Date:1913
Description:Studio photograph of Mr Percy Edgar in St. Bertelin pageant costume. The costume was made for the Millenary Pageant, performed in the castle fields to celebrate 1000 years of Stafford's history from its founding in 913 AD by Aethelfleda. St. Bertelin chose Stafford for his hermitage in the eighth century. A wooden chapel was dedicated to him. This chapel was replaced by a stone one on the same site in the eleventh century. The site of the chapel, at the west end of St. Mary's Church, was excavated in 1954; the outline of the foundations can now be seen traced in stone.
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 ...
Alderman John Marson was Mayor of Stafford in 1848. John Marson also established ...
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 ...
Stafford had held a weekly market since the Middle Ages. In 1853 a covered market ...
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:P96.06.0118 (18/2677)
Source: Staffordshire Museum Service
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