Toll Gate Lodge, Clayton Road, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The former Toll Gate Lodge of 1867, which apparently stood at the junction of what is now Brook Lane and Clayton Road.
Toll Gate Houses existed to collect the toll for travelling along certain sections ...
View from Pool Dam towards St. Giles' Church, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This scene was much changed with the coming of the ring road and general increase in traffic. A poster on the buildings to the right hand side advertises two films at the Savoy Cinema, 'Another Language' ...
View from Red Lion Square, Newcastle-under-Lyme looking south
Watercolour by James Hulse of a view looking from Red Lion Square towards the High Street. Figures, cart and horse, carriage in the background and dogs on the cobbled street.
View from St. Giles' down Church Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This view looks down Church Street towards Orme Boys' School, the roof of which can just be made out in the centre of this photograph. The ring road has now ploughed its way through this area and most ...
View of Newcastle-under-Lyme from Keele Bank
Pastoral landscape with a view of Newcastle-under-Lyme in the middle distance. Haymakers with a white horse and cart can be seen in the centre of the picture and two figures, a woman in a red dress and ...
View over Nelson Place, Newcastle-under-Lyme
A view of Nelson Place taken from the top of the Municipal Hall before it was demolished. The general layout of the modern Newcastle can be seen here. Newcastle Cinema has been demolished, on the land ...
View taken from the Midway, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This photograph was taken from the Midway and shows the A34 looking south. The scene was much changed by 2002 with the Warner Brothers Cinema taking the place of Burgess'. The white buildings of the Blackfriars ...
Visit to Telford Canal tunnel, Kidsgrove
This photograph was taken after a local party had travelled through the Telford Canal Tunnel, one of the Harecastle Tunnels, during the Festival of Britain.
John Evans submitted this information about ...
Wain's, Church Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
A view of Church Street with Wain's the Chemist on the corner. The side of St. Giles can just be seen beyond Wain's. Trams were still new to Newcastle at this time and the line can just be made out going ...
West Brampton Bridge, Brampton, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The West Brampton Bridge, Level Crossing and Brampton sidings signal box, ready for removal in the late 1960's. The railway line, which originally went from Stoke to Newcastle was opened in 1852, with ...
Wolstanton High Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Looking down Wolstanton High Street. Ernest Swettenham's grocery shop can be seen on the corner of High Street and Ellison Street, on the right hand side. This postcard captures the period, with the tram ...
Wolstanton postcard,Newcastle-under-Lyme
WW1 Belgian Refugees by the Market Cross, High Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
John Black is the piper. He was a police constable with Newcastle constabulary.