Miners' Rescue Team, Silverdale
The Miners' Rescue Team are pictured here in all of their equipment. A canary in its cage is sitting on the box on the floor, and was used to detect the first evidence of Methane Gas in the mine. Walter ...
V Batte's Greengrocers, Ironmarket, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Photograph of V. Batte's greengrocers. It stood next to the Star Inn, and later became Superstar, Boozy Dog the Pig and Truffle and currently (in 2013) Reflex 80s bar.
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 ...
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, ...
Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme Trinity Fair Charter, Granted by King Edward I
This is Newcastle-under-Lyme’s oldest surviving charter.
A charter is a formal document granting rights given by a king or queen written by clerks in the royal chancery.
King Henry II gave Newcastle ...
Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Medieval Confirmation of the Gild Merchant Charters
Newcastle was granted a ‘Gild Merchant Charter’ by King Henry III in 1235.
A charter is a formal document granting rights given by a king or queen written by clerks in the royal chancery.
The original ...
Queen Elizabeth I Charter of Incorporation, Newcastle-under-Lyme
During the Medieval and Tudor periods many towns received a Charter of Incorporation.
A charter is a formal document granting rights given by a king or queen written by clerks in the royal chancery.
The ...
King Charles II Charter of Extended Rights, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Parliamentarians executed King Charles I in 1649.
England had no king and became a commonwealth with Oliver Cromwell as the Lord protector.
After his death, King Charles II was restored to the throne. ...
King James II Charter of Extended Rights, Newcastle-under-Lyme
In 1684 King Charles II forced Newcastle to surrender all its charters.
Charters were formal documents granting rights given by a king or queen written by clerks in the royal chancery.
This was recorded ...
Borough Charter of Queen Victoria, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The Municipal Corporations Act, 1835 regulated local authorities.
Before the act a small number of burgesses chose the councillors and local magistrates (someone who administered the law).
From ...
S. Grocott, Red Lion Square, Newcastle-under-Lyme
S. Grocott, a grocers, located at number 6 Red Lion Square. The edge of the building pictured on the right is Hind's Vaults.
The Sutherland Arms, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The Sutherland Arms was built on Blackfriars Road around 1790. It has been known by a few different names such as the Stafford Arms or the Gower Arms and was rebuilt in 1938.
The building was scheduled ...
Fire at the Sutherland Arms, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The Sutherland Arms was built on Blackfriars Road in 1790. It has been known by a few different names such as the Stafford Arms or the Gower Arms, and was rebuilt in 1938.
The building was empty and ...
The Smithfield Pub, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The Smithfield pub later became Fat Pauly's. The building has since been demolished and the hand-painted pub sign ended up in the collections of the Brampton Museum and Art Gallery.
The 'Kwik Fit' Service Centre, Lower Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
On the left of this photograph you can make out the side of the Blackfriars bakery, and on the right the Smithfield pub. The bakery and pub were demolished and the service centre later moved to Brunswick ...
Lower Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
In the background you can see Safeway Supermarket. Blackfriars bakery is in the foreground.
Street Collecting by World War I 'Tommy', Newcastle-under-Lyme
After facing the absolute horror of trench warfare, Britain would have seemed a very different place for soldiers returning home once the war ended.
Not only would they have had to go 'back to normal' ...
Longport Canal, by William Kenneth Harper
William Harper was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme in 1923. He served in the RAF as a wireless-operator-air-gunner during the Second World War. After the war he went to study at the Burslem School of Art. ...