Nostalgia - What are your memories of Stafford?

PeterD

ST16 Represent.
Everything changes so quickly, my knowledge of Stafford begins in 2005, I have trouble remembering things over the past 18 years, how you all recall things going back decades is beyond me. That said I could tell you the row of shops on each side of the walk to Carrefour in Telford in the 70s, but not the colour of my socks today.
 

staffordjas

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I remember the public loos behind there as well.

Brings back memories of one night in the Grapes , someone coming running in saying a man had been stabbed on the Wimpy patio for confronting someone for swearing in front of his girlfriend. (Attacker called Wolfy if I remember correctly) ) . A rare occurance to hear of stabbings in those days .
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
I remember the public loos behind there as well.

Brings back memories of one night in the Grapes , someone coming running in saying a man had been stabbed on the Wimpy patio for confronting someone for swearing in front of his girlfriend. (Attacker called Wolfy if I remember correctly) ) . A rare occurance to hear of stabbings in those days .
I remember the stabbing.

'Proper violence' was quite a novelty in those days.
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
I had a teleportation experience there, around 1977.

We had been to Eccleshall for the evening and stopped to refresh ourselves after the journey back. As we were preparing to depart on our motorcycles, a scuffle developed and somebody must have summoned the cops. An Escort arrived with two women in, and they clearly had no intention of getting involved, sitting in the car for a good while, before two lads appeared in another Escort, to actually sort things out.

I was riding down the side of the women's car when the lads suddenly arrived, and the driver, confident to get involved now, flung the door wide open right in front of me. I, somehow, managed to avoid hitting the door, even more remarkable as I had a rather uncooperative pillion passenger on the back.

I have no understanding of how I missed riding full-on into the door of her marked police vehicle. Oh for some CCTV footage, but, at that time, probably the only building in Stafford with external CCTV was the Outlaws house on Stone Road.
 
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