Date:1930 - 1940 (c.)
Description:This timber framed building, built around 1475, stood on Market Square, on the site now (2025) occupied by Boots. Over the years plaster had covered the timber structure and the timber framed effect was acquired using paint, often becoming highly ornamental. In this photograph, the plan of the woodwork on plaster follows the timber underneath more accurately. The shop had been used as a chemist's since 1786, when Mr G. Wainwright established his horse medicine business there. The Averil family acquired the premises in 1859, and when the business was sold in 1935 it had been a chemist's shop for almost 150 years. The building was demolished in 1961.
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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 ...
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Fire Service Flag Day in aid of the Widows and Orphans Fund on Market Square, Stafford. The ...
Memorial Parade on Market Square for King George VI, who died in February 1952. Taking ...
Some commodities such as petrol, coal, food and drink are sold by weight, measure ...
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Donor ref:P87.111.0143 (18/1359)
Source: Staffordshire Museum Service
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