Date:14th of May 1909
Description:The last cattle fair held in Gaolgate Street (then known as Cow Street). The photograph was taken from the corner of Market Square and Gaolgate Street. On the right is Mummery's jewellers shop. The annual Rother Market, where long-horned cattle were bought and sold, continued until 1909, when protests about congestion and the filth produced by the cattle forced the market to move to Lammascote Road.
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 ...
To the left is the Jubilee Fountain, erected in 1887 to mark Queen Victoria's Golden ...
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:P79.018.0003 (18/1296)
Source: Staffordshire Museum Service
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