Date:1927
Description:Mayor William Thomas Richardson and Mayoress Emily Richardson of Stafford christening a new fire engine on Market Square. The fire engine was named 'Emily' after the Mayoress. The fireman on the right is Mr Ernest Haywood, Captain of the Brigade.
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 ...
To the left is the Jubilee Fountain, erected in 1887 to mark Queen Victoria's Golden ...
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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Donor ref:P81.070.0005 (18/634)
Source: Staffordshire Museum Service
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