Shelton Bar Steelworks, Stoke-on-Trent
Shelton Bar, or Shelton Iron, Steel and Coal Company, was begun in the 1830s by the 4th Earl of Granville and William Roden MP.
It was a roughly 400 acre site that, at its peak, employed 10,000 people, ...
The Sutherland Arms, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The Sutherland Arms was built on Blackfriars Road around 1790. It has been known by a few different names such as the Stafford Arms or the Gower Arms and was rebuilt in 1938.
The building was scheduled ...
Fire at the Sutherland Arms, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The Sutherland Arms was built on Blackfriars Road in 1790. It has been known by a few different names such as the Stafford Arms or the Gower Arms, and was rebuilt in 1938.
The building was empty and ...
The Smithfield Pub, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The Smithfield pub later became Fat Pauly's. The building has since been demolished and the hand-painted pub sign ended up in the collections of the Brampton Museum and Art Gallery.
The 'Kwik Fit' Service Centre, Lower Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
On the left of this photograph you can make out the side of the Blackfriars bakery, and on the right the Smithfield pub. The bakery and pub were demolished and the service centre later moved to Brunswick ...
Lower Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
In the background you can see Safeway Supermarket. Blackfriars bakery is in the foreground.
Smithfield Cattle Market, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The Smithfield Cattle Market was opened in 1871 and closed in the early 1990s. Before this, livestock was sold in the town centre. Heywoods and Sons, an estate agent, ran the auctions in the 1930s and ...
Glendale Training Centre, Newcastle-under Lyme
This was the Glendale Regional Training Centre. The company provided in skills such as forklift and lifting training. It was demolished along with the rest of the gasholder and Smithfield Market site ...
Former Midlands Electricity Board power station, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This is the former power station that served the Midlands Electricity Board (MEB), the electricity board that provided for the midlands area. The MEB functioned from 1947 to 1990 when it was sold to ...
Former Midlands Electricity Board power station, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This is the former power station that served the Midlands Electricity Board (MEB), the electricity board that provided for the midlands area. The MEB functioned from 1947 to 1990 when it was sold to ...
Brook Lane and Goose Street area, Newcastle-under-Lyme
A view of the gasometer or gas holder. In 1819 Newcastle-under-Lyme started its own gas light company. The gasworks were built on Goose Street. Coal was heated to release gas which was then stored in ...
St. Bernard's Convent of Mercy, Stubbs Gate, Newcastle-under-Lyme
A view of the rear of St. Bernard's Convent of Mercy, Stubbs Gate, Newcastle-under-Lyme. This view includes the former Comet building.
The Sisters of Mercy began their ministry in Newcastle-under-Lyme ...
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. ...
Victoria Place, Miles Green, Audley
This view of Victoria Place at Miles Green shows the general goods shop with the sign 'Sterling' below the window. These buildings were demolished under the terms of the Housing Act 1930.
At the far ...
Victoria Place, Miles Green Audley
The television aerials and the maintained appearance of these houses suggest that people still lived here at the time the photograph was taken. It appears that the building on the right may not have always ...
Derelict house on Victoria Place, Miles Green, Audley
A photograph which illustrates the poor state of some of the houses in the area at the time. The door is broken, a window has no glass and there are holes in the wall from an extension already demolished....
Plan of Slum Clearance Area 36 - Victoria Place, Miles Green, Audley
Over 30 buildings were demolished in this slum clearance area in the early 1960s. The rural location of these houses suggest that they were once inhabited by miners who worked nearby.
In 1914 a report ...
Rear view of Rye Bank, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This photograph shows some back yards of houses on Rye Bank. Like many other houses identified for demolition at the time they appear very cramped with poor conditions for living. If you look at the ...