October 2020 (Issue No.702)
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October 2020 (Issue No.702 ) USEFUL FACTS & NUMBERS Contents Page POLICE (non emergency) 101 Useful Facts And Numbers 2 ROADS, PAVEMENTS AND STREET Cover Story LIGHTING ISSUES 3 report online at: Dates For Your Diary www.staffordshire.gov.uk/reportit 3 Regular Meetings in Normal Times 3 STREETSCENE GLRC Village Voice (Page 9) (litter and dog mess) 01785 619401 4 Phoenix Club GNOSALL SURGERY 4 01785 822220 Ministry Matters 5 GROSVENOR CENTRE Stafforshire Libraries 01785 822685 5 St Lawrence Church News GNOSALL VILLAGE HALL 6 01785 823303 (L Malone) Gnosall Parish News 6 GNOSALL & DISTRICT VOLUNTARY Letters & Announcements Gnosall Heritage 7 (Page 13) CAR SCHEME Gnosall Methodist Church 8 Co-ordinator: Jenny Hodkinson Quote Of The Month Contact 01785 823425 8 Mobile 07583 390363 GLRC only between 9am-5:00pm 9 Healthy Walks No 7 VET - SHIRES VETERINARY PRACTICE 10 01785 823713 Open Book 11 or emergency only Eccleshall 850218 Royal British Legion 12 PEST CONTROL - STAFFORD BOROUGH COUNCIL Gnosall Heritage Group Ron Large 13 (Page 14 & 15) 0845 505 7378 Air Raids On My Home Town 14/15 STAFFORD RECYCLING CENTRE Shopping In Gnosall 16 St Alban’s Road - Opening Times Pop Goes The Weasel Every Day 9am to 5pm 17 (Except over the Christmas Period) Gnossword Close: Christmas Day, Boxing Day, 17 New Years Day Macmillan Cancer Support 18 Margaret White 18 EMERGENCY SERVICES Gnosall First Responders First Reponders 19 (Page 19) • Police: Stone Love Telephone 999 in emergency where 20 there is a danger to life or a crime is in Parish Council progress. 21 Telephone 101 for non - emergencies Jambusters WI where police attendance is required, to 22 report any other incidents. Call to 101 Autumn A Poem By Eric Pritchard have a fixed cost of 15p per call. 23 Index of Local Trade Directory • Fire & Rescue Service: 0300 330 1000 23 • Ambulance HQ: 01785 253521 Local Trade Directory • Electricity: 0800 6783105 or 105 24/43 Jambusters WI • Water: 0800 7834444 Gnosall Photographers (Page 22) • Gas: 0800 111999 44 HOSPITALS CONTRIBUTIONS • County Hospital ( Stafford ): Contributions for the GPN must be received by the 15th of each month by 5pm for inclusion in the next edition, please send details to the Editor. 01785 257731 EDITOR - Joyce Rowe Tel: 822579 email:[email protected] • Cannock Chase: 01543 572757 DESIGN & PRINT PRODUCTION - Keith Kinsella Tel: 0772 512 6333 • St George’s: 01785 257888 DISTRIBUTION - Bob Colman, Holly House, The Rank. Tel: 823955. email: [email protected] • University Hospital of North ADVERTISEMENTS - Olive Wakefield email: [email protected] Staffordshire: 01785 715444 WEBSITE - Bob Alker - www.gnosallparishnews.com TREASURER & CHAIRMAN - Pat Tweed. Tel: 822523 email: [email protected] 2 REGULAR MEETINGS IN NORMAL TIMES My other car’s a Bugatti ! • Gnosall Writers every first Thursday of the month, 7:00pm, at the Library. I spotted this little beauty (Bugatti type 43) outside • Gnosall Memorial Village Hall Committee the South Sands Boutique Hotel at Bolt Head Meeting - 3rd Tuesday of the month. Contact Salcombe last summer. Well it got me thinking Mags Yeo on 01785 822862 for details. about the history of the Bugatti name as I didn’t All welcome. know much about it, so below is just a snippet of • Newport Chess Club every Thursday at what I discovered….. 7.30pm at the Royal British Legion Audley Road Newport, call Daniel on 01785 82332 • Gnosall Lions 7.30pm, Fire station 1st Monday Bugatti was first founded in 1909 in the in the month then-German city of Molsheim, by Italian • Gnosall Handbell Ringers Grosvenor Centre industrial designer Ettore Bugatti. The first Tuesdays 8.00 - 10.00 p.m. Contact 822592 vehicle created by the Milan-born engineering • Bowling Monday 3pm, at Gnosall Village Hall pioneer was the Type 10; initially developed in also Thursday 3pm and 7pm Ettore’s basement, it was a two-seat open top • Bingo Friday 7.30pm at Village Hall • Bridge at the Grosvenor Wednesday 7.20pm roadster, powered by a completely bespoke contact Pat & John on 824203, 1.1 litre monobloc straight-four cylinder • Phoenix at Grosvenor Friday 10am -12noon engine. What was most impressive about this seemingly • Gnosall Players, 7.45pm Tuesdays at the Youth primitive powertrain, was the overhead cam offering two valves per Club Cabin, Grosvenor Centre. cylinder – deemed a highly advanced accomplishment for the era. Where the early • Healthy Walking Group Wednesday & Sunday prototype lacked, however, was in the suspension department – offering leaf springs 10.30am in the front with no suspension whatsoever in the rear. • Military Whist, Grosvenor Centre 7.30pm Wednesday Starts at 7.45pm Contact Hilda 824984 Before long, Bugatti’s initial prototype had evolved. The next iteration of his roadster • U3A Newport. Meetings are held on the third concept was dubbed the Type 13 and ushered in new developments, such as leaf Tuesday of the month at the Royal British spring suspension on all four corners; but most notably, major advancements with a Legion Club, Audley Road, Newport. new four-valve head designed by Bugatti – one of the first of its type ever conceived. • Gnosall Painting Group Friday afternoon This meant the new and nimble Type 13 produced an adequate 30hp to power the sessions 1.30pm – 3.30pm at the Methodist 300kg chassis. Bugatti and his newly founded factory made just five examples in Church. contact Carol Perry tel.824917 1910, and even went on to enter the Type 13 in the French Grand Prix at Le Mans in • Gnosall Toddler group Every Thursday 9.30- 11.30 School Room in the Methodist Church 1911 – finishing in a respectable second place, after seven gruelling hours of racing. Contact 07816 100 068 The Great War meant production for Bugatti ground to halt in the disputed region. • Church Bell Ringers Practice Friday evenings Ettore managed to move two completed Type 13 vehicles with him to Milan for the from 7.30-9pm at St. Lawrence & ring at duration of the war, leaving the parts for three more buried near his factory in 9.45am most Sundays. Molsheim. After the conflict concluded, Ettore returned to the site, unearthed the Contact Phil on 07913 757512 parts, and immediately began preparing five Type 13s for racing. • Gnosall Jambusters WI 1st Wednesday in the month GMVH 7.30pm • Gnosall Grosvenor Youth Club – GG’s Youth The post-war era for Bugatti was a wildly successful one, bringing with it many racing Club is open on Wednesday Evenings victories for the hugely impressive Type 13, following a flurry of evolutionary 6 -7.30pm for Children in School Years 4, 5 & developments – including much desired rear suspension and front brakes. Racing 6 and 7.45 - 9.15pm for Children in School success for Bugatti then continued well into the 1930’s, culminating in an astonishing Years 7, 8 & 9. The Youth Club Building is two wins at the 24 hours of Le Mans in both 1937 and 1939; the latter being piloted located behind the Grosvenor Centre, contact by a name that would become synonymous with the car-maker and forever cemented Jordan on 07715 392345 for any information. in Bugatti’s tapestry, Pierre Veyron. • Royal British Legion Gnosall Memorial Village Hall 1st Tuesday in month • Gnosall Art Class, Gnosall Grosvenor Centre, Following roaring success in motor racing, a cruel twist of fate was set to derail the Thursday 7 pm – 9 pm Bugatti family and their growing auto-empire. On August 11, 1939, at just 30 years • Bradley Mixed Media Art Class, Bradley Village old, Ettore’s son, Jean, was killed in an accident while testing a Type 35 motor-sport Hall, Mondays 10 am – 12 noon. For further prototype near the factory in Molsheim. details contact: Debbie Chatfield, 01785 781075 or 07727216523; Bugatti’s misfortune continued, with the factory and spiritual headquarters completely debs@ debbiechatfield.co.uk destroyed during the Second World War. And then, after significantly under delivering • Newport Photographic Club every Tuesday at 7.45pm Baptist Church, Water Lane Newport on the production of several new vehicles, including the Type 73C, Ettore Bugatti died more information at on August 21, 1947. After a long decline, the original incarnation of Bugatti finally www.newportphotoclub.com ceased operations in 1952. • The Friday night youth groups at Gnosall Methodist Church are now enrolling. Volkswagen AG then acquired the Bugatti brand in 1998, forming Bugatti The junior club is on from 6.15-7.45pm. Automobiles S.A.S. After teasing several concept cars at various motor shows in the The senior club is for young people in years 9, late 90s, the company would then fall silent as it quietly and diligently developed it’s 10 and 11 and doors open 8-9.30pm • The opening hours of Gnosall Community tour de force – the Veyron EB 16.4. Following a similar blueprint to the EB 110, the Library are: Monday 4:00 - 6:30 pm Tuesday Veyron in its fullest form was powered by an 8.0-litre, quad-turbocharged, W16 10:00 am - 12:30 pm Wednesday 3:00 - cylinder engine that produced a staggering 1,184 hp and 1,106 lb-ft of torque and 7:00 pm Thursday 2 - 4pm Saturday 10:00 am went on to make history as the fasted road-going production car ever built – capable - 12:30 pm phone No. 01785 895750 of an astronomical 431.072 km/h. And as with each car of the Bugatti name before • Gnosall Singers Wednesdays 10.30 to 12.30 it, the Veyron would go on to spearhead automotive ingenuity and technology. It saw Methodist Hall. production through various forms and special edition models until 2015, and would Contact Anne Robotham, Tel: 01785 822423 be superseded by the Chiron – an evolutionary step forward from the same potent • Gnosall Over 55s Friendship Group 2nd Wednesday of the month 2.00 - 3.30pm platform.