Date:1897
Description:The Diamond Jubilee celebrations lasted three days. Jubilee Day was a public holiday and two oxen, donated by the Meakins of Creswell Hall, were roasted on Market Square. Children sang the National Anthem and gave three cheers for the Queen. Later tea was served on Stafford Common followed by entertainment, including fireworks. On the far left of the photograph can be seen the Jubilee Fountain, erected in 1887 to mark Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. It was demolished in 1934.
The timeline shows resources around this location over a number of years.
There has been a shire building in Stafford since the 1280s, used as a meeting place ...
Design for a new Shire Hall on Market Square. In 1790 a decision was made to ...
Stafford possessed a market as early as 1206, when Edward the Elder passed a law ...
The Elizabethan House was built on Gaolgate Street in the late Tudor period. The ...
Studio portrait of Ernest Haywood and his sister.
Stan Holt dressed as a jester. The annual procession through Stafford ended with ...
Photograph donated by Stafford Historical and Civic Society, who retain copyright ...
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Donor ref:P80.001.0002 (18/1164)
Source: Staffordshire Museum Service
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