Date:1933
Description:The Guildhall on Market Square was designed by Charles Trubshaw and built in 1853. It housed the Borough Council, the courts and on the ground floor was a police station. The entrance to the market hall can be seen underneath the balcony. By the 1930s a new police station was needed and one was constructed on the corner of Bath Street and Albion Place. This building was used up to the 1970s when the police moved to their present location in Pitcher Bank. The Guildhall was demolished in 1934 when it was rebuilt further back from the square and the market was replaced by a shopping arcade.
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There has been a shire building in Stafford since the 1280s, used as a meeting place ...
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 ...
Stafford had held a weekly market since the Middle Ages. In 1853 a covered market ...
Stan Holt dressed as a jester. The annual procession through Stafford ended with ...
Photograph donated by Stafford Historical and Civic Society, who retain copyright ...
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Source: Staffordshire Museum Service
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