Red Lion Square, Newcastle-under-Lyme

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Date:1890 - 1905 (c.)

Description:This photograph shows the the junction of Merrial Street and High street. The buildings on the right were demolished in the mid 1960s to make way for the York Place shopping centre. Bookland was the first shop to open in the new centre on 14th December 1967, occupying the corner site on the right hand side of this photograph. Bookland was still on this site in 2002.


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1840s
Red Lion Square, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Red Lion Square, Newcastle-under-Lyme

A pencil and coloured wash by John Whessell. This drawing captures Red Lion Square ...

1870s
Red Lion Square, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Red Lion Square, Newcastle-under-Lyme

Advert for Rimmel's grocers, the building later became Wain's Chemist. St Giles' ...

1890s
The junction of Red Lion Square and  Merrial Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
The junction of Red Lion Square and Merrial Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme

Taken in 1895 this photograph shows the shops that lined the junction between Red ...

1920s
Cyril Bayley, 42 High street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Cyril Bayley, 42 High street, Newcastle-under-Lyme

Cyril Bayley at work in the print shop of Bayley Brothers. Bayley's had been in ...

1940s
Wedding Dress, worn by Lillian May Kettle, WW2
Wedding Dress, worn by Lillian May Kettle, WW2

This was worn by Lillian May Kettle when she married Ernest Kettle at St Giles' ...

1950s
Church Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Church Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme

Demolition of building formerly Moody's Saddler opposite St. Giles' Church.

1990s
Installing the War Memorial, Red Lion Square, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Installing the War Memorial, Red Lion Square, Newcastle-under-Lyme

Newcastle-under-Lyme did not have a war memorial until 1992. A simple obelisk design ...

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Donor ref:PA 520 (22/4373)

Source: Brampton Museum and Art Gallery, Newcastle under Lyme

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