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Jack Barker’s Landfill was to Finance Basildon Golf Course Improvements

Friends of Basildon Golf Course in Essex are sharing some of their experiences like us in Goldenhill of having to deal with Jack Barker and the landfill issues at golf courses.

The following article makes very good reading along with the web links for more information.

In 2006 the municipal golf course at Basildon in […]

Do you enjoy the art of photography

Do you enjoy the art of photography? Stretch your legs while taking stunning photographs in the company of friends and family on our local free walks. You wouldn’t believe what’s on your doorstep! Meet at 2pm this Saturday at Westport Lake Cafe. Cameras will be available, as well as expert advice on getting the most […]

Golf Course Landfill Across the Country

Friends of Basildon Golf Course in Essex has contacted Sandyford & Goldenhill Residents Association due to their same involvement with Jack Barker, whose real name is Ron Maydon in respect to landfill issues at golf courses across the country.

To give praise to the Friends of Basildon Golf Course people, at least they have succeeded […]

Royal Visit, Official Fire Station Opening

Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex is to officially open the new Sandyford Community Fire Station. The date of the Royal Visit is to take place on Tuesday 8th March.

Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service along with residents of Sandyford and Goldenhill are seeing the visit as a very special occasion to promote our area and […]

Antisocial Behaviour “you are not alone”

The positives with antisocial behaviour are that it can and does bring communities together to fight the issues affecting them. The problems that S.A.G.E. has faced with antisocial behaviour are that some residents think that it is only them facing the problem. Through years of being the Secretary of S.A.G.E. I can assure everyone out […]

What you need to know about “Antisocial Behaviour”

Dave Potts, Neighbourhood Enforcement Officer from the City Council reported the following statistics at the S.A.G.E. resident’s public meeting 13.01.11 of antisocial behaviour in the area. The stats given were 61 acceptable behaviour contracts (ABCs) issued in the past twelve months with six current cases of antisocial behaviour and several asbos’s being dealt with at […]

Indoor Walking Groups

At this time of year, you might not feel like walking in the cold, but it is more important than ever to keep moving. If you really can’t face the freeze, Closer to home, Circular Walks’ have a new indoor walking group in the Potteries Shopping Centre, meeting at Costa Coffee every Friday morning at […]

Goldenhill Golf Course Closed

Landfill waste tipping at Goldenhill Golf Course has now stopped. Councillors reported at the Sandyford and Goldenhill Residents Public Meeting last Thursday 13.01.11 that the City Council’s Legal Team has now closed the golf course at Goldenhill due to rent not being paid for the site. Excessive landfill waste being tipped there with at least […]

Free Computer Course

If you know anyone who has always wanted to get into computing but never known where to start, Closer to Home Circular Walks are starting a ‘first steps to computing course’ at Port Vale Football Club in Burslem, The first session starts Tuesday 18th January, meeting 9.15am at Burslem Park Pavillion for a short walk […]

Local Memories

Come on all you people out there lets get sharing some of the old memories of Goldenhill and Sandyford.

Joe Smith, Chairman of S.A.G.E. found out that in Goldenhill in the thirteen hundreds that a man paid a penny a year to dig coal for a living “Historic Mining Village of Goldenhill”

So that we […]

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