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 Uttoxeter, Bramshall Road Recreation Ground c1965 (ref. U29073) | In 1921 Uttoxeter Urban District Council set up a committee to provide a recreation ground. Mr C H Elkes, a local businessman, offered an eleven-acre field sloping down to the Picknall or Hockley Brook. The recreation ground was opened in 1925. In 1953 festivities were held here to celebrate Queen Elizabeth's coronation. It is used regularly today for sporting activities, and creates a green avenue through the town to the Hockley Bridge. |  Add your own Memory Add to your Album |
 Uttoxeter, Market Place c1955 (ref. U29014) | This view was taken from the war memorial. The cottages to the right were at this time home and shop to H Woolley, a saddler, as they had been since around 1900. The cottages date from the 16th century, and are probably of the same age as the earliest known parish register of 1596. Notice the old Whieldon's green bus parked outside. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Uttoxeter, High Street c1955 (ref. U29009) | This scene shows a traffic-free view along the High Street. Once known as Old Street, this has been the main road through the town for centuries. Carnival parades were annual events until recently, and visiting circus entertainers along with their animals used to parade the length of the street advertising their shows. The building on the corner with the clock showing 2.20 (right) is Williams Deacon's Bank. This was the name the Royal Bank of Scotland were trading under from 1920; it became Williams & Glyns Bank before returning to its original name in 1985. The bank itself was founded in 1727. Thomas Hart established the first bank in Uttoxeter in the 18th century at the Bank House; the original safe can still be seen in situ today. The Bank House was designed by Thomas Gardner of Uttoxeter, and is in fact a simpler copy of Joseph Pickford's house (now a museum) in Derby. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Uttoxeter, Carter Street and White Hart c1965 (ref. U29057) | The White Hart dates back to the 17th century. Supporters of Bonnie Prince Charlie used the inn as their headquarters in 1745. In 2004 it was the scene of the first ever trial to take place in a pub. A temporary courtroom was set up in the White Hart when a claimant could not travel owing to illness. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Uttoxeter, Market Place c1965 (ref. U29055) | By 1965 the car was increasingly making its impact on Uttoxeter, as we can see from the number of parked cars. The large Maltings car park which exists today was at the time being cleared for the bus station - it was once the site of Bunting's Brewery. Bunting's once owned many pubs in the area, and distributed its ales far and wide. It went out of business in the 1930s, and its buildings were demolished in the early 1960s, at the time this picture was taken. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Uttoxeter, the Church c1955 (ref. U29025) | This view was taken from the war memorial. The cottages to the right were at this time home and shop to H Woolley, a saddler, as they had been since around 1900. The cottages date from the 16th century, and are probably of the same age as the earliest known parish register of 1596. Notice the old Whieldon's green bus parked outside. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Uttoxeter, Market Place c1965 (ref. U29060) | No parking restrictions were in place at this date, and the Market Place served as the bus station. Car ownership was still a minority activity, despite the number of cars we can see here. The High Street served as the main thoroughfare until the bypass, first mooted before the war, was eventually built. On the right is the Milk Bar where you could buy exotic ice creams, with Mellor's the optician's next door and Edward Martin's the jeweller's next to that; these buildings are now a pizza place, an estate agent's and an off licence respectively. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Uttoxeter, Cattle Market c1965 (ref. U29075) | Uttoxeter cattle market was the biggest market south of Nantwich. Before the foot and mouth outbreak of 2001, it hosted fat and store cattle sales on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. Since the outbreak it now only sells on Wednesdays. It is still the venue for the UK's largest sale of Holsteins. The Holstein breed originated in the Netherlands close to 2,000 years ago. The black cows and white cows of the Batavians and Friesians were bred and culled to produce cows that made the best use of limited land by producing the most milk. Eventually these animals evolved genetically into the efficient, high-producing black and white dairy cows known as the Holstein-Friesian. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Uttoxeter, the Market c1965 (ref. U29083) | The chimney stack in the background formed part of the Bamford Leighton Ironworks, which was established in 1871 and covered 24 acres. The foundry, an addition to the ironmongery business established by Henry Bamford in 1845, allowed the firm to expand. The firm was a family partnership until 1916, when it became a private limited company. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Uttoxeter, Cattle Market c1965 (ref. U29076) | Just two years after this photograph was taken, foot and mouth disease devastated the industry. The 1967 outbreak was still remembered by many when the 2001 crisis hit hard. It was in November 1967 when the foot and mouth crisis hit its peak, though the media were not as preoccupied with reporting it as they were in 2001. In 1967, the papers were too concerned with the devaluation of the pound and conflicts in Aden and Vietnam. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Uttoxeter, Market Place c1965 (ref. U29059) | There was no bus station in the town, so buses parked in designated ranks painted on the road surface. The red PMT (Potteries Motor Traction) buses on the left ran to Derby, and the buses on the right ran to Hanley. 1946 saw the first double-decker buses in Uttoxeter. Stevenson's Yellow Buses first ran from Uttoxeter to Burton on 11 September 1926. Whieldon's Green Bus Service ran buses from Uttoxeter to Stafford. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Uttoxeter, Picknalls School c1965 (ref. U29068) | The Staffordshire Education Authority acquired the Hall on Dove Bank in 1919 and named it Uttoxeter Girls' High School. The building on the right is Thomas Alleyne's Grammar School, originally a school for boys. In 1974 the two schools became a single comprehensive, and it was renamed as Thomas Alleyne's High School. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Uttoxeter, the Girls' High School c1955 (ref. U29019) | The Staffordshire Education Authority acquired the Hall on Dove Bank in 1919 and named it Uttoxeter Girls' High School. The building on the right is Thomas Alleyne's Grammar School, originally a school for boys. In 1974 the two schools became a single comprehensive, and it was renamed as Thomas Alleyne's High School. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Uttoxeter, Alleyne's Grammar School c1955 (ref. U29020) | The school was founded in 1558 in the will of Thomas Alleyne, a priest and Oxford scholar who was born in Uttoxeter. Queen Mary died in 1558, and Elizabeth I ascended the throne in November of that year. The school was originally on Bridge Street. It moved here to these new buildings on Derby Road (now called Back Lane) in 1859, having outgrown the original premises. In 1921 it became a maintained secondary school, and became a comprehensive in 1974. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Uttoxeter, the Hockley c1955 (ref. U29037) | The Hockley brook was a haven for the local children, as there was no swimming pool in Uttoxeter. The brook ran through land owned by Mr John Bamford of Oldfields Hall, who did not object to the children using it. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Uttoxeter, the Lido c1965 (ref. U29093) | Uttoxeter's open-air swimming pool was built in 1964; at first its use was seasonal. It underwent a large refurbishment in 1985 to include a leisure centre, and the pool was redesigned as an indoor heated facility. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Uttoxeter, the Market c1965 (ref. U29080) | King Henry III gave exclusive rights to hold a Wednesday market, and granted a charter to the town in 1251. It was discovered in 2004 that the town had 'lost' this historic charter. After searching the public record office in Kew, the Uttoxeter Archaeological Society located the original document. This photograph was taken in the days when Uttoxeter had a much larger market. In addition to the Wednesday market, a Saturday market was established on 2 January 1904; it was opened by the Chairman of the Uttoxeter Urban Council, Mr A C Bunting, Esq, JP, CC. At 6 o'clock in the evening a grand torchlight procession took place, accompanied by the music of a brass band. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Uttoxeter, High Street c1965 (ref. U29058) | In the middle distance on the left are Bagshaws, estate agents in the town since 1871. Opposite is Woolworths, and then come the District Bank, T H Deville & Sons, butchers, and Dorothy Perkins, ladies' outfitters. In 1978 the shop closed after 30 years trading; its lease was sold to Greenwoods menswear store. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Uttoxeter, Oldfields Hall School c1965 (ref. U29070) | The building dates from the late 1700s, and was originally called Oldfields House. In the 19th century it became Martha Bennett's school, before being bought by Charles Ford to be used as a house. It finally became the home of Mr John Bamford, eldest son of Captain Oswald Bamford, before its conversion again to a girls' secondary school in 1959. The school has been a 9-13 Middle School since 1974, and sits in the beautiful landscaped grounds of the original house. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Uttoxeter, War Memorial c1955 (ref. U29006) | The original White Horse pub can be seen behind the war memorial; it was demolished to make way for the incongruous new 1960s town planning building. The new White Horse was itself seriously damaged by fire in 2004, when the roof and much of the upper floor were badly affected. The original White Horse Inn was built in 1830 and owned by John Twigg; there were 24 pubs in Uttoxeter at that time. An ancient market cross with 24 steps once stood at this site. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
