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Description:The insignia of Stafford includes four maces, the Great Mace, the Collingwood Mace, two ancient Silver Maces, a Mayor's chain and badge and a Mayoress' chain. The Great Mace was commissioned by Matthew Craddock, Stafford's first Mayor, in 1617. It is the work of a London goldsmith. A room was built beneath the Old Town Hall to house the mace and borough charters. James I, on a visit to Stafford, was so impressed by the Great Mace that he ordered 'it should never be allowed to rest' and Stafford is one of a few boroughs which place the mace upright when used on civic occasions. The small silver maces belonged to the two bailiffs of Stafford who administered the town before the office of Mayor was established; the Collingwood Mace was presented to Stafford on the first anniversary of granting the Freedom of the Borough to H.M.S. Collingwood in March 1979. Photograph donated by Stafford Historical and Civic Society, who retain copyright ownership.
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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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Image courtesy of: Staffordshire County Records Office
Donor ref:County Record Office No., D4080/4/32, img: 1763 (18/2212)
Source: Staffordshire Museum Service
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