Wednesday, 30 October 2013

Ghosts of Staffordshire Moorlands- Halloween Special

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A couple recounted to me a curious episode when they were driving on the A53 near Flash. It was early in the morning and on the road th...
Wednesday, 23 October 2013

Crime watch 1642

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Mr John Band of Leek has showed me a fascinating collection of documents dating from the 17 th century concerning Leek at a time when ...
Wednesday, 16 October 2013

Carlos Trower- African Blondin

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October has been for several years now been designated Black History Month. The Black existence in the Staffordshire Moorlands has not ...
Wednesday, 9 October 2013

Buxton Rock Festivals 1972-4

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I was looking through the 1974 archive of the Post and Times when I was staggered to see an advert for the Buxton Rock Festival which fe...
Wednesday, 2 October 2013

Harrying of the North- William I and the Moorlands

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I visited Pickering Castle in Yorkshire in August. Its a Norman Motte and Bailey structure constructed as a result of the Anglo Saxon up...
Wednesday, 25 September 2013

Why Rudyard's war memorial has 1921 as the end of First World War

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It has always occurred to me as odd that the war memorial in Rudyard should have the date August 31 st 1921 as the date signifying the...
Sunday, 22 September 2013

The phantom of Kiln Lane, Leek 1936

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The news in September 1936 was grim. In Spain the Civil War raged as the Battle for Madrid reached a crisis. Hitler was beginning on ...