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Sandyford & Goldenhill Residents Association (S.A.G.E.) held its Annual General Meeting on Thursday evening at Goldenhill Community Hall/Centre, which attracted an attendance of 110 residents and guests.
At the meeting residents requested answers from Stoke on Trent City Council in regards to the future of the previously run golf course by Jack Barker Golf Company.
 Goldenhill Golf Course Club House Mark James, Senior Estates Manager, Stoke on Trent City Council reported at the S.A.G.E. Annual General Meeting that the council are looking for a tenant to run the golf course and it will be put on the market in three to four weeks time.
It was further reported by the council at the Public Meeting that the marketing process is expected to take up to eight to 12 weeks.
Tom Simpson, Secretary of the Sandyford and Goldenhill Residents’ Association, said: “it has a long history of issues and we would like to see the course back up and running”.
Mr Simpson went onto say “it was used as a landfill site and up to 60 lorries a day were going up and down the road covering the place in dust and dirt”.
The S.A.G.E. Secretary further added “we want to keep the green space whatever happens, so even if the course doesn’t come back we could hopefully use the land for country walks or even increase the use for allotments in the area”.
It was made clear at the meeting by the council that the land, which is a greenbelt area, will not be built on if a new owner cannot be found.
Councillor Martin Garner said, “there has been some frustration with damage in the past at the site and reports of anti-social behaviour.
The councillor went onto say “it is a shame that this process has taken over a year to put in place and due to issues with the previous tenant, the golf course has been left open to vandalism”.
For more on this story follow the link http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/Derelict-course-sale/story-15874841-detail/story.html
David’ story this time talks about how a local church was a big part of community life, especially for the young people who lived in Goldenhill in the 1950’s and 60’s.
David says, the All Saint’s Church in Rodgers Street, usually referred to as the Tin Church then, was a regular meeting place on a Saturday night for the dances organised and supervised by Mrs Prior.
 Non Conformist Chapel, pictured in Rodgers Street, Goldenhill in 1967 If you wanted a particular song playing on the record player, all you had to do was bring the record along yourself, no booze, no fights, all good fun.
Mr Deakin used to organise the youth club in the junior school hall one evening a week in the early sixties.
We had records, table tennis, card games and about once a month a live group comprised of 4 local lads on drums and guitars actually playing some of the latest hits, I would say that this was the height of cool then, once again, no booze and no fights.
I can remember being in the youth club at the time of the Cuban missile crisis and being absolutely convinced that the Americans and Russians were going to blow us all to bits.
Until next time you can still read more of David’s stories through the local memories tab at the top of the page.
Access to affordable credit is a real issue in Stoke on Trent and there are concerns about the rapid growth of pay day loan companies, some of which charge extremely high levels of interest.
If anyone can share their experiences of having payday loans and how it is affecting them, then please let us know through this website without giving any personal details.
Any information supplied will be used to get a better understanding of the problem and to try and address a situation that is affecting so many people in our area.
 In the picture to the right is Cliff’ Bosson’s father behind the counter in his mums shop at 871 High Street, Goldenhill, which was a Sweet & Grocery Store.
On the right of the photo are the scales with sweet jars in front of them, Cliff thinks there is cheese under the glass counter with possibly a small adding machine on the extreme right.
In the large glass shelves on the left of the counter were cakes and behind Cliff’s father at elbow height were shelves for fruit.
On the higher shelves were tins of fruit, vegetables, jars of jams, etc and it looks as though there is a price list for Hartleys jams hanging from the shelf.
Under the fruit shelves were boxes, in particular there were boxes of biscuits, which were sold loose and put in brown paper bags.
Cliff now lives in Australia and how nice it is for the S.A.G.E. website to have a visitor from so far away who used to live in Goldenhill.
Cliff Bosson’s mums shop was at 871 High St Goldenhill, it was initally a grocers shop which ended up selling many things including sweets and he can remember her buying vegatables direct from the farmers.
 871 High Street, Goldenhill, Sweet & Grocery Store Cliff goes onto say that when supermarkets became popular it was difficult to compete with them, he can remember being given 20 pounds (a lot of money in the late 1950s) and going to Tunstall to buy a number of different jars of pickles and when he came to the checkout with a trolley full of pickles he was asked what he was going to do with them. Cliff added that he made up a story that they were having a cheese and pickle party (the price of pickles at the supermarket was less than his Mum could buy them from her wholesalers).
For more on this story, go to the local memories tab and search for Sandyford & Goldenhill “Good Time Stories”
This is an interesting article that was sent to the local memories section of the website by Lizzie Richards and goes back to the 1930’s.
If anyone has any stories or memories, which they could add to Lizzies request for more information then please do so.
Lizzie says,
Hi Everyone,
I was facinated to find this site because both my mother’s parents were born and brought up in Goldenhill, although they moved away in the 1930’s.
 St John's Church, Goldenhill However my Great Aunt May Eplett was headmistress at one of the primary schools in Goldenhill (I think it was attached to St john’s church) and I remember visiting her there on several occassions during the 1960’s just before she retired.
I would love to hear any stories or memories that anyone has of her or “The Collinsons” who were my Maternal Great grandmothers family.
I would also be interested if anyone could tell me anything about a small chapel near Acres Nook, my great great great grandfather, Edward Eplett is apparently buried there – I recently visited the area but could find no trace of any chapel, so any information as to where it is or what happened to it would be of interest.
David Wood our Goldenhill & Sandyford Historian responds to Lizzie as follows.
Hello Lizzie, my name is David wood and I have written a few articles about Goldenhill and Sandyford.
I have attached some links showing the old Latebrook Baptist Chapel which is on Broadfield Road, it has been used as aarm store for many years now.
As far as I know, no one is buried in the back garden of the chapel, also the place was only built in 1870 and closed for worship in 1956.
My family worshipped there until the day it closed and my sister and I were dedicated (named/Christened ) there, also there was a baptism well in there when it was in use as a chapel, to my knowledge apart from the old mission in Linehouses , there aren’t any more chapels around there.
The article in which I have mentioned your family, I have spelled it as EPTLETT, which is in the old trade directories.
Further, a few weeks ago someone wrote to this site saying that it was the correct spelling even though most people referred to the sisters as EPLETT, I have looked everywhere for that post but cannot find it.
I didn’t attend Church Infants, I went to the infants at the senior school but I knew of them, see what you think of this and reply if you wish, always happy to help.
David Wood
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Titanic the return of a dream is at the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery on Saturday 21st April 2012, 2.00 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.
 RMS Titanic departing Southampton on April 10, 1912 In this highly acclaimed presentation, the story of the ship from her conception in 1907 to rediscovery in 1985 is told in dramatic fashion.
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