Description:A postcard view showing two of the towers at Stafford Gaol, on the corner of Gaol Road and Crooked Bridge Road. Three towers were added in the mid-nineteenth century to provide accommodation for the warders and their families. The prison did not house offenders between 1920 to 1939 and, due to the housing shortage of the 1920s, the Borough Council rented out the towers as private housing.
The towers were demolished in 1953 when they were found to be unsafe, probably due to brine pumping works underneath.
This postcard was franked on 3 October 1907 in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent and sent to an address in Upton Bishop, near Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.