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Staffordshire memories

Colwich Football Team

My father, James E Bond, captained the Colwich Swifts for at least two seasons, and the team won the league in 1949. Jim played at Right Half. This memory was shared by Jim's friend Bill Fox.
A memory of Colwich contributed by Margaret Curtis

Summer Holidays

Great Haywood, the Square 1956

I was born in Brewery Yard, Great Haywood. After the war my mum moved to Notting Hill, London, so in the summer holidays my sister and I would stay at Nan & Grandads in the village. Mum {Eileen Bailey} played the piano in the Fox & Hounds, Stubbs's were the local butchers. I spent a few months at the local school, during the Notting Hill riots. We would come on our own by train, { it was safe in the 50s} then a bus to Shugborough Park, and would walk across the park lugging a rather large suitcase, which my dad had put handles on each end to make it easier for us. I remember going to the pictures in the ...read more here
A memory of Great Haywood contributed by Christine Pitcher

A 1950s childhood memory

Great Haywood, the Square 1956

I have very fond memories of Great Haywood during the 50s as my sister and I went to stay with our grandmother during the school holidays. We lived near to the centre of Manchester and so to visit this village in the 50s was like entering another world.
Grandma lived on the outskirts of the village in Tolldish Lane and she was quite a reclusive lady. Her husband had died in 1952 and because her cottage was not in the village as such, she kept herself to herself.
The photo, I believe, is of the post office in the village which was kept by a Miss Yelland. My sister and I, and of course grandma, would walk down to the ...read more here
A memory of Great Haywood contributed by Anne Forster

The Clifford Arms

Great Haywood, the Clifford Arms c1955

Ahh, The Drinking Hole!
A memory of Great Haywood contributed by Simon Allen BMus. (Hons)

Extracts From Little Haywood & Staffordshire books

Little Haywood, High Street c1955

Along with Great Haywood, this village was where the inhabitants of Shugborough were relocated, as their own village was gradually absorbed into the parkland surrounding Shugborough Hall.
An extract from from"Staffordshire Photographic Memories".

Little Haywood, Meadow Lane c1955

Looking down the lane, towards Cannock Chase, note the railway bridge which carried the line between Colwich junction and Macclesfield. It was built in 1848-49 by the North Staffordshire Railway Company (nicknamed the Knotty after its emblem the Stafford Knot), to link local services to the main London line at Colwich. The house on the right has been demolished.
An extract from from"Stafford Living Memories Pocket Album".

Little Haywood, River Trent c1955

This view of Weetman’s Bridge, looking upstream, shows the pedestrian refuges above each pier, as on Great Haywood’s Essex Bridge. Before this bridge was built, the Trent was forded at this point then. In 1830, a wooden footbridge for pedestrians was erected, but cattle and carriages still had to pass through the river.
An extract from from"Down the Trent Photographic Memories".

Little Haywood, view from the Chase c1960

In 1418-19 John Glasman of Rugeley sent glass to York Minster, and recent excavations nearby have revealed the remains of several glass furnaces dating from the 14th and the 16th centuries. During the 1950s the Chase was declared an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and as these last few photographs have shown, it has been a popular place for recreation.
An extract from from"Stafford Living Memories Pocket Album".

Little Haywood, Seven Springs c1960

Cannock Chase was originally a royal hunting forest before being sold to the Bishop of Lichfield. By 1560 it was owned by Sir William Paget, who developed an iron smelting industry and deforested much of it for fuel. As we can see here, there has been much replanting during the 20th century, first with conifers and later with mixed woodland.
An extract from from"Stafford Living Memories Pocket Album".