Date:1897
Description:The Diamond Jubilee celebrations lasted three days. Jubilee Day was a public holiday and two oxen, donated by the Meakins of Creswell Hall, were roasted on Market Square. Children sang the National Anthem and gave three cheers for the Queen. Later tea was served on Stafford Common followed by entertainment, including fireworks.
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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 ...
The Elizabethan House was built on Gaolgate Street in the late Tudor period. The ...
William Booth (1829 - 1912), known as 'General Booth', founded the Christian Mission ...
Mayor William Thomas Richardson and Mayoress Emily Richardson of Stafford christening ...
One of the first banks to open outside London was Stevenson, Salt and Co. in 1737. ...
View looking north-west from over South Walls and Eastgate Street. The River ...
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Donor ref:P2000.001.0010 (18/1935)
Source: Staffordshire Museum Service
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