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New Plaque Installed

18 Wednesday Jun 2014

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Newcastle-under-Lyme Civic Society has installed a new plaque on 28 High Street to commemorate the lives and contribution made by the Wain Family in preserving the town’s character and promoting its prosperity. For many years this building was Clement Wain’s Chemists.Image

Margaret Clews Memorial Plaque

30 Monday Jul 2012

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Margaret Clews

(died December 1980)

Margaret was the eldest daughter of Mr. & Mrs. F. H. Clews. She was educated at Newcastle Grammar School and qualified to become a primary school teacher, subsequently teaching on the Westlands, where she lived.

Her strong affection for Newcastle led her to become an active founder member of the Civic Society, as were her parents.

Together with them, she was a member of the Unitarian Meeting House, being the Secretary from the mid 70’s until her death.

Members, friends and local organisations contributed to a memorial fund that financed the commissioning of the plaque from the Royal Label Factory, now part of Leander Architectural, and its installation in Merrial Street by the Borough Council in 1986.

WHITMORE RAILWAY STATION BOOKING OFFICE (Baldwin’s Gate)

15 Monday Nov 2010

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Contributed by Philip Crush

The Borough's Mayor, Councillor Mrs Ann Heames unveils the plaque.

 

This blue plaque, our sixteenth, has been fixed to the Station Booking Office. It was unveiled by the Borough’s Mayor, Councillor  Mrs Ann Heames, on Saturday   11th September. The plaque commemorates the opening of the station in 1837 and the Coronation steam engine 6220’s 114 mph “run” in 1937.

LOCAL COMMEMORATIVE BLUE PLAQUE SCHEME

15 Sunday Aug 2010

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To date fifteen plaques have been commissioned and are displayed in the Borough (see below).

This scheme is ongoing and three new plaques are currently in production.

If you would like to suggest a local person or special building for our consideration contact us at – nulcivicsociety@yahoo.co.uk

115, Congleton Road, Talke

 

1, James Street, Wolstanton

 

9, Sidmouth Avenue, Newcastle-under-Lyme

 

Moreton House, Wolstanton

 

Unitarian Meeting House, Newcastle-under-Lyme

 

Unitarian Meeting House, Newcastle-under-Lyme

 

Barracks Road, Newcastle-under-Lyme

 

Nelson Place, Newcastle-under-Lyme

 

Merrial Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme

 

High Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme

 

Harecastle Tunnels, Talke

 

Harecastle Tunnels, Talke

 

St. Peter's Church, Maer

 

Liverpool Road, Newcastle-under-Lyme

 

Inside the Orme Centre, Pooldam, Newcastle-under-Lyme

Town Centre Plaque Trail

15 Sunday Aug 2010

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This trail will help you to find some of the more interesting buildings around the town centre.

 

 

Key

1      Guildhall and Market Cross – Blue Plaque

2      71 High Street – Historic Building Plaque

3      75 High Street – Historic Building Plaque

4      85 High Street – Historic Building Plaque

5      93 High Street – Historic Building Plaque

6      Holy Trinity Church

7      The Barracks– Blue Plaque

8      Hassell Street Primary School

9      (former) St Giles’ and St George’s Primary School

10    2 Nelson Place –  Historic Building Plaque

11    King Street – Historic Building Plaque

12    10 Queen Street – Historic Building Plaque

13    6 Queen Street –   Historic Building Plaque

14    St George’s Church

15    (former) Ebenezer Church –  Blue Plaque

16    Queen’s Gardens and  Queen Victoria Statue

17    31 Ironmarket – Historic Building Plaque

18    Library

19    13 Ironmarket –  Historic Building Plaque

20    Lancaster Buildings

21    28a High Street – Historic Building Plaque

22    48-50 Merrial Street – Historic Building Plaque

23    Civic Offices

24    Ebenezer Schoolrooms – Blue Plaque

25    7 High Street – Historic Building Plaque

26    (former) Golden Ball – Blue Plaque

27    St Giles Church

28    Unitarian Meeting House – 2 Blue Plaques

29    65 Lower Street–  Historic Building Plaque

30    Queen Elizabeth Gardens and  Castle Site

31    The Orme Centre – Blue Plaque inside

32    56a High Street – Historic Building Plaque

Historic Buildings Plaques

15 Sunday Aug 2010

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 In the 1970s, Civic Society members wanted to identify and celebrate some of the buildings of historic or architectural merit remaining in the Borough and mark them with small plaques. 

 These plaques, designed by Phillip Gibson, are cast and fired in a stoneware ceramic body and decorated in blue slip. The design shows a castle in a pool, symbolic of Newcastle and taken from the Borough’s coat of arms.

 

The 23 plaques were fixed by Newcastle Round Table members in April 1975 to these buildings –

13 Ironmarket                       The Barracks

31 Ironmarket                       2 Nelson Place

7 High Street                        6 Queen Street

22 High Street                      10 Queen Street

28a High Street                    Brampton Lodge

56a High Street                    12 King Street

71 High Street                      16 King Street

75 High Street                      27 Marsh Parade

85 High Street                      Clayton Hall School

93 High Street                      Orme Youth Centre

65 Lower Street                   Knutton Road School

 50 Merrial Street

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