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Goldenhill’s Community Fun Day is being held at the Community Hall/Centre from 12.00 noon  onwards on Saturday 6th August.
The event is showing quite a lot of interest from the local communities of Sandyford & Goldenhill and also further a field.
On the day Councillor Martin Garner is to officially open the event for the S.A.G.E. residents association.
The entertainment is going to be provided by Paul Warwick’s fair rides, dance music, Dicky Bow Magic Shows, balloon modelling & sponge ball castle, Church Lane Morris Dance Troupe, Youth Services games & activities, Biddulph Air Cadets, All That Sparkles Face Painting, Bouncy Castle, Displays from Staffordshire Police & Fire Service, Table Top Stalls, Community Centre Refreshments & much more.
Sandyford & Goldenhill Residents Association welcomes everyone to our 2011 community fun day.
Holiday activities for young people aged between 5 and 11 are to take place over the summer months. The activities, dates, times and venues can be found on the forum page under events and meetings.
For further all sports activities, you can contact Mark Roberts on telephone 01782 234993.
For further information on all other activities, please contact the Urban Park Rangers – Kay Steele on telephone 235892 or Pauline Withington 235808 or David Butler 07771 501 242.
Please remember that Goldenhill Community Fun Day will be taking place at Goldenhill Community Centre on Saturday 6th August from 12.00 noon.
More justice is being seen to be done as two teenagers receive interim antisocial behaviour orders.
North Staffordshire magistrates yesterday imposed the orders on Liam Burke, aged 15, and 14-year-old Jordan O’Brien, both of Ridge Road, Sandyford.
The teenagers are prohibited from congregating in groups of more than two in a marked area of Sandyford; associating with each other or Liam O’Brien and Casey O’Brien in a public place; using foul, abusive and sexually explicit language; possessing alcohol in a public place; throwing or kicking stones; entering residents’ property or grounds without their consent; starting bonfires; playing music loud; standing or walking in the road to prevent vehicles driving ; riding motorbikes to cause alarm or distress; entering a park to the rear of Ridge Road; and entering a cricket club at Shelford Road, Sandyford. Jordan O’Brien is also banned from entering McDonald’s, Sandyford.
For for more on this story follow the link http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/teen-yobs-given-Asbos-protect-public/story-13017630-detail/story.html
These are David Wood’s recollections of village life in Goldenhill and Sandyford in the 1950s and early 1960s.
His story starts in 1946 and will continue on with more episodes of interesting facts over the coming months.
David says, I was born in 1946 and lived in Alice Street, Goldenhill until I was 19. I then moved to Sandyford where I stayed until 1974.
My earliest recollection would be starting in the nursery class around 1950.
What I intend to do is to take a stroll from the roundabout where Churchill’s is now, to the top of Kidsgrove Bank and back down again on the other side of the road to Hollywall Lane, noting as many of the businesses as I can and also including any facts I may think you might be interested in.
Starting at Sandyford where the new roundabout is now, Branson’s newsagents stood there and Salt & Riley builders was to the right of it.
Just below Shelford Road was Walton’s builder’s office where the bakery is now.
There were two football teams, Goldenhill Wanderers and Goldenhill Villa. Meakins cricket club at Shelford Road Sandyford, turned out some really good players. Did you know that Ken Higgs the England fast bowler played there and so did Pete Williams, Robbie’s dad. Every year the local pubs held a cricket knockout competition, it was very competitive.
There were two shops in Wignall Road and Mrs Mayer’s shop at the far end of Ridge Road. On the corner of Colclough Lane was a grocers shop and Plant’s butchers.
Opposite the Catholic Church was Lane’s dry cleaners before they moved to the other side of the road to a bigger shop next door to Mr Jones and it became a ladies and gents outfitters. Mrs West’s shop was on the corner of Temperance Place where the path to the Community Centre is now.
The railing and plaque which stands on the front lawn of the Community Centre used to be on the edge of the pavement opposite, outside the Church Infants school. It was donated by W Stonier and its purpose was to prevent children running out of the school yard onto the main road. I believe that it was made to commemorate the end of either the first or the Second World War, perhaps someone could have a look at it and confirm the actual inscription therein.
Look out for more of David’s stories in his next episode coming soon.
Tunstall Community Pool Town Meeting, Wed 27th July 7:00pm at Christ Church Tunstall, Corner of High Street and Furlong Road (ST6 5XG) (Parking at the rear)
The Tunstall Community Pool Group are holding a Public Town Meeting in the Church to give everyone an update on their application to take over the running of Tunstall Pool.
During the meeting we will also be formally launching our fundraising campaign including a major fundraising event to be held at Water World on Saturday 10th September 7-9pm. We will be asking people from the community to lend a hand with promotion of the this and others events, fund raising and carrying out market research.
Tunstall Pool will only be saved through the efforts of the community of Tunstall & Stoke-on-Trent so we need your help.
We hope to see as many faces as we can on the night from old users of the pool, to the people of Tunstall who’d never used it but are loyal to their town, to local businesses.
There will be a raffle with various prizes, including the chance to win some tickets for the Water World event in September.
We want Tunstall to be proud of our heritage but more importantly going forward have the facilities to retain the facilities that keep us fit, healthy and safe around water, and to promote the pool as a focal point for the town.
Support your town, support our futures.
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Staffordshire Police are asking residents to look at their homes through a burglar’s eyes – where are the weak security spots?
Go outside – what can you see through the windows?
If you have a burglar alarm, remember to set it and leave contact details with a neighbour. Tune in your radio to a talk show and leave it on a timer to come on whilst you are out. Plant prickly foliage and bushes around the perimiter of your garden to keep out intruders.
The following link from the police website lets you read an interview with a North Staffordshire burglar – aged early 20’s
http://www.staffordshire.police.uk/advice_zone/burglary/beat_burglary
A small group of gypsy travellers have set up residence at the entrance to Fawfield Drive in Goldenhill.
It has been reported that there is a caravan, which is parked on the grass verge as well as there being three vans and a 4 x 4 vehicle.
Councillor Martin Garner who visited the area yesterday has been in contact with the police in terms of the vehicles not being parked particularly well and also because resident’s feel intimidated at having to go past them every time they enter or leave the cul-de-sac of Fawfield Drive.
It is hoped the police can intervene and encourage the gypsy travellers to move the vehicles on, so that local residents can feel more comfortable about the situation.
Two teenage brothers have been banned from the street where they were living after making neighbours’ lives a misery.
Casey and Liam O’Brien, of Ridge Road, Sandyford, have been handed interim Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (Asbos) until July 19 after appearing in court yesterday.
North Staffordshire Magistrates’ Court heard how the brothers had been involved in a catalogue of anti-social behaviour in Sandyford for 18 months.
Casey, aged 19, and Liam, aged 18, are now living with friends in Brocksford Street, Fenton, after moving out of Ridge Road about a fortnight ago. It is understood their mother still lives in Ridge Road.
For more information on this story follow the link http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/Asbo-pair-banned-home-street-creating-havoc/story-12849256-detail/story.html
It has been reported that temporary asbo’s have been issued to teenagers who have been involved in a number of antisocial activities with local residents in the Sandyford area.
The youths who live in Ridge Road, Sandyford, appeared at Fenton Magistrates court today where the temporary asbo’s were issued.
Local police and the City Council’s Safer Cities Partnership Officers have been addressing the issues brought up by local residents by taking statements from them in regards to the increased amounts of antisocial activities during recent months.
Residents have been encouraged with the support given by the police and council and with a previous curfew now in place keeping the youths out of the area between 8.00 p.m. at night & 6.00 a.m. in the morning, it is said by local people that the area is now a much nicer place to live in.
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