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Historic maps of Newcastle and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis.   View all Newcastle maps

Newcastle map

Historic map of Newcastle

Staffordshire map

Illustrated Victorian map of Staffordshire

Newcastle map

Historic Map of any Newcastle postcode

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Newcastle books

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Staffordshire Photographic Memories
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Uttoxeter Living Memories
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Newcastle books
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Memories of Newcastle

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Staffordshire memories

St Johns the scary

As a child I was terrified of the churchyard, we had to walk past it to get to Wilson Way where my Nan Lizzie Grocott lived. It wasn't so bad in the summer but in winter when it got dark early we would get off the bus opposite the Church and it would loom up like a big dark monster as... [more]

Shared on 08 October 2006 by Tina Stanyer.

Fishing equipment and Cakes

Every year we would go to Pooles on the High Street to get yellow fishing nets so that we could go and collect tadpoles from ponds around the area. We would deliberate for a good while over what colour nets to get but we always ended up with yellow because our Dad said they showed the tadders up best.
Tiko Bakery... [more]

Shared on 08 October 2006 by Tina Stanyer.

I went to that school

I went to that school. I went to the nursery and stayed there right up until the year 2000 and then moved away to Scotland. It was a great school.

Shared on 07 July 2009 by Stacey Healy.

My memory

I remember I was about 10 and Critchilows Corner was a derelict building at this point, probably in 2000, and we used to try get in to see what it was like inside. I moved away but do visit the area from time to time and it's a housing esate now, seems a shame.

Shared on 07 July 2009 by Stacey Healy.

Critchlows Corner

The building in view was a Post Office and General Stores, the area was known as "Critchlows Corner" after the name of the family that owned the shop. The post office was the only one in the area. At the age of 10 I would cycle to the Post Office to collect our familys child benefit.
The bridge in the background... [more]

Shared on 07 July 2006 by David Moore.

Good times

We came down from Scotland to Stoke in 1953 as my dad had got a job in the newly opened Pit Hem Heath. As children we used to stay at the house which is sitting in front of the pit . We used to go across the brook on the pipe what ran from one side to the other so we... [more]

Shared on 11 April 2008 by Pauline Thorley.

George Edward Ramsden, coopers and crate-makers

I have been told that my grandfather and great-grandfather had a business at Longton as coopers and crate-makers for the potteries. This business ceased I believe in the 1950s but would have been running from the late 1800s to that date.
I cannot find any details of this business and have only been told that it was run from Longton.
Any... [more]

Shared on 24 August 2009 by Brian Ramsden.

High Street Longton in the '40s and '50s

Barbara Johnson's memories brought back some of my own from the High Street days. Those rows of shops Barbara describes provided all the locals with everything they needed. I remember going over the road from the off-licence we ran for a meat and potato pie from 'aunt' Sarah's, going for haircuts at Billy Goodwin's barbers (right up till the middle '50s),... [more]

Shared on 02 March 2009 by Geoff Emery.

Extracts From Newcastle & Staffordshire books

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Staffordshire Photographic Memories

Major-general Thomas Harrison, who served in the Parliamentary army during the Civil War, was born in a house on the High Street. His father, grandfather, and great grandfather were all butchers, and held various council offices. Between 1552 and 1565, grandfather Richard was a councillor, but was also at different times constable, sergeant and bailiff.

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Staffordshire Pocket Album

Major-general Thomas Harrison, who served in the Parliamentary army during the Civil War, was born in a house on the High Street. His father, grandfather, and great grandfather were all butchers, and held various council offices. Between 1552 and 1565, grandfather Richard was a councillor, but was also at different times constable, sergeant and bailiff.

This is an extract from Staffordshire Pocket Album.
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Staffordshire Photographic Memories

The Guildhall is the town's oldest public building, dating from about 1714, but it was heavily restored during the mid 19th century. By the beginning of the 17th century those Englishmen who could afford it had taken up the craze for smoking tobacco in pipes made of clay. Newcastle's pipemakers gained a reputation for turning out quality pipes, for the clays... [more]

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