Roll Up, Roll Up, Come on and enjoy the fun.
The National Fairground Museum is now at Tamworth’s Statfold Country Park.
Visitors to the museum can ‘roll up’ and enjoy all the fun of the fair. They can travel on the Ghost Train, ride on a roundabout, play vintage arcade games and have a bite to eat in the Cafe Carousel.
For more details, please telephone 01827 830398 or email info@statfold
Major regeneration projects will transform Stafford town centre.
Staffordshire County Council and Stafford Borough Council are working on schemes to ensure that Stafford will be a place where people want to live and work.
Their projects complement each other and will encourage investment and support the tourist industry.
Stafford’s Market Square and the approach to the Railway Station have already been refurbished.
The borough council is working on major high street regeneration projects including the Guildhall shopping centre.
Staffordshire County Council has started work on its Eastgate regeneration scheme to create leisure facilities and homes in former council buildings.
Both councils are working in partnership to deliver the Stafford Station Gateway scheme which will redevelop land near the railway station.
The government says any proposals to reform local government in Staffordshire must identify and address the financial challenges facing Stoke-on-Trent City Council.
People with a Staffordshire Library Card can visit their local library to use its public access PCs to view the British Newspaper Archive. The archive holds over 50 million articles from regional and national newspapers. Using the archives will tell you about national and local newsworthy events as they happened.
About half of Stoke-on-Trent’s remaining bottle ovens are featured in this short video.
A bottle oven or bottle kiln was a type of kiln used in the ceramic industry. For many years, Stoke-on-Trent’s bottle ovens and kilns symbolised our industrial heritage.
Some were built in the late 18th century. Many were built in the 19th century and a few in the 20th. They remind us that Stoke-on-Trent was once the centre of the world’s pottery industry.
Only 47 bottle ovens are left. They are all listed buildings. Longton has more than any town in the Potteries. Stoke-on-Trent’s remaining bottle ovens will help to make North Staffordshire’s Industrial Landscape a World Heritage Site.
Family Historians who are members of Staffordshire Library can grow their family tree at their local library.
Ancestry, the leading genealogy resource on the internet, is ‘packed full of records’. It can help you trace by giving you hints and tips to guide your research.
For more information, contact your local library.
Staffordshire History Festival celebrates the county’s rich and diverse heritage. During the two-month festival, which ends on October 31, local history talks and exhibitions will be held at libraries and heritage sites throughout Staffordshire.
Councillor Hayley Coles, Cabinet Member for Communities and Culture said:
The Staffordshire History Festival is a brilliant chance to explore the stories that shape our communities. Whether you are interested in exhibitions, film screenings or hands-on workshops, there’s something for everyone. No matter where you are in the county, history is just around the corner – so get involved and discover what makes Staffordshire so truly special.
An exhibition, Staffordshire and Slavery, opens on September 16 at the Staffordshire History Centre. A film about the life of Fanny Deakin will be shown at Newcastle Kidsgrove and Biddulph Libraries. For more details of these and other events, please contact the Staffordshire History Centre or your local library.
The Staffordshire History Centre in Stafford has a collection of military records, personal letters, photographs and regimental histories. If your ancestor served in the armed forces, the centre could help you to trace them.
The Big Feast is NOT a Food Festival. It’s a weekend of amazing arts, curious culture and outdoor spectacle. Visitors to the Feast will see some of the UK’s best artists performing on Hanley’s streets. The two-day event takes place in Hanley/City centre on Friday 22 and Saturday 23rd August.
On the first day, I was placed with the Monday Volunteer Group to create boxes and envelopes that will be used in future to store documents. Later in the week, I was also allowed to meet some of the volunteer group that works on the transcription of records in the archive. These helped me understand the importance of volunteers and how they contribute to the centre and finish tasks that the staff can’t focus on. The experiences also allowed me to gain a deeper understanding of the importance of working with volunteers and how vital it is to run a history/archive centre, as without them, many tasks would take far too long to finish.
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