New Free Library, Stafford,

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Date:1913

Description:Stafford's library was housed in the Borough Hall until 1914. The new library building on The Green was built in 1913, with funds from the Carnegie Trust. The building also housed the Wragge Museum, later Stafford Museum and Art Gallery.

The library occupied this site until 1999, when it moved to part of the Shire Hall on Market Square.


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1840s
Grapes Corner, Stafford,
Grapes Corner, Stafford,

Grapes Corner showing Hall and Halden Printing Office as it was in 1843. In 1870 ...

1900s
Lichfield Road, Stafford
Lichfield Road, Stafford

The building on the right was demolished to provide a site for the new public library, ...

1930s
Ralph's Tobacconists Shop, Stafford,
Ralph's Tobacconists Shop, Stafford,

Ralph's newsagents and tobacconists was at 9 Newport Road, at the rear of the Odeon ...

1960s
Lifeguards outside Odeon Cinema, Stafford,
Lifeguards outside Odeon Cinema, Stafford,

Two mounted lifeguards outside the Odeon Cinema on Newport Road, advertising the ...

1990s
Grapes Corner and Bridge Street, Stafford,
Grapes Corner and Bridge Street, Stafford,

View of Grapes Corner and Bridge Street from Newport Road. On the left is the Grapes ...

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Donor ref:86.024.0488 (18/1969)

Source: Staffordshire Museum Service

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