Thanks and Credits

This website has been designed by Andy Hudson of hbr-interactive and my thanks goes to him, and the whole team at HBR, for their invaluable help and professionalism.

I would also like to acknowledge the contribution of the following, from which research about historical aspects of Newcastle, in particular, has been drawn:

• Newcastle town centre library and all its helpful staff
• Staffordshire County Council Library Service
• Newcastle-under-Lyme Civic Society

Also:

• Newcastle-under-Lyme 1173-1973, edited by John Briggs (1973, North Staffordshire Polytechnic).
• Audley Parish Millennium, edited by Robert Speake, published (2000) by Audley Rural Parish Council
• Audley, Department of Adult Education, Keele University (1972)
• Silverdale and Chesterton in old photographs, by Dave Adams (1988, by Hendon Publishing)
• Wolstanton: Wolstan's town, by Percy W L Adams (1908)
• The History of Keele, edited by Christopher Harrison (1986, by University of Keele)
• The Staffordshire Village Book, by Staffordshire Federation of women's Institutes (1988, Countryside Books)
• The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, Volume VIII, Edited by R B Pugh of the University of London Institute of Historical Research (1963, Oxford University Press)
• Our Town: Historic Buildings in Newcastle-under-Lyme, by Katrina Hill of Newcastle Civic Society (1973, Keele University Library)
• St George's Newcastle-under-Lyme 1828-1978, by John Briggs (1978, North Staffordshire Polytechnic)
• Betley: a village of contrasts, by Robert Speake (1980, University of Keele)
• A history of Apedale & Chesterton, by David Dyble (2002, Brenda M Syble)
•  A Guide to Staffordshire & the Black Country, The Potteries and The Peak, by Michael Raven (2004)