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Primitive Methodist Memorial Chapel, Mow Cop

The Primitive Methodist Chapel was built in 1841 and opened in 1860. It had to be partially rebuilt in 1882 due to storm damage. It was built to commemorate the beginnings of Primitive Methodism which ...

Queen street, Newcastle-under-Lyme

A colour postcard of a view of Queen Street taken from Nelson Place. St. George's Church is pictured on the left hand side. The church was designed by Francis Bedford in the Perpendicular style and was ...

Red Lion Square, Newcastle-under-Lyme

Oil painting by R. M. Colley of the square with St Giles' Church, shops to left and right with figures.

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

This watercolour by Alf Fallows depicts Red Lion Square in Newcastle-under-Lyme. The cenotaph can be seen in the centre of the picture with wreaths of poppies laid around it. Behind the cenotaph to the ...

Red Lion Square, Newcastle-under-Lyme

An oil painting by Henry Lark Pratt of Red Lion Square, that shows the close relation between the town and country at the time. The tower of St. Giles' church can be seen in the background. At this time ...

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 ...

Salvation Army Building, Bridge Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme

Oil painting by Doreen Fletcher showing the blue door to the former Salvation Army building on Bridge Street in Newcastle-under-Lyme. The door was reached by ascending seven stairs. Notice the yellow ...

Shabti Egyptian Figures, c.2000-330 BC

A Shabti is a small figurine, usually in the shape of a mummified person that would have been placed in tombs for the dead to re-activate them for servants. Shabti have evolved throughout Ancient ...

Silverdale Church and School, Newcastle-under-Lyme

This scene of Silverdale shows the spire of St. Luke's Church with the school on the left. St. Luke's was opened in 1853 and contains some fine stained glass windows, and a carved wooden screen to the ...

St James' the Great Church, Audley

This parish church was founded by 1233. The church today dates to the late fourteenth century with the usual Victorian renovations and 'improvements' by George Gilbert Scott betwween 1846-56. The house ...

St John's Church, Keele

An oil painting showing the churchyard in the foreground with St John's Church to the left.

St Margaret's Church, Wolstanton

Watercolour by John Whessell with the church in the background and the graveyard in the foreground. Figures of a man, woman and child to the right.

St Paul's Parish Church Magazine, 1936

St. Andrew's Church and Porthill Avenue, Wolstanton

A postcard of St. Andrew's Church taken after a recent snowfall. This postcard clearly shows the tram lines that existed on Porthill Avenue and connected Wolstanton to Newcastle.

St. Andrew's Church interior, Porthill, Newcastle-under-Lyme

St. Giles' Church from Bull's Bank, Newcastle-under-Lyme

A church has stood on the site of St. Giles' for hundreds of years, though the appearance of the church has changed greatly. In 1721 the first of two major rebuilds was completed in the Georgian style ...

St. Giles' Church Rectory, Ironmarket, Newcastle-under-Lyme

The Rectory was built in 1698 as a house for rectors of St. Giles' Church. The building was altered in 1854 and renovated in 1910. The church sold the Rectory in 1926, and it was converted into shops ...