Moorlands Old Times

A regular blog that uses the history of the communities of the Staffordshire Moorlands to illustrate the new

Thursday, 31 March 2011

No alternative to the cuts- a response to Sentinel editorial

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          I along with a large contingent of people from North Staffordshire was on the March against the cuts last weekend. I am proud that...
Monday, 28 March 2011

Stoke City and I

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My first memories of Stoke City encompass the bizarre and the disgusting. I will get the second point out of the way first. The earlies...

Ragged Trousered Philanthropists- 100 years on

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In 1911 a struggling, unsuccessful writer Robert Tressell died in poverty in a Liverpool hospital. A 1,600 page unpublished novel lay i...
Sunday, 27 March 2011

Revolting for 40 years

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40 year’s separate the Kill the Bill demonstration against the Industrial Relations Act bought in by the then Tory Government of Edwa...
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Friday, 25 March 2011

Our response to natural disaster

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The news of the earthquake in Japan made me think about the reaction that we have toward national disaster. In Leek we are fortunate th...
Thursday, 24 March 2011

The day the bailiffs came

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Some one I know had a shock one morning when bailiffs acting for SMDC turned up and clamped the family car because of late payment of...
Wednesday, 23 March 2011

I love libraries

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I love libraries. There you are! I have nailed my colours to the pole at the start of this piece. I am not the only one. Stephen Fry, h...
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