Hopes new housing would bring additional customers
IN 1986, Burton newspapers focused their attention on Stapenhill in the hope of attracting some of the residents from the newlybuilt Brizlincote Valley estate.
Readers were reminded of Stapenhill’s rich history – a Saxon burial ground exists on the corner of Stanton Street and Saxon Street, while Ford Street was used by the Romans as one of the ways to a ford across the River Trent – hence the name.
Burton’s public gibbet, where criminals met their fate, also used to stand on Scalpcliffe Road.
One of the shops hoping to attract custom was the newlyopened “May Little Shop” at 79 Main Street.
The owner, Mary Stonebridge, mainly catered for children and teenage fashions, but hoped to expand to sell clothes for the whole family.
As some of the adverts from the time show, this was the era when a trip to Hadfields of Stapenhill could see you get four cans of Carling Black Label for £1.99 and a bottle of Teachers Whisky for £7.59 or Martini for just £2.29.