View of backyards on Friars Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This photo shows backyards of houses numbers 11 to 15 on Friars Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme. These houses and their back yards appear to be in poor condition, and 5hey wete designated as being unsafe ...
General view of Friars Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
A general view of Friars Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme. Some of these houses were subject to demolition, due to slum clearance provisions under the Housing Act, 1930. Cars can be seen in the street. The ...
Plan of Slum Clearance Area 50 - Friars Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This is a plan of the slum clearance area on Friars Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme. In comparison with some of the other areas demolished after the Housing Act, 1930, this is a small area, only involving ...
General view of Hick Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This photograph of Hick Street shows the cobbled road surface. These and others on Hick Street were the subject of demolition following the Housing Act of 1930.
Some of the buildings are decorated ...
Goose Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This photograph shows houses between Goose Street and Hick Street. These and others on Hick Street were the subject of demolition following the Housing Act of 1930.
Plan of Slum Clearance Area 47 - Hick Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This is a slum clearance plan of Hick Street in Newcastle-under-Lyme. The houses shown were demolished under the Housing Act of 1930.
Plan of Slum Clearance Area 46 - Church Street, Chesterton
This plan shows the houses on Church Street, Chesterton that were the subject of demolition following the Housing Act, 1930. The names of the streets have not changed. This area is currently (February ...
Back view of houses at Dunkirk, Chesterton
This photograph shows the rear view 1 to 4 Dunkirk.
They were located on London Road, Chesterton.
The dilapidated state of these houses is clear in this photograph.
Dunkirk, Chesterton
This photograph shows a front view of numbers 1 to 4 Dunkirk.
They were located on London Road, Chesterton.
All of the houses were demolished following the Housing Act 1930.
Plan of Slum Clearance Area 44 - Dunkirk, Chesterton
This is a plan of a couple of houses that were demolished under the Housing Act 1930. The site is now (2024) occupied by industrial units.
Bath Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
A general view of Bath Street in Newcastle-under-Lyme as it used to be in 1930s.
These houses were subject to demolition following the Housing Act 1930, and people were evicted from them in 1936.
Front of houses on Bath Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This photograph shows numbers 12 to 30 Bath Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme.
All of these houses and many more on that street were a subject to demolition following the Housing Act 1930.
This street ...
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 ...
Plan of Slum Clearance Area 27 - Bath Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This plan shows the Bath Street Clearance Area, Newcastle-under-Lyme, which was later a subject of demolition under Housing Order 1935.
The houses would have been in a bad state of repair.
The Borough ...
Foden Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
A view of numbers 9 to 19 Foden Street, Newcastle-under -Lyme. These houses were considered to be slums and were demolished following the Housing Act of 1930.
There is a noticeable lack of cars on ...
Plan of Slum Clearance Area 26 - Foden Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This is a plan of houses that were demolished under the Housing Act, 1930 in Foden Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme. Some of the streets that surrounded Foden Street were demolished at a later date.
Racecourse Cottages, Silverdale
These six cottages on Downing Street, Silverdale were demolished around 1936. There were a total of 16 people who lived in these houses, and on the photograph you can see four of them, most likely neighbours. ...
Plan of Slum Clearance Area 21 - Racecourse Cottages, Silverdale
This plan shows Racecourse Cottages demolished following the Housing Act of 1930. The cottages were situated on Downing Street in Silverdale.