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Crossfields by Cannock Road near Stafford
This substantial property, photographed in 2015, dates from the early 1880s. For forty years it was used as offices for the nearby (already demolished in 2013) former police headquarters on the opposite side of the road.
In 2021 an application was made to demolish it and build a 76 bed care home. https://planning.org.uk/app/151/QZ0SJAPSLLK00/ https://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-hubs/staffordshire/stafford/2022/01/25/former-police-authority-offices-could-make-way-for-76-bed-care-home/
Image: © Roger Kidd
Taken: 4 Aug 2015
0.15 miles
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Police Headquarters sign by Cannock Road in Stafford
The buildings were demolished in 2013 but although the site was open as temporary parkland for a few years, this sign and a tall communications mast remained. As I write in 2023, the area is covered with new housing in imaginatively named streets like Sergeant Way and Constable Close. They missed out on having a row of Copper Cottages, but Stafford residents can't have everything!
Image: © Roger Kidd
Taken: 4 Aug 2015
0.18 miles
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Staffordshire Constabulary HQ site
The police have flitted leaving a parkland site on a strategic junction unoccupied.
Image: © Richard Webb
Taken: 17 Oct 2015
0.19 miles
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Wildwood Park Sports Fields and housing, Stafford
Seen from the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal. The housing is in Hartsbourne Way, off Wildwood Drive.
Image: © Roger Kidd
Taken: 28 Jul 2015
0.20 miles
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Mast, Weeping Cross
Last time I passed by there was a police headquarters here.
Image: © Richard Webb
Taken: 17 Oct 2015
0.20 miles
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Wildwood Park Sports Fields and housing, Stafford
Seen from the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal. The housing is in Hartsbourne Way, off Wildwood Drive.
Image: © Roger Kidd
Taken: 28 Jul 2015
0.21 miles
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Sweetbriar Way
Sweetbriar Way, a revisit as part of the Domesday Project
Image: © David Bagshaw
Taken: 23 May 2011
0.22 miles
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Wildwood
A suburb of Stafford. Memories of training runs with Walton Chasers in the 1980s.
Image: © Richard Webb
Taken: 17 Oct 2015
0.22 miles
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Marshlands Primary School (Special)
In middle of Wildwood Estate, difficult to find?
Update: in 2014 Marshlands School, which provides for children with special needs, moved to new premises in Second Avenue in
Image and the Wildwood premises seen here are now the home of Barnfields School (information from Alison Brown).
Image: © Jack Barber
Taken: 24 Feb 2007
0.22 miles
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Wildwood Supermarket
A retake as part of domesday revisited
Image: © David Bagshaw
Taken: 23 May 2011
0.23 miles