High Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Taken looking North along the High Street this photgraph takes in a 1930s street scene. The hustle and bustle of people on the pavement, cars, buses and bikes pulled up to the side of the road, a mixture ...
Mrs Jones' Hat Shop, Drayton Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Taken around 1920 this photograph shows the frontage of Mrs Jones' Hat Shop on Drayton Street in Newcastle-under-Lyme. The window display shows the wide range of hats available to the ladies of Newcastle, ...
Roebuck Lane, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Taken in 1939 this photograph shows Roebuck Lane, formerly Roebuck Walk in Newcastle-under-Lyme. This was one of the many street that were demolished during the 1960s.
Old Almshouses and Bank House, Newcastle-under-Lyme
In 1688 the Duke of Albermarle bequeathed £6000 for the erection and maintenance of almshouses for twenty poor widows. The houses were eventually built in 1743 and are still in use in this photograph ...
The Ebenezer Chapel and Car Park, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This aerial photograph shows Newcastle-under-Lyme following the demolition of the terraced houses that once stood along Cherry Orchard. By 1966 they had been replaced by a car park. Still standing to ...
Cherry Orchard, Newcastle-under-Lyme
In this photograph the terraced housing that once stood along Cherry Orchard can be seen.
To the right of the half white washed end terrace is the rectory building that belonged to Ebenezer Chapel and ...
Mayor Choosing Ceremony, Market Cross, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The Mayor Choosing Ceremony of 1915 saw Willam V'Alters Summers Gradwell Goodwin elected as Mayor of Newcastle-under-Lyme for the third time. William was Mayor for seven consecutive years from 1913 to ...
Mayor Choosing Ceremony for Robert Beresford, Market Cross, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The Mayor Choosing ceremony is a tradition in Newcastle-under-Lyme. The newly elected mayor,Robert Beresford, stands proudly in his regalia in front of the market cross. 1929 marked Beresford's third ...
The interior of St. Giles' Church, Newcastle-under-Lyme, prior to the 1876 rebuild
This photograph shows the Georgian interior of St.Giles' Church in Newcastle that was demolished in 1873 and rebuilt as the church that we know today by 1876. This photograph is taken from the apse at ...
Red Lion Square, Newcastle-under-Lyme
This early photograph from 1910 shows Red Lion Square in Newcastle-under-Lyme. The Three Tuns Pub stands in the centre of the picture with with a barrel suspended outside to indicate a public house. A ...