850th Celebrations in Newcastle
Newcastle-under-Lyme has crowned its landmark 850th anniversary year by winning the top Royal Horticultural Society Britain in Bloom award for the whole country. The national triumph comes days after Newcastle swept up at the regional Heart of England in Bloom awards, winning first place in the small city category, collecting its 21st consecutive gold award […]
A new statue of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has been commissioned as part of a town’s 850th anniversary celebrations. Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council is commissioning the one-and-a-quarter times life size statue to be cast in bronze and placed in the Queens Gardens. Internationally-famous Staffordshire artist Andy Edwards, whose previous works include the landmark Beatles statue […]
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