Date:1902
Description:Annual fairs had two sides - trade and pleasure. People would travel from a wide area to visit the fairs, which often filled the town's main streets. Henry III granted Stafford's first annual fair in 1261. Here a pleasure fair fills the Market Square; in the distance, on Gaolgate Street (then known as Cow Street), is the Rother Market where long-horned cattle were bought and sold. This fair continued until 1909, despite protests about congestion and the filth produced by the cattle.
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There has been a shire building in Stafford since the 1280s, used as a meeting place ...
Design for a new Shire Hall on Market Square. In 1790 a decision was made to ...
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 ...
William Booth (1829 - 1912), known as 'General Booth', founded the Christian Mission ...
Mayor William Thomas Richardson and Mayoress Emily Richardson of Stafford christening ...
One of the first banks to open outside London was Stevenson, Salt and Co. in 1737. ...
View looking north-west from over South Walls and Eastgate Street. The River ...
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Donor ref:P80.001.0044 (18/1166)
Source: Staffordshire Museum Service
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