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INSIDE THIS ISSUE: A Legend in his time. Benefactor bequeaths money to local group. Boyhood Memories. 100th Birthday Celebrations for Ada. Medieval Celebrations come to Audley. communityAudley news ISSUE: 32 JUNE 2011 DONATIONS WELCOME Your local Newsletter to service the needs of the people from the parish of Audley. Medieval Celebrations [email protected] NEW Web: www.audleycommunitynews.co.uk EDITOR: E Moulton 2 Advertisements Audley Community News Potteries Building Supplies Your local Calor Gas supplier Portable heaters Patio heaters BBQs FREE LOCAL Caravans DELIVERY Forklift trucks CALL Logs for sale 01782 Winter rocksalt 562222 www.pbsupplies.co.uk [email protected] Turner Crescent, off Loomer Road Chesterton, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs, ST5 7JZ (OFF LOOMER ROAD) The Stove Emporium Come and see our exclusive Merlin Range. NOW on live display. Stoves of all makes and models available SUMMER OPENING HOURS Friday/Saturday 10.00am to 4.00pm Sunday 11.00am to 2.00pm Life time Guarantee on the stove body. THE STOVE EMPORIUM LTD. Unit 13 Townhouse Farm, Alsager Road, Audley, Stoke-on-Trent, ST7 8JQ. Tel: 01782 722 244 WWW.THESTOVEEMPORIUM.CO.UK [email protected] Features 3 Contents: Welcome to your News Views local Newsletter. Sports Welcome once again to your Audley The problem of parking has once Recipes Community Newsletter. again raised its head. When will the Memories from the past What a pleasing sight to see as you County Council make up their minds Poetry & Rhyme travel through the Audley village that over refurbishing the car parks which Forthcoming events most of the empty shops have now they promised to do so many months, if School information being occupied by new businesses. not years, ago. Readers letters We now have a new Indian restaurant The car park between the Co-op Bereavements which has been developed in the old store and Tesco is a disgrace and if I Fred Boon’s drapery store. We have was a member of the methodist Church Editor: E. Moulton a Tattoo shop in part of the old Co-op Council I would give them an ultimatum, Tel: 01782 721565 Pharmacy with the rest of that store either do it or lose it. Assistant Editor: Sue Wykes being used as a computer shop. The people of Audley should be proud Reporter: Margaret Pointon A planning application for an OatCake of its village and bringing life back to Proof Readers: Linda Coleing store has been submitted and if the village should be a priority. Margaret Pointon planning is agreed then the former Work continues on the new Audley Design: Chris Tunnicliffe Mottram’s Funeral Parlour will become cemetery on Nantwich Road and it’s the new OatCake store. expected that burials may start soon. Printed at Alsager Printers. Whatever our feelings are about the We at the Newsletter would welcome kind of businesses our village has, we all local news for publication. Please have to be pleased to see buildings feel free to submit your information. Audley Patient being used instead of them being Panel Newsletter. derelict and empty. Ernie Moulton Editor. A Newsletter is now being published quarterly by the Audley Patients Panel, which provides news from the Audley Health Centre. “What’s on Diary” If you wish to pick up a copy they are available in all Post Offices, Audley Library and the Audley Dental Practice. The Newsletter has been asked by to happen in the villages and this would You can also access them on line by the Chairman of the Audley & District also be an easy way to publicise the going to: The Stove Community Centre, Mr. Ron Bourne, to forth coming events. www.audleypatientpanel.btik.com pubicise the idea of our parish having The main event days are normally a “What’s On Diary” which could on a Saturday and occasionaly on be published on our Audley Community a Sunday, but all events can be Thank you Emporium News website and an up-to-date copy registered. I wish to say a big thanks to Bob placed in our magazine each issue. Surely as a small community working Brockley formerly of High Street Halmer Wth many voluntary groups together it would be a benefit to End for his recent support of the throughout the parish when events are everyone. magazine. being organized it is so difficult to know We at the Newsletter would love to I would have loved to have written to when other events may clash with one hear you thoughts and would welcome him to thank him but unfortunately I another. any suggestions as to the proposal. had no return address. If each group registered its events If you feel this would be of interest to Kind regards Ernie Editor. to be held in the parish as soon as your group, no matter the size of the possible and before deciding on a date event, we would welcome your feed Find the Easter Egg for an event checked the diary, this back. From issue 31. would prevent the possibility of events To contact the magazine you will Sponsored by the Co-op. being duplicated. have three options. In our last issue we ran a competition to The feeling is that all local groups E-mail: find the 12 Easter Eggs. need to try to work together to increase audleycommunitynews@ We were so pleased to receive so the much needed support from our local yahoo.co.uk many entries. residents. By Post: 23 Wood Street All prizes have now been distributed. It is felt that many other groups have Bignall End Sot ST7 8QL Just a big thank you to all who similar problems knowing what is about By Phone: 01782 721565. entered. 4 Audley & District Family History Society Audley Community News Audley & District Family History Society The Natural Resources of Audley Parish The Audley area in the past has been The Audley tithe map of 1837 shows brickworks at Boyles Hall, Ravens Lane almost self-sufficient in building a brickworks occupied by Thomas and Halmer End. materials. Alcock on the Boyles Hall farm estate. A brick kiln in Station Road stood An abundance of clay and marl John Dean had a stone quarry on behind Corbett Cottages and brickfields resulted in numerous small brick-kilns Bignall Hill and George Tollett was the show behind Rye Hills Farm and at in the early days of brick making. owner of another at Bowsey Wood by Podmore Hall Colliery. That was followed later by brickworks, Heighley Castle, which was part of A marl pit gave its name to Marlpit some of which were set up to produce Audley parish. House (later Poole Cottage) on Nantwich bricks solely for major housing A quarry field is recorded in Heighley Road and gravel pits are shown near developments, usually the rows of Lane and another in the area which Cross Farm, at Craddocks Moss and at terraced houses associated with coal came to be known as The Quarry in Park End. mining in the area. Nantwich Road. The numerous sand pits include Sand and gravel pits, which can be It was here, at the junction of Hougherwall, a site by Heighley Castle, seen marked on old ordinance survey Barthomley Road that a stone quarry Mill Dale, Kent Hills, Park End and maps, littered the countryside. had been in operation earlier. Boyles Hall Farm. Even stone was quarried, but today A bungalow now standing in front these industries are no longer to be of the quarry site bears the name seen in the Audley area, but they have ‘Stonefields’. nevertheless left their marks on the By 1880 the first large scale landscape. ordinances survey map shows The following brick makers are recorded in various documents: - William Warburton of Ravens Lane from 1837 onwards. - Hilditch & Co. of Ravens Lane from 1880 to 1888. - Christopher Warburton of Ravens Lane and later of Audley, - George Emberton & Co. of Ravens Lane from 1884 to from 1851. 1896. - Francis (Frank) Glover of Audley and later of Miles Green, - Hayes & Co. of Ravens Lane from 1892 to 1896. from 1865. - Audley Brick & Pipe Co. of Boyles Hall 1900 to 1908. - Harry Warburton of Audley from 1880. - Halmer Tileries from 1936. Disused by 1954. - William Riley of Halmer End from 1880. A later quarry was at Kent Hills where quarrying began in 1929 and continued to about 1945. The stone quarry on Bignall Hill was being worked again from 1936 to 1940 when Harry Carter was the proprietor. There will be more information in the next issue of this magazine. Clive Millington Audley & District Family History Society The society meetings are held in the Audley Church Hall; Admission £1.00 to non-members. All welcome. Research 2-4pm on the first Wednesday in every month. Talks 7.30-9pm on the first Friday in January, March, May, July, September and November. Research 7-9pm on the first Friday in February, April, June, August, October and December. E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.acumenbooks.co.uk/audleynet/ Visit the website for ‘The Changing Face’ series of photo articles on Alsagers Bank, Audley, Bignall End, Halmer End, Miles Green and Wood Lane. Click on ‘Old Audley’ link on home page. [email protected] Audley & District Family History Society 5 Audley Medieval Community Fair Images supplied by Steven Malam Audley was once again basking in displays of combat from different times celebrate St. George’s Day by carrying bright sunshine to welcome it’s annual in the middle ages and answered the his flag but this year they were not Medieval Fair to the Millennium Green questions of the many visitors to the fair.