding the railway station and stopping all traffic. At the junction of Newport Road and Bridge Street the water was two feet deep. Cottage dwellers had to be rescued by boat and one house was washed away.
The timeline shows resources around this location over a number of years.
A group of school boys with their teacher, Miss Layng, at her private School at ...
Stafford Grammar School First XI football team. This photograph was taken in what ...
The shop on the left was Hardwicks' unisex hairdressers. Behind Hardwicks' ...
Fatty Arbuckle's night club after the fire in 1991. The club was previously known ...
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Image courtesy of: William Salt Library
Donor ref:William Salt Library No., Stafford 17D, img: 614 (18/1140)
Source: Staffordshire Museum Service
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