Your top 5 things about Stafford.

[Trumpet]

Motorway links
Railway links
Victoria park
Stafford balti
The Sun
There are some lovely old buildings around the town

In any order you like.

 

[Withnail]

thefordsquad
juice-comedy
Pie&Ale
Derrick Gask
People

Again in no particular order.

Where are my manners? Hi olddoxey.

 

[Withnail]

And mountain biking on the Chase - tara a bit!

 

[Admin]

Hi olddoxey, welcome to Stafford Forum.

1) Forum

5. Stafford Forum

3. Stafford forum

Aw, shucks

 

[United57]

1 1hr 15mins to London

The only problem is that it is cheaper to fly across the Atlantic. Even advanced tickets are expensive.

The cheapest tickets are on the slow train.

Transport links were one of the reasons I moved to Stafford, along with relatively affordable house prices.

Then you find good pubs and intersting folk.

 

[United57]

have you noticed that every time one town centre loony vanishes another appears, I'm guessing it's part of some kind of governmental quota on the amount of loonies you can have in a town.

I think the term is Eccentric ! every town needs them to brighten up the place. They probably think we are the loonies!

 

[cookie_monster]

1) pie and ale house
2) the railway
3) stafford forum
4) my mates
5) music festival at the castle

and ive missed whole chunks of all of these this year...i promise to be better next year


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[Gramaisc]

PandA House.
Co-op Bank.
Stafford Balti.
Not too flat, not too hilly.
Some of the people.

Based on what I might miss if I was somewhere else..

 

[shoes]

Are we allowed to mention memories past? If so then:

1) Hogs Head
2) Vision
3) Tek Monkey Towers I
4) Tek Monkey Towers II
5) Zanzibar.... I'm kidding I'm kidding.....

Currently the best things IMO are, in no particular order:

1) Pie & Ale House
2) Stafford Forum
3) I have a great job which isn't far out of the town
4) The Park - especially once all the flowers have been planted and are in bloom - it looks stunning!
5) My friends - I have met some amazing people here, some Staffordian, and some like me, are cheap imports - love you all!

 

[shoes]

And mountain biking on the Chase - tara a bit!

Shit, how did I forget that?!

 

[Gramaisc]

Well, if we're doing the past.

The Sun.
The real library when it was up Friars Terrace.
Bob Picken's bookshop.
The Poly before it went corporate.
County Woodware.

We have various threads for this sort of thing..

 

[cookie_monster]

oooh, if its the past:

1) the metal trains in viccie park
2) the skeletons in the guildhall
3) browse
4) jervis' (the random shop on the corner next to the electrical shop)
5) props!


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[toooldtorock]

Well as its the past:
The Nags Head when Keith Webb was there
Props - with Bert
Bath Hotel !!!!
Students Union Tipping Street
The Eagle with the Feenans

 

[olddoxey]

Past,
Woolys,
Music store (s)
Pub by the Mercades (castle town, what was it called again?)
The footy pitch on St Georges
The Post being Delivered before 1 in the afternoon

BOB PICKENS BOOKSHOP???? WHERE WAS THAT???

 

[Gramaisc]

Well as its the past:
The Nags Head when Keith Webb was there
Props - with Bert
Bath Hotel !!!!
Students Union Tipping Street
The Eagle with the Feenans

Have you got your anorak on now? I forgot the Eagle and the Union, mind you, the Poly canteen on a Friday night was good enough for me.

 

[Gramaisc]

BOB PICKENS BOOKSHOP???? WHERE WAS THAT???

Opposite the prison on Gaol Road, next to the Chinese, where the disco equipment shop is now. It was a fantastic place. I miss it every time I go past..

He's still about. I met him in the Hospice shop by the old Post Office last year.

 

[olddoxey]

I cant remember that when did it cease to trade? He must be getting on then that feller

 

[Gramaisc]

jervis' (the random shop on the corner next to the electrical shop)

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I was told that the old dears in there were the only purveyors of stink bombs in the town..

 

[Gramaisc]

I cant remember that when did it cease to trade? He must be getting on then that feller

Probably about 1990. He had a bit of a fire in the late 80s, and then the landlord wanted a year's lease instead of a rolling monthly one, so he decided to put his feet up. Still does the fairs, I believe.

 

[toooldtorock]

Well as its the past:
The Nags Head when Keith Webb was there
Props - with Bert
Bath Hotel !!!!
Students Union Tipping Street
The Eagle with the Feenans

Have you got your anorak on now? I forgot the Eagle and the Union, mind you, the Poly canteen on a Friday night was good enough for me.

I remember seeing Bob Marley and The Wailers at the Poly on a Friday night