Browning Dispensing Chemist, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Browning Dispensing Chemist’s shop on Ironmarket. The business started in the late 1930s or early 1940s, and medicines would have been prepared on site. The business lasted over fifty years and the ...
Newbold Ophthalmic Opticians, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The Newbold Opticians was established in 1936, it closed during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.
Newcastle Union War Hosptial, Newcastle
Patients and staff are pictured here posing for their photoraphs in a ward of the Newcastle Union War Hospital during World War 1. It later became the City General Hospital.
Stoke War Hospital, Newcastle-under-Lyme
A male ward at the hospital.
The ward is decorated with flags and flowers, to possibly celebrate the end of the First World War.
The Fanny Deakin Maternity Hospital, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The Fanny Deakin Maternity Hospital was opened in 1947. It was named in recognition of the fight of local Labour politician, Fanny Deakin, for the welfare of young children and expectant mothers.