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, ...
Shelton Bar Steelworks, Stoke-on-Trent
The furnaces of the steelworks could never be fully put out during the blackouts of World War Two, making them a target for German bombers. It is possible that H.G. Wells took inspiration from the red ...
The Guildhall, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The Guildhall of Newcastle-under-Lyme has long history. Built in 1713 as a replacement to the original guildhall, the lower floor was used as an extension of the outside market and the upper floor was ...
The Old Borough Treasurers , Nelson Place, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This oil painting signed and dated by Jack Clarkson in 1965 depicts the three storey Georgian building that was the Borough Treasurers offices until 1965. The red bricks and arched windows of Jubilee ...
The Rectory, Ironmarket, Newcastle-under-Lyme
In 1698 Sir John Leveson-Gower granted a plot of land at the east end of the Ironmarket in trust for the benefit of the then curate of Newcastle-under-Lyme and his successors. A house and barn were built ...
Two boys skating next to Thistleberry Castle, Newcastle-under-Lyme
These boys are skating on the moat that surrounded Thistleberry Castle. It was a fake castle in the grounds of Thistleberry House, built by Samuel Mayer, a Burgess in Newcastle-under-Lyme since 1820 just ...