Stafford shops opening - Turning into a boom town?

Thehooperman

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Where were these buildings?

At the end of Eastgate Street, here

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BobClay

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Now. Does anybody have any pictures of the two cannons that were situated outside the front of Anson House ?

Addendum: When I was a kid a mate of mine, Glen Humphries, and myself were pretending to load and fire one of those cannons. We were using motions we'd seen on TV and film. As we were running back and forth with imaginary cannon balls and charges an old guy stopped and told us we were doing it wrong.

"You have to soogee out the barrels between shots," he told us. "Otherwise a spark up there might pre-detonate your charges which can be dangerous."

We hadn't got a clue what he was talking about. Many years later I encountered the word 'soogee' again when I went to sea. And I suddenly understood.

If you want to know what it means, Google it.
 
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Gramaisc

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Now. Does anybody have any pictures of the two cannons that were situated outside the front of Anson House ?

Addendum: When I was a kid a mate of mine, Glen Humphries, and myself were pretending to load and fire one of those cannons. We were using motions we'd seen on TV and film. As we were running back and forth with imaginary cannon balls and charges an old guy stopped and told us we were doing it wrong.

"You have to soogee out the barrels between shots," he told us. "Otherwise a spark up there might pre-detonate your charges which can be dangerous."

We hadn't got a clue what he was talking about. Many years later I encountered the word 'soogee' again when I went to sea. And I suddenly understood.

If you want to know what it means, Google it.
For many years, there was a small cannon and a stack of balls near the bus stop in Lower Loxley, although its removal seems to have predated the earliest Street View picture.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.8...4!1sqXwAOHbyYovxnNOHLIUt_A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

In forty five years of casual observations, I have never seen a passenger use that bus stop - I did once see a cyclist using it as a shelter to put his waterproofs on.
 

Tumble weed

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60 units , ambitious , it'll be more popular than the actual market.
 

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Mudgie

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Can't see this being mentioned but...

The Devil's Taphouse on Newport Road are opening a bottle shop 2 doors down where a Central Heating company are currently based (so the barbers will be between the 2 sites...).

The Co-op florist on Salter Street are relocating to the Co-op in Wildwood....
The Devil's Taphouse on Newport Road are opening a bottle shop 2 doors down
Name of Applicant : The Great British Beer Company !
 

Mudgie

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The two worst days for Stafford town centre were when the original market shut in order to become the useless waste of space the Guildhall has become and the day Bagnalls closed.
Or the day the Dog and Partridge closed and the day the White Lion and the Unicorn closed.
 

industryarch

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The two worst days for Stafford town centre were when the original market shut in order to become the useless waste of space the Guildhall has become and the day Bagnalls closed.
Why did anyone
Go in the dirty smelly market when you could visit a clean well laid out shop run by the same people at the same price
 

Cue

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It's not going to change the world but 2 X EV charging bays are being installed at the Hough retail park in the corner opposite Starbucks.

Progress... any idea what network or type they might be?

Kingsmead would be a sensible next location if they wouldn’t be waterlogged half the time
 
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