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Nostalgia - What are your memories of Stafford?
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stoofer34
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gon2seed
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Father in Law was a BRC employee; his garden was fenced with the steel mesh used to re-inforce the concrete. I don't imagine he was the only employee to have liberated this 'fencing"! And if memory serves me well, many households in 'ford found an alternative use for the stuff! Was like dog sh't round Holmcoft? If you weren't looking at it you were dreading in it! 
Gramaisc
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Allegedly unsafe.
And 'they' wanted offices there.
Whilst the old building looked pretty from one angle, you'll rarely see a picture of the side facing South Walls.
Gramaisc
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staffordjas
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I remember my dentist being in one of the houses facing St Marys church in that clip. (That was when I progressed from the school dentist on Lammascote Rd. Equally as scary!)
Brine baths memories.... being sent around the back to the male changing rooms on a saturday morning as they thought I was a boy with my short hair
. Having to squash 2 people into each of the changing rooms along the side of the pool on swimming lessons. Putting clothes into metal shopping baskets after changing ....can't remember where the baskets were taken then though ???School swimming lessons and the dreaded Mr Owen....never could convince him that I was actually swimming in the 'small' pool whilst hopping across on one leg.
Wagon wheels from the machine when we came out. I remember them about 4 times bigger than the last time I saw one (do they still do them now?)
Underground loos in the market square. And all the bus stops actually being together in the market square , and raised flower beds with walls to sit on whilst waiting for the bus if not balancing on the metal bus stop railings.
Many an hour spent in Stafford skating rink, somewhere by Gaol Square.
Trumpet
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Peugeot?Going out for a meal
Tilly
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Sausage
Gramaisc
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The lane where Oxfam is is the remains of Mount Street and, at one time had three names in use - Gaolgate Place, Hunter's Row and Mount Row - possibly there's even still somebody using Mount Street.
For a time, the Oxfam till receipts declared it to be on Mount Cow.
staffordjas
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I didn't realise until getting a AA route planner once, that an area by goal square is called Bull Hill
Withnail
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That seems unlikely.
There was a Royal Mint in Stafford from at least the time of Athelstan, certainly, and it is inconceivable that this would have been outside of the walls of the Burh.
So take a line from Mill St in the S, Earl St and Greengate St to the W and E, the question is, where is the northern boundary to close the rectangle - Crabbery St or Stafford St?
Personally i'd put the North wall at Crabbery St, though Stafford St is certainly a possibility.
For Mount St to be 'Mint St', the northern wall of the Burh would have had to have been Stafford St, and the original Mint St would have had to have somehow begun within the Burh but have extended beyond the walls around a time that they were unlikely to have come down, as the Mint didn't survive the purge of 1125.
It is not entirely impossible, but seems quite unlikely that that is the origin, though if true it would answer other questions elsewhere.
There was a Royal Mint in Stafford from at least the time of Athelstan, certainly, and it is inconceivable that this would have been outside of the walls of the Burh.
So take a line from Mill St in the S, Earl St and Greengate St to the W and E, the question is, where is the northern boundary to close the rectangle - Crabbery St or Stafford St?
Personally i'd put the North wall at Crabbery St, though Stafford St is certainly a possibility.
For Mount St to be 'Mint St', the northern wall of the Burh would have had to have been Stafford St, and the original Mint St would have had to have somehow begun within the Burh but have extended beyond the walls around a time that they were unlikely to have come down, as the Mint didn't survive the purge of 1125.
It is not entirely impossible, but seems quite unlikely that that is the origin, though if true it would answer other questions elsewhere.
Gramaisc
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There's a Snow Hill there, as well.
The 'mount' of Mount Street, may just have referred to the bit of a lump in the ground that there is there?