Date:1870
Description:This very early photograph captures the scene as a horse and cart waits on the cobbles outside the Castle Hotel on Newcastle-under-Lyme High Street in 1870. The side of the Guildhall can be seen on the right and the Weights and Measures Office can just beyond.
The timeline shows resources around this location over a number of years.
This is Newcastle-under-Lyme’s oldest surviving charter. A charter is a formal ...
Newcastle was granted a ‘Gild Merchant Charter’ by King Henry III in 1235. A charter ...
During the Medieval and Tudor periods many towns received a Charter of Incorporation. A ...
Parliamentarians executed King Charles I in 1649. England had no king and became ...
In 1684 King Charles II forced Newcastle to surrender all its charters. Charters ...
A Newcastle-under-Lyme bank note for one guinea (£1 and 1 shilling). Banks used ...
The Municipal Corporations Act, 1835 regulated local authorities. Before the act ...
William Cartwright was Mayor of Newcastle-under-Lyme 1860-1861. A studio head ...
John Gallimore, wearing robes and chains of office. Gallimore was Mayor of Newcastle-under-Lyme ...
A view of the rear of the Guildhall, looking down the High Street. The Guildhall ...
Pictured are the cast for the play 'Mock Trial' that was held at the King's Theatre, ...
Photograph of the Old Bull's Head Inn in Lad Lane. The core of the pub is believed ...
This view of The Castle Hotel that stood on the High Street in Newcastle-under-Lyme ...
Watercolour by Alston Emery in 1991 showing the frontage of the Laura Ashley shop, ...
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Donor ref:PA 037 (22/23349)
Source: Brampton Museum and Art Gallery, Newcastle under Lyme
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