Edwardian Wedding Dress
This cream satin dress was in the typical style of the day, it has a high waist and a high collar and would have been worn with a corset.
Gigot sleeves were popular during the period, as the sleeves ...
Evening Dress, 1930s
Evening dresses from the 1930s are remembered for elegance and opulence.
The '30s saw many new cuts and styles in women's fashions.
After a decade of short, boysih flapper style dresses the 1930s ...
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 ...
Fire Appliances, High Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
A scene of crowds gathered to see a display of a new Merryweather and Shand Mason fire appliance taken in the High street. Firemen can be seen amongst the crowd in their uniforms.
The Castle Hotel ...
Fire-Service Parade, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This image shows the fire-service parading down the Ironmarket, the 'Electricity Show Rooms' can be seen in the background. Fire Chief Mr Wellings leads the parade.
Froghall, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Froghall was an area which lay between Holborne and Bridge street. As with Ashley Square, this was another housing black spot, these houses eventually being cleared and residents moved into new council ...
Garden party at Apedale Hall, Chesterton
This scene is of a popular garden party held at Apedale Hall.
Apedale Hall was the home of the Heathercote family and was built in 1826 by the industrialist Richard Edensor Heathcote on the site of ...
General B. Booth visits Nelson Place, Newcastle-under-Lyme
General B. Booth is pictured here amongst the crowd in Nelson Place.
Booth was the founder of the Salvation Army.
The plinth of Queen Victoria's statue can be seen in the top right corner. Here it ...
George V and Queen Mary visit Newcastle-under-Lyme
King George V and Queen Mary are pictured here with the Mayor of Newcastle, William Mellard, on the dais in Nelson Place, enjoying a civic welcome to the town. The King and Queen visited North Staffordshire ...
George V and Queen Mary visit Newcastle-under-Lyme, View of High Street
George V and Queen Mary visited Newcastle as part of a visit to north Staffordshire in 1925. During the same visit the King created the city out of the County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent.
The island ...
Gladys Hope's Wedding dress, 1935
Due in part to the rise of glamourous celebrities of the time, the 1930s saw the re-emergance of the more shapely feminine body shape. This made a change from the flat boyish body shapes of 1920s fashion. ...
Gold Wedding Dress, 1926
This was worn by Mary Ellen Barks when she married her husband Mr Simon Salt on 16th June 1926.
This is a gold or 'champagne' coloured georgette and lace wedding dress.
It is knee length, with a ...
Gold Wedding Dress, 1960s
This dress was worn by Mrs Dunn when she was married on 3 September 1962 at Wolstanton Methodist Church.
It is quite typical of the wedding fashion of the day.
Everyday fashion in the 1960s started ...
Harrison's Confectionery, 17 Ironmarket, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Harrison's is here decorated to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the succession of Queen Victoria to the throne. The two gentlemen on the left are possibly the confectioners, with one of the ladies in ...
High Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Bunting lines the streets, flags are flying, and residents are dressed in their best to celebrate the coronation of George V.
Holborn Old Paper Mill demolition, Holborn, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Possibly taken during the demolition of the old paper mill at Holborn, before the new one was constructed. Holborn Paper Mill was owned by the Lamb family for over a century until about 1928. The mill ...
Holborn Paper Mill, Newcastle-Under-Lyme
Demolition of the old Holborn paper mill.
Holborn, Newcastle-Under-Lyme
Photograph of the 'Deeko' paper mill fire.