Secret Stafford

Stafford boasts a long and eventful history and has more than its fair share of secrets locked away among its ancient streets and beneath the eleventh-century Norman castle. The town suffered brutal suppression during the Norman Conquest and also played its part in the English Civil War. The pottery production for which the county has long been famous had its foundations in Stafford, but by the eighteenth century the potteries here were overshadowed by the more important shoe manufacturing industry, a time when the town was represented in Parliament by the famous playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan.??The county town of Staffordshire has many secrets waiting to be discovered. In Secret Stafford local author and historian Robert Nicholls looks into the distant and not-so-distant past to reveal the forgotten, the strange and the unlikely.