Date:1920 - 1925 (c.)
Description:Greengate Street looking towards the Market Square, an image taken from a glass negative. 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.
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This fire mark was formerly displayed on the front porch of the Alexandra Hotel, ...
This carte de visite studio portrait shows Philip Dale (1832-1917), brazier and ...
A cabinet card studio portrait of Philip Thomas Dale, who was born in Birmingham ...
Crowds of people watching a military march past outside Lipton's grocers on Greengate ...
The National Fire Brigades Association was formed in 1887 as the National Fire Brigades ...
A bill from Brookfields, Greengate St. and St. Mary's Gate, Stafford, Tailor, hosiers ...
Passengers are pictured boarding a Midland Red bus in Greengate Street, Stafford. ...
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Source: Staffordshire Museum Service
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