Description:This view looks south towards Market Square. On the left can be seen a curved building on the corner of Crabbery Street and Gaolgate Street, this is J Hepworth & Son, gentlemen's outfitters who moved into these premises in 1911. The company moved out in 1970 and later it became a jewellers shop.
As part of a redevelopment of this area, the four storey and three storey buildings in the centre of the picture were later demolished and replaced by new shops. The new shops would include a Burton Menswear shop which relocated from further along the street and Goddard’s a women’s fashion shop. The new buildings were built set back several metres from the kerb-side, to match the position of the adjacent Stafford and Stone Co-operative store, (which has a commemorative date stone of 1932 above the first floor windows) and Gaolgate Street became much wider at this point.
Photograph donated by Stafford Historical and Civic Society, who retain copyright ownership.