May 2010
Monthly Archive
Weekly News – 23 May 2010
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We have a great night’s entertainment this Thursday evening, 7.30pm on 27th May at the Salem, as it’s our old friend David Bartley with ’An Evening of Black Country Banter and Poetry’. Now appearing with the likes of Ken Dodd etc, David hosts most of the Black Country evenings in all of our local areas and is certainly a night not to miss.
Most welcome visitors this week at our base were Marion and John Fallon from Liverpool tracing their Dace family tree and connections. We were able to pool our knowledge together and then supply them with the missing information they were looking for through our local records. Base is open as normal this Tuesday from 10am – 4pm.
We have received an entire collection of Brass Plaques, Awards and Momentoes from a Vintage Cars and Bikes enthusiast from rallies he attended from the 1950s to the 1980s.
Also we have copied a 1929 book entitled ‘The Wyrley Stones’, that relates to the finds of a local miner William Rigby who kept all the fossils he found in a lifetime down the pit and he opened a museum in a shed adjoining his house when he retired in 1922. We are now appealing for information on the Rigby family and the remarkable finds.
Weekly News – 16 May 2010
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We are giving a talk at Glenthorne Primary School on Wednesday this week on the ‘Second World War’. Also the Bridgtown &DLHS are holding their first AGM at the Bethel Chapel on Wednesday morning at 10.30am. All potential new members are welcome.
More photographs from the old families have been forwarded to us to be copied and they include the Broughs, Davis, Pearson, Horton, Nicklin and Heminsley families. All are available to be seen at our base at the rear of the Salem any Tuesday from 10am – 4pm together with all of our 5000 plus photographs.
An interesting family history request has been received connecting the Dace, Goodfellow and the Ridgeway families which we are currently researching.
A fascinating newspaper report from the 1920s has also turned up on the misdemeanours of some well known local names including William Roe, Cyril Parsons, Joe Hodson, Clifford Smith, John Pratt, Andrew Allen, Harry Lockett, William Leach, Harold Thomas, Baden Newell, and William Savage. We will be only too pleased to issue full details on request – all free of course.
There will be a 40th Anniversary Reunion of the 1st Cheslyn Hay Boys’ Brigade on Friday October 8th at 7pm at Old Wyrley Hall in Olde Hall Lane Great Wyrley. Tickets are £6 which includes light refreshments and can be obtained from Pam Ball on 01922 415067.
trevor.cheslyhayhistory@talktalk.net
Weekly News – 9th May 2010
Posted by admin on 10 May 2010 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
Our House Researcher Darren Butler is giving a free talk on House History at our Coffee Morning this Thursday morning in the Lecture Room at the rear of the Salem at 10am.
We are giving a talk at the Lakeside Residential Home on Monday on the topic of ‘The Good Old Days’ and we are providing a photographic display of Cheslyn Hay Carnivals on Saturday and Sunday 15/16 May at the Cannock Chase Museum. Plus a talk and display at Glenthorne Primary School on the ‘Industries of Cheslyn Hay’ on Wednesday afternoon.
This week we have been presented with quite a remarkable British Legion Official Programme and Order of Service commemorating the visit of Ex-Servicemen of the Great War to Staffordshire, but what is unique is the signatures on the programme. They include the Earl of Harrowby, leading dignatories from Poland, Greece, France, Italy,Bulgaria, a couple of Lord Mayors and Great Wyrley’s Colonel WE Harrison.
Tickets are now printed for the Anglo Saxon Hoard talk by County Archeologist Ian Wykes on 24th June. Proceeds go to the Anglo Saxon Hoard itself and tickets are £2.50 each. Normal price for this talk is £5 but we are limited to the Salem capacity of 120 tickets and sales are going well. Tickets can be bought or reserved by phoning 01922 414772.
We have donated £50 for the Salem appeal for repairs to their ceiling and the church would appreciate any further support for their fund raising events and donations throughout the year.
Five weeks into our current year we now have an incredible 194 members, which will easily surpass last years membership of 208.
All visitors are welcome at our new base at the rear of the Salem through the iron gates but easy access can be arranged through the main doors by phoning 01922 414772 in advance.
Weekly News – 2 May 2010
Posted by admin on 05 May 2010 | Tagged as: Home - Newsletter
A coach trip to Chasewater has been organised for Thursday June 10th starting at the Salem at 9.45am. It includes a visit to the Chasewater Railway Museum and a light snack before a midday return. £3 per person and please contact Jim Brevitt on 01922 – 414863 for bookings.
Nine more visitors this week at our New Base, mainly working on research, and we are open this Tuesday 10am – 4pm which will include the setting up of the Hawkins project to catalogue the activities of Hawkins Colliery, Brickworks and Tileries on behalf of the Cannock Chase Museum.
Since mentioning the Staffordshire Pasttrack website we have had an incredible 140 viewings of our old photographs in the month of April – about three times as many as normal. They were of Albert Hawkins shop (55), Britannia Picture House (41), Salem Chapel (13), High Street (10), Wootons Post Office (10), Walter Hackett’s shop (9) and Garrett’s shop (2). New photographs received are of Streetway House that was owned by the Noden family and was demolished for the Toll Road. Photographs and news items included in theis week’s News concern Kath Reeves (nee Brough), Mrs Hicken, Mrs Baker, Tom Brough, Mary Ann (nee Wedge), Vivienne Davis, Christine Wilcox, Sarah Brough
and Mrs Jellyman.