Date:1904
Description:Henry III granted the first annual fair to Stafford in 1261. Fairs had two sides - trade and pleasure. People would travel from a wide area to visit the fairs, which often filled the town's main streets. By 1900 a pleasure fair, known as the Gorby Fair, was held in the Market Square at the same time as the cattle fairs. The cattle fair on Gaolgate Street, known as the Rother Market, continued until 1909 when it moved to Lammascote Road. 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 ...
Interior of the library on Market Square, prior to its move to Eastgate Street. William ...
Mayor William Thomas Richardson and Mayoress Emily Richardson of Stafford christening ...
One of the first banks to open outside London was Stevenson, Salt and Co. in 1737. ...
View looking north-west from over South Walls and Eastgate Street. The River ...
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Image courtesy of: Staffordshire County Records Office
Donor ref:County Record Office No., D4080/3/9, img: 1808 (18/2255)
Source: Staffordshire Museum Service
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