Date:1960 - 1970 (c.)
Description:View looking towards Market Square. The timber framed building on the left is the Ancient High House, built by Richard Dorrington in 1595. In 1826 the building was bought by John Marson, who converted the lower floor into shops. The building is now owned by the Borough Council and opened to the public as a heritage and exhibition centre in 1987. The building with bow windows is the Swan Hotel, originally built as two private town houses in the seventeenth century. The buildings were converted into a coaching inn in 1752 and a Georgian front was later added. In-between the High House and the Swan is Shaw's House, named after a shoemaker who lived there in the nineteenth century and thought to have been erected earlier than the Ancient High House. In 1947 its facade was restored; the new plaster was painted to represent the timber framing underneath. On the right is the seventeenth century Bear Inn, built on the site of the Old Black Bear Inn; it is possible some of the old building was used in the structure of the present.
The timeline shows resources around this location over a number of years.
The large timber framed building is the Ancient High House on Greengate Street, ...
Situated in Greengate, the Swan Hotel was originally built as two private town houses ...
The Gothic building on the left was the District Bank, completed in 1907. Inside ...
Woodall's shop was at 55 Greengate Street. It closed in the 1970s.
Harry Tavernor and his 1st Prize winning parsnips at a Co-operative Society horticultural ...
Cyclist M. Downs being interviewed outside the Swan Hotel in Greengate Street before ...
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Image courtesy of: William Salt Library
Donor ref:William Salt Library No., Stafford 20L, img: 960 (18/1435)
Source: Staffordshire Museum Service
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