Nostalgia - What are your memories of Stafford?

[Sir BoD]

Is that before he bit the head off it?

 

[Floss]

Early Greggs

The name rings a very distant bell! I'm trying yo think of the cafe/bakery that used to be near swan 3 cooks possibly?

 

[joshua]

The name rings a very distant bell! I'm trying yo think of the cafe/bakery that used to be near swan 3 cooks possibly?

Jenkinsons ?

 

[littleme]

The name rings a very distant bell! I'm trying yo think of the cafe/bakery that used to be near swan 3 cooks possibly?

The 3 Cooks bakery was next to Waterstones on Greengate Street (I worked in the insurance company next door & up the stairs). They made the most delicious lattice sausage rolls fille
d with relish....

www.expressandstar.com/news/2007/09/17/sad-day-as-three-cooks-closes/

 

[John Marwood]

Is that before he bit the head off it?

Innit

 

[Jonah]

Great picture again, Withnail.What I find striking is the traffic lights outside McDonald's (why?) and the 'To Let' sign, too. The picture looks circa early 80s and I know that Mc came to Stafford 82 / 83ish, so I'm wondering if it was when they'd just moved in?

Traffic lights are a Pelican Crossing.

 

[Withnail]

I'm trying to think of the cafe/bakery that used to be near swan...

One more -

- wimbush?

 

[Withnail]

P.S. The ^above is almost certainly from 1985 - possibly '84 but definitely not earlier.

 

[Sir BoD]

I've just noticed Boy George with his Mum.

 

[Withnail]

What's going on with the handlebars of our red trousered Gentleman?

Riser-lower bars? Man, the 70's were a confusing age.

 

[John Marwood]

How cool is that ladder

 

[Floss]

The 3 Cooks bakery was next to Waterstones on Greengate Street (I worked in the insurance company next door & up the stairs). They made the most delicious lattice sausage rolls fille
d with relish....

www.expressandstar.com/news/2007/09/17/sad-day-as-three-cooks-closes/

Bacon rolls hmmmmm...That was a good bakery !

 

[Floss]

P.S. The ^above is almost certainly from 1985 - possibly '84 but definitely not earlier.

Blimey that's really taking me back, the town had more going for it then I don't understand how in this day and age it can be getting worse and not better!

 

[Floss]

One more -

- wimbush?

I've just noticed the maccie D sign being brown and yellow didn't it change to red and yellow and is now brown and yellow once more?

 

[staffordjas]

One more -

- wimbush?

I used to work in Anne Giles hair dressers after school and weekends which was aross the road from that cafe around 1971/1972. (Gosh, I feel ancient now!) Can't for the life of me think what the cafe was called then. The hairdressers used to be above a butchers and had to go through the butchers shop to take our rubbish to the bins at the back of the shop.,

 

[Floss]

I used to work in Anne Giles hair dressers after school and weekends which was aross the road from that cafe around 1971/1972. (Gosh, I feel ancient now!) Can't for the life of me think what the cafe was called then. The hairdressers used to be above a butchers and had to go through the butchers shop to take our rubbish to the bins at the back of the shop.,

Couldn't imagine them allowing that now

 

[Barrington]

I've uploaded my video of Stafford Town to youtube

... tomorrows nostalgia?

 

[John Marwood]

I've uploaded my video of Stafford Town to youtube

... tomorrows nostalgia?

I was expecting the pre season friendly match v Rangers at Riverway

 

[staffordjas]

I've uploaded my video of Stafford Town to youtube

... tomorrows nostalgia?

Aah, brings back memories seeing the Almshouses (Don't walk past that way much nowadays) My great gran lived in one of them and I used to love visiting as a kid.

 

[Tilly]

I remember Nirvana, very small place, and Props went down hill as soon as the old chap stopped running it, it used to have a really good mix of alternative music.