Cheslyn Hay & District Local History Society

More enquiries have been received this week for the Lockett and Russell family trees and we also have had good responses for both the Showell and Thomas families for their requests.  Also some interesting information for anyone with Moses Lockett in their ancestry.
Also received is a raft of photographs covering all different aspects of the village including The Lot cottages before they were knocked down, two ‘Now & Then’ of Mount Pleasant, some school photos from the early 1950s inc Pat Foster, Jean Bullock, Tina Farrington, Margaret Burton, Valerie Norman, Madeleine Wain, Pat Stokes, Janet Gunn, Mavis Round, Heather Havelock, Sheila Roberts, Joan Davies, Roy Peach, Barry Taylor, John Heminsley, Barry Simpson, Dolphin and many more unnamed.  Also some of Wedges Mills around 1954 with the haymaking in Nodens Field and of the Village Fetes.  Well known local names include Dawson, Rowe, Bibb, Osbourne, Jones, Lewis, Sargeant, Prosser plus many others.  We have also received a photo of Birds Row in 1959, the demolishment of the old houses at the Station Street end of Littlewood Lane and one of Floss’s Wool Shop.
Our base is open as usual on Tuesday 10am – 4pm.
trevor.cheslynhayhistory@talktalk.net

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Great Wyrley LHS have a Local History Open Day at the Great Wyrley WMC (now GW Sports & Social Club) on Walsall Road next Saturday June 19th from 11am – 4pm. We will be there together with other Local History Societies from Bridgtown, Burntwood, Pelsall and the Cannock Chase Mining Museum. We will have a scanner available so that any photographs will be copied on the spot. Also Ian Wykes talk on the Anglo Saxon Hoard is only a week away on Thursday 24th June and there are still a few tickets available at £2.50. Email or telephone me on 01922 414772.
We have had a few more family trees added to our Database this week. They are the Bradbury, Showell, Thomas, Dace and Goodfellow family trees but they also include the Whitehouses, Locketts, Russells, Bakers and Ridgeways.
We have had another donation from the Bale family and it is quite a remarkable Diary/Scrapbook entitled ‘Great Wyrley Secondary Modern School – 4th Year Journey to North Wales 1948′. Beautifully assembled it contains photographs, postcards, maps, timetables, drawings and written accounts by the boys themselves as well as Mr Bale. Entries are included from Graham Bennett, E Pearse, Colin Booker, Derek Smith and Ernest Thacker and we are appealing for anyone who remembers this trip, or if they know where these ‘lads’ are today. The book is added to the ‘Cuthbert Bale Collection’ and can only be viewed at our Base. More memories have been sent in from an old ‘Bomker’ who has been exiled for 45 years but he remembers ‘Coggers’ and the ‘Pretty Woman’s’ Fish and Chip shop and much more nostalgia.
Our base is open this Tuesday as usual from 10am – 4pm.
trevor.cheslynhayhistory@talktalk.net

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We have organised a Local History Fun Walk & Quiz for Friday 11th June to raise funds for the Cheslyn Hay Primary School. Only £1 each with teams up to six if required with 5 Sections with 5 Questions in each section including a photographic one. All questions are based on observations connected to local history, so that everybody, including any newcomers to Cheslyn Hay will all have an equal chance to win. It starts at the Talbot (the Dog) at 6.30pm and includes a short triangular walk round to the Colliers for more refreshments.
And the Coffee Morning coach trip to Chasewater takes place on Thursday 10th June leaving the Salem at 9.45am.
Had an interesting request from Surrey concerning the Russell/Lockett family trees and in particular Moses Lockett.
Please contact me if you have any information.
A batch of photographs of the 1977 Carnival has arrived this week with plenty of dancing bands but no names and we would appreciate any help.
On our Members Weekly News is a summary of the teachers from the 1950s/60s and interesting reading it makes. Incredibly another 145 sightings on the Staffordshire Past Track website during May of our photographs and are as follows – Albert Hawkins Shop 34, Britannia Picture House 34, High Street 21, Walter Hackett 20, Salem Church 15, Wootton’s Post Office 13, Garrett’s Shop 5 and Hackett’s Butcher’s Shop 3.
Our base is open this Tuesday as usual from 10am – 4pm. Any queries please email.
trevor.cheslynhayhistory@talktalk.net

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