A large collection of Joule’s memorabilia will be on display in the town soon after local councillors agreed a long-term loan from Camra’s Heart of Staffordshire branch.
Stone Town Council’s tourism and town promotion committee heard on Tuesday that the “substantial” collection – which was displayed for a day at the Crown Hotel in April last year – will be going on show at the Stone railway station community building.
The town council has written to the Camra branch to accept the collection and will now be putting arrangements in place at the community building.
Included in the display will be a Joule’s visitors’ book that was bought by the town council at auction recently, a purchase that proved controversial at the committee meeting.
Cllr Joyce Farnham said the book wasn’t worth the £150 that had been paid for it and that it was in a poor state of condition with only seven pages of details. She told the meeting: “Someone should have attended a preview so that we could have had a look at it before bidding. I don’t think it’s worth £10.”
Cllr Jill Hood responded: “Even though there are only seven pages of names and addresses, some of the addresses mentioned no longer exist, and there are names included in there that people will be delighted to see. It’s a piece of this town’s history and means a lot to the people of Stone.”
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