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| Name: LISA From: STAFFORDSHRE E-mail: lisaj_2005@yahoo.co.uk |
hi, can anyone help !!! i am trying to find information on my g grandmother and her family her name was ada rushton born east vale 1883 daughter of samuel, there is no mention of a mother any where. ada married edwin wass in caverswall in 1902 does anyone have any info they could pass on to me. thanks great site!!!!!!!!!!! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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| Name: David Rayner From: Stoke-on-Trent E-mail: davidrayner553@btinternet.com |
When we first came to live in Weston Coyney in 1954, Caverswall Road was then a narrow country lane with a thick hedgerow down the left hand side all the way from opposite Hall Drive to the Auctioneers Arms pub. Opposite Hall Drive, there was a wooden styal that had probably been there for a hundred years or more and beyond this styal were vast fields known locally as Billy Nunn’s Fields. People carrying their shopping and coming from the Co-Op store in Kingsway, or Joynson’s store at Sproston’s Corner would have to climb over the styal to get onto the large area of fields that led to the rear of Coalville Estate. It was, in fact, a short cut for the Coalville residents and especially school children on their way to Weston Coyney Junior School. The styal, which was also a recognised PMT bus stop for the 104 service from Longton to Caverswall, was removed in 1959 when building work began on the up-market Weldon Avenue estate of bungalows. Every summer, up until 1959, the huge area of fields just off the end of Main Street and at the rear of West Street, was occupied by a travelling fairground, full of carousels and other rides and candy floss stalls and shooting galleries where you could try your luck with an air rifle and win a prize if you could hit a target with one. It was exciting and free to wander around the fair, which was all lit up at night and very colourful…although you had to pay sixpence to be able to go on one of the rides. In fact, it was a free night out really and right on our doorstep. I wonder if anyone else remembers that fairground or has some photos of it. As I said earlier, the last time the fair was there was 1959, as the building of the new Weldon Avenue estate was very advanced by 1960. So much so, that there was no place to set up the fair anymore.
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| Name: Jackson From: Hulme |
can you tell me more about the history of the weston coyney arms now the candlesticks in hulme.
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| Name: David Rayner From: Stoke-on-Trent E-mail: davidrayner553@btinternet.com |
Anecdote from the distant past: Seeing the Post Cards and other photos on the gallery of what was known as Sproston’s Corner and shop in Weston Coyney, reminded me of a certain fellow named Roy White, who died aged 84 earlier this year and who I remember from my childhood as being a right miserable sod. I believe that by the time we moved onto Coalville Estate in 1954, the shop was run by people named Joynson and Roy White was an employee of theirs. Before the shops in Coalville Place (now demolished) were built, my mother did her weekly shop at Joynson’s, often spending £6 or £7 per week there…a tidy amount in those days. Well, one day, my mother went in for a loaf of bread and found that she was a ha’penny short of the ninepence ha’penny cost of the loaf. "I’ll give you the ha'penny it when I come in tomorrow", my mother told Roy White, who was serving in the shop. "Oh, no, you won’t", he told her curtly. "We don’t allow credit here." So my mum had to walk all the way back home across the fields to get a ha’penny to pay for the loaf. When she got back to Joynson’s with it, she handed him the full amount and told him she’d never enter the shop again and she didn’t. What a way to treat a regular customer. I recall that when word reached the Joynson’s about the incident of the ha’penny, they gave Roy White a good telling off about it.
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| Name: David Rayner From: Stoke-on-Trent E-mail: davidrayner553@btinternet.com |
I have been having a good look at your excellent site and find it very interesting. In September, 1954, then named David Welsh and aged seven and a half years, I moved from Cheadle Heath in Stockport to live on the then still being built NCB Coalville Estate at Weston Coyney when my father got a job as a miner. I lived at 1, Raglan Street (long since renamed Dimmelow Street)for fourteen years before moving to 7, Trevor Drive, Caverswall, in 1968 and living there for seven years. So I know the area very well. I was interested in your photo of the now long gone Yew Tree Cottage on Weston Road, Weston Coyney. I remember Annie Botham very well from my childhood. If you look in the Evening Sentinel microfilms held at Hanley Reference Library, you will see a photo of the cottage on page 6 of the issue dated Tuesday, July 22nd, 1958, showing Annie Botham and her sister, Marie Middleton, standing by the yew tree that gave the cottage it's name when it was built in the 1690's. The Evening Sentinel reports that the cottage is about to be demolished for road widening...something that could never happen today, as it would be designated a Grade One listed building. It would be nice to think that The Sentinel still have the negative of the photo in their archives, so that a high definition print could be made from it. But some years ago, I was told by the late John Abberley that, when The Sentinel moved from Trinity Street to Eturia, most of The Sentinel photo archive dating back decades was thrown away (a very short-sighted thing to do), which is why they now rely on readers to send them in old photos for their All Our Yesterdays and The Way We Were features. Best Wishes from David.
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| Name: BILL POLLOCK From: WESTLANDS,NEWCASTLE E-mail: billandkath1@ntlworld.com |
Sad to report the recent demise on 13 December of Sheila McLellan [nee Amison ] of Trentham and formerly of Draycott-le-Moors, at the age of 72 in the Douglas MacMillan Hospice at Blurton. She, along with husband Andrew, contributed much to the AMISON family history published on the internet.61595
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| Name: Geoff J Symcox From: Birches Head, Stoke-on-Trent E-mail: gsymcox@hotmail.com |
Hi, Researching my family name which it seems is closely associated with Caverswall. My great-grandfather John Symcox was born in Caverswall in 1873 and later, when orphaned, lived with relatives in Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent (named Fanning) If anyone has any details regarding the Symcox family name I'd appreciate any info they can pass on. Thanks.
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| Name: gerald copestake From: meir E-mail: radio987@bigpond.com.au |
I lived with my family,in William Avenue,at no 20 from the time it was built.There used to be a cattle market,just near to the railway crossing. The Catchems Corner Pub was run by Dick Jolley,who had about 5 children.Also Iused to deliver newspapers,from the newspaper shop.which in the 1940,s was owned by Mr.and Mrs.Douglas.The other shop was owned by a Miss Hassell.
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| Name: Brian Reeves From: Staffordshire E-mail: reevesessen@aol.com |
Hi Steve, I had a problem to log on to the Forum section - also a message to your Postbox bounced back. Could you contact me please. rgds Brian R Admin reply: Hi Brian,
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| Name: Joan Salmon From: North Yorkshire E-mail: jopo41@tiscali.co.uk |
Congratulations on a very informative site... I would be interested to know if anyone else is researching the JOLLIFFE/JOLLYE family with connections to Caverswall Castle ? John JOLLYE of Leek b. 1534, wool merchant, was my 11 x great grandfather and I have information back to the early 16th century but there are many gaps to be filled... pleased to exchange details. Regards - Joan Salmon
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