Date:May 1924
Description:The building with the balcony is the Guildhall, designed by Charles Trubshaw and built in 1853. It housed the Borough Council, the courts and on the ground floor was a police station. The entrance to the market hall can be seen underneath the balcony; the bell on the roof belonged to the police station. By the 1930s a new police station was needed and one was constructed on the corner of Bath Street and Albion Place. This building was used up to the 1970s when the police moved to their present location in Pitcher Bank. The Guildhall was demolished in 1935 when it was rebuilt further back from the square and the market was replaced by a shopping arcade. On the far left is the Zetland Cafe, demolished in the late 1930s and rebuilt further back. The empty building next to the Zetland belonged to Aston and Sons, furniture dealers. Photograph donated by Stafford Historical and Civic Society, who retain copyright ownership.
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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 ...
Miniature studio portrait of Susy Macnaghten. She is wearing a ruched velvet ...
Royal Mail van believed to be the first motor driven mail van in Stafford. The ...
The Guildhall on Market Square was designed by Charles Trubshaw and built in 1853. ...
Photograph donated by Stafford Historical and Civic Society, who retain copyright ...
View looking north-west from over South Walls and Eastgate Street. The River ...
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Image courtesy of: Staffordshire County Records Office
Donor ref:County Record Office No., D4080/6/20, img: 1861 (18/2308)
Source: Staffordshire Museum Service
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