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Secretary: Anne Carter 01782 622183 Feedback—Big Lunch What was: - Chair: Geraldine Tatters 01782 766378 Good Basford & Cliffe Vale Resident’s Assocation Webpage: http://basfordcliffevale.wordpress.com/ Bad emal: [email protected] Please also visit our twitter and facebook pages Your Ideas

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Leaflets will be posted Let me introduce myself. I am new to the area, my husband and I moved here from Wolstanton at the beginning of February, but eager to contribute to and be involved in such a welcoming community. I live on Shelton New Road and work in Wilmslow as an IT Tutor for The Manchester College. I work full time but am happy to give some of my free time to support such a lovely community. I am married with 2 grown up children and 1 grandchild plus one on the way later this year. I have 3 dogs who we walk daily at the Grum and weekends at the soon to be refurbished community gardened Basford Park (more about this further in the newsletter). I am very proud to be Chair of the Residents Association and will do all I can to support the residents and businesses of Basford & Cliffe Vale, and surrounding Please give us your views on the facing page and areas. I think it is most important to foster partnerships with local and neighbouring businesses and residents alike. return to us at: - I look forward to meeting and working with some/all of you over the coming 452 Shelton New Road months at meetings (advertised in Newsletter and leaflet drops) and local Basford community events. Watch this space for summer get-togethers. Opposite Gilberts Furnishers Geraldine Tatters OR Chair, Basford & Cliffe Vale Residents Association WHY NOT BRING IT ALONG TO the big lunch Look out for: Other committee members introducing themselves in future issues Local History Feature Plans for Caption Competition

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Caption The building of the A500 dual carriageway and Queensway in the 1970s bi- sected the area, effectively making the Brick Kiln Lane area into part of Bas- ford, and blighting the run-down terraced housing that remained along Garner Street to the east of the A500. 160 residential terraced houses in Garner Street were demol- ished between 2002 and 2005, since they were deemed to be too near to the . This effectively removed the bulk of the residential population of Cliffe Vale. In the 1990s and 2000s the canal and towpath was regenerated for boaters and cy- Basford & Cliffe Vale RA Website clists, with the towpath becoming National Cycle Route No.5 and providing easy off- road access to Stoke-on-Trent railway station less than a mile away. http://basfordcliffevale.wordpress.com/ By 2007 there was a new 184-apartment canalside residential development on the defunct Twyfords site to the east of the A500. New housing developments mean that Facebook Page Cliffe Vale will once again have a significant residential population by 2008, of around 400 people living in an 'urban village' of upmarket apartments. Linked from main site Industry today consists of: Imerys, located on the Cliffe Vale rail terminal (aka New- Twitter Page castle Junction), which handles three freight trains per week of Cornish china clay and thus supplies most Stoke-on-Trent potteries with clay; a large timber yard and timber wholesaler; the making of hand-made oak furniture; a dairy produce processing unit; a small estate of light industrial units in restored Victorian train sheds of the for- mer North Railway. Major employers less than a mile away include the main campus of and the University Hospital of North Stafford- shire. At the eastern edge of Cliffe Vale is the 29-acre Hanley Cemetery (1860 to present- day), originally the south part of the grounds of Chatterley Hall. It is still an active cemetery, and is run as a nature conservation area. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliffe_Vale,_Staffordshire

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Basford & Cliffe Vale RA – Residents Association You are all members. Please come and get involved in supporting the activities of the community!

BTW—Litter Whilst it is lovely to meet and enjoy time with people on activities like Litter Picking Days. BCVRA would like to request that Dog Walkers, in particular, take part in a Litter Picking exercise with me. If all Dog Walkers took an extra carrier bag, as well as poop bags of course, and filled this bag with whatever lies in easy reach on your route, then there would be little need for Litter Picking Days!

Recent developments/achievements Basford Park Community Area success in first round of bidding process for funding to enhance our community greenspace ( see next page ) . Noticeboards Noticeboards to be introduced in entrance to Basford park. Exisiting Noticeboards outside Metz 521 / Basford Post Office and at Ford Street end of History the Grum ( F ord Street Play Area ) . Cliffe Vale is a district of the city of Stoke-on-Trent, and lies to the immediate south Promotions ofEtruria and just west of Basford and Hartshill. Cliffe Vale is in the valley of the , now better known as Etruria Valley. There are industrial and employment uses In general BCVRA would encourage local residents to use local businesses, along theA500, and new residential developments along the . The Shelton New Road (A53) passes through from east to west. The area is sometimes called where possible, in the interests of community prosperity and community Cliff Vale (with no 'e') by the city Council, and is part of the Hartshill electoral ward. cohesion. The Roman road called Ryknild Street passed directly through the Cliffe Vale area, al- though the exact route it ran along is unknown. Cliffe Vale takes its name from having been the 'Hay of Clive', part of a Norman deer hunting park that survived as such well into the 15th century. The lower Cliffe Vale section of the park - between Shelton Old Road and Eturia Road - was probably deforested sometime in the 15th century. The more elevated core of the hunting park became a landed estate and farm, and it is marked on the 1st edition six-inch (152 mm) Ordnance Survey map (circa 1860) as "Cliff Ville". The Hairdressing park survived into the 20th century as a large wooded area, now run as a local nature 01782 622700 reserve under the name of . The modern Hartshill Park overlooks the mod- ern Cliffe Vale area. 100 Victoria Street The Trent and Mersey Canal was cut north-south through Cliffe Vale in the 1770s. What is now the West Coast Main Line railway track was built in the mid 1850s. There was a Basford Cliffe Vale railway station, but this closed in 1865. In the Victorian era the area toward Stoke-on-Trent the canal specialised in carpentry, making wooden railway carriages at Cockshute sidings and narrowboats at the canal, while the area west of the train lines (Brick Kiln Lane) spe- cialised in brick making. A new ideal 'model' factory, Cliffe Vale Pottery, was built by T.W. Twyford in 1887, and his factory manufactured the world's first flushing toilets and other innovative sanitary- ware for over 100 years. The Twyfords works closed in 1994, and moved to a purpose- built factory at Alsager. The nearby sanitaryware pottery, established at the Excelsior Works in Cliffe Vale from 1912, closed in 2007 and moved to a new factory at Middlewich. This closure brought to an end 120 years of sanitary innovation at Cliffe Vale, innovations that rapidly spread around the world and which have changed the way billions of people live. The railway sidings and buildings at Cliffe Vale were used as the winter quarters for the world's biggest circus, Barnum & Bailey, from 1897 until 1911 when Twyfords expanded and the circus had to move elsewhere. Cliffe Vale today

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BCVRA have successfully won through the first round of bid for WIN A funding to improve community spaces and facilities in Basford FATHERS DAY Park. JACK DANIELS We need you and your feedback to progress this bid. GIFT PACK Please tell us what you want!

Discussion of various ideas for park improvements include :- • Waymarking for the woodland trail • Picnic benches • Bike racks • Barbecue sites • Interpretation boards • Community orchards – planting areas

Basford & Cliffe Vale RA are taking part in BCVRA would the big lunch like to thank The a nationwide community event to take place on Greyhound for their ongoing Sunday June 5th 12noon—3pm support All Welcome

Food Games Music Crafts Family Play Couples/Singles Residents/Non-residents Bring your own food/Share ours Veggie Curry Barbeque Drinks Crisps Cakes