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.

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