Date:1962 - 1963 (c.)
Description:Pictured on the corner where Market Square meets Greengate Street is the Midland Bank which is now (2025) the HSBC Bank. This Grade II listed building dates from around 1810 with around 1890 additions when it became 'Brookfields' Department store. It has been a Bank since 1909. The first-floor corner window has a sign advertising 'Cooperative Insurance Society Ltd'. Note the bus shelters dating from the time when this was a main bus stop in the centre of town.
The timeline shows resources around this location over a number of years.
An iron scold's bridle or brank from Stafford. Its date is uncertain, possibly ...
A broadsheet detailing the sentences for prisoners at the Staffordshire Lent Assizes, ...
John Tasker Evans appears in local directories 1863-1880 at 34 Gaolgate Street, ...
Thomas Noon Talfourd (1795-1854), was a writer, judge, and politician. He was called ...
Agnes Galloway opened the Zetland Café on the first floor of 54a Greengate ...
Alfred Ernest Haywood (1876-1958) was born in Newcastle under Lyme, one of 14 children ...
The Polish Freedom Parade passing through Market Square, Stafford. Girls in Polish ...
Venture Scouts pictured in front of the Shire Hall, Stafford at the start of a long ...
Pictured is one of several Midland Red mini-buses that provided a bus service around ...
A 360 degree view of the Market Square, Stafford, painted by Rob Pointon (1982-). ...
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Creators: Dr J.E.C. Peters - Creator
Donor ref:P66.003.1478 (37/51998)
Source: Staffordshire Museum Service
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