Church Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
View of Church Street looking towards Pooldam. Orme Boys School can be seen in the distance.
Note all the large advertising posters typical of their day. .
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 ...
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 the ...
Confectioners, High Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
A Confectioners on the High Street displaying a wide variety of sweets and chocolates in its window. The lady standing outside the shop is presumably the owner.
Construction work at 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 ...
Copelands Luggage & Bags, High Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Copelands opened around the early 1970s, and was usually referred to as Copelands Leather Goods. The shop had become vacant by 1985. In its place now (2024) is P. T. Miles Jewellers.
Coronation celebration in Market street, Kidsgrove
J. Dean The Clogger is here decorated to celebrate the coronation of George VI.
Cross Heath Cotton Mill, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This photograph shows the cotton mill in Cross Heath in 1960. The mill was built by Richard Thompson in 1797 and continued to manufacture textiles until the late 1960s. Thompson was a conscientious employer ...
Croydon's, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This photograph taken in 1905 from the Ironmarket in Newcastle-under-Lyme shows the exterior of a shop called Croydons on the corner of Lad Lane and the Ironmarket. The picture captures Croydon's closing ...
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.
Deeko Paper Mill, Lower Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
A paper mill has been located on this site since the early nineteenth century. In 1851 the factory was called Holborn Mill. It would have drawn water from the Lyme brook for the papermaking processes. ...
Demolition at 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 ...
Demolition of Wolstanton Colliery, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Wolstanton Colliery was sunk in 1916. By the 1960s it was considered a super-mine, with the deepest mineshafts in Britain, producing over 1 million tons of coal and was one of the biggest employers of ...
Dicken's Toy shop and Stationers, Newcastle-under-Lyme
64 Penkhull Street (now High Street)and Paradise Street and now (correct at time of writing 2015) entrance to the car park.
Diglake colliery, Audley, Newcastle-under-Lyme
On the 14th January 1895, 77 miners lost their lives at Diglake when an inrush of water from old workings flooded the mine. The mine was never re-opened following the disaster.
Disused screens at Leycett colliery, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Dixon's Warehouse, High street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Dixon's Warehouse on the High Street, who were amongst other things tea and coffee merchants established in 1799.
The photographer has been captured in a mirror in the doorway to the shop.