Stafford Traffic.

kyoto49

kyoto49

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c0tt0nt0p said:
Riverway will be closed for 2 days on the 9th & 10th June during the day (8-6 & 7-8) for the Ironman event taking place...
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I really like that roads get used for other things than vehicles, they do after all belong to everyone, and seeing them as urban spaces rather than just transport corridors is the future :)
 
staffordjas

staffordjas

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Tilly said:
Steam rollers? Were all the cars in black and white?
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Actually never thought about the m6 not long being built then :o yikes now I feel ancient. Just found a good website ( whilst awaiting my cider from the bar) detailing all the plans to build the m6 through Stafford...'to relieve congestion on the A34' .
 
Withnail

Withnail

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There was a fab documentary about the (2, 4, 6, 8...) Motorway on Beeb 4 some moments ago.

I might even remember to come back and provide some sort of link.
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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Glam said:
What was knocked down for the A34 as we now know it?
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Everything on the west side of Greyfriars north of the barber's shop by the Falcon (Stafford Chippy now?).

The east side all went, too, between Browning Street and the sandwich shop on Fancy Walk corner, while they were at it, but more as 'modernisation' than 'road widening/rerouting'.

The odd house, that's just been tarted up, may have had a long enough front garden to survive?
 
Glam

Glam

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Glam said:
What was knocked down for the A34 as we now know it?
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Gramaisc said:
Everything on the west side of Greyfriars north of the barber's shop by the Falcon (Stafford Chippy now?).

The east side all went, too, between Browning Street and the sandwich shop on Fancy Walk corner, while they were at it, but more as 'modernisation' than 'road widening/rerouting'.

The odd house, that's just been tarted up, may have had a long enough front garden to survive?
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So I take it, there were more houses like that one?
I came thru that area on the way home from 1 of my sisters other day, it's such a scruffy sight to anyone approaching the town from the north, isn't it? The south isn't much better.
And does anyone know what's happening to the old Connexions building, opposite the SGI?
 
Tilly

Tilly

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Glam said:
So I take it, there were more houses like that one?
I came thru that area on the way home from 1 of my sisters other day, it's such a scruffy sight to anyone approaching the town from the north, isn't it? The south isn't much better.
And does anyone know what's happening to the old Connexions building, opposite the SGI?
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Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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Glam said:
So I take it, there were more houses like that one?
I came thru that area on the way home from 1 of my sisters other day, it's such a scruffy sight to anyone approaching the town from the north, isn't it? The south isn't much better.
And does anyone know what's happening to the old Connexions building, opposite the SGI?
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These are the east side - https://www.search.staffspasttrack....42&PageIndex=1&KeyWord=greyfriars&SortOrder=2 - https://www.search.staffspasttrack....43&PageIndex=1&KeyWord=greyfriars&SortOrder=2 - I can't find any of the west side - it was all gone before I got here.
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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Tilly said:
Flats

Gorra

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It was residential accommodation in the early 1980s. I worked with a chap who used to bring a large rucksack into work every day, but never seemed to open it, before taking it out with him every night. Eventually, it was revealed that he was living on the top landing of the stairwell there. He went home to Worcester after work on a Friday, and came straight up from there on a Monday morning, so he only needed four nights here each week.

Long before the days of large-scale homelessness, the cleaners never locked the communal door to the stairwell when they left in the evening. He would sit on the wall of the SGI until he was sure it was clear, then go in and establish himself on the top landing, making sure he was gone before any of the office or shop occupants arrived in the morning.

He had shelter and some access to electricity and water/washing facilities - and they had an (unknown) extra security element.

He did it for about a year and never got caught.
 
proactive

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staffordjas said:
Errrm....seems Burton Bank has moved !

'The motorway will, however, be closed overnight for knocking down of two bridges, Burton Bank footbridge near Walton-on-the-Hill and a bridge next to Home Farm in Creswell.'

www.expressandstar.com/news/local-hubs/staffordshire/2018/05/26/warning-over-motorway-closure-disruption-to-stafford/!
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Journalism at its very best. So glad to see the Distress and Star hasn't felt the need to improve its editorial standards.

Typed on the shore of Lake Garda, just off the Stone Road, near the dual carriageway.
 
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