Stafford - old and the new(ish)

[Sir BoD]

I'm having an old hard drive spring clean and came across this. I'll see if I can dig any more out and post them up. In the meantime, if you've got any 'before and after' photos of Stafford, feel free to post them up.

 

[Gramaisc]

Oh, what a marvellous improvement that is - when we could all just be sat in the Assembly Rooms..

 

[Fonzie-NL]

A few years ago my brother (Vespa-NL on the forum) and I made several "past and present" photos of the old Stafford to Uttoxeter railway.
Most "present" photos were taken by us around 1991/1992.

The whole past/present collection we made can be found under below link:

https://picasaweb.google.com/117987...ToUttoxeterRailwayPastAndPresent?noredirect=1

 

[John Marwood]

Oh, what a marvellous improvement that is - when we could all just be sat in the Assembly Rooms..

Is that the UB before the bogs flooded?

 

[basil]

Is that the UB before the bogs flooded?

A somewhat young Margaret Roberts bottom right.......

 

[basil]

Is that the UB before the bogs flooded?

A somewhat young Mick McCarthy 2nd row 3rd in.......

 

[basil]

Is that the UB before the bogs flooded?

A somewhat young John Lennon with a somewhat young Les Crowther next to him, 2 bints up the row from Mick.....

 

[basil]

Is that the UB before the bogs flooded?

A somewhat young Kirk Douglas sat behind Mick........

 

[Gramaisc]

No bald blokes.

 

[proactive]

A somewhat young Kirk Douglas sat behind Mick........

I think at least one of us needs to go to Specsavers...

 

[John Marwood]

A young couple enter the Education building by the steps in Tipping Street in the sixties hoping to find an Indian Restaurant

 

[basil]

A young couple enter the Education building by the steps in Tipping Street in the sixties hoping to find an Indian Restaurant

Goodness gracious me ........

 

[basil]

A somewhat young Margaret Roberts bottom right.......

Sorry, Far Right.........

 

[Sir BoD]

Oi, stop derailing the thread, you buggers! Get your old ones out!

Ahem, back on track..

 

[ben0239]

Whenever I look at old photos of Stafford (apart from the one directly above) I am always a little dismayed at quite frankly annoyed that Cllrs could ever think that what was being proposed was better than the building, which was often full of character. The first picture on this post looks lovely compared to that horrible police station.

This picture is of the bottom end of Wolverhampton Rd (I think). The YMCA stands where McCartthy and Stone and the Road is now and the buildings in the background are where Grocott and Vlok dentists are.

 

[John Marwood]

Cattle market - Market Square, at about ten passed seven..nice ass

 

[John Marwood]

Sandon Road and the giant Lotus records store

 

[Gramaisc]

This picture is of the bottom end of Wolverhampton Rd (I think). The YMCA stands where McCartthy and Stone and the Road is now and the buildings in the background are where Grocott and Vlok dentists are.

The building in the background is the Oasis dentists and Grate Fireplaces - Grocott and Vlok is further round the corner, past the Stafford Dental Practice, the Garden Street junction and Myhill's Accountants.

Unless G&V run all of them...?

Sandon Road and the giant Lotus records store

Allotments all the way up to where Charnley Road will be..

 

[John Marwood]

 

[Sir BoD]

Folks. Can we keep this a 'before and after' picture thread, please. There are loads of other threads with pictures of old Stafford but I created this one specifically so we could see the difference between 'then and now.' Cheers.