Date:1950 - 1959 (c.)
Description:A paper bag from Brookfields tailors shop, Greengate Street. In 1743 George Boulton, a draper, opened a shop on Market Square. By the 1860s the shop was known as Brookfield and Windows. By the early 1900s Brookfield's had also opened a furniture and removal business in Gaolgate Street, a gentlemen's outfitters in Greengate Street, an ironmongery, cabinet-makers and funeral directors. Brookfield's closed in 1909 and a group of managers formed Brookfield (Successors) Ltd.; they continued to trade from a shop on the corner of St. Mary's Passage.
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This carte de visite studio portrait shows Philip Dale (1832-1917), brazier and ...
A cabinet card studio portrait of Philip Thomas Dale, who was born in Birmingham ...
Crowds of people watching a military march past outside Lipton's grocers on Greengate ...
The National Fire Brigades Association was formed in 1887 as the National Fire Brigades ...
Looking from Martin Street along St. Martin's Place towards the Shire Hall and Market ...
Passengers are pictured boarding a Midland Red bus in Greengate Street, Stafford. ...
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Image courtesy of: Staffordshire Museum Service
Donor ref:88.101.0042 (37/17556)
Source: Staffordshire Museum Service
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