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PLEASE Clubhouse Network TAKE ONE Newsletter THEY’RE FREE Football Nicknames Local History The Oatcake Telling Stories Ian Mood The Lockdown Issue Stay Safe! Have fun with this Sudoku Puzzle! 2 Welcome to Issue #33 Hello everyone, after this issue is distributed by email, Newsletter production will be suspended until the crisis is over. However we will be sending out a Newsletter Bulletin also by email which will contain useful information and service updates. Note, all groups and events usually publicised in this Newsletter are suspended until the present crisis abates. STAY SAFE! In this issue: Football Nicknames p3 Coronavirus explained p4 Album of the Month p7 Local History: The Staffordshire Oatcake p8 Telling Stories: Ian Moodp10 (The solution is attached to your email.) Poem: “Mending Wall” p20 Front Cover: Ian Mood’s studio, Burslem The Newsletter Online: Text and Audio During Lockdown Find Back Issues Here Your monthly Newsletter is created by: The current newsletter and back issues are Editor, Audio Edition Producer, Narrator: now available online. Scan this QR Code to be Mark Gilbert taken to the webpage where you can view or Reporter, Photographer, Feature Writer: listen to the newsletters. Howard Dexter Associate Copywriter, Photographer: Charlotte Booth Librarian, Runner: Phil Scoggins Braillist: Toni Kalvans Our resident poet is: Adrian Croxton Use the QR code or type in this URL Proofreader: Jean Sturgess http://www.brighter-futures.org.uk/clubhouse-network- Approval: Sharon Godwin newsletter Printed at Whittle Court Photography Group Newsletter Availability Learn to take better photos! The photography As well as the print edition, the newsletter is group meets every Tuesday from 10:30am at available in other formats. From the Clubhouses the American Clubhouse. Howard and Dave and Safes Spaces an audible version of the run this group. newsletter is available on CD to borrow, listen and copy. Colouring Group In addition, an audible mp3 and text version are The Colouring Group meets at the American on the desktop of the customer computers at the Clubhouse (in the main room) on Thursdays American for you to read or listen to and/or copy. 2:00pm – 4:00pm. All members are welcome. If you would like to receive the newsletter This group is facilitated by Charlotte and Jean. by email send a request with ‘subscribe’ as the Please come along and take part in this subject to [email protected] to be put creative and relaxing activity. on our emailing list. Great Britain, Workshop of the World: Football Nicknames For a few decades in the 19th century, British peaked in the early nineteenth century when manufactured goods dominated world trade, in 1812 an estimated six thousand workers so Britain became the workshop of the World. were making cutlery for the American market Some of England’s football teams were alone. founded during the Industrial Revolution and Luton Town known as The Hatters are named gained their nicknames from the goods they after the hat making industry which began in made. the 17th century and became synonymous Locally of course we have Stoke City, The with the town. Famous for felt and straw hats Potters. The area has made pottery for over by 1900 the town was producing an incredible 300 years with a large percentage sold seven million hats per year. abroad. The Cobblers is the nick-name of the mighty Northampton Town. Although many industries have declined a recent report claimed that Northampton is still the shoemaking capital of the World. The town’s most famous brand is Dr. Martens. The company has announced plans to double production in 2020 as part of a two million pound investment. The team’s original club crest featured Wedgwood’s famous Portland Vase. Just a few miles away is Macclesfield where Macclesfield Town are known as The Silkmen. The area was once the World’s biggest In the Lincolnshire home of Scunthorpe producer of finished silk and in 1832 no fewer United the team is known as The Iron. The than seventy one mills were in operation. iron and steel industry in the town was Back down to South Staffordshire where established in the middle of the 19th century Wallsall FC have always been known as The following the discovery of middle lias Saddlers. British saddlery is among the best in ironstone east of Scunthorpe. the World and even now workshops are still Finally in this feature we have Wycombe scattered around the town, using skills that Wanderers known as The Chairboys. th can be traced back to the 16 century. Furniture has been made in the town from Sheffield United’s alternative moniker is The 1700. The river Wye runs through the valley Blades. The first reference to cutlery made in where beech trees grew that were used to Sheffield dates back to 1297. The industry make chairs and other items of fine furniture. Coronavirus Dos and Don’ts 4 Stay Safe Everyone! 5 Arts and crafts play a big part in the Clubhouse Network. Making art and crafting are effective therapies for people with mental ill health and are enjoyable in their own right giving a tremendous sense of achievement when completed. Amanda has real artistic style as you can see in these two paintings This amazing king size quilt was made by Diane for her pooch Roo. Each square is unique 6 Football Talk To Us! Events If you are thirty five and above You can give any contributions and would like to play regular to Howard or Mark. You can football then there is a weekly If you would like an event also send ideas or stories to group run by Stoke-on-Trent [email protected] publicising in the Council on Thursdays at the newsletter please let us YMCA (Hanley) 6:00pm-7:00pm. know. Task Group Task Group takes place every Day Trips three weeks at one of the There will be many day trips Clubhouses. Come along and throughout 2020. Go along on help shape Clubhouse activities. an outing, you will have a great Discuss, gardening, the time. Keep an eye on the notice Newsletter, events to attend boards for the next fun trip. with our publicity stand and more. Pool Tournament Clubhouse Walks Every Monday at the American If you are interested in a gentle Clubhouse there is a pool walk from any of the Easter Raffle tournament that is open to all Clubhouses then please speak The Easter raffle was won by members. 12:30pm onwards. to a support worker. Chris M. Album of the Month: From LP’s to CDs Music Man looks back on a just begun how could I wait six player on the chair. I was pivotal moment in the music whole days before playing my cooking with gas. 7 industry. prized possession? Then I had The LP sounded great; though In the summer of ’73 I bought an idea. looking back it could have all my first LP. My family was on In the digs where we were backfired. With no earth wire holiday in Rhyl. We were all taking I had noticed the family on the light cable it all could staying in a small bed and had a teenage daughter. I have blown up. Very rock and breakfast. devised a plan to get my mum roll. I was a fan of the glam rock to ask the owner for help. I loved buying LPs but the band ‘Mott the Hoople’ about Sure enough I was given a problem was they were so a year before I had purchased small mono record player to easy to scratch. A pal at work their hit single ‘All the young borrow for a few days. This had a copy of ‘Harvest’ by dudes’ written by David was great but then came the American artist Neil Young. Bowie. next problem; my bedroom He told me I could have it to play over the weekend as long as I was very careful, as he had only just bought it. I remember nervously holding the stylus above the edge of the record when disaster struck. I dropped it onto the first song. There was an audible click every time the record came around to the dropping point. Luckily I liked the record so I bought a new copy for my friend and kept the scratched one. So, for me CDs had many advantages. Bands could put so many more songs on and they were much harder to scratch. In 1985 I remember buying ‘Brothers in Arms’ by Dire Straits. At the time CDs were fairly new and it was a One day during the holiday I was very basic and didn’t have massive seller. tI cost me was in the town centre looking a wall socket. However the £14.00. People I knew had CD at LPs in Woolworths, when I owner solved this for me by players costing £100s and so came across the new one by removing the plug and could only afford a few discs. I the band, simply called ‘MoH’. replacing it with a light fitting. read an article at the time that I knew I had to buy it. I was so Unfortunately the wire wasn’t said there were two main excited as I walked from the long enough. reasons for the high cost. shop swinging my carrier bag, Undeterred I took a bedside Firstly because the quality was but then I thought of a big table and put a small chair on so good they knew people problem. The holiday had only the top. With the record would pay the vastly inflated prices and also they were 8 struggling to keep up with the high demand and thought people were more likely to buy Find cheaper LPs.