Duckett type toilet. Circa 1972
This type of toilet was in general use in working class housing in the Potteries from around 1880.
John Street, Longton.
John Street consisted of many houses and courtyards. This was a closed court off Lower John Street and it is easy to image the unsanitary conditions that people lived in. The houses were surrounded by ...
John Street, Longton. Factory Wall. Circa 1930
This image of John Street portrays a bleak picture of working class life in the city in the late nineteenth & early twentieth centuries. Notice the close proximity of the houses to the large pottery factory. ...
Map of Newcastle-under-Lyme and Silverdale
This map shows Newcastle-under-Lyme in 1925. It also marks the Poor Law Institutions or workhouses on London Road and Keele Road.
Digitisation funded by Heritage Lottery Fund
Map plotting the Cholera Victims of 1849, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Using a map produced by Robert Malabar in 1875, somebody in the late 1800s plotted the houses of the victims of the 1849 Cholera outbreak.
The red/brown dots on the original map are hard to see as ...
Middle John Street, Longton.
This image shows a fairly typical back yard of terraced housing in the late nineteenth century. There is no provision made for a garden and the outbuildings would have housed the toilet and washroom, ...
Mill Meece Pumping Session
The interior of the Engine House at Mill Meece Pumping Station. Mill Meece Pumping Station was built by Staffordshire Potteries Waterworks Company between 1912 and 1928 to supplement the water supply ...
Newcastle-under-Lyme Board of Health Drainage Works Plan - Sheet 1
These plans were drawn up by Lee and Stevenson, Civil Engineers from London in 1853.
They show the proposed new drainage for the Newcastle-under-Lyme area in accordance with the Public Health Act 1848.
They ...
Newcastle-under-Lyme Board of Health Drainage Works Plan - Sheet 2
Newcastle-under-Lyme Board of Health Drainage Works Plan
These plans were drawn up by Lee and Stevenson, Civil Engineers from London in 1853.
They show the proposed new drainage for the Newcastle-under-Lyme ...
Newcastle-under-Lyme Board of Health Drainage Works Plan - Sheet 3
These plans were drawn up by Lee and Stevenson, Civil Engineers from London in 1853.
They show the proposed new drainage for the Newcastle-under-Lyme area in accordance with the Public Health Act 1848.
They ...
Newcastle-under-Lyme Board of Health Drainage Works Plan - Sheet 4
These plans were drawn up by Lee and Stevenson, Civil Engineers from London in 1853.
They show the proposed new drainage for the Newcastle-under-Lyme area in accordance with the Public Health Act 1848.
They ...
Newcastle-under-Lyme Board of Health Drainage Works Plan - Sheet 5
These plans were drawn up by Lee and Stevenson, Civil Engineers from London in 1853.
They show the proposed new drainage for the Newcastle-under-Lyme area in accordance with the Public Health Act 1848.
They ...
Newcastle-under-Lyme Board of Health Drainage Works Plan - Sheet 7
These plans were drawn up by Lee and Stevenson, Civil Engineers from London in 1853.
They show the proposed new drainage for the Newcastle-under-Lyme area in accordance with the Public Health Act 1848.
They ...
Newcastle-under-Lyme Board of Health Drainage Works Plan - Sheet 8
These plans were drawn up by Lee and Stevenson, Civil Engineers from London in 1853.
They show the proposed new drainage for the Newcastle-under-Lyme area in accordance with the Public Health Act 1848.
They ...
Newcastle-under-Lyme Board of Health Drainage Works Plans
These plans were drawn up by Lee and Stevenson, Civil Engineers from London in 1853.
They show the proposed new drainage for the Newcastle-under-Lyme area in accordance with the Public Health Act 1848.
They ...
Night Soil Men
Three men with a pony and cart emptying and collecting from outdoor privies. This photograph was taken in Staffordshire, possibly in Walsall.
Nursery Street, Boothen, Stoke-on-Trent
The view from near the bank of the River Trent along the alley at the rear of Nursery Street in Boothen. The houses are byelaw terraced house, a type of dwelling built to comply with the 1875 Public ...
Ordnance Survey, Public Health Act Map of Newcastle-under-Lyme – Sheet 2
These maps were surveyed in 1851 by the Ordnance Survey Department in accordance with the provisions of the Public Health Act, for the Local Board of Health.
The Public Health Act of 1848
In Newcastle ...