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T: 01782 20 40 60 Open 7 days a week 9am-5pm (10am-4pm on Sundays) WE WILL BEAT ANY LOCAL WRITTEN QUOTE FROM STOKE TO STONE 15,000 copies delivered to homes & businesses in Clayton, The Westlands, Westbury Park, Thistleberry & Trentham ST4 5RW LT Garage Doors as heard on Visit our Showroom that has over 35 working doors on display Electric Roller Doors • Sectional Doors • Up & Over Doors Side Hinged Doors • Insulated Side Hinged Doors Gates, Trellis Grills & Sun Awnings • Spare Parts & Repairs Unit 9 Norton Industrial Estate, Bellerton Lane, ST6 8ED www.ltgaragedoors.co.uk [email protected] 01782 533552 01785 748001 07973 572574 TO ADVERTISE IN THE NEXT ISSUE PHONE KERRY 07511 452 598 3 WHERE CHRISTMAS KICKS IN You’ve been waiting for this all year, finally the festive season is kicking in at intu Potteries, with their festive display where a white Christmas is guaranteed, walkabout Santa and carol singing. Whether customers want to catch a Christmas children, snapchatting the elves and ringing his movie, have fun together with friends or do a bit bell. Make sure the little ones have their wish of festive shopping, they can do it all thanks to lists ready as we have our Santa letter writing our later-night opening which kicks in with our stations at our festive display. Thursday late nights from 2 December. Opening We would like to invite local choir groups to hour details can be found on our website at intu. entertain our shoppers over the festive period. co.uk/potteries or by picking up a Christmas Email us at [email protected] for leaflet in the centre. more information and an application form. Join us in the middle mall where you can sit in Let friends and family pull a cracker on a great Santa’s sleigh with our two fluffy reindeers and take selfies to share with family and friends. gift this Christmas with an intu Gift Card, the gift We’re guaranteeing a white Christmas this year, of choice for savvy shoppers. Give them the gift courtesy of our magical indoor snow fall. Young of over 70 shops and restaurants and let them and old alike can enjoy watching the snowfall get the gift they really want. every 20 minutes until Christmas Eve at our Sandrine Rutter, marketing manager at intu festive display. Potteries said “Christmas really has kicked in Our walkabout Santa is here each weekend at intu Potteries with lots to do for all the family from the 14 November and then every day from including our festive display, snow, Santa, carol the 16 December until Christmas Eve greeting singing and our newly opened games room.” 4 JUNCTION 15 Wine Wisdomwords by Tom Hancock Which wine should you choose? We are a family run business with over 25 year experience in the carpet and flooring industry I was always a bit hazy about which wine to serve with which food. They didn’t teach that sort of thing at our local comprehensive. Then one day a WE SPECIALISE IN CARPET, chef friend explained that far from being an elitist concept it was simply VINYL, LAMINATE FLOORING about marrying flavours that blend well or complement each other, much like cooking. I managed to get her to distil her wisdom into this handy guide. & LUXURY VINYL TILES. Whether it is a bargain roll end Fish Vegetarian food ROLL STOCK or a quality brand give us A delicate fish dish calls for a delicate wine, There is a misconception that vegetarian from £6.99 mtr the chance to impress you such as Pinot Grigio. If the fish is more food should only be served with white wine. with our friendly robust and served with a rich sauce, it will But medium reds, like Merlot work well knowledgeable require a more full-bodied flavoursome white with lots of vegetarian dishes, particularly like Chardonnay. Salty seafood marries tomato-based recipes. service. surprisingly well with champagne. VINYL STOCK Cheese board from £8.99 mtr Chicken or Turkey Some cheeses go better with red, some Choose a full-flavoured white, like a with white. Sauternes and Stilton are a white Côtes du Rhône, or a delicate red, perfect match, while Chardonnay works well such as a Frappato. with brie. A dry Rosé is a good all-rounder. Remember, the main rule is to pair the Juicy red meat characteristics of the dish with the characteristics of the wine. So, a buttery For beef or steak a rich red, such as a sauce will work well with white a wine Bordeaux or Cabernet Sauvignon will work also described as ‘buttery’. well or even a Rioja. ROLL ENDS Spicy dishes Experiment and enjoy! FROM These require a spicy wine. Look for a £99 Malbec, Syrah or Shiraz will all hold their own. If the spicy food is vegetarian, then a dry Riesling will pair well. Unit 1 Heathcote St, Chesterton Newcastle under lyme, ST5 7EB 5% (IN THE OLD GOODMANS CARPETS BUILDING) discount when quoting Tel 01782 229257 Mob 07368 636389 J15 Email [email protected] @castlecarpetsnewcastle 6 JUNCTION 15 And obv on the December one wed like, WE OFFER: ● STUDENT DISCOUNT The Natural ON PRODUCTION OF I. D. ● CONCESSION PRICES History of EVERY DAY ● FATHER & SON PRICES Staffordshire AVAILABLE EVERYDAY Mon- 9:00 - 5:30 by Robert Plot, 1686 Tue - 8:00 - 5:30 Wed-8:00 - 5:30 A Merry Christmas & a Thu-8:00 - 5:30 Fri-9:00 - 5:30 Happy New Year to all our customers Sat-8:00 - 3:30 Robert Plot was the first professor and Hanley green, whereof the blew Later, he records what was known Sun-closed of chemistry at Oxford University. clay burns the whitest.” about the castles in the area. The from all the staff at Sweeney’s Barbers He was also the first keeper of the How local people used iron was first being a ‘Castle of Chesterton Ashmolean Museum. of great interest to him as well. John under Lyme’, which was decaying 2 Pool Dam, Newcastle “The Natural History of Holland, the master of forges at both as long ago as the reign of King Visit our Facebook page Staffordshire” was Plot’s second Keele and Newcastle is mentioned as Henry 3rd” (we now know was a to see our Christmas Opening Times 01782 611061 book (after his The Natural History of one of two “master frying-pan makers Roman fort). He says that there was Oxford-shire, 1677). His books are in the kingdom”. He could make nine nothing left of the castle but local written in old English which can be frying pans at once! people told him the walls were of a tricky to read. Plot holds Thomas Wood of “marvellous thickness”. They give us a fascinating look at Newcastle in high esteem as the first The second being the site of the life in Newcastle-under-Lyme in the tile maker to “burn them (which we New-Castle (on Silverdale road) 1600s as he toured Staffordshire may look upon as an Art relating to which was built “in the midst of a recording all the wildlife he came fire) in a Potter’s Oven.” This made great poole”, and how there was little across. them hardwearing for use in the left during his visit. Interesting finds include flying garden as they could “endure not Some of the links to glow-worms spotted by the “learned only the perpetual moisture of the Staffordshire’s ‘natural history’ are and ingenious” Ralph Sneyd of earth, but frost, snow, and all sorts perhaps a bit tenuous as he goes Bradwell; and the “Gross-beak” birds of weather.” into great detail describing the use “kill’d somewhere about Madeley- He also writes about the local of a scolds bridle in Newcastle – an Manor, and now in the possession felt-making industry, where they iron cage that fits over the head with of the virtuous Madam Offley, a made use of wool from sheep grazing a mouthpiece to quieten gossiping Lady that has an excellent artifice in on the Staffordshire Moorlands for women! preserving birds.” children’s hats. As we have very little written local Plot was interested in how local He tells us about an odd cart history from the 1600s, his book people used the natural materials used at Dimsdale to move hay holds some interesting insights about around them. “made only of two strong pieces of the area. For instance, Charles Riggs, of timber dragging on the ground, and By Clare Griffiths Newcastle, “…makes very good pipes a thripple behind, with which they Brampton Museum Collections of three sorts of Clay, a white a blew, could carry pretty parcel of Hay or Officer, Newcastle-under-Lyme which He has from between Shelton attny such like commodity.” Borough Council 8 JUNCTION 15 TO ADVERTISE IN THE NEXT ISSUE PHONE KERRY 07511 452 598 9 PREMIUM Your Local Bed and KITCHENS ALL KITCHENS Your Local Bed and 25% off & BEDROOMS Carpet Specialists Carpet Specialists fitted before 31st March 2020 Call or e-mail for a FREE ‘No-obligation’ quote All kitchens shown have been designed/supplied/fitted by MEESON KITCHENS SALE NOW ON It pays to lay the Bowyer way! 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