Date:1950 - 1955 (c.)
Description:View of Greengate from the junction of Tipping Street. 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 on the left, with the 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 can be seen the sign of the Bear Inn, a timber framed public house originally named the White Bear.
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The High House was built on Greengate Street by Richard Dorrington in 1595. The ...
The large timber framed building is the Ancient High House on Greengate Street, ...
View of the Ancient High House on Greengate Street, built by Richard Dorrington ...
William Albert Marson owned a high class family grocer's shop, established in the ...
Townsend's Saddle and Harness shop was located at 24 Greengate Street. Prior ...
The Manchester and Liverpool District Banking Company opened a branch in Stafford ...
Staffordshire students' protest march on Greengate Street. At the front are John ...
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Donor ref:P97.004.0156 (18/1871)
Source: Staffordshire Museum Service
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