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Foregate Street, STAFFORD, ST16 2NZ

The former Stafford Power Station closed by MEB 1959 was taken over by the English Electric Company to test their mercury-arc valve equipment for power station switchgear. The old boilerhouse and equipment rooms had the height and space required. The brick extension on the right adjacent to Glover Street dates from 1939.

Stafford General Infirmary was founded as a Voluntary Hospital in a rented house on this site in Foregate Street and opened for patients on 27 June 1766, making it one of the oldest hospitals in the country. It was funded through subscriptions and bequests. According to the Staffordshire County Archive Service the Hospital had a paid apothecary, a matron and a porter but local doctors gave their services for free. The infirmary was funded by voluntary annual subscription, patients were admitted on the recommendation of those who made donations. An infirmary cow supplied milk and fruit was provided from the surrounding orchards. The building shown is the second hospital. It cost £3,000, which was raised by public subscription, and was designed by Benjamin Wyatt. It opened in 1772 and in 1776 a Dr Erasmus Darwin of Lichfield was appointed 'physician extraordinary'. He was Charles Darwin's grandfather. The hospital building substantially restored and enlarged in 1897 and a nurse's home, built by the shoe magnate David Hollins was added in 1911. The hospital was then much extended and altered over the years until it was replaced by the Stafford District General Hospital in 1981. The hospital itself is now offices, and all the surrounding buildings were demolished in 1999 and are now a business park.

On the Stafford Ring Road near Gaol Square

Opened in 1771 and closed in 1996, only the centre section has been retained and used for Offices and retail shops.

An area of open gardens and civic space, left at the site of the medieval North Gate entrance to the town, which is also seen in Image

The Friends' Meeting House [Quakers]in Stafford dates from 1730 and is still in use.

This crossing of footpaths lies close to the site of the gate that guarded the causeway access through marshes on the northern approach to the original town.

Jehovah's Witnesses Kingdom Hall is on the left.

Gaol Road looking south towards Stafford town centre, Crooked Bridge Road is off to the left beyond the petrol station with Stafford Prison dominating the area.