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Uttoxeter Living Memories
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Stafford - A History & Celebration
Hardback
So You Think You Know? Stafford
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Amenities, the good old days, and they were!
Brown Edge was a brillant place to live, and I have fond memories of the village.
Perhaps in my youth I did not really appreciate what I had, the village store (Keiths), the butchers, Harrisons and Sammy Bratts., cake shop, Mountfords chip shop., the working mens club, the Holy Bush, the Lump of Coal and the Roebuck, what a selection and all thriving businesses, together with Turners buses, and of course the local youth clubs, Sandy Lane and Brown Edge Schools, just great.
As children we had a great time as we would go to the fields and woods to play, never damaging anything, it was safe and we would go for the day on our main school holidays, just enjoying ...read more here
A memory of Brown Edge contributed by Linda Mitchell
Would You Believe It
The young man on the outside of the pavement is me, the group standing in the distance are family members and the two on my right are demanding to know where I am going, as it happened I was going to see my Gran.
Did not know who the kids were and still don't but if you look at the picture my fists are clenched I was ready for a fight but they backed off, I still walk with clenched fists to this day!
If you took a picture in the same place today it would look very much the same, todays pictures would be in colour but then that is how we saw it anyway.
Best Regards ...read more here
A memory of Biddulph contributed by David Bailey
Evacuation
My brother and I, aged six and a half and five, were evacuated to Wetley Rocks at the outbreak of war in 1939. We only stayed for six weeks but the time is imprinted on my mind. We were billeted in a farmhouse which belonged to, I believe, the Ridgway family who lived in a grander house nearby, now demolished. Miss Ridgway lived there with her brother. Their father was a pottery manufacturer. The farmhouse had a room with a large table, covered in white crockery, and glass-fronted cupboards containing the same. There was a cowman who I think was conscripted but I was told that his name was Mr Moss and he was still alive in 1991. We attended the ...read more here
A memory of Wetley Rocks contributed by Joyce Sidebotham
evacuation
At the beginning of the war I was evacuated to Leek. I was only there until the Christmas but I remember going to school in a building called the Nicholson Institute and I stayed with some lovely people called Wagstaffe near Balls End Park. They had a shop where they sold and repaired watches. I remember that we used to go for walks on Sunday afternoons to Rudyard Lake.
Audrey Frost
A memory of Leek contributed by First name Last name
Extracts From Endon & Staffordshire books
Gazing up the street
past Wilks Teenage
Fashions (left) with
the Elkes Cafe above,
we can see Barclays
Bank. This was built
in 1921 on the site of
Huggins & Chambers,
an ironmonger’s. The
ironmonger’s sold
Witchem’s firelighters
among other products
- these must have
contributed to the
conflagration when
the building was
burned to the ground
in 1920.
An extract from from"Uttoxeter Living Memories".
The Old Talbot was built in 1527,
and is reputed to be the oldest
building in Uttoxeter. It survived
two fires which badly damaged the
town in 1596 and 1672. The coat
of arms on the inn sign depicts
its name: a talbot, or hound, was
the crest of the Talbots, Earls of
Shrewsbury. Recent renovations
have revealed more of the timber-
framed structure.
An extract from from"Uttoxeter Living Memories".
In 1642 Charles I was confronted on the approach to
the bridge by a contingent of Staffordshire residents
asking him to come to terms with Parliament. He
ignored their pleas. The new A50 bypass has meant
that the bridge is now an attractive stop on the
Staffordshire Way.
An extract from from"Uttoxeter Living Memories".
Here we see the kiosk
being used as a traffic
roundabout. The lantern
atop the building has
now gone. Here the
view of the kiosk is all
but obliterated by a
telephone exchange box,
a police telephone box
and the large road sign
which gives directions to
Stoke, Stafford, Rugeley
and the Uttoxeter Lido.
These have all since
been removed.
An extract from from"Uttoxeter Living Memories".
The original White Horse
pub can be seen behind
the war memorial; it was
demolished to make way for
the incongruous new 1960s
town planning building. The
new White Horse was itself
seriously damaged by fire
in 2004, when the roof and
much of the upper floor
were badly affected. The
original White Horse Inn was
built in 1830 and owned by
John Twigg; there were 24
pubs in Uttoxeter at that
time. An ancient market
cross with 24 steps once
stood at this site.
An extract from from"Uttoxeter Living Memories".