H & L

Stamford has many hostelries and many more in the past. There are tell-tale signs of former inns all over the town, can you spot them?

The beautiful stained glass above belonged to the Half Moon in Star Lane, now Domino pizza. The icon above the door shows the pub's name (below).

This wall fresco advertising the brewery was directly outside the entrance to The Roebuck Inn in Broad Street/Goldsmith's Lane.

If you were rich enough you could have your business name carved into the stone o your building. This one is evidence of Melbourn's Brewery in All Saints Street, another is Herbert Hart, a seed merchant in Broad Street.

The image (left) is the former Stamford Hotel in St. Mary's Street. The open passageway shown here is actually the original stage coach entrance. The entrance to the right of this opening is the original hotel foyer with sweeping staircase and stained glass windows. Today it is a thoroughfare between streets and is destined to become private residences.

The many homes and shops of Georgian Stamford required these inset boot scrapers due to the muddy streets. See BBC's Middlemarch for evidence!

The London Inn on Castle Street. Its name refers to Stamford being situated on the Old North Road (now the A1) with stage coaches stopping in the town on their journeys between London and York

This building in St. Peter's Street was a High class ladies dress shop. The image below shows a former corner shop in a mainly residential area, a pub being in the same street!

Another tell-tale sign of former inns: the pub sign hanging structure. Look up to see these obsolete hunks of metal, some used by today's modern businesses (see below).

This restaurant in Cheyne Lane uses the original pub sign hanger from the ancient "Hole in the Wall"

This timber-framed building is on St. Peter's Hill facing this piece of land with a stone-pillared gateway, site of the medieval St. Peter's church.

Stamford had a terracotta factory. This details can be found o the frontage of No. 20 High Street.

This roundel on the bus station, the former site of the town's castle, is evidence of a tower