Description:This is one of seven hand coloured Staffordshire Series Ordnance Survey maps that show the areas surrounding Newcastle-under-Lyme town centre.
You will see that it has been signed in the bottom right corner 'H Elsdale, Lieutenant, 23.10.76'.
Henry Elsdale (born 1843) was in the Royal Engineers and did work for the Ordnance Survey.
This map shows what we now know as the Thistleberry area of Newcastle-under-Lyme, along Keele Road.
Details include The Cloughs, Field House, Workhouse, Millbank Colliery and Rosemary Hill Colliery.
Digitisation funded by Heritage Lottery Fund