Date:1908
Description:The Mayor Choosing Ceremony of 1908 saw Sidney Myott elected as Mayor Newcastle-under-Lyme for the first time. This traditional ceremony takes place every year, although today there is no photograph by the market cross.
The timeline shows resources around this location over a number of years.
Newcastle was granted a ‘Gild Merchant Charter’ by King Henry III in 1235. A charter ...
During the Medieval and Tudor periods many towns received a Charter of Incorporation. A ...
Parliamentarians executed King Charles I in 1649. England had no king and became ...
In 1684 King Charles II forced Newcastle to surrender all its charters. Charters ...
The Municipal Corporations Act, 1835 regulated local authorities. Before the act ...
William Cartwright was Mayor of Newcastle-under-Lyme 1860-1861. A studio head ...
John Gallimore, wearing robes and chains of office. Gallimore was Mayor of Newcastle-under-Lyme ...
Before 1914, when the purpose built Post Office was opened at the bottom of the ...
The Mayor Choosing Ceremony of 1915 saw Willam V'Alters Summers Gradwell Goodwin ...
The Police station opened in 1834, for Newcastle's first police constable, and was ...
The Mayor Choosing ceremony is a tradition in Newcastle-under-Lyme. The newly ...
A group of people in period costume handing out newspapers advertising Octocentenary ...
An oil painting by Tim Lloyd, commissioned for the Millennium by Newcastle-under-Lyme ...
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Donor ref:PA 493 (22/26141)
Source: Brampton Museum and Art Gallery, Newcastle under Lyme
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