Date:1900 - 1910 (c.)
Description:On the right can be seen the Jubilee Fountain, erected on the Market Square in 1887 to mark Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. In 1927 the Borough Council turned the square into a car park; the Jubilee Fountain was broken up in 1934 to provide extra space for cars. In the background is Brookfield and Windows department store, first opened in 1743 by George Boulton, on the corner of Market Square and Greengate Street. In the 1880s the store was demolished and replaced by a new building. Brookfield's closed in 1909 and the building is now the HSBC Bank. Photograph donated by Stafford Historical and Civic Society, who retain copyright ownership.
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 ...
Rowland's were a well-known family firm in Stafford, owning a bakery and grocer's ...
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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Image courtesy of: Staffordshire County Records Office
Donor ref:County Record Office No., D4080/3/9, img: 1810 (18/2257)
Source: Staffordshire Museum Service
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