Clayton Tennis Team, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This image appears to be taken at Redgate recreation ground in Clayton.
The owner of the camera, Fred Everitt, appears as one of the tennis players - he is standing second from the right.
Clayton Tennis Team, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This image was probably taken in Clayton, close to Redgate recreation ground where the team met to play tennis.
The owner of the camera, Fred Everitt is standing third from the left.
Clough Hall Public Steam Laundry
Photograph of workers outside the Clough Hall laundry building, with a horse and cart advertising their service.
We believe that the Clough Hall Laundry was in one of the outbuildings of the mansion, ...
Coal picking at Apedale, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The Miners' strike in 1912 was one of the first nationwide strikes that was led by the newly formed Miners' Union, who were demanding a national minimum wage. Many miners received no Union pay during ...
Colonel Ralph Sneyd, Keele Hall, Keele, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Colonel Ralph Sneyd inherited Keele Hall from his father Walter. Although he spent very little time there, especially in his later life when he went to live in the south of England.
He served as a ...
Cyril Bayley, 42 High street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Cyril Bayley at work in the print shop of Bayley Brothers. Bayley's had been in business in Newcastle since 1867 and were printers, stationers, book-binders, and auctioneers.
Disinfestation of furniture taken from houses on Paradise Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This photograph shows the disinfestation of some of the furniture that moved with the residents of Paradise Street to Beattie Avenue in the 1930s.
The cramped, rundown terraced houses of Paradise Street ...
Ebenezer Chapel, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This print produced in 1858 by Buckler is of the Ebenezer Methodist Chapel in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
The chapel was built in 1858 to replace an earlier chapel. In the early 1970s with the congregation ...
Fanny Deakin and A J Cook, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Fanny Deakin is pictured here A J Cook, trade unionist and miners' leader. This photograph may well have been taken during the General Strike of 1926, when they led a march of 200 or 300 miners through ...
Fanny Deakin with Mike Booth, Silverdale
Born Fanny Rebecca Davenport in the mining village of Silverdale in 1883, into a large, poor family, Fanny Deakin was a trailblazing activist and politician who sought to right the injustices and inequalities ...
Fanny Deakin, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Fanny Deakin was a Labour then Communist councillor for Newcastle-under-Lyme. She fought for better maternity care and equality after growing up poverty stricken in Silverdale. Over the course of her ...
Fanny Deakin's 80th Birthday Party, Silverdale
Fanny Deakin was a Labour councillor who campaigned for better maternity care. She was also involved in the early miner's strikes and protests. She is remembered through her maternity home (opened in ...
First World War photographs by Frederick Everitt of Clayton, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Frederick Everitt lived at 'Sunnyside' on Northwood Lane, Clayton in the early part of the 20th century.
He was employed as a chauffeur and was an amateur photographer.
Whilst at home on leave he took ...
Florence Handley, Graduation.
Florence was a local music teacher born in around 1910.
This photograph shows her in her cap and gown worn for her degree ceremony in 1933.
Women couldn't get awarded the title of degree until ...
Furnace workmen, Apedale, Chesterton
William Williams, is on the extreme right of the third row down. His brother Alfred is directly behind the pipe-smoker on the front row and immediately behind him is Albert Trickett.
Abraham Parker ...
Grand Duke Michael at Keele Hall, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Grand Duke Michael of Russia purchased the lease of Keele Hall for ten years in 1901. He had many visitors during his stay including Edward VII and the Rajah of Putacota. The Duke is pictured here on ...
High Street / Ironmarket Junction, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Taken in 1924 this photograph shows the cobbled junction between the High Street and the Ironmarket. Looking down the Ironmarket on the left hand side from the foreground: Lloyds Bank Limited stands on ...
High Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This view of Newcastle-under-Lyme town centre from the bottom of the High Street takes in The Guildhall which was built in 1713.The white building to the right of The Guildhall is the Police Station that ...