Date:1910 - 1920 (c.)
Description:Still existing and known today. The following is an extract from Cannock Chase District Council's 'Adopted Development Brief', March 2011: "A Wishing Stone forms a local feature of interest at the northern end of the site, on the line of the former Blake Street, which existed between Birmingham and Stafford. It is also understood that a grave of a former highwayman ‘John Deacon’ also exists at the northern end of the site.". Postcard picture is Goscomb, photograph by Burrow. Elsie Goscomb was a Hednesford based Photographer working out of her father's boot & shoe business in Market Street
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The stone, locally known as 'The Wishing Stone' still exists. It is sited on an old packhorse route ...
Still existing and known today. The following is an extract from Cannock Chase District Council's ...
A photograph with an unused postcard back with a boy sitting on the 'Wishing Stone' near Pye Green. ...
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Image courtesy of: Mr Jake Whitehouse
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Source: Mr Jake Whitehouse
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