Date:1930 - 1936 (c.)
Description:This is a very interesting view of the High Street as it is much changed today. The Police station is the white building to the right of the Guildhall. This station opened in 1834, for Newcastle's first police constable, and was demolished shortly after this photograph was taken in 1936. The Lancaster buildings now occupied this site in 2002. A sign for Carryers, a house furnishers, can be seen above the passageway by the Police Station. The delivery van in the foreground is that of C. Capener, a butchers on the High Street. The Savoy cinema can be made out on the left hand side of the High Street, now long since gone and occupied by a night club in 2002. The bay windows of the Castle Hotel look out onto the changing town. The Hotel was opened in around 1820 and was a popular coaching stop for traffic to and from Liverpool and Manchester, before the arrival of the railways. The building still existed in 2002 having been, amongst other things, Tescos and a shoe shop.
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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 ...
Oil on board depicting cartoon detail of images that were considered by the artist ...
This map shows the lands held in trust by the Burgesses of Newcastle-under-Lyme ...
Ralph Mosley was Mayor of Newcastle-under-Lyme from 1866 to 1887. He owned a draper’s ...
John Hand wearing robes and chains of office. He was Mayor of Newcastle-under-Lyme ...
A view of the rear of the Guildhall, looking down the High Street. The Guildhall ...
The tram lines visible in the centre of this photograph give the date of pre 1928, ...
The Mayor Choosing ceremony is a tradition in Newcastle-under-Lyme. The newly ...
This view of The Castle Hotel that stood on the High Street in Newcastle-under-Lyme ...
Watercolour signed by Alf Fallows and dated 1995 depicting the Guildhall clock and ...
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Donor ref:TOW/1 - 76 (22/4507)
Source: Brampton Museum and Art Gallery, Newcastle under Lyme
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