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INSIDE THIS ISSUE: It’s Good To Live In Audley Success Refurbished Local Chapel Local Safety Events Success Audley Success For Local Audley Pharmacy community news Forthcoming Parish Events ISSUE: 30 DECEMBER 2010 DONATIONS WELCOME Your local Newsletter to service the needs of the people from the parish of Audley. [email protected] NEW Web: www.audleycommunitynews.co.uk EDITOR: E Moulton 2 Advertisements Audley Community News Potteries Building Supplies SEASONS GREETING TO ALL OUR Your local CUSTOMERS Calor Gas supplier Portable heaters Patio heaters BBQs FREE LOCAL Caravans DELIVERY Forklift trucks CALL 01782 Logs for sale 562222 Winter rocksalt www.pbsupplies.co.uk [email protected] Turner Crescent, off Loomer Road Chesterton, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs, ST5 7JZ (OFF LOOMER ROAD) EVERYTHING WE DO GOES INTO EVERYTHING WE DO WHEN YOU BUILD SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS FROM CARS TO JETS TO EVEN A ROBOT, YOU LEARN A LOT. 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[email protected] Features 3 Contents: Editors comments. News Views Audley Community News celebrates for the expertise of our new recruit, Chris Sports its 30th issue of the magazine and to Tunnicliffe, our graphic designer who Recipes celebrate we have included four extra has brought a new look to the magazine Memories from the past colour pages to this issue. Where has and has also designed our new Web Poetry & Rhyme the time gone? I can’t believe we have site. Recent events: “It’s Good To Live Forthcoming events published so many issues. Your parish in Audley Day,” was a credit to all School information magazine has readers from all parts of the hard work done by Ron Bourne and Readers letters the world and it’s a link to former people all his helpers at the Audley & District Bereavements from the parish. It is a way of allowing Community Centre. It just proved what Printed at Alsager Printers. people to keep in contact, just to say can be achieved with a little effort to Editor: E. Moulton hello and rekindle friendships. It is always promote our parish. Myself and Sue Tel: 01782 721565 pleasing to read our readers letters and were the representatives of the Audley Assistant Editor: Sue Wykes to receive an email of thanks for bringing Community News on the day and it was Reporter: Margaret Pointon back all those lovely memories; as the lovely to see so many people who visited Proof Readers: Linda Coleing Editor I get a great deal of satisfaction the event. I would finally like to wish all Margaret Pointon from this. Audley Community News is our readers a Very Merry Christmas Design: Chris Tunnicliffe run by unseen volunteers, who give their and a Very Happy New Year. time freely. We are now most grateful Kind regards E Moulton / Editor Bryan Carnes, Miles Green resident, Audley Library. can be seen with his MBE award On Wednesday 22nd September 2010 which he received in October 2010 at Audley Library had one of the big trees Buckingham Palace during the Queen’s removed from its car park which had Birthday Honours List, for services to stood there for many years. The car business. park has also been resurfaced. For the past 27 years Bryan has been Chief Executive of the North Staffordshire Chamber of Commerce. These small things He has overseen the transformation do matter so much. of the organisation with membership We often hear so many negative things increasing threefold during that time. about people, but when kindness is seen The Chamber has 1000 member we need to speak out. As a member of companies, employs 45 people and has the Audley Mothers Union who provide a coffee morning each Friday morning, at an annual turnover of £3 million plus. St James Church Hall, where the helpers Its principal activities include helping all wear Mothers Union Badges with new businesses to start, promoting pride. To my despair after walking home export and lobbying on behalf of North after a recent coffee morning I realised Staffordshire’s business community. that I had lost my badge. This was very As well as supporting local businesses, special to me as it had belonged to a Bryan has also served on the Board of very dear member who had passed away. the British Chamber of Commerce and You can imagine just how upset I was. regional bodies. Thinking the worst, knowing how small Additionally, Bryan has also been this item was I thought that was the last Queen’s involved in other local organisations – I had seen of it. Maybe this seems a he is a past President of Audley trivial event to some, but unknown to me Cricket Club, past Chairman of someone had in fact found my badge on Birthday Governors of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth the pavement in Wereton Road and he Form College and is currently a Trustee had remembered that Jill Washington Honour of the New Vic Theatre, where he was a member of the MU and tracked chairs the Audit Committee. her down to try to return it to its owner. Bryan was accompanied to So two weeks after I had lost it we were Goes to Chief Buckingham Palace by his parents, reunited once again. This could only Charles and Doris, by his wife Jean happen in a village like Audley. Executive. and by his eldest daughter Eleanor. Thank you. Valda. 4 Readers letters Audley Community News Dear Editor. I recently stumbled upon a picture from one of your publications during a Google search for something else and then accidentally lost it. It was a local knowledge quiz question. What was it and where was it and the clue was a religious connection? I suddenly realized it was the house that I had lived in for twelve years from 1991. Could you please dig out the photo and I’ll fill in some of the details? I am talking about Chapel Barn, on Shraley Brook Road in Halmer End seen in the original photograph right. When I bought it, half of it had been converted into a house in 1991. It was advertised by Louis Taylor Estate Agents as a “Chapel/ Barn Conversion”. We rebuilt and finished the property and my family never came up with a better name so it just became…... Chapel Barn. The history of the property is mostly second hand as told to me of that, but it hasn’t moved very much moved on. By 1965 the congregation and by the locals, so apologies for any since 1900!!! So what is it doing here so support had dwindled away and sporadic inaccuracies. This picture shows the far away from the village? Well it wasn’t maintenance was left to volunteers until original house which became a religious then. Old photographs and maps show finally (I have a copy of a transfer from meeting house and was constructed a row of terraced houses and allotments the Church Commission) the building around 1816. To the left is Chapel Farm just opposite up towards Halmer End and was sold off to Chapel Farm next farmhouse and across the back are the I am told that stone cottages existed on door for £250!!. The vestry extension farm outbuildings (all still there). Although the Chapel side of the road too. Over was demolished and the building was the picture shows a brick frontage and the years the houses were demolished subsequently used as a barn and a coal porch to the building, the side and rear or fell over but the Chapel survived. I and haulage business for 25yrs before walls were stone and were three feet restored the inscriptions to the stonework an attempt to turn it into a house.