'Stafford: a proper little town' : exhibition - to Friday 4 October 2013

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http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/leisure/archives/Events/home.aspx

This autumn, To celebrate the 1100th anniversary of the establishment of Stafford as a 'burh' by Lady Aethelflaed of the Mercians, the Staffordshire Archives and Heritage, in conjunction with the William Salt Library, is holding a three-week exhibition of their unique and irreplaceable Stafford Borough collections. The archives on display range from a first-hand account of the visit of Elizabeth I to Stafford and the description of the brutal execution of the priest Robert Sutton to photographs of the lost pubs of Stafford.

Venue : Staffordshire Record Office, Eastgate Street, Stafford ST16 2LZ
Dates : Friday 13 September to Friday 4 October 2013
Times : 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. (Mon-Fri); 10.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. (Sat); closed on Sundays.
Tickets : entry is free of charge; tickets are not required.

Worth a visit - very good map that shows all the town streets and how their names have changed over the years - Electoral Roll that will make it plain why it is called a 'roll' - clever satirical poem re. why Stafford doesn't want/need a Mayor - other stuff of interest - can't be arsed to 'Post New Event' - go see...

 

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Worth a visit - very good map that shows all the town streets

I was in Abbeyleix last week and somebody had made this excellent 3D map of the town..

A true work of art.

 

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The map in the exhibition is very much 2D - Gaolgate Street was once known as 'Cow Street' (it may have had a funny Olde Worlde spellyng, such as 'Cowe' or variants thereof) on account of it being used as a cattle market.

Abbeyleix looks very 'linear' - are you sure dem der Oirish were never troubled by the Romans?

 

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The map in the exhibition is very much 2D - Gaolgate Street was once known as 'Cow Street' (it may have had a funny Olde Worlde spellyng, such as 'Cowe' or variants thereof) on account of it being used as a cattle market.

Abbeyleix looks very 'linear' - are you sure dem der Oirish were never troubled by the Romans?

What did we ever get from the Romans?

The Vikings were bad enough.

Most Irish towns are fairly linear, unless there's a good reason not to be.

 

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The Vikings were bad enough.

Unfunnily enough, Ireland was the main destination of English slaves in the 'Dark Ages' - a practice that only came to an end via the intervention of those (maybe not so) 'pesky' Normans.

 

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Unfunnily enough, Ireland was the main destination of English slaves in the 'Dark Ages' - a practice that only came to an end via the intervention of those (maybe not so) 'pesky' Normans.

We might still have snakes without that little diversion.

 

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Angles/Angels

 

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Abbeyleix looks very 'linear' - are you sure dem der Oirish were never troubled by the Romans?

Abbeyleix was a planned town - the original village was demolished because it kept flooding and all the families moved in the 18th century.

So the straight lines make sense!

 

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Abbeyleix was a planned town - the original village was demolished because it kept flooding and all the families moved in the 18th century.

So the straight lines make sense!

Spoken almost like you have local knowledge ...


The old North School is now an excellent Heritage Centre.