Newborough, Staffordshire
Newborough maps
Historic maps of Newborough and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Newborough maps
Newborough photos
We have no photos of Newborough, although we do have photos of these nearby places: Marchington Cliff, Marchington, Abbots Bromley, Yoxall, Tutbury, Barton Under NeedwoodNewborough books
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Memories of Newborough
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Staffordshire memories
My ex-husband's great-grandparents were Thomas Buckley and Mary Cope/Foster, known as Mary Ellen. Mary was the half sister of the Thomas Foster mentioned by the previous member. She was born out of wedlock to Phoebe Cope but they share the same father i.e. John Foster. My mother-in-law, who unfortunately died in May, was always talking about Marchington and the surrounding area.... [more]
Shared on 21 July 2009
My grandfather was born in Marchington Woodlands (Thomas Foster) at Knypersley Hall in 1871 which his father John Foster was renting until about 1905 when following 2 years of cattle foot and mouth (no compensation in those days) he had to give up and move to Uttoxeter and take work as a sawyer. It was said to have broken John's... [more]
Shared on 06 December 2008
I was lucky enough to live in the High Street in Tutbury in the 1960s and Tutbury Castle was my playground - we used to spend hours up there climbing on the walls and up the twisting stairs of the towers. One fond memory is one of my friends being dared to walk across the grille covering the well (quite deep,... [more]
Shared on 29 September 2008
My old school which myself and brother attended the good old days. This photo was taken from where I live now.
Shared on 07 October 2008
I am searching for a Charles & Hugo Mavesyn Chadwick.
Charles Chadwick died c1820 and Hugo Chadwick died in 1854.
I notice that the name of the public house in Hill Ridware is the Chadwick Arms.
Does anyone have any history of this pub and why it was given this name and of the Chadwicks of Mavesyn Ridware?
Betty Ashton (nee... [more]
Shared on 24 January 2008
You may like to check out the Ridware History society site - www.kmaone.com/rhs -which has much about the history and photographs of the Ridwares in Staffordshire
Shared on 03 August 2008
Has anyone got a photograph of Stone Road before the flats were built in the 1970s? My grandmother Mrs Elizabeth Foster lived at 21 Stone Road from about 1910 until they were demolished in the late 1970s and she watched them being demolished from a flat across the road. She was a widow from 1918 when her husband Thomas died as... [more]
Shared on 06 December 2008
The gap between Woolworth's and the next building was known as Pitts Place where Bert Mellor (my grandfather) ran a garage workshop where he maintained the vans for Devilles, the butchers, and the Uttoxeter racecource ambulance, which was an old WWII canvas sided vehicle.
Shared on 03 December 2006
Extracts From Newborough & Staffordshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Newborough, inspired by Frith photos.
Stafford - A History & Celebration
Its surroundings are pleasant without being spectacular: 90% of Staffordshire is rural, and nowhere in the town, not even in the very centre, is one ever far from the countryside. One thing to be said for Stafford (as far as anywhere can make such a claim in these unsettled times) is that it is a town without a darker side. It is not big enough to contain 'inner city areas',... [more]
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Stafford - A History & Celebration
The town also has an association with Skarzysko/Kamienna in Poland. Like everywhere else, Stafford is changing. Until perhaps halfway through the last century the majority of people living in the town
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Stafford - A History & Celebration
School pupils, reached No 3 in the USA charts in 1973 (No 10 in the UK) with its single 'Couldn't Get it Right.' Fran Henley, the lead singer of Travis, is also a Staffordian. In the 1980s and 1990s Bingley Hall, part of the County Showground on Weston Road, hosted several groups such as Black Sabbath and the Electric Light Orchestra. The showground still stages national events in areas as... [more]
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