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I remember the cedar tree being struck by lightning in the mid 1970s.You can just see a set of lights here and the Give Way line of Baswich Lane.
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The war memorial was moved a bit to allow space for the double mini roundabout set-up.
The only other location in Stafford that I can think of, where a set of lights was replaced by a roundabout, is the Silkmore Lane/Lichfield Road junction.
Sandon Road/Corporation Street was a successful mini-roundabout for a short period, before being replaced by the infuriating light set-up that has been there for the subsequent decades.There can't be many junctions where a roundabout has been replaced by a set of lights. Weston Road - Riverway - Lammascote Road - Corporation street is one.
I don't remember a mini-roundabout there but that was probably after about 1974 when the terraced building on the corner of Albert Terrace was a shop and off-license with a handpump for Joules Bitter.Sandon Road/Corporation Street was a successful mini-roundabout for a short period, before being replaced by the infuriating light set-up that has been there for the subsequent decades.
It would have been 1981/2/3ish, probably - the short-lived roundabout was a great improvement on the previous crossroads arrangement, but a vast amount of money was then spent on making it worse again.I don't remember a mini-roundabout there but that was probably after about 1974 when the terraced building on the corner of Albert Terrace was a shop and off-license with a handpump for Joules Bitter.
And I remember Weeping Cross being closed by the police from there on 18th September 1990 after the IRA shot Peter Terry at his Milford home because of his shoot to kill policy as Governor of Gibraltar.
Yes, he secretly stayed in the Officers Mess there for quite a while after being released from hospital.It took the ex almost an hour get in and out of the RAF camp then. For about a month afterwards, every car was checked over completely. Bit like locking the stable door after the 'os has bolted.
Yes, "the trees up Radford Bank" were large elms soon to be lost to Dutch Elm Disease.I remember when the Cannock Rd was a side junction onto the Lichfield Rd , as on the top photo of @Steve_b above. Didn't need lights controlling it then , as was hardly any traffic on the Cannock Rd. (Silkmore/Lichfield Rd junction was just a side junction with no lights needed at that time as well )
I remember seeing hubby off onto the Walsall bus from the bus stop on the Cannock Road when I first met him in 1979 , so the junction was still like that then. The bus stop was on the grassy triangle between the Lichfield Rd & Cannock Rd.
Used to be quite spooky walking home alone from Top of the World in the early hours in the early 70's, as the trees up Radford Bank used to meet over the top making a dark tunnel , and the owls used to be hooting in the trees in the middle bit on top of the bank by the police headquarters.