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Remember The Picture House cinema?
Published on 22 May, 2013 at 19:58 in History | Viewed 274 times | 3 Comments
Huge thanks to Keith Hanmer for this brilliant slice of Stone’s history. It’s a programme from December 1938 for the Picture House cinema in Stone. Keith found it in his house and shared via the Little Bit of Stone Facebook page. According to the Cinema Treasures website, the Picture House opened in 1934 and...
Medieval seal returns for good
Published on 14 May, 2013 at 12:12 in History | Viewed 379 times | No Comments
The 12th Century Seal Matrix of Stone Priory, which was bought for the town following an appeal last year, has been away in Wiltshire since January undergoing conservation work. And there’s a special talk later this month to mark its return. The matrix – which was found in a field in Surrey in 2011...
Heritage walk around Stone
A heritage walk takes place in Stone on Thursday 9th May as part of the 2013 Stafford Borough Walking Festival. Dr John Wilcock, a well-known lecturer in local history and archaeology, will lead a four-mile walk around the canal, railway, streets and buildings of Stone. The walk should take about two hours and there...
History Monthly: Stone’s lost boozers
The Unicorn, The Blue Bell, The Castle, The Union… just some of Stone’s boozers that are no longer with us. Some are long gone while others, like The Vine and The Robin Hood, are more recent casualties. In this month’s History Monthly, Stone Historical Society chairman Philip Leason looks at the huge number of...
History Monthly: Stone street names part 4
Published on 24 Apr, 2013 at 21:24 in History | Viewed 690 times | No Comments
This month Philip Leason, chairman of Stone Historical Society, continues to look at Street names associated with people. Find out about President Kennedy’s visit to Stone (when he was a young Washington Post reporter), the filming of a silent movie in the town in 1916, the building of the market hall (now Stone library)...
Stone from above in the 1920s
Published on 13 Mar, 2013 at 8:09 in History | Viewed 1,361 times | 2 Comments
There are some great aerial photographs of Stone from the 1920s on the Britain From Above website. The site – at www.britainfromabove.org.uk – is a four-year project aimed at conserving 95,000 of the oldest and most valuable photographs in the Aerofilms collection dating from 1919 to 1953. The collection of photographs was created by...
History Monthly: Stone street names – Part 3
Published on 4 Mar, 2013 at 9:23 in History | Viewed 1,652 times | 2 Comments
This month Philip Leason, the chairman of Stone Historical Society, continue to look at the origins street names in Stone, predominantly those named after people GRANVILLE TERRACE/GRANVILLE SQUARE are named after the Victorian statesman Granville George Leveson-Gower, the 2nd Earl Granville (1815-1891). The Earl’s original title was “Viscount Granville of Stone Park in the...
History Monthly Extra: Adie’s Alley
Published on 14 Feb, 2013 at 13:40 in History | Viewed 1,233 times | No Comments
Hope you’ve been enjoying Philip Leason’s excellent series on the meaning and history of Stone’s street names. We set a bit of a teaser in Part 1 – from where does Adie’s Alley get its name? Philip – the chairman of Stone Historical Society – explains all… Adie’s Alley gets it name from the...
History Monthly: Stone street names – Part 2
Published on 5 Feb, 2013 at 11:49 in History | Viewed 1,355 times | No Comments
Here’s the second of Stone Historical Society chairman Philip Leason’s posts on the history and meaning behind many of the town’s street names. If you missed the first one in January, have a look HERE. It’s fascinating stuff – and this month’s is even better, including how Hovis has its origins in Stone! If...
History Monthly: Stone street names in focus
Published on 13 Jan, 2013 at 20:06 in History | Viewed 1,820 times | 6 Comments
A large number of streets in Stone are named after people or have historical associations. Over the next few months, History Monthly by Stone Historical Society chairman Philip Leason will be looking at the origins of the names of many of our town’s streets… According to legend, Stone owes its origin to the murder...
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