Date:1856
Description:View of Stafford from Coton Hill. St. Chad's (far left) and St. Mary's Churches are to the left of the hill, upon which stand the remains of Stafford Castle. The building on the right is the County Asylum on Corporation Street opened in 1818. The asylum became St. George's Hospital in the 1950s.
The timeline shows resources around this location over a number of years.
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 ...
Miniature studio portrait of Susy Macnaghten. She is wearing a ruched velvet ...
On the right can be seen the Jubilee Fountain, erected on the Market Square in 1887 ...
At the end of the First World War, when the New Zealand Rifle Brigade left the military ...
View looking west over Eastgate Street, South Walls and North Walls.
The Market Square was laid out with flower beds, trees and seating in 1953 to celebrate ...
Some commodities such as petrol, coal, food and drink are sold by weight, measure ...
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Donor ref:SAMS Acc. No., P98.20.4, img: 1498 (18/1952)
Source: Staffordshire Museum Service
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