The 'Wishing Stone', Pye Green, Hednesford

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Date:1910 - 1920 (c.)

Description:Still existing and known today.

The following is an extract from Cannock Chase District Council's 'Adopted Development Brief', March 2011:
"A Wishing Stone forms a local feature of interest at the northern end of the site, on the line of the former Blake Street, which existed between Birmingham and Stafford. It is also understood that a grave of a former highwayman ‘John Deacon’ also exists at the northern end of the site.".

Postcard picture is Goscomb, photograph by Burrow. Elsie Goscomb was a Hednesford based Photographer working out of her father's boot & shoe business in Market Street

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Trees Traditions Geology

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Image courtesy of: Mr Jake Whitehouse

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Source: Mr Jake Whitehouse

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