Newark On Trent, Market Square c.1955
Photo ref: N12008
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Photo ref: N12008
Photo of Newark On Trent, Market Square c.1955

More about this scene

At the heart of Bishop Alexander's town was the large market place into which the Fosse Way was diverted, although none of the buildings in this view are medieval. The pedimented building is Carr of York's Town Hall of 1773 built in local Mansfield sandstone; the ground floor meat market is now a shopping arcade, the Butter Market. Curry's to the right is now an antiques centre. The building on the right side of the square with the white quoins is the Moot Hall of 1708, rebuilt in replica in 1967.

A Selection of Memories from Newark-on-Trent

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Newark-on-Trent

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Having been doing a lot of research on my Great great Grandfather Joseph Cutts Carter, I have managed to locate where his Glass and China shops were during his life. He actually unexpectedly passed away in 1906 at the age of 63, I know this from a very detailed article about his life which was in the Newark Herald April1906. The article mentions he had two shops at that time in ...see more
This hotel is mentioned in The Heart of Mid-Lothian by Sir Walter Scott written in 1817. Jeanie Deans is walking from Edinburgh to London and at Ferrybridge is advised to stay next at The Saracens Head Newark. Not anything mentioned about her stay but when leaving "Jeanie inquired what was her 'lawing'" "The lawing? Heaven help thee wench! What ca'st thou that"? "It is - I was wanting to ken what was to ...see more
My first memory is when I was a toddler playing in the paddling pool with all the moms sitting chattering on the benches. When I was about seven (about 1972) I was allowed in the big pool but I could only just stand in the shallow end with my nose and chin sticking out of the water. There was a big fountain as you paid your 5p and went through the turnstile. A café sold drinks and ices and beyond that was a play ...see more
the ferry was run by Charles Edward Saxby until his death in 1959. It was then taken over by Sidney Clarke until approx. 1968. In the floods of 1963/4 we couldn't cross the river and had to row across the fields to Rolleston to collect food. When the floods receeded we used to collect the fish in buckets from the hollows in the field behind the ferry house and throw them back in the river I always understood that it was classed as a Queen's ferry (one of only two) and could not be closed.