Description:This postcard view looks north along Greengate Street, Stafford.
On the right, the empty shop next to the Lotus shoe shop had been W. Thomas & Son, grocers. This would soon be demolished and replaced by a new building which currently (2026) houses the Nationwide Building Society. The roof-top television aerials are above Curry's retail premises at No. 20.
When the photograph was taken, traffic still used the road. On the left and right there is a pair of 'Belisha Beacons' for the uncontrolled pedestrian crossing. They were named after Leslie Hore-Belisha, the Minister of Transport at the time of their introduction in 1934. These designated crossings had white stripes on the road surface and continuously flashing amber globes on top of black and white poles on both sides of the road. They became known as ‘Zebra Crossings’. In the foreground the red and white car is probably an Austin Cambridge A55 Mk II, produced from 1959-1961. The blue taxi is a Ford Zephyr 4 Mk III, produced from 1962-1966 and further along are two cars thought to be Ford Anglia’s 105E (1959-1968).
The photograph possibly dates from 1966, based on the garden party poster on the wall on the left in Mill Street. The postcard was printed and published by E.T.W. Dennis & Sons of Scarborough. It was franked on 14 June 1972 in Stafford and sent to an address in Frampton on Severn, Gloucestershire.