Showing posts with label staffordshire county council. Show all posts
Showing posts with label staffordshire county council. Show all posts

Thursday, 9 November 2017

White lady mystery



The ‘White Lady’ print has a central pride of place in this reception room in the old part of the county council buildings. 

The lady is clearly of the eighteenth century but – despite her prominence in this room -, no one is quite sure who she actually is.

I rather like these history-mysteries.  There are far more of them than people think.

Thursday, 21 March 2013

One, Staffordshire

I thought it was a rather cute idea to give 'Staffordshire Place' as the name to the square which is surrounded by the huge new county council buildings in Stafford. So, therefore, the mian entrance has the address '1 Staffordshire Place'.
It implies that the building is to be the centre of life in the county, which is (I think) what the originator must have had in mind.

After all, there is an address of Number One London, so why not a Number One Staffordshire?