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Alsagers Bank Royal Observatory Corps Nuclear Bunker, Newcastle-under-Lyme

The Royal Observatory Corps (ROC) were a group of volunteers intended to provide the Home Office with information during a nuclear attack; such as position and magnitude of any nuclear bombs dropped on ...

Corporation of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Order Book

This book is the oldest book in the museum archives and details the official minutes of Newcastle-under-Lyme Corporation. The language used in this book is Latin. Latin was considered at the time ...

Fanny Deakin, Newcastle-under-Lyme

Fanny Deakin was a Labour then Communist councillor for Newcastle-under-Lyme. She fought for better maternity care and equality after growing up poverty stricken in Silverdale. Over the course of her ...

Fanny Deakin's 80th Birthday Party, Silverdale

Fanny Deakin was a Labour councillor who campaigned for better maternity care. She was also involved in the early miner's strikes and protests. She is remembered through her maternity home (opened in ...

High Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme

This photograph taken in 1962 shows the High Street in Newcastle-under-Lyme before the days of pedestrianisation - as the rows of parked cars prove. The Guildhall stands prominently to the left of the ...

John Gallimore, Mayor of Newcastle-under-Lyme

John Gallimore, wearing robes and chains of office. Gallimore was Mayor of Newcastle-under-Lyme 1879-1880

John Williams, Mayor of Newcastle-under-Lyme

John Williams wearing ceremonial robes and chains of office, carrying a ceremonial 'wand'. Williams was Mayor of Newcastle-under-Lyme 1870-1871. Photographer: John S. Milton, Liverpool Road, Newcastle-under-Lyme...

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 ...

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 ...

Newcastle Union Workhouse, Newcastle-under-Lyme

Union workhouses were built in an effort to combat poverty and encourage those who were seen as lazy to work their way out of poverty. They were designed to be as uncomfortable as possible. Men, women ...

Newcastle-under-Lyme Poll Book 1734-1823

Poll books were used to detail who could vote in particular areas to prevent fraud and could also be used to select people for jury duty. During the time period of the poll book less than 10% of the ...

One Guinea Bank Note, Newcastle-under-Lyme

A Newcastle-under-Lyme bank note for one guinea (£1 and 1 shilling). Banks used to be able to issue their own bank notes until the Bank Charter Act of 1844 which gave exclusive note issuing rights to ...

Penkhull Street, heading towards its junction with Stubbs' Gate, Newcastle-under-Lyme

An almost unrecognisable scene compared to today's landscape. At the top-left of the image, you can just about make out the roof of the Holy Trinity Catholic Church on the adjoining London Road. The ...

Portrait of Nathaniel Beard, Mayor of Newcastle-under-Lyme in 1675 and 1682

This portrait by an unknown artist depicts Nathaniel Beard who was Mayor of Newcastle-under-Lyme in 1675 and again in 1682. His grandson,also named Nathaniel Beard, became Mayor of the Borough in 1752. ...

Ralph Mosley, Mayor of Newcastle-under-Lyme

Ralph Mosley was Mayor of Newcastle-under-Lyme from 1866 to 1887. He owned a draper’s shop on Newcastle High Street and lived with his family at The Firs, which is now the home of the Brampton Museum ...

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 ...

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