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Stone in the 1950s
I am now 57 years of age, and live in Australia. I was born in Stone, Stafforshire in 1949 and would love to go back and visit.
As a child I remember walking along the canal and standing watching as a blacksmith mended a horse's shoe. I remember hating school but even at that very tender age I was interested in the history of the school that I attended. Every day at home-time I walked on the stone footpath that was once laid by the Romans (is it still there?). The school was very old and I think that it was once used by monks?? It had very tall ceilings, rounded arches and big heavy doors. I remember taking a shortcut ...read more here
Contributed by Eileen Page
Sandstone site as at 21 August 2006
First time on web page, co-incidently was at site yesterday 20 Aug 2006. I used to play all around the area as a young child 1970+ when the area was allotments, the current site has lost about 10ft in height due to 20 years of erosion, filling in etc. If you look to the left of the centre pillar and to the root overhang, there is about 2ft of sandstone left visible and then you are at root level to all the remaining trees. I will go back and take a photograph of the site, so it is not lost forever.
Contributed by paul spilsnury
Staffordshire memories
Stone in the 1950s
I am now 57 years of age, and live in Australia. I was born in Stone, Stafforshire in 1949 and would love to go back and visit.
As a child I remember walking along the canal and standing watching as a blacksmith mended a horse's shoe. I remember hating school but even at that very tender age I was interested in the history of the school that I attended. Every day at home-time I walked on the stone footpath that was once laid by the Romans (is it still there?). The school was very old and I think that it was once used by monks?? It had very tall ceilings, rounded arches and big heavy doors. I remember taking a shortcut ...read more here
A memory of Stone contributed by Eileen Page
Sandstone site as at 21 August 2006
First time on web page, co-incidently was at site yesterday 20 Aug 2006. I used to play all around the area as a young child 1970+ when the area was allotments, the current site has lost about 10ft in height due to 20 years of erosion, filling in etc. If you look to the left of the centre pillar and to the root overhang, there is about 2ft of sandstone left visible and then you are at root level to all the remaining trees. I will go back and take a photograph of the site, so it is not lost forever.
A memory of Stone contributed by paul spilsnury
Extracts From Stone & Staffordshire books
At the time, the foreground area was called Pump Square after the apparatus
near the lamp. A 16ft war memorial was unveiled here in 1921 and the area
was renamed Granville Square after the hotel from which this photograph was
taken. The thatch-roofed Crown and Anchor, dating from the 17th century,
was damaged by fire in 1937 and rebuilt immediately in its present form.
An extract from from"Down the Trent Photographic Memories".
Looking up to the
Granville Temperance
and Commercial Hotel
in Pump Square, several
establishments that did
provide alcoholic drinks
may be seen among the
18th and 19th century
buildings, including the
Crown Hotel and Joules’
brewery further up the
road. The Crown was built
in 1780 and also acted as
a mail clearing house for
long-distance coaches. Its
bow bays are still intact.
An extract from from"Down the Trent Photographic Memories".
Also situated north of
the town and at one time
also called the Lions’
Den, these sandstone
caves were once a
feature of The Plot, an
area of common grazing
land. They were filled in
many years ago.
An extract from from"Down the Trent Photographic Memories".
Stone proclaims itself to be a ‘Canal Town’ and reaching it from this
river bridge involves crossing the Trent & Mersey Canal. Looking further
upstream through what is now a canoe slalom course, a new bridge
beyond this one opened in 1984, and now carries the road. The large
house beyond has become a residential home for the elderly.
An extract from from"Down the Trent Photographic Memories".
The Shropshire Union Canal, engineered by Thomas Telford and con-
structed between 1827 and 1835, was the last of the major canals. It linked
Birmingham to the Mersey, and was built in a more direct line than previous
canals, sometimes through deep cuttings, to reduce distances in an attempt to
compete with railways. The Boat Inn stands beside the bridge.
An extract from from"Stafford Living Memories Pocket Album".