Poster for 'Wakes Week', Newcastle-under-Lyme
'Wakes Week' was originally a religious celebration that became a secular tradition, especially in northern industrial towns post Industrial Revolution. Factories would close for a week or two and give ...
Poster for 'Wakes Week', Newcastle-under-Lyme
A Newcastle-under-Lyme poster from 1847 announcing Queen Victoria's order to reinstate the 'ancient sports and pastimes of their forefathers', inspired by the Scottish Highland games she enjoyed watching.
The ...
Potter and Lane, 32 High street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Potter and Lane, the General Drapers, seen here with a fully stocked window. This shop was located next door to Dixon's Warehouse.
Prattware Coiled Serpent Puzzle Pipe
This is a rare example of a puzzle pipe. Puzzle pipes date as early as 1750, and potters made these pipes to show off their skills.
They were called 'puzzle pipes' simply because it was a 'puzzle' ...
Presentation to Mr West, Birchenwood Colliery, Kidsgrove
Birchenwood colliery opened in the 1890s, most of the coal being used for coke and other by-products. The colliery actually closed in 1932, but coke and other by-product production continued by using ...
Priory Road, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Priory Road was built in order to provide access to the town from the new suburb of the Westlands. The Silk Mill that was located on Friarswood Road can be seen on the right hand side of this photograph....
R L Bodley and Sons - Wine and Spirit Shop, High Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
R.L. Bodley and Son's wines and spirits shop was located on the High Street.
This grand looking property was later a Joules off-licence, then 'Stones' and later 'Edwards'.
Railway at Pool Dam, Newcastle-under-Lyme
A derelict part of Pool Dam Branch railway, which was opened in 1850. The railway was built as an industrial line to connect the Silverdale mines and ironworks with Pool Dam, originally so that the freight ...
Read Late Tilsley, Ironmarket, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Rear of the Globe Hotel, Newcastle-under-Lyme, 1965/6
This photograph taken in the mid 1960s shows the rear of the Globe Hotel in Newcastle-under-Lyme. This hotel had been one of the most important coaching inns in its heyday when around about 40 coaches ...
Rear view High Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This is the rear view a part of the High Street. At the time the building housed Abbey National Building Society and Boots chemists. The Abbey National Building Society was absorbed into the Spanish ...
Red Bull Corner, Kidsgrove
The building pictured here on the right was believed to have been a Coaching Inn. Coaches would have driven past the Inn probably on their way to Manchester and Liverpool. The building stood at this junction ...
Red Lion Square, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The stone building in the centre of this photograph was used at one time as the office of the Weights and Measures Inspector, and was demolished in 1926. Previously it had stood in the High Street, to ...
Red Lion Square, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This photograph shows the the junction of Merrial Street and High street. The buildings on the right were demolished in the mid 1960s to make way for the York Place shopping centre. Bookland was the first ...
Red Lion Square, Newcastle-under-Lyme
A pencil and coloured wash by John Whessell. This drawing captures Red Lion Square in about the early 1840s. The coaching inn, The Three Tuns, can be seen on the left hand side, which had occupied this ...
Red Lion Square, Newcastle-under-Lyme
View of Red Lion Square with a convey of trucks travelling towards the centre of town. On the right is the Rex and Rio Cinema on the right.
Red Lion Square, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Advert for Rimmel's grocers, the building later became Wain's Chemist.
St Giles' Church can be seen on the left of the image.
Red Lion Square, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This early photograph from 1910 shows Red Lion Square in Newcastle-under-Lyme. The Three Tuns Pub stands in the centre of the picture with with a barrel suspended outside to indicate a public house. A ...