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INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Controversial Plans For Parish Opencast Nature On A Busy Street by Val Pearson Sucessful Chritmas Market for Village When I Was A Lad by Jack Cross communityAudley news ISSUE: 39 MARCH 2013 DONATIONS WELCOME Your local Newsletter to service the needs of the people from the parish of Audley. ‘Sunset over Great Oak” Photograph by Tom Dunn [email protected] 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 Swan’ Chapel Street Bignall End The Stove Linda & Paul are your hosts Emporium ‘COMING SOON’ Sports Bar with Snug GLUTEN FREE OAT CAKES & Pool / Darts / Dominoes SAUSAGES NOW AVAILABLE Teams required see Linda or Paul Quality local & home reared Refurbishment completed by end of March BEEF, LAMB, Bar Food will be available when completed PORK & POULTRY. Real Ales - £2.75 per pint Local free range eggs. 6 Guest Beers available 3 - Ciders ‘STOKE MATCHES LIVE’ 01782 722432 01782 720622 56 Church Street, Audley. [email protected] Features 3 A Very Happy New Year Contents: We do hope you all enjoyed the festive season and are now looking forward to 2013. News Our magazine now enters its tenth year of publication when in June 2013 we will be Views publishing our 40th issue; what a milestone. Sports I have to give thanks to all the volunteers who come along and give their spare Recipes time to help us publish our parish magazine. Without their valued support we Memories from the past would have never come this far. There must also be a very big thank you to all the Poetry & Rhyme people and groups who give us financial support and donations; we are so grateful Forthcoming events to you all. Feedback from readers is always welcome and we are more than happy School information to publish a varied array of information and events. If you need to promote your Readers letters voluntary group or club, all you need to do is contact me. Editor E Moulton Bereavements of the local police officers. This has Police Surgeries Editor: E. Moulton Police surgeries are now available at proved to be a most successful for both Tel: 01782 721565 village Post Offices. As we all are aware police and local residents. In 2009 an most of our local police stations have invitation was given to the Halmer End Address: been closed over the past number of and Bignall End Post offices to join the 23 Wood Street Bignall End Stoke on years, due to the cuts in government scheme. This scheme is now up and Trent Staffs ST7 8QL spending. This has restricted the running for local residents to use. opportunity for our local police to make Audley Post Office meetings Assistant Editor: Sue Wykes contact on a one-to-one basis with local are held on the 1st Tuesday of each Reporter: Margaret Pointon residents who may be concerned with month 10am-11am. Proof Readers: Linda Coleing local policing policies and issues. Bignall End Post Office Margaret Pointon As far back as 2005 Ian and Anne meetings are: 2nd March / 4th May Design: Chris Tunnicliffe Wilkes, of the Audley village Post / 6th July / 7th September / 2nd Office, invited the local police to use November at 10am-11am. Printed at Rowtype of Milton. their premises with the blessing of Halmer End Post Office the Post Office as a meeting place for meetings are: 6th April / 1st June / 3rd Remember you can subscribe to this local residents to call in for a chat, or August / 5th October / 7th December at magazine, contact the Editor. to arrange to speak by phone with one 10am-11am. Audley Conservation Area Review and Management Proposals The Parish Council, Audley Millennium Green Trust and Audley Newcastle. Once adopted by the Council the documents Locality Action Partnership have been working together will be supplementary to the Borough’s Local Development with the Borough Council’s Conservation Officer to review Framework and help to inform on planning decisions in the Audley Conservation Area and put forward proposals for the Area. improvement of the Area. A local event will be held in March where residents and Conservation Areas have been designated on a national scale interested parties can come and share their views about the since 1967 and in order that the concept is not diluted, it is review process. important that all areas are regularly reviewed to ensure they are still special in an architectural and historic sense. If you want to make any representations on these documents please write to the Civic Offices, Merrial Street, Newcastle The review aims to look at the buildings and features of or email [email protected] special interest and identify any issues which might threaten Deadline for comments is end of March 2013. them, also taking account of changes which have occurred in the last 36 years since the Conservation Area was made. For Please visit the website for further information on this or example, does the boundary of the Conservation Area cover contact the Conservation Officer or the Parish Council. everywhere it should, or should some parts be deleted if they are no longer considered special enough, perhaps due to Louise Wallace, Conservation Officer 01782 742408 unsympathetic changes over the years. www.newcastle-staffs.gov.uk/conservation *********** We are now asking the local community what they think Clare Withington, Audley & District Parish Council Clerk on of the proposals and you can see the documents on the 07901 692414 Council’s website or at Audley library and the Guildhall in [email protected] Disclaimer: The publishers of the Audley Community News do not endorse or guarantee any products or services advertised, or agree with the views or opinions expressed by contributors. Responsibility cannot be accepted for factual errors, omissions, or spelling mistakes. To advertise or to submit items for publication call 01782 721565 or you can e-mail audleycommunitynews@ yahoo.co.uk 4 Features Audley Community News The Life and Times of Jack Cross These will be a series of short stories written by Jack of his life’s memories from a boy when living in the village of Miles Green. Cross who came from Shropshire and the seventh child of George and Edith Northamptonshire respectively. Ann Cross of Miles Green, Staffordshire. Growing up in a coal mining area had One of my earliest memories was a profound impact on my father’s life, when I awoke in the Bradwell isolation leading to a lifetime interest in the hospital at Chesterton, near Newcastle- coal industry and is part of our family under-Lyme, Staffordshire aged 4 years history as it provided employment for old. I had my fourth birthday whilst in four generations. My father describes the hospital. their way of life during this period which There had been an epidemic of can be similarly compared with other diptheria and I had been infected with working class families of those times. it. I can vividly remember the wax They endured hardships and sorrows floors in the hospital and moving around but had the love and understanding them in my stocking feet when I was of their large families to help them getting better. FOREWORD through. I can still smell the pine disinfectant Nonetheless, they did find joy in lots used when bathing. Mostly though, For as long as I can remember my of ways especially in their pastimes I remember the medicine, it was a father always had stories to tell of days and social activities and were part of a golden straw-coloured fluidy medicine gone by. They were usually funny community with strong fellowship. and I would love to know what the anecdotes of his early life; I never brand name was, ‘Paregoric’ comes to tired of hearing them. His memory History, particularly family history, has mind, but I must find out. for details such as names and events always intrigued me and no doubt my I was given cascara and you always was phenomenal. Even though he father’s tales of bygone days were a big had bread to help get it down. Any wrote his memoirs in the early part of influence on this whilst I was growing food was not easily swallowed as it was his retirement as a keepsake for his up. Family history benefits enormously difficult to get it past my sore throat. Of children and grandchildren; I have now from stories like these being passed course, bedside visits were not allowed transcribed my father’s memoirs and from one generation to the next and if but I can remember my mother and stories trying to keep true to his word. recorded become a wonderful resource father looking in through the window at The book has evolved from the to gain a closer insight into our me. The year would be 1919 and to tell original concept with the inclusion of ancestry, not just bare facts and figures. you of the times, best farm butter was 5 more information from my father and The stories live on and we are left with bob (shillings) a pound. my keen interest in family history. We a valuable legacy. have entitled the book “When I Was I came home to a wonderful welcome, a Lad – Growing up in Miles Jayne Denham only to be a bit catty and a complainer.