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Kidsgrove news THE FREE LOCAL JOURNAL DECEMBER 2012 No. 118

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The swimming pool at Kidsgrove Sports Centre has finally re-opened after being closed for over a year but residents are being warned ‘use it or lose it’.The pool was forced to shut last Autumn when the roof was damaged in a storm. Repairs were delayed and ex-tra essential repairs to the electrics were discovered, taking the final bill for repairs to nearly £200,000.

The re-opening was marked with a weekend of free events to get resi-dents and users back into the habit of using Kidsgrove Sports Centre for their swimming activities.

But now there is a ‘use it or lose it’ warning to Kidsgrove residents. The Sports Centre is owned by Staffordshire County Council and was opened in 1976, and was last refurbished in 1999. Now 36 years old the centre is considered to be at the end of it’s life span. Despite the repairs the Centre’s long term viability remains in doubt though following a report which has revealed that it will cost millions to bring the facilities up to a satisfactory standard. The report states that “The centre requires a sizeable subsidy and due to the current range of facilities and general condition of the building, it fails to provide a quality experience, by

Kidsgrove swimming pool re-openscomparison to the council’s other leisure site.”

Three options have been identified to bring the facil-ity up to date: replacement at a cost of £6 million, full refurbishment at a cost of £4.5 million or a reduced refurbishment costing £2.5 million (giving around 12 years of extra life but not including the outdoor pitches).

While the report states that the Council remain com-mited to providing quality sports facilities in Kids-

grove there are at present no known short or medium term sources of funding. A long term route may be through sales of land which would become available if the school is rebuilt under the Private Finance Ini-tiative on a smaller footprint, but the government are not due to start discussions with the school until 2015.In the meantime sources of funding to maintain the current range of facilities need to be indentified and residents encouraged to use the fa-cility to bring in revenue. The report states: “The immediate success of the centre now relies on sufficient numbers of swimmers, gym and class users returning and using the facility and the avoidance of further building failures.”

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Tree of LifeTesco store in Kidsgrove are displaying a ‘Tree of Life’ for Christmas.Customers can fill in a star to place on the tree to remember those who have passed away and won’t be here this Christmas. A small donation to cancer research uk is made, Tesco’s chosen charity for the year.

All the stars will then be taken to the local church and blessed. Please come along and sup-port this great event to remember family and friends at this time of year and support cancer research uk.

Kidsgrove’s best gardens A Kidsgrove resident has been declared the owner of the best garden in Newcastle-under-Lyme for the sec-ond year running.Jan Ratcliffe is a gold medallist and the winner of the residential gardens category in the Newcastle in Bloom competition. Her garden in King Street is described by judges as a “joy to explore”. Jan gathered with green-fingered gardeners at the New Vic Theatre in October to hear the results of the summer contest, which is run by Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council as part of Britain in Bloom.St. Thomas’ Primary School in Kidsgrove won the community projects (schools) category for the second year thanks to pupils’ knowledge and enthusiasm about plants and wildlife.

The Victorian Christmas Market and Christmas lights switch on will take place on Saturday 1st December 2012 in Kidsgrove Town Hall.The market starts at 10.00am and promises again to offer a great range of festive stalls and charity stalls. It will be officially opened by the Town Mayor Mrs Gill Burnett.

Victorian Christmas Market and Christmas lights switch onSanta will be in his grotto to listen to your Christmas wishes and bring a bit of Christmas magic to the children.As well as the stalls there will be plenty of festive refreshments available with tea, coffee and mince pies on sale. Christmas carols will be sung by local school choirs to enhance the Christmas atmosphere. The Christmas lights will be switched on at around 4pm by Santa.

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Nine weeks ago the Friends Group opened the Pavil-ion Cafe on Sunday mornings mainly for the football teams playing in the park. This venture has been a

great success. On the 3rd November we opened the Cafe for the Fire-works Display and raised much needed funds. Visitors enjoyed the oatcakes espe-cially as well as hot soup.

We are in the process of or-ganising events for next year and hope they will be as successful as those held this year.

One event which was enjoyed by many youngsters was the Staffordshire Wildlife one which involved youngsters in bug hunts, craft and sports. Upwards of 150 youngsters attended and we hope to put this on next year.

Friends of Clough Hall ParkApart from the Cafe project we have now arranged for a wood carver to carve birds and animals on the top half of the tree on the mound and when funds are available the broad area at the base will be carved to depict the past industry of Kidsgrove. We decided to do this after we had seen the wonderful carvings at Parrotts Drumble just off from Freeport. This forest is well worth a visit.

Thank you to everyone who supports us. If you would like to be part of the Group please contact Mary Maxfield 01782 784335.

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Get into the Christmas spirit early at the Winter Warmer Beer Festival, one of the highlights of the beer drinkers calandar.

A large selection of real ale and cider, food available throughout the festival which is to be held on 13th, 14th and 15th of December. FREE ENTRY and a warm friendly atmosphere is guaranteed! Opening times: Thursday 13th and Friday 14th December 5.00pm -

10.00pm. Saturday 15th December from12noon. All proceeds from the event will go to Junior development at the club.

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Christmas is a time of giving, but you don’t want to give yourself a New Year debt hangover with credit card bills and loans you can’t afford. Our top tips can help you stay out of the red and in control of your spending.:Be realistic and budget accordingly. Work out how much

you are going to spend on each person – and stick to it. Remember that rent, the mortgage, utility bills, food bills and other existing debts still have to be paid – and the consequences can be severe if they’re not. Even though it’s Christmas, get your priorities right.If you do need more money, don’t just run up an overdraft without talking to your bank first – it will work out much more expensive.If you can afford to pay for your goods outright by cash, cheque, or debit card, don’t be persuaded to take out extended credit agreements unless they really do work out cheaper.Shop around for the best price. Buy what you want and not what other people say you need. Whatever the deal, whatever the temptation, don’t buy from unauthorised traders and don’t borrow from unauthorised lenders.Check for hidden extras in any credit agreement. Work out the total amount payable and ensure that the monthly installments are within your budget be-fore signing. If you’ve borrowed money don’t forget that it won’t be long before you have to make a payment. Make sure you pay on time, even if it’s only the minimum, or you will be faced with additional charges. Put the payment dates in your diary.

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Bill Careless, Diamond ChampionIn the WRVS’s national search for Dia-mond Champions, celebrating the role of older volunteers, 90 year old Bill Care-less of Clough Hall Kidsgrove was one of 60 in the Midlands Region chosen from 4,500 nominees to receive a Diamonds Champion Pin specially commissioned by the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall patrons of the campaign, for his outstanding voluntary work in the community.The presentation took place on Wednesday October 17th at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Birmingham where Canon Sharon Palmer MBE, CEO, WRVS West Midlands Region presented each Diamond Champion with their Pin, a certificate signed by their Royal Highness’s is to follow. Bill was accompanied at the ceremony by Cliff Poole Chairman of the Congleton Road Community Centre who nominated Bill on behalf of the committee with the following testimonial supporting his achievements and selection.“On his retirement from work in 1987 Bill volunteered to help his wife Joan who was at the time the secretary of the W.R.V.S. Community Centre in Butt Lane Stoke-on-Trent.His first duties were as a driver delivering meals on wheels to local elderly residents, which he did for 9 years until the W.R.V.S. lost the meals on wheels contract and the centre was taken over by a committee of trustees and became the “Congleton Road Community Centre.The centre then started a weekly Friday luncheon club in conjunction with the W.R.V.S. and Bill continued to be a regular helper, first transporting members to the centre, then serving meals, calling bingo and washing dishes before transporting members back home.For the last 10 years he has run the Darby and Joan club every Thursday afternoon, again often transporting members to and from the meetings.He started organising a Tuesday evening Whist Drive to raise funds at his children’s school P.T.A. and continued until they left school, the evening was so popular that he transferred it to the centre where he is now in his 50th year of running Whist Drives He has also been the Assistant Treasurer, Bookings Clerk, and Caretaker, opening and closing the centre for occasional social bookings at the centre for 25 years.Having lost his wife 6 years ago Bill continues to provide all these services with a quiet ef-ficiency always with a smile on his face, never looking for praise or thanks and we feel at the age of 90 in October he surely deserves to be recognised for his selfless service to the Centre and the community”.

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Religious Education Trip to Cadbury WorldIn October a select group of year 10 GCSE Religious Education students made a trip to Cadbury World in Birmingham, highlighting the role of the Cadbury family in their work during the late 19th century.Students learned how the Christian Quakers used their beliefs in God and their under-standing of the Bible to provide both work and accommodation for the people in and around area the village of Bournville. It grew throughout the decades to the present day where it now houses over 25,000 people. The Cadbury family have been hailed for their work in providing above and beyond what is required and are now held as a way in which all businesses could be run. Students throughout the day were exceptional showing superb behaviour, especially in light of more rowdy groups there on the day. Everybody certainly enjoyed two help-ings of melted chocolate along with three other chocolate bars!

Kidsgrove Youth ParliamentMaryhill High School’s newly elected members of Kidsgrove Youth Parliament with two representa-tives from every year group. You can find out more about the Youth Parliament initiative at: http://www.ukyouthparliament.org.uk/. Run by young people, the UK Youth Parliament provides oppor-tunities for 11-18 year-olds to use their voice in creative ways to bring about social change.

Open EveningOn Tuesday 4 October, Maryhill High School held our annual Open Evening to enable prospective students and their parents to come and have a look around our school. Visi-tors were able to take part in a variety of exciting activity workshops for every subject including “Skills for Life” in Technology, visiting a “French Café” and taking part in “Exciting Experiments” in the Science labs.

‘Pink Week’ The week of 19-26 October was ‘Pink Week’ where a variety of activities organised by the students were held and raised over £1,200 for breast cancer. These included sales of cakes, ribbons and bracelets, sponsored silences and dying of hair, “Gangnam Style” dance-off and a student fashion show.On Friday 26 October, all staff and students were invited to the school hall to take part in ‘The Big Sing’ where everyone sang the Beatles classic, “All You Need Is Love”. Mercedes Benz of Stoke brought their fabulous race car to the school where students and staff made a donation to have their photo taken in the car. Mercedes Benz have kindly agreed to match the money made from the car.


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SMSC DaySMSC Day is in reference to ‘Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural’ development. Stu-dents came in non-uniform, paying a £1 ‘fine’ to charity for the privilege. A wide vari-ety of SMSC related activities, such as informative and practical talks and workshops, took place throughout the school.

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Harvest Festival: The Autumn term not only saw a change in weather, but more importantly the beginning of the Harvest Festival, and our annual Harvest Box collection. Thanksgiving ceremonies and celebrations for a successful harvest are both worldwide and a very ancient aspect of Chris-tianity. Following this philosophy, Clough Hall students celebrated this year’s Harvest Festival by creating and

decorating Harvest Boxes, filled with an variety of foodstuffs such as fresh fruit and vegetables, as well as tinned and packet foods. Students then attended a service of thanksgiving, led by Vicar Iain Baker, of St Thomas’ Church, Kidsgrove.The Harvest Boxes were loaded into the school minibus, and distributed to residents of local care and retirement homes. Students personally delivered 67 boxes to: The Meadows, Ravenswood Care Home, Maryhill Day Care Centre and Hollinswood Care Home. All the residents were delighted to see the students, and couldn’t thank them enough for their generosity. You have done yourselves proud, well done!

Olympic star comes to Clough HallMeeting an Olympian is, for many, a dream. For students in Year 8 and in Year 9 at Clough Hall, this dream was turned into reality on Monday 15th October. Ross Davenport, three times Olympian and twice Commonwealth Gold medalist, came to the school as part of the Aspiring Minds support programme which was designed by the Dame Kelly Holmes Legacy Trust and was funded by GE Energy (10 volunteers from GE Kidsgrove came to school to support dur-

ing the day). Ross addressed all the students at the start and the end of the day, and he worked with each and every one of the 156 students in one of five workshops.

Across the curriculum…As part of the Magazine Project, all pupils in Year 8 visited The Apollo cinema in Staf-ford on the 17th October 2012.For both their Creative Arts and English assessment, students will be writing a film review based on the action packed adventure ‘Hugo’. This trip, therefore, provided an excellent opportunity for students to not only enjoy watching the film but to also develop their analytical skills as film critics.

Kidsgrove Youth ParliamentThe KYP (Kidsgrove Youth Parliament) elections at Clough Hall have been more successful than ever. This is the second year since the KYP was set up by Councilor Stringer. Students from year group’s eight to eleven were asked to stand for election, if they wished to be KYP rep-resentatives and have their voices heard in the local area.

Elected KYP representatives for 2012 are:

Year eight: Wesley Griffiths, Dylan Adams and Gregory Bowman.Year nine: Callum Lovatt and Alexandra Burke.Year ten: Liam Brookes, James Carter and Jordan Cooper.Year eleven: T’Elanna Douglas, Rebecca Maxfield and Ben Cressy.

Congratulations to all of the new and existing Clough Hall KYP representatives!

Finally…As we approach Christmas, there are a range of exciting events currently being planned for staff, pupils and the community. We look forward to a happy festive season and a successful 2013 here at Clough Hall School.

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Royal British Legion The Royal British Legion are once again holding a Christmas Concert in the Town Hall Kidsgrove pre-senting Roberts Bakery Brass Band along with the City of Stoke on Trent male voice choir.The concert takes place on the 8th December, admission £5, tickets available from Ken Jepson, 86 Stonebank Rd, 01782 785608; Mrs Barnett 9 Hillary Rd, 01782 785990. Doors open 6pm, concert commences 7pm bar provided.

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Back to the Movies is a movie advertising site based in Kidsgrove that promotes the latest blockbusters and smaller independent films.It was set up by Sean Evans who started off with a movie YouTube page showing props that have been used in films. At the same time he was col-lecting videos from celebrities. It quickly ex-panded into interviews with celebrities who had sent in videos such as Jeremy Bulloch who plays Boba Fett in Star Wars and Dick Warlock who played Michael Myers in Halloween. It soon snowballed into Sean getting involved in marketing independent and studio films. Back to the Movies have now been involved in countless films including the new American Pie Reunion (interviewed the director and met Thomas Nicholas from the film), Six Degrees Of Hell which stars Cory Feldman, as well as upcoming TV shows and Web Series. To see the latest films Back to the Movies are involved in see www.facebook.com/BackToTheMoviesPage or twitter.com/Bck2TheMovies.

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Forty six members of the Congleton Road Community Centre user groups attended a party at the centre on Sunday 28th of October to honour three 90 year olds.

Grace Gilbert 90 in August, Sid Whalley 90 in September and Bill Careless 90 on the day, all who have regularly attended the weekly Thurs-day afternoon Darby and Joan club since their retirement, clocking up a combined 95 years attendance.The occasion was also used to recognise the

services to the community of Vera Bradshaw who has been on the committee for 15 years, 6 of them as the secretary. She has also served for 12 years as a helper with the Darby and Joan club, 12 years with the WRVS Luncheon club, the last 2 as the leader, 7 years serving tea and coffee at the Stoke Rep Theatre, several spells as Chairperson of both the Talke branch and the North Staffs Federation of the Towns Womens Guild committees and was also a founder member of the Kidsgrove C.A.B. voluntary service that deserves the “Certificate of Appreciation” which was presented to her on behalf of the committee by Cliff Poole, Chairman.The evening was a resounding success with everyone enjoying a running buffet fol-lowed by a couple of quizzes, then after much persuading 6 ladies and 6 gentlemen enthusiastically took part in a Gareth Malone style “mock audition” for the best Community Centre Choir competition which caused much amusement and was followed up with a good old sing along by everyone.

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Neighbourhood Policing Team Report by PC Dave WoodwardKidsgrove Police

The work in the Town Hall in now complete, the Neigh-bourhood Officers for Kidsgrove will take up residence there. The enquiry office function operates from a counter in the one stop shop at the rear of the building. The dedicated Police desk is the end desk furthest from the entrance

(the far left as you are facing the counters) and is staffed by a member of Police staff. This will allow members of the public to visit the Police Enquiry desk to report is-sues, hand in lost property just as before. The enquiry desk will maintain the same opening hours as before, Monday to Fri-day 9am to 5pm. There is a facility for the officers to conduct some interviews in a private room without the need to attend custody. If you need to post anything to Officers at Kidsgrove the address will now be Kidsgrove Police Post, The Town Hall, Liverpool Road, Kidsgrove, ST7 4EH.

Newcastle Police Station has completed its move to offices located within the Council Civic Offices, Merrial Street, Newcastle. For Newcastle though the en-quiry office is located in the Guild Hall Building on High Street, Newcastle. The move into the Guild has meant a change in opening hours to operate alongside the Council staff and is now Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.

Christmas Crime PreventionAs the festive season approaches we want you to all play your your part in keeping crime to a minimum. All it needs is for you to look after your own property. Please avoid leaving items on display in your car this includes carrier bags, plain boxes. If they are visible it costs the thief nothing to break in to check what is in them, if it’s nothing of value you now have a damaged car for nothing. Lock items in the boot out of sight. It is the same with your home don’t place valuable or expensive looking items near to windows, ensure doors and windows are locked.

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budget. You may be required to provide a specimen of breath, so for your own and everyone else’s safety make sure your vehicle is up to scratch, wear your seatbelt and don’t Drink and Drive.

All the officers and staff at Kidsgrove wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Crime Free New Year. PC Dave Woodward

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KIDSGROVE TIMES WITH PHILIP LEESE

Back in summer - yes, you do re-member, when it was really cold and we had all that heavy rain - I had to leave you all halfway round a walk round that part of the Manor of Tunstall that included Kidsgrove, as described in 1719. We got as far as the “end of Bath Lane.” I presume you’ve all been waiting there for me, with damp anor-aks and clammy feet; well I’m here again to take you back to our starting point where I can dismiss any survivors of this historical (mis)Guided Walk.

We are now on land “which belongs to Hol-linwood, Mr. Taylor’s. So, down Taylors Bath to Clough House Bath and under the wood where formerly had grown an old hedge to an holly & elme in that field.” I think we’re leaving the present Peacocks Hay Road, roughly where the southerly Bath Pool Car Park is and strolling towards Bath Pool. At the time Samuel and William Taylor were the tenants of Hollinswood Farm and Clough House, the old farmhouse which was demolished to make way for Clough Hall in 1800.

They were doing a bit of lawbreaking too, having been recently accused of “breaking soils and getting coal…in the lane in Kidscrew in Rain-scliffe” so the boundary walkers in 1719 might have had to be careful

not to fall into any newly dug coal-holes. I could wish that the early ramblers had men-tioned more permanent features, like Bath Pool, say, in their tour rather than mention-ing old hedges and elm trees which have long since disappeared.

I’m going to veer left before we meet Bath Pool and head towards Hollinwood Farm (now marked only by Farm Pool) and along the western edge of Clough Hall Park, partly because I’m suggesting that the wood we walk ‘under’ is the one which still partially straddles the ridge between Bath Pool Valley and Clough Hall Park. The beeches on the slope above the present rugby pitches and the wood round Clough Hall Lake and alongside Boathorse Road look to me as if they have been there for centuries.

The itinerary takes us “down the waterside by the farther brook to the lower corner of Bankcroft and by the waterside on the west side of the Island at Hardingswood, which divides Staffordshire and Cheshire & comes to the Parish of Lawton.” The best sense I can make of this is that we are following the

stream which flows down part of Carriage Drive into Farm Pool, then reappears alongside the boundary of Clough Hall Park, before disap-pearing under the houses of Grove and then Fifth Avenue. This brings us

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KIDSGROVE TIMES WITH PHILIP LEESEnicely to Hardingswood, though I am puzzled how it could have had an island in 1719, when the two canals which now make part of it fit that description weren’t actually built till the 1760s and 1820s,

What I am sure of is that there is an ancient boundary stone (now made inaccessible by railings) near the present Colour works, on a small spur between two streams. One of these probably comes from the Gloucester Road direction, so to follow our next instruction we’ll all have to go across Liverpool Road, under the railway bridge, and left off Gloucester Road to follow a rough track. This takes us, I hope, to “the Barnfield belonging to Moss House” (on Knowsley Lane.)

We’re now definitely heading for Mow Cop, despite the fact that the boundary keeps following ‘old watercourses’ and past features named for people long forgotten, like Cowley Yard and Hodgkinsons Meadow. But we eventually arrive “in the Lane at Hall Lee ( i.e Hall o’Lee.) and go up it to Mole End.” It sounds as if we might bump into Ratty, Mr. Toad and Badger any minute, but in fact, Mole End was the old name for Mount Pleasant. I hope you still have strength in your legs because we’ve now got to get up that particularly nasty steep slope “to a spring called Woodcock’s Well, and from thence to the top of the hill.” We can’t go wrong here! No mention of Mow Cop Castle, of course; it’s still 30 or so years before it was built. We stagger on “along the top of the hill to a cross road which comes in by a little house in the upper corner of Roe Park.” Roe Park Farm and Wood are still there, as the road which is the border of the Parish of Biddulph. Here we turn south again “to the head of Richard Podmore’s land” where we meet the boundary of the old township of Stadmorslow, and so “to the head of the lane leading from Mole to Harrishay Head.” (I’m afraid at this point some walkers may give up and opt for the bus stop in Church Lane, or the easier walk along Sands Road back to Harriseahead, but we determined boundary beaters stride off across the fields again - William Dale’s Meadow, Rough Piece

and Beechs Croft, “all along the Kidhay stones” (now, I wonder what they were, and what happened to them!). We then reach “Mole Com-mon” and go “down betwixt the Kidshay House and Peter Blackhurst’s and down the side of Kent’s Croft onto John Kelsall’s land.” Oh dear, so many forgotten names, and where did Mole Common go to?

The last section of our walk is another welter of old names, and Caus-eyend with, in the middle of it a stretch of the “lower end of the Har-rishays.” This field, which gave its name to Harriseahead, was between High Street and Long Lane, so if we’re at the lower end of it, we are coming along Long Lane, except that we have to leave it for more fields and streams to first Lamberhays and then, at last, the bottom of Knac-marills. We stagger up the east side of it, and we’re back where we be-gan, somewhere in Packmoor. The survivors croakily cheer. Somebody says, “ I think the rain’s giving over at last.”A bit of a strenuous day. Sorry about the weather and the muddy patches, but we’ve learnt that old watercourses used to be valued boundaries, and that the familiar names we give our surroundings can change drastically over the years. Back in 1719 all the jurors who had walked the bounds then put their names to the document and, if they were anything like me, adjourned to the nearest hostelry, say the Grapes at Newchapel, for a well-earned drink. I feel in need of a little something myself even after writing this, let alone walking it.

And here’s a good idea for all those who may need to walk off some Christmas calories: how about doing this walk for real? No, there’s no need to phone and ask me to lead you - just tell me how you got on af-terwards. That’ll do nicely, thanks, especially if you can identify Knac-marill Lane for me.

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Joseph Edwards & Sons have been op-erating as a fam-ily business for 130 years making them one of the most es-tablished names in

the area. Joseph and his sons were builders and joiners and as joiners they made the connection to funeral directing by making cof-fins. In those days there were no chapels of rest, mortuary fa-cilities or hearses and limousines.In the late 1800’s when someone died it would have generally been at home and the body stayed in the house until the day of the funeral. The coffin would have been made and taken to the house where the body laid at rest in the front room. There was no cremation option which meant on the day of the funeral the coffin went by wheel bier to church and then to the grave.How times have changed! They now have modern offices with lounge areas, peaceful chapels of rest, modern mortuary facili-ties and a garage which houses our brand new fleet of funeral vehicles including a private ambulance, hearse and limousines.

Joseph was followed into the business by two of his sons, Frank and Tom. They were later joined by Frank’s only son Joe. Joe was also a joiner by trade but had a real passion for sport, he was a county cricketer and a right half for Stoke City, Frank stopped him turning professional at Stoke because he believed Joe should “work for a living!”Joe ran the family business until his premature death at the age of 60, for quite some time he had been working together with his youngest son Andrew and following Joe’s death in 1987 Andrew took control. Andrew is now backed by a team of very professional and highly trained staff, Melanie Preece is business administrator and also oversees the monumental masonry side, Robert Mel-ville is the funeral manager along with his assistants James, Richard, Paul, Mike, Richard, Fred, Bob, and secretary An-gela.No one knows exactly what the next 130 years holds for Joseph Edwards & Sons, but one thing is certain, in this day and age where many funeral firms are owned by either co-operatives or large national and international companies, it’s reassuring to know that at a time of need you can entrust your requirements, however small and simple, grand or unusual to a firm of inde-pendent family funeral directors run by local people in a caring and supportive manner.

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to take into account the reduction in the number of local issues passed to our organisation. Over the coming months we will be looking into ways of ensuring the Clough Hall Residents Association is proactive in ensuring the needs of the residents are met and that the success of the association continues into the future in some form. Our WEB site will continue to provide up-to-date information on local issues, SPAM alerts, Neighbourhood Watch bulletins and ‘Friends of Clough Hall Park’ updates. If there is anything that you think should be under-taken by the association in the future, your comments would be most welcome.Our next meeting, to be held on December 4th, is our Christmas event and buffet and this year we will be entertained by members of the Clough Hall School Choir.Finally, we wish you a happy Christmas and New Year and if you live in the Clough Hall area and haven’t yet at-tended one of our meetings, make it one of your New Year resolutions to check out our WEB site for details of our plans for 2013.Meetings are held at Hollinwood Sheltered Housing, Hollinwood Close 7.15pm. for 7.30pm start. Details of the next meetings will be shown on our WEB site and published in Kidsgrove News in the near future.

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Our October meeting took the form of an ‘Open Meeting’ giving residents the op-portunity to put questions to some of our local councillors and hear what impact the forthcoming budget cuts and financial restraints imposed by Staffordshire County Council would have on the community.Questions raised were diverse in nature, but focused on the Kidsgrove and Clough Hall area; these included such issues as :-

Problem of illegal and inconsiderate parking on double yellow lines in Kidsgrove.Traffic obstruction in the Avenue as the result of parked cars.Concerns about the state and safety of several un-occupied properties.Is there a definitive plan for the development of Kidsgrove town centre?What percentage of the council tax collected by NBC comes from Kidsgrove residents, and how much is spent on Kidsgrove ?

The councillors were thanked for so ably answering our questions.. for a full report see our WEB site.The Residents Association was formed in 2005 to address the many local prob-lems and concerns of the residents of Clough Hall at that time, and with the help of Kidsgrove Police, Newcastle Borough Council, our Councillors and numer-ous other organisations a positive impact has been made to resolve these issues. A spin-off was the social aspect of the meetings, helping us to get to know our neighbours, which was helped by guest speakers, quiz nights and various other events. We have been conscious for some time that our role now needs to change

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SportThe Rotary District Snooker competition reached its conclusion in October and Kidsgrove held on to the Snooker Trophy after beating fellow opponents Dudley Rotary Club 5 – 4 in the final played out at Riley’s Snooker Rooms, Stafford.The winter sports season is now under way and Kidsgrove meet Endon & Stockton Brook in the second round of the 10 Pin Bowling competition at the Etruria venue.Kidsgrove play Burslem Rotary club in the Table Tennis competition and have started this year’s Snooker Competition by playing against Tunstall Rotary Club at the Tunstall venue in November.

SocialThe club will be visiting Apedale Mining Museum on Tuesday 27th Novem-ber. A party of approximately 30 Rotarians and Friends will be preparing for a trip underground followed by a visit to the outstanding museum.

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Bonfire & Fireworks DisplayThe Rotary club was bitterly disappointed at being unable to organise the Bonfire & Fireworks Display at Clough Hall Park this year due to the ex-tremely stringent requirements imposed at the last minute by Staffordshire Police and Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council. The display was organised by the funfair proprietors Warwicks in the end, meaning that the town missed out on more than £4000 of charity money which Rotary puts straight back into the community. We plan to run it as a charity event again next year and we hope that the people of the town will support us.

Annual Reindeer Collection The Annual Reindeer Collection gets un-der way at Birchenwood on Saturday 1st

December. This puts Santa Claus under a lit-tle pressure as he is also needed at the town’s Victorian Christmas Market which starts at 10am on the same day. However Santa has as-

sured us that he will be at the town hall ready to start at 10am prompt where he will be in at-

tendance until the Christmas lights ‘Switch On’ at approximately 4pm. Bring the children along for a chat with Santa where they’ll be able to enjoy a lollipop and small present off him. We are very pleased that we have been able to add an extra Reindeer Route so that we can bring the festive spirit to even more people this year. The new route takes in the Jamage Road and High Street area of Talke Pits. Santa will be in that area on the evening of Monday December 3rd.We have also added an extra collection at Tesco meaning that we will be there on two consecutive days. Santa and his helpers will be at Tesco on

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The Rotary Club of Kidsgrovetend their thanks to everyone for your continued support. We wish everyone in Kidsgrove & District a really great Christmas along with our very best wishes for the New Year ahead.President Howard Turner, members, partners and friends will be celebrating-Christmas at Peck’s superb restaurant in Astbury shortly before the Festive break.

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Join usIf you would like anymore information about any of the above or if you would like to have more information about helping Rotary or becoming a member of the club then please contact Howard Turner at: [email protected] or [email protected] or Ted Butler on 01782785272 or on the clubs website at: www.kidsgroverotary.org.ukNews Editorial: Hon. Secretary Ted Butler PHF

Reindeer Routes for Christmas 2012Saturday 1st December: Birchenwood to Millers View………..……9amSunday 2nd December: Kent Green to Lawton Avenue……..….3.15pmMonday 3rd December: Talke Pits Village……………………….......…6pmTuesday 4th December: Newchapel Road to Maryhill……….……...6pmThursday 6th December: Mount Road to Parklands……….……......6pmFriday 7th December: Whitehall Avenue to Boathorse Road.….....6pmSaturday 8th December: King Street & Market Street……….........9amSunday 9th December: Rookery to Harriseahead…………..…....3.15pmMonday 10th December: Spring Bank to Mount Pleasant………....6pmTuesday 11th December: Clough Hall to Springfield Close………..6pmThursday 13th December: Vine Bank Road to Whitehill….……...…6pmFriday 14th December: Chatterley Drive to Shakespeare Close....6pmSaturday 15th December: HOME BARGAINS………………….............9amSunday 16th December: Harriseahead to Whitehill……………...3.15pmMonday 17th December: Woodshutt Street to Mitchell Drive….....6pmTuesday 18th December Cedar Avenue to Maple Avenue……..……6pmThursday 20th December: Unity Way to Wedgwood Road…..........6pmFriday 21st December: Monument Road and Talke Pits……..……..6pmSaturday 22nd December: ALDI……9amSunday 23rd December: TESCO….10am...4pmMonday 24th December: TESCO…..9am…1pm

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Town Mayor’s Report Gill BurnettWell here we are, over half way through the year as the Mayor and I am still as busy as ever.

I can’t believe how fast the time has passed and I am enjoying every second of it. Over the last couple of months I have attended a number of functions ranging from presentation evenings, meeting visitors from afar and a 1940’s Dance.

On 25th September it was time for the annual Kidsgrove Allotments Awards. I was proud to present awards to the local tennants who were receiving recognition for their hard work over the last year.

The ‘St Margaret Ward Presentation Evening’ is held annually at the Vic-toria Hall, Hanley. It was a wonder-ful evening and such a pleasure to see how hard all the younger gen-eration work to achieve such high results.

On the 9th November we were hon-

oured to receive a whirlwind visit from a Canadian academic, Professor Andre Kuczewski, a very interest-ing gentleman who was visiting our town to see various places of interest including Reginald Mitchell’s birth place in Butt Lane.

We offered him our best hospitality and provided Staffordshire Cheese

Oatcakes and English Tea while he admired our beautiful Kidsgrove Victoria Hall and the bronze ‘Regi-nald Mitchell Commemorative Plaque’ in the main hall.

The hall was festooned with Union Jack bunting and WW2 memorabil-ia in preparation for the 1940’s Re-membered Dance held on Saturday 10th November and looked brilliant.

Then one of the highlights of the year, the 1940’s Dance at Kidsgrove Town Hall on the eve of Remem-brance Day. Poppy Drop and all. A fabulous night was had by all.

There are also some up coming fundraising events, it would be great to see as many of you there as possible.

On Saturday 1st December from 10am to 4pm Kidsgrove will be holding its yearly Victorian Christmas Market and Christmas light switch on at the Town Hall. There will be something for everyone from stalls, raffles, hot food and of course you can’t forget a visit to Santa! It is re-ally a great festive family day out.

Next on Friday 7th December from 7.30pm I am holding a Seasonal Choir Concert at St Thomas Church The Avenue. Kidsgrove Commu-nity Choir will be performing both Christmas carols and other popular songs. Tickets are £5 and are available from Kidsgrove Town Hall and St Thomas’ Church.

Lastly don’t forget the Deputy Mayor is holding a New Years Eve Dance at Kidsgrove Town Hall on 31st December Tickets are £10 Adults and £6 for children and are available from Kidsgrove Town Hall

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Christmas to all our customers


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Christmas wishes to all our clientsGift vouchers available

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Many thanks to all who entered our last Crossword Competition. The correct answer was ‘HALLOWEEN’. First correct reply to be picked from the bag was from Mrs Evans of Church Lawton who wins a £10 gift voucher which she has chosen to spend at La Bellas - congratulations! This issue we are again offering a £10 voucher to be spent in a shop or business advertising in Kidsgrove News (please state on your reply). The first correct answer drawn on January 7th 2013 is the winner. Just complete the crossword and re-arrange the letters found in the shaded squares to make a new word, send your answer on a postcard with your name, address and telephone number to:- Good News, 128 High Street, Harriseahead, Stoke-on-Trent, ST7 4JX. Answers to last crossword:- Across: 1. Wheat 4. Maize 9. Puzzle 10. Hammer 12. Care 13. Sow 14. Diet 17. Harvest 22. Oboe 23. Fry 24. Loot 27. Barley 28. Frosty 29. Grain 30. Spell Down: 2. Hazard 3. Ails 5. Adam 6. Zombie 7. Speck 8. Wrath 11. Convert 15. Hay 16. Use 18. Hobby 19. Horror 20. Fossil 21. Stays 25. Peri 26. Crop

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Prize Crossword Competition Down2. Fruit is A GONER (6)3. Sharpest fruit by a MILE (4)5. PARE tree to make home for a partridge at Xmas (4)6. It’s a puzzle how to make the earth fine (6)7. LACES could be key to musical order (5)8. EG. SEE them laying on the 6th day of Xmas (5)11. REV LOVE up and gets in spin (7)15. Discover barrel BUT comes back (3)16. To imitate is monkey business (3)18. I leave VIDOES for birds on the 2nd day of Xmas (5)19. CAME IN from picture house (6)20. PREP IS done so they can play on the 11th day of Xmas (6)21. They go for a swim on the 7th day of Xmas (5)25. Considerate classification? (4)26. Go to the LOOS alone (4)

Across1. She can be prickly when leaves? (5)4. Extra PEARS (5)9. Uses CHARISMA aimlessly to cast spells (6)10. Golfers assistant DID ACE! (6)12. Use GLUE when making a sled (4)13. Marrriage ceremony cut short by return of DEW (3)14. Find good beers in the SALE (4)17. Santa’s guide on foggy nights (7)22. Leave it out as I’M TO confused (4)23. Holly’s friend who can be poisonous? (3)24. Have an opinion of the scene (4)27. With DIY LEE makes protective eye covering (6)28. MEND OR keep up to date? (6)29. IS MAD they have to milk on the 8th day of Xmas (5)30. Brag about mixing up the BOATS (5)

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24 Kidsgrove News December 2012 Advertising/Editorial Telephone: 01782 513663 Published by: Good News, 128 High Street, Harriseahead, Stoke-on-Trent, ST7 4JX

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wish all our customers a Merry

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Always the Best Prices on Beer and wine

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