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Newnham Road, NEWARK, NG24 1HY

In a relatively untouched terrace, one homeowner has bucked the trend. Unusually, most of the original chimney pots remain in situ.

EIIR (Post Office) pillar box. The attached stamp vending machine (no longer selling stamps) is a real rarity.

Donna B's Tasty Bites takeaway food business on the corner of Northgate and Currie Road ..... not easily missed !

The former North End Methodist Church was situated within the largest building in the picture. The original congregation began to meet there from 1868 as a 'church plant' from Newark's principal Methodist Church, Barnby Gate Church. The congregation now worships within one of its ancillary buildings that has now been adapted for this purpose and the original church has been converted in flats. The church still owns two buildings on this site, i.e. the one nearest to the camera and another behind these two. The second building can also be accessed from Meyrick Road (first turning on the right).

Typical mid-19th century polychrome brickwork. The foundation stone is dated 21 May 1868. The current church uses the former Sunday School, the original church having been converted to residential use.

The former Warwick's and Richardson's Northgate Brewery. The Warwick family already owned a one and half acre site behind this plot upon which they would later build this brewery and even before the construction of these buildings they already had a small malting on it (Just visible to the rear). Mr Warwick Snr. extended his portfolio of land here to about 11 acres and in the 1870s the construction of this brewery was begun, with the first brew taking place in 1872. In 1888 the business was incorporated as Richard Warwick and Sons Ltd. In 1890 Warwick’s took over Trent Brewery in Millgate, Newark, which had been established in 1857 by Richardson, Earp and Slater and several others too. The newly amalgamated breweries became known as Warwick’s and Richardson’s Ltd. Over the next fifty years the company also bought out the following breweries: The Newark Brewery (dating from 1869) and the Albion Brewery, Newark (started in 1892); the Stones Home Brewery, Peterborough (from 1897); the Alma Brewery, Cambridge (from 1911) and the Brampton Brewery Co Ltd, Chesterfield (from 1955). At the time of becoming incorporated in 1890, Warwick’s and Richardson’s employed 133 people including 93 in the brewery and 40 administrative staff. In 1962 Warwick’s and Richardson’s were taken over by John Smith’s, Tadcaster Brewery Co Ltd and ceased brewing in 1966. This brewery was designed by William Bliss Sanders of South Kensington and was built by Baines of Newark.

EIIR (Post Office) pillar box. The Post Office has now become a snacks outlet. On the corner of Currie Road, it will of course do you Chilli and Rice!

North End Methodist Church, Lover's Lane. The original, and much larger, church building - around the corner in Meyrick Road - was established in 1868 as an offshoot of Newark's principal Methodist Church, Barnby Gate Church. However, the congregation now worships in one of its ancillary buildings that has been adapted for this purpose, i.e. either in this rectangular building or in another building that the church also owns that can be accessed from Meyrick Road. The original church has been converted in flats.

Now converted to dwellings though the surrounding buildings still function as a church.