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Pictures from Staffordshire's history - selected from the Staffordshire Past-Track Project
A "barbie"... a century ago | |
| | | An Ox-Roast in Tamworth - July 1913
You have more than one "millennium", you know! This card shows an Ox Roast (an early form of babrbecue, perhaps??) at the rear of the town's Drill Hall, which was then only two years old.
Butcher Redfern (in the white apron) had his shop in Lower Gungate and to the right is his assistant Billy Argyle.
This event was part of the Millenary celebrations in the town, which marked the 1000th anniversary of the occasion when Aethelflaeda (or Ethelfleda), the Lady of the Mercians, freed Tamworth back from the Danes after it had been in their possession for nearly forty years, She then fortified the town. Sadly, the Danes returned again in 943, and this time completely destroyed the town, which until then, had been the capital of the Mercia region.
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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