The Stafford Heritage trail walk aims to educate and entertain as it takes you on an informative walk around the towns historical buildings.
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00:00Ollie how are you sir? I'm good thank you. So we're here in Stafford and in the shadow of the
00:05ancient high house just behind you there. That's your kind of base isn't it where you work out of?
00:09That is that is my base as the events coordinator here that's where we work we run the castle and
00:13the high house on the cottage but yeah that's the base. Looking forward getting into a full
00:17season of events coming up I'm sure? Yeah I've just come down from the office after planning
00:21all the way to Christmas 2025 I know it's only just before Christmas 2024 but yeah.
00:25Yeah yeah well you've got a rather special event coming up on the 15th is that right? Yeah it is
00:30it's next week the 15th of January Wednesday at around 10 30 meeting at the high house we've got
00:36our heritage town trail which is a regular event we run and it is a walking tour of Stafford that
00:42goes through all the history of the local buildings a lot of the local you know history
00:46of Stafford and its origins and it's led by our wonderful Gillian who's our town trail guide
00:52which is just yeah it's brilliant. People sometimes forget we are kind of blessed with a wealth of
00:57fantastic buildings in Stafford aren't we and fantastic stories that come with them. Yeah
01:01absolutely Stafford is a very old town and people forget that yeah. How special is the ancient high
01:06house in particular? Well it is a very special building working in there I feel very lucky it
01:11is the tallest timber frame Tudor townhouse in you know in the UK still yeah and yeah it's had
01:17a lot of interesting history like a stay by Charles I as well gathering forces for the
01:23coming war but yes yes it has it's steeped in history and I think a lot of people that live
01:27in Stafford have walked past it for 60 odd years and don't realise it's there and have never been
01:31in but it's free admission and you should definitely pop in next time you're in Stafford
01:34if you've not been in before. Well that's it you've got a cracking little gift shop in there
01:37with some lovely gifts and books and you also quite often have revolving exhibitions as well
01:42don't you? We do we've got revolving exhibitions I was just looking at those for this year as well
01:46and we've got loads of events other than the town trail as well we have workshops if you fancy like
01:49some more bespoke workshops or we have huge events at Stafford Castle such as the wildlife at the
01:54castle or the Viking reenactment which are absolutely brilliant family fun days out suitable
01:58for everyone absolutely everyone. What's the best place for people to find out a bit more where
02:03should they be looking and clicking? So our socials are good but I will say look at our website which
02:07is www.historicstafford.co.uk and you can find us on socials at Historic Stafford too. Awesome thank
02:14you Ollie and good luck with the events for this coming year. Thank you very much thanks.