INSIDE THIS ISSUE: New Parish Cemetery Refurbished local Cricket Club Local groups make charitable donations Success for local youth football team Audley Forthcoming Parish Events community news ISSUE: 29 SEPTEMBER 2010 DONATIONS WELCOME Your local Newsletter to service the needs of the people from the parish of Audley. Staffordshire Local Community Fund Cover picture ‘World Cup 2010’ by JOSHUA GATER from Richard Heathcote Primary School Year 2. [email protected] EDITOR: E Moulton 2 Advertisements Audley Community News MIXED GRILL PACKS AND BBQ PACKS NOW AVAILABLE Quality local & home reared BEEF, LAMB, PORK & POULTRY. Local free range eggs. 01782 722432 56 Church Street, Audley. Potteries Building Supplies The Royal Oak Monday to Thursday 4pm to 11.30pm. Friday-Saturday 12noon to 12pm. Sunday 12noon to 11pm. Your local Bar snacks. 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Audley Brass and the expensive holidays to find the sun when Poetry & Rhyme Ladies Choir will be there performing Forthcoming events at last its here on your door step. and many more of our activity groups Issue 28 was received well by School information will be on show, so please come along Readers letters our readers and we continue to try and give them your support. Bereavements to improve the quality each time we If you have events to promote or Printed at Alsager Printers. publish a new issue. The editorial team information to publish please contact Editor: E. Moulton of this Newsletter would welcome local the Editor either by telephone, email or Tel: 01782 721565 information from all around the Parish by post at one of the following: 01782 of Audley for publication and value input 721565 or audleycommnitynews@ Assistant Editor: Sue Wykes from our readers. yahoo.co.uk 23, Wood Street Bignall Reporter: Margaret Pointon “It’s good to live in Audley” is a new End, Stoke-on-Trent ST7 8QL. We do Proof Readers: Linda Coleing event being organised by Ron Bourne, hope you enjoy your read. Margaret Pointon Chairman of the Audley & District E Moulton Editor. Design: Chris Tunnicliffe The Editor of the Audley Community take this opportunity to thank both Staffordshire News, Ernie Moulton, is seen on the left Staffordshire County Council and Local Community receiving a Local Community Fund Councillor Cornes for their help Award from Audley County Councillor, during its application. Fund Award Dylis Cornes, at the Audley Community If you are a local voluntary group Centre in July 2010. The Staffordshire who are looking for funding you can obtain an application form by going to: Local Community Fund is provided to www.staffordshire.gov click grants, each County Councillor to distribute to or by contacting your County Councillor groups within their area to help with Dylis Cornes at: 01782 720289 local projects. Audley Community News Or email to: will be using the funding to help provide [email protected] a new computer and software to assist them in producing their magazine. Audley Community News wishes to Saturday morning. Bottles and can and maybe help to persuade people to Early Clean up other debris had accumulated with the take their rubbish home with them. advent of spring and its lighter nights, If you wish to come along any by local group therefore club members decided to give Saturday morning at around 10 am, the area a clean sweep. Over half a you will find club secretary Rob at the Members of the Audley Parish dozen bin bags full of rubbish were entrance of Leddy’s field at the end Bowmen spent early May of this year in collected. The Bowmen rent the woods of Hall Street Audley, just past the a clean up operation of the woods and from the Parish council which enables Audley Theatre. We would love to nature area at and around the area them to follow the sport of Archery and see you. If you wish to have more known as Leddy’s Field. they have seen an increase in litter over details please contact Rob on: The Bowmen hold Field Archery the past year. They hope with this clean 01782 721731. sessions at Leddy’s Field on each up to encourage visitors to the area and 4 Readers letters Audley Community News care for the patients are very kind and without knowing what was behind the caring. I wish all care homes were like archway. I spent all my school holidays this one. with my grandparents in Diglake Sadly Barbara has Alzheimer and Street and many more over my adult does not remember her past, but with life. It was very interesting to read the daily visits from family, old photographs background of this building, it’s great and news from Bignall End from your to hear preservation instead of the excellent Audley Community News, we constant demolition of old important bring back some memories for Barbara. buildings as is such the case these Many thanks to our cousin Avis days. If you recall I met you a few years Hughes who sends me A.C.News and ago with a reference to an article in your Linda, Claire, John & Ruth of Diglake magazine regarding the memorial jugs Street, Margaret Whitmore, Mrs Martin from the Diglake Mining Disaster. Dear Editor and Nancy Hassall who regularly ask I am now attempting a family tree I enclose a photograph of my aunt Avis about my aunty. It means so much and would love to have anything in print Barbara Hiscocks with our Town Mayor to her when I tell her about her former about the Johnson family and their on the occasion of her 90th birthday in neighbours. former members of the family. I would March 2010. I have recently received your be pleased to hear from any of your Barbara was born in Diglake Street, latest issue of the A.C.News and was readers who may help me in obtaining Bignall End and lived there until March pleased to see the article on the “Old any family details. 2009, when due to ill health she came Coach House” as I too watched this If any of your readers have details I to live in the Nursing Home in our village programme on T.V. and had great would be pleased if they would contact in Wales. It is a well appointed home pleasure working out exactly where the Editor of the magazine who has my in a woodland setting, she is very well the house was in Audley, as I must details. Sheila Hiscocks (nee Johnson) looked after and the local women who have passed the entrance many times Bridgend. Dear Editor of the Rescue Team who helped at the was my dear late mum’s uncle, who Through your wonderful ACN I would Minnie Pit disaster, etched on all of the left behind a widow with a family of like to thank Tony Lancaster for the faces of these brave men told of how five young girls. My great Aunt Rose publishing of his book “Audley Through grave their job had been. I do have a Johnson never married again and Time”. What lovely reminders of how copy of the Memorial Service held in struggled as so many families did at that our village life used to be. Just picking connection with this terrible disaster time to rear them all on her own. She up on one of the photographs. The which I can supply if needed. did this with pride and all of her girls picture I am referring to (above) is that One of the men who lost his life were a credit to her. Pauline Ninnis [email protected] Readers letters 5 Back row: Alice Proctor, Millicent Morrow, Brenda Bushell, Jean Maddock, Irene Gibson, Hazel Maddock, May Rowley Front row: Gladys Rowley, Rene Cheadle, Joan Walker, Millicent Taylor, Nellie Cheadle, Jean Evans, Marion Barnett, Marjorie Cheadle, Kathleen Proctor. Dear Editor Queen at the Primitive Methodist back some of those lovely memories I was looking through some of my Chapel Audley. It is dated 1936 and the which I myself still have. old pictures and came across the one picture was taken in Maddock Street Kind regards. above of the Carnival Audley. Maybe it would help to bring Joan Brockley Bignall End. Dear Editor several evenings throughout the week, evenings and that is bad enough. I I read in the Sentinel newspaper perhaps a community post should be would not like to walk at these times! on 28th May 2010 that the police in re-investigated at the usual trouble Perhaps other villagers could give their Norton are to convert a vacant property spot. There certainly appears to be views on a permanent Community post into a “Community Post” to enable sufficient empty properties—or part in Church Street? neighbourhood police officers to spend properties available which would be Ray Rutter more time on their patch.