Sandon 1920. In the foreground where the road curves stood a wooden post or pillar, the stump of the post was still in existence albeit covered over in 1871. The post was situated close to the corner of the old Pack Horse Inn which stood on the site of the present village green. The Market was held at Sandon instead of Stafford during the prevalence of the Plague in the County town where people congregated around the post to transact their business. In the year 1843, Mr Turnock (licensee of the Pack Horse Inn) assisted by Mr Thomas (Sandon school headmaster), who had obtained some knowledge of its’ existence and location, discovered and laid bare the remains of the post.

Simon Shelley