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But it was used as council offices until it was sold in 2011 surely?
Right sorry I didn't realise that was when it was sold. Thanks.
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But it was used as council offices until it was sold in 2011 surely?
Oh my life, it's a BEAUTY!!
It was the offices and rehearsal/performance space for Staffordshire Music and Performing Arts, when it was run by the SCC.But it was used as council offices until it was sold in 2011 surely?
I'm lucky enough to be somewhat involved in this project, and also was very privileged to be able to take a tour of it yesterday. It really is a lovely space but it is going to need a LOT of TLC to repair the damage from being left to stand empty and unheated for so many years. I hope that the residents of Stafford get behind keeping this building as a public place.
It's probably as safe as the White Lion....Where is Stafford's missing Wragge collection?
http://www.staffordshirenewsletter....e-collection/story-26862308-detail/story.html
I think it will need a lot of money to buy it in the first place and then to renovate it. It is possible to bid for heritage funding in order to buy the building but anyone bidding would have to prove that they could keep the building going afterwards with revenue money. I think it is a tremendous idea to buy the building but the group will need a wealthy benefactor to assist with keeping the building running afterwards. Just a thought.I'm lucky enough to be somewhat involved in this project, and also was very privileged to be able to take a tour of it yesterday. It really is a lovely space but it is going to need a LOT of TLC to repair the damage from being left to stand empty and unheated for so many years. I hope that the residents of Stafford get behind keeping this building as a public place.
Like that nice Mr Carnegie, who funded it in the first place, only for it to be sold off after his death.....?I think it is a tremendous idea to buy the building but the group will need a wealthy benefactor to assist with keeping the building running afterwards. Just a thought.
No.It is as bad as the White Lion public house that was numbewred and taken down to be rebuilt, I remember one of the chaps on construction telling me had gone to the depot at Gailey, really, i wonder if it is still there??
No.
http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Operators/Other-operators/Missing-The-White-Lion-Stafford
Sources suggest that it "disappeared" almost immediately.
I was staying at the White Lion at the time and then told to leave - about 1969/70. The landlord went onto run the Chains pub.What a funny (or not so funny) article that is.
It closed in 1975 and was demolished shortly afterwards, never to be seen or heard of again.I was staying at the White Lion at the time and then told to leave - about 1969/70. The landlord went onto run the Chains pub.
I also have vague recollections of somebody recently claiming to know what happened to it, but I'm not aware of any official information from those actually charged with its safe-keeping. It's fairly likely that something along the lines of what you suggest must have happened, and fairly soon after it was "saved" for posterity.There was a letter in response to a piece about the White Lion in the Newsletter a few months back. I've got it in my head that it was from Armand Chatfield who mentioned that a builder from Shropshire(?) way used the bricks and wood for some building work near Onneley(?) / Betley(?) way. I've added the question marks as I'm really not too sure and an extensive Google search turns up nothing of the above to back me up. So it could have been all just a Dallas scene dream.
CAMRA said:One of Stafford's most historic buildings, it was demolished for a road improvement scheme and the site now lies under The Green gyratory system. A planning condition was that the building should be carefully demolished for re-building elsewhere, but Stafford Borough Council sold the remains to someone building a fake 16th century farmhouse in a local village.