Description:A view looking along the River Sow towards Stafford town centre with St. Mary's Church tower in the Centre. We are unsure of the exact site, but this photograph was possibly taken from just north west of the Riverway Bridge. The view to St. Mary's Church is nowadays (2019) obscured by black poplar trees and the new Marks and Spencer store.
The '3rd wicket' is presumably a gate, but may also refer to a sluice gate between the small watercourse leading from the Lammascote drain into the Sow not far from the Riverway Bridge.