A list of rentals for the Manor of Newcastle-under-Lyme (Penkhull) for the 16th year of James 1st (1618)
This is a much simpler list containing just names of copyholders and the amount of rent to be collected.
One pages only
Survey of the manor of Newcastle under Lyme Rentals due in the 17th year of James 1st (1619)
A list of copyholders in Penkhull along with a description of their land. No rentals are mentioned.
One Page only
This A Survey of the Manor of NewCastle under Lyne with the Rights Members and appurtenances thereof lyinge and being in the County of Stafford late parcell of the possessions of Charles Stewart late kinge of England .
This introduction says it all of the importance of this survey. The detail as one may expect of this document is incredible and a perfect document for students, groups of history studies to get to grips with and to analyse the huge amount of land owned by the Dule of Lancaster. Give full descriptions of individual estates and values. A wonderful document. Six pages.
Six pages long.
The antics of Penkhull Dads Army used an upstairs room as their gun and ammunition store – where? The Greyhound pub.
It is now fifty years since the BBC started to show the sit-com Dad’s Army which ran from 1968-1977 and yet, it seems since then as though the programme has never been off air. But who would think that the Greyhound Inn and Penkhull Home Guard would have anything in common with the television programme – Home Guard?
Most of us have at some time or another, enjoyed the series, with its light-hearted look at the Second World War’s Home Guard. However, despite this amusing portrayal, in its time, the Home Guard represented a formidable force of willing volunteers ready to give up their lives in protection of their country.
This essay of over 1000 words gathered from the recorded antics of the Penkhull group and cherished as those who were there and no longer alive. This, therefore, is a huge contribution to the social history of wartime in a small village of Penkhull and a worthy contribution to this archive.
Air Raids hit North Staffordshire for the first time in June 1940
It was midsummers night, 24th June 1940that a sole German bomber, probably heading for Shelton Iron and Steel using the line of Penkhull Church spire and the Infirmary chimney as landmarks, came over the village of Penkhull and dropped four bombs in the vicinity with the death of one person Mr. Harry Beeston in Newcastle Lane.
Penkhull Home Guard was manning as usual the church tower and heard the plane coming distinguished by its sound. Frank Marsden, sergeant on duty that night and records that fearful moment of the realisation that they were about to be hit. I could hear the plane and instinctively knew that it was a German Messerschmitt, we had been trained to listen out for. It came from the south, just over Thistley Hough and then suddenly the whistling sound of the bomb dropping brought fear to all of us high up the tower. Instinctively, we crouched down holding on to our tin helmets fearing the worst and then we heard the explosion nearby. My first thoughts were ‘thank God’,This short introduction to this 1000 word essay is just a fraction of whats to follow and what happened to the other three bombs that droped that night?
This is a list of forty-nine men and boys whe came from Penkhull who gave their lives in World War 1.
The Rood Screen was promoted as a suitable memorial in the church at Penkhull and was provided by weekly house to house collections of just 6d all that most families could afford.
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