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Pictures from Staffordshire's history - selected from the Staffordshire Past-Track Project
A Bank Holiday scene from yesteryear | |
| | | Bank Holiday on Milford Common, 1947
Fairs have been held on Milford Common, near Stafford, since the 1880s. By 1906 fairs were held on every Bank Holiday both in the spring and summer.
Milford was a very popular weekend destination for visitors in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Excursion trains ran between Stafford and Milford stations. The three gables belong to the Barley Mow public house.
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Staffordshire Past Track is a Lottery Funded project showcasing archive photos, artwork, maps, audio and film representing the county's history. The site is expanding all the time and there are already more than six thousand images and over an hour of archive film footage available on the website - www.staffspasttrack.org.uk.
If you're interested in getting involved in the project and own photographs that you think would be of interest, or have local knowledge that you would be willing to share. Please email: past.track@staffordshire.gov.uk | | |
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