Date:14th of May 1909
Description:The last cattle fair held in Gaolgate Street (then known as Cow Street). The photograph was taken from the corner of Market Square and Gaolgate Street. On the right is Mummery's jewellers shop. The annual Rother Market, where long-horned cattle were bought and sold, continued until 1909, when protests about congestion and the filth produced by the cattle forced the market to move to Lammascote Road.
The timeline shows resources around this location over a number of years.
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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 ...
Stafford had held a weekly market since the Middle Ages. In 1853 a covered market ...
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:P79.018.0003 (18/1296)
Source: Staffordshire Museum Service
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