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Chasetown maps
Historic maps of Chasetown and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Chasetown maps
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Chasewater| Brownhills| Gentleshaw| Cannock Wood| Great Wyrley| Cannock| Hednesford| Lichfield| Armitage| Walsall| Rugeley| Essington| Hill Ridware| Willenhall
Chasetown area books
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Staffordshire memories
Where I Grew up
I was 4 years old when we as a family moved to no: 6, School Lane, Chase Terrace. We had moved from Wales because my father couldn't find a job there, so he had a job lecturing in the Mining College in Cannock and he also taught at Hednesford College. I remember the lovely snowy winters we had every year and of course the hot summers. I had a lovely childhood there and passed my 11+ 3rd in the county of Staffs to go the Grammer School. But as it happened my grandparents became ill and we moved back to Wales where I still live. M father's name is Dai Moses and I'm sure there is someone out there that either remembers me, his daughter Wyn, or him.
Norton East Road
I was born in Norton East Road and left Staffordshire in 1969 to live with my family in Cambridgeshire. I visit Norton often to see aunts and uncles living in Norton Canes and Heath Hayes. I am in contact with Ann Jones (now Ann Armishaw) and June Anderson (now June Smith) who were my friends from school.
I have photos in my home of St James Church where my great grandfather sang in the choir and the Methodist Chapel at the top of Norton East Road. SUCH HAPPY MEMORIES.
Hazel Slade Inn
My Nan and Grandad were the publicans at the Hazel Slade Inn and I spent several holidays there. I was friendly with the head lad of the racing stables and helped muck out the horses and used to go with the lads in the horse box to race meetings. I also used to walk up through the pine forest on to the golf course and look for golf balls. I have lots of good memories and would be happy to hear from others who new the pub.
Friends
I remember going to school with Gillian Barsby and her brother, a miner called Mr Griffiths, he had a daughter Pat and lived in a house by the railway crossing. My step father was head lad for Bob Ward. After Bob Ward ceased training we moved to Berkshire. I have fond memories of the old race track on the Hednesford Hills and walking to senior school across the hills to Littlewood school. Never have been able to contact Gill Barsby or family, any info would be appreciated.
1st Hazel Slade Scouts.
I was born at the bottom of the Rawnsley Road, by the double bridges, known as Pool End, after Hednesford Park which used to be a pool. I was a Cub in the 1st Hazel Slade Scouts, our meeting place was at the church near the post office. We would play fox and hounds in the forest at the back of the church. On Sundays we would march to the beat of the drum around the houses of the Slade. None of the old back to back houses exist, all have been replaced. After leaving school I joined Cannock Wood Colliery as an underground pony driver, I would travel to the pit on 'the paddy', the three coaches used to ferry the miners from around Hednesford up to Cannock Wood. These coaches are at the Chasewater Railway Museum being restored. One of the summers the Scouts and Cubs went to camp at Hunstanton, Norfolk. We travelled on a Harpers coach from Heath Hayes. Midweek our relatives came to... Read more
Journals in The College
My grandfather, W. W. Share, was a mining engineer who worked at Walsall Wood Colliery. After he died, his mining engineering journals were transferred to the college.
A Fifties Lad in Cannock
The Crown Hotel dating back to the reign of Queen Anne circa 1702. Demolished to make way for hideous 1960s architecture, Dickie Wright's butchers shop and cottage on the corner of Church Street, the bandstand where Bob Simmons stood selling the Express & Star evening newspaper, Watkiss's seed and corn shop, later to become Yates Radio & Television where we bought singles for six and eightpence, and Beasleys Grocery and provisions where as children we were fascinated by the overhead cash system where the takings and change were taken via a container running along cables. Rosa's Ice Cream which was truly delicious and they came around the streets in their Ford E83 delivery vans. Further along we came to Linfords hardware shop where the aroma of the pink parrafin stove greeted you in the winter months, you wouldn't find a wick for the stove in Wilko's today. The New Hall was a place of public entertainment where Amateur Dramatics, Pantomimes and Christmas Bazaars took place, the lucky dip off Father Christmas was... Read more
