High Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme

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Date:1930 - 1939 (c.)

Description:Taken looking North along the High Street this photgraph takes in a 1930s street scene. The hustle and bustle of people on the pavement, cars, buses and bikes pulled up to the side of the road, a mixture of shops, cafes, hotels and a cinema advertising 'Talkies'. This photograph reveals everyday life in Newcastle-under-Lyme during the interwar years.


Timeline

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1280s
Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme Trinity Fair Charter, Granted by King Edward I
Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme Trinity Fair Charter, Granted by King Edward I

This is Newcastle-under-Lyme’s oldest surviving charter. A charter is a formal ...

1800s
View from Red Lion Square, Newcastle-under-Lyme looking south
View from Red Lion Square, Newcastle-under-Lyme looking south

Watercolour by James Hulse of a view looking from Red Lion Square towards the High ...

1840s
Red Lion Square, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Red Lion Square, Newcastle-under-Lyme

A pencil and coloured wash by John Whessell. This drawing captures Red Lion Square ...

1870s
Red Lion Square, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Red Lion Square, Newcastle-under-Lyme

Advert for Rimmel's grocers, the building later became Wain's Chemist. St Giles' ...

1890s
Harrison's Birthplace, High Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Harrison's Birthplace, High Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme

Taken at the rear of Major-General Thomas Harrison's Birthplace. Thomas Harrison ...

1910s
The High Street,  Newcastle-under-Lyme, during a Zeppelin air raid
The High Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme, during a Zeppelin air raid

Sunset sky, lamps creating diffused light on a dim High Street through which the ...

1940s
Wedding Dress, worn by Lillian May Kettle, WW2
Wedding Dress, worn by Lillian May Kettle, WW2

This was worn by Lillian May Kettle when she married Ernest Kettle at St Giles' ...

1960s
High Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
High Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme

This photograph taken in 1962 shows the High Street in Newcastle-under-Lyme before ...

1990s
Installing the War Memorial, Red Lion Square, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Installing the War Memorial, Red Lion Square, Newcastle-under-Lyme

Newcastle-under-Lyme did not have a war memorial until 1992. A simple obelisk design ...

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Donor ref:PA 353 (22/23281)

Source: Brampton Museum and Art Gallery, Newcastle under Lyme

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