tarboat's photos with the keyword: newcastle-under-lyme

This footrill at Haying Wood, Silverdale was run by the McCready family. These small coal mines were common in this part of North Staffordshire.

Decorative brickwork on the outside of the Ibstock Parkhouse brickworks in Newcastle-under-Lyme. A good way to showcase the product.

Baldwin WD 778 simmers whilst the crew take a well earned break during the first Tracks to the Trenches event at Apedale.

During the later 19th century John Howard Ketley owned, or was the principal partner in, several undertakings, in connection with the manufacture of tiles and bricks, extracting the clay to make them, as well as calcining mine dust to make coal briquettes. He operated from a site at Knutton, alongside the North Staffordshire Railway line from Newcastle to Silverdale. From 1907 the tileries here later operated under the title Knutton Tileries Co Ltd until 1917 and then as Knutton Tileries Limited until the company was wound up in March 1936 after the business was acquired by G H Downing Co Ltd in 1932.

The fleamarket at Newcastle-under-Lyme featured a lot of dinosaurs today.

John Cooper and Son ran a brick and tile works at Kings Field, Shelton New Road, Newcastle-under-Lyme. It is listed in trade directories from 1864 - 1870.

Wheatly's was established before 1819 and was famous for its 'Triton' brand roofing tiles. In 1978 the company was taken over by Daniel Platt Ltd of Brownhills Tileries in Stoke, then in 1982 works was closed and demolished soon afterwards.