Stafford Paintings Of A County Town

Included among the paintings is artist Chris Sheldon's piece of Stafford's Baswich House which was in the Staffordshire Police Museum until , at the force's headquarters which has moved to Weston Road. Another striking piece is watercolour painting by Reginald Haggar in the early s of Stafford's iconic Broad Eye Windmill.

While the historic Stafford Council is depicted in another 18th Century painting produced anonymously. Browse the businesses in your area and find what is perfect for you. If you are searching for a job around your local area, use our online system. Subscribe to our daily newsletter.

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Staffordshire County Council owns 1, items but in one year only 92 were put on display. The vast majority of the works relate directly to the county or were produced by local artists. Business directory Browse the businesses in your area and find what is perfect for you.

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Stoke-on-Trent News Personally Speaking: Stafford is mainly served by the Sutton Coldfield transmitting station , just north of Birmingham, however, some residents in Stafford use The Wrekin transmitting station , near Telford , to obtain a watchable picture. Both of these stations are based in Stoke-on-Trent , and cover Staffordshire and Cheshire. Stafford can also get marginal signals from the West Midlands regionals, like Heart and Planet Rock , and is at the very north of Free Radio's Black Country and Shropshire coverage area.

There are two community radio stations in Stafford:. Stafford FM first aired on 28 October from studios situated in Gaol Mews, Stafford, and has been broadcasting continually online since August The station also broadcast briefly during using the name XL FM.

The station launched on Windmill Broadcasting is an online community radio station broadcasting from the Broad Eye Windmill. It has been broadcasting since 12 June , [25] and is the only radio station in the UK to be based in a windmill. As well as being based in the Mill, Windmill Broadcasting works with the Friends of the Broad Eye Windmill to assist with fundraising and renovation, and to boost awareness of the Broad Eye Windmill. As with the rest of the British Isles Stafford experiences a maritime climate with cool summers and mild winters.

The nearest Met Office weather station is at Penkridge, about 5 miles to the south. Stafford has a long history of shoe making. It is recorded as far back as , [27] when it was a cottage industry, but the manufacturing process was introduced in the s. He had a number of contracts with the government, through his connections with the town's MP, the famous playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

Stafford Art Group showcases work at two-day exhibition

The shoe industry gradually died out in the town, with Lotus Shoes being the last manufacturers. In , A locomotive firm called W.

Bagnall was set up. From to the Castle Engine Works, in Castle Town, produced 1, locomotives including steam, diesel and electric locomotives. In Bagnall's was taken over by English Electric who also bought Stafford based engine manufacturer W. Dorman who by that time was merged with Bagnall's. Since , a major activity in the town has been heavy electrical engineering , particularly producing power station transformers.

At the end of , Areva was split between former owner Alstom and Schneider Electric. Each transformer weighs several hundred tons and so a road train is used for transport. In the Hixon rail crash , one such road train was struck by an express train when it was crossing the railway at a level crossing. Perkins Engines has a factory making diesel engines in Littleworth.

Adhesives manufacturer Bostik has a large factory in the town. Stafford is also a major dormitory town for workers commuting to Stoke-on-Trent and Birmingham. The public sector provides a lot of local employment, with Staffordshire County Council, Stafford Borough Council and Staffordshire Police all headquartered in the town. Stafford Prison , County Hospital and Beacon Barracks are other sources of local public sector employment.

The town was home to the computer science and IT campus of Staffordshire University along with Beaconside campus which used to house the Faculty of Computing Engineering and Technology and part Business School.

This has all closed down and all have been transferred to Stoke-on-Trent. The only block of Stafford University left in use is the Blackheath Lane campus houses the School of Health, which teaches nursing. The town centre Guildhall Shopping Centre is the town's main shopping venue, housing more than 40 retail outlets such as Boots , Topman Topshop and River Island. There are 3 major superstores that surround the main town centre, an Asda superstore, a Tesco Extra and a Sainsbury's store. They are open 24 hours with the exception of Sainsbury's. Glover Street Testing Facility, situated at Stafford railway station was once a major hub on the railway network, but the suspension of passenger services on the Stafford to Uttoxeter line in and Beeching's closure of the Stafford to Shrewsbury Line in completely halted east-west traffic through Stafford.

The years up to saw cross-country trains operated by Virgin CrossCountry stopping at Stafford less frequently. Since Arriva CrossCountry took over the franchise and adopted a new timetable in , this trend reversed, and services between Manchester Piccadilly and Birmingham New Street almost always now stop at Stafford, giving a service typically every 30 mins during the weekdays. These are now operated by West Midlands Trains. At least one train a day in each direction between Birmingham New Street and Crewe is operated by Transport for Wales , usually the first and last trains of the day.

The A34 road runs through the centre of the town, linking it to Stone and Stoke-on-Trent to the north and Cannock and the West Midlands conurbation to the south. The A road connects Stafford with Telford to the south west and Uttoxeter to the north east, and therefore is the main route to the major theme park at Alton Towers. The A runs south from the town centre and connects with the nearby town of Penkridge and Wolverhampton. Finally, the A runs east from Stafford to the local towns of Rugeley and Lichfield.

The majority of bus services in Stafford and area are provided by Arriva Midlands , and the company also operates services to Cannock , Lichfield , Telford , and Wolverhampton. Stafford is served by five large taxi companies: There are also a large number of independent operators who work from the ranks at the station , Bridge Street, Broad Street and Salter Street.

The town's main hospital is County Hospital It provides a wide range of non-specialist medical and surgical services. County Hospital's Accident and Emergency unit is the only such facility in the town. The hospital made the national news in March , with the release of a Healthcare Commission report detailing the facility's appalling shortcomings.

St George's Hospital, part of the South Staffordshire and Shropshire Health Care Trust, is actually a combination of two historical hospitals—the Kingsmead Hospital previously an elderly care facility and the St George's psychiatric hospital. It provides mental health services, including an intensive care unit , secure units, an eating disorder unit, an EMI unit for the elderly and mentally frail, drug and alcohol addiction services and open wards.

There is a small outpatient facility, and this is the location of the town's AA meeting. It also offers some NHS treatments. The force has sold off its former headquarters on Cannock Road which as of autumn is being redeveloped as a housing estate. There is also a police station in the town centre on Eastgate Street. There is a magistrates' court in nearby South Walls.

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The Shire Hall, Stafford used to be a courthouse, it is now an art gallery. It was completed in The prison holds a number of vulnerable prisoners, mainly sex offenders. It was built on its current site in , and has been in almost continuous use, save a period between and Statutory emergency fire and rescue service is provided by the Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service , which has stations in Beaconside and Rising Brook. Staffordshire County Council 's headquarters are in the centre of Stafford.

Its administrative base is at County Buildings in Martin Street, with the majority of its staff in the town in the Staffordshire Place development, which opened in Numerous council bases across the town are closing as staff centralise at Staffordshire Place. The town's main library was formerly in the Shire Hall , it has been relocated to part of the ground floor at 1 Staffordshire Place [34] with smaller libraries in Rising Brook, Baswich and Holmcroft.

The William Salt Library in the town centre is a large collection of printed books, pamphlets, manuscripts, drawings, watercolours and transcripts built up by William Salt. MoD Stafford is located on Beaconside. It was redesignated MoD Stafford in March The event was marked by a fly past and a flag lowering ceremony.

For many years the site provided employment for civilians and military personnel. However, RAF Stafford was handed over by the Royal Air Force in accordance with the current policy of defence strategy and streamlining. The Chetwynd Centre also provides higher education in the town. It normally teaches specialised A-levels, some vocational qualifications and subjects taught by teachers with no school base. The centre has joined up with all the town's secondary schools, except the grammar school, to provide better resources for students.

Stafford College is a large college of further education. Stafford College also provides some higher education courses on behalf of Staffordshire University and focuses heavily on computing and engineering. South Staffordshire College has a base in the village of Rodbaston , on the edge of Stafford. It is an agricultural college and provides most of its training in this sector. Staffordshire University had a large campus in the east of the town and focuses heavily on computing, engineering and media technologies film, music and computer games.

It also runs teacher training courses. The university has 2 halls of residence opposite the campus, the smaller Yarlet with 51 rooms and the larger Stafford Court with Rooms. Stafford Court is divided into 13 'houses' named after local villages. Stafford is home to three association football clubs; Stafford Rangers F.