Following my last quarter’s editorial, which was picked up by the Black Country Bugle, we received a very interesting letter from Maurice Pearsall from Stafford.  Maurice and his family were the last owners of the Plant & Nook Colliery’s.  So many thanks to the Black Country Bugle for reaching a much bigger audience than we normally do and to Maurice’s for taking the time to get in touch and we will be following it up to make a record of his memories of the area.
With the railways celebrating the 45th anniversary of the “Beeching” cuts to the national network – I have also included an extract from Ray Hallworth’s interesting information on The South Staffordshire Railway – yes we did have a local railway company.  The cuts saw the closing of the Cannock and Great Wyrley stations and the line from Rugeley to Walsall, along with many mineral rail links.
The annual exhibition was a great success again this year with lots of interest in the family tree research section.  We hope we were able to give many of you a chance to make a start on your own family trees.  We would still like to hear from you if you are having difficulty getting started or need any other help.  Please let us know.
This year’s photo book “Happy Days” has been very well received and is selling extremely quickly – so if you haven’t got a copy yet please hurry as stocks are now limited.
Many readers like the mystery photo we regularly feature on the back page.  But did you know we have lots more photo graphs featured on the web site.  If you have internet access or the family are having lap tops for Christmas why not get them to show you the web site and have a look at the photos.
On behalf of the committee can we wish all our members and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

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