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We holding police surgeries

surgery will be held for the residents of Bucknall PC TBA and PCSO Steve Cowan will be at the venue to meet residents

The event will be held at the ABC Residents Association on

54 Holdcroft Road in Bucknall. It will run from 6 PM to 6.30pm.

Tuesday 3rd November 18:00 - 18:30

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ABC Residents Association has donated £50 to the Bucknall park City Farm Project

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ABC RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION

54 Holdcroft Road Bucknall

Stoke on Trent

Staffordshire

Hope we can supply some useful information and news from around the area

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Holdcroft Road, Newhouse Road, Granville Road, Cliveden Road, Haddon Place, Welbeck Place

Uncovering Stoke on Trent's History

Abbey Hulton has the one of the city's most historic sites and now work has started to restore it. Lizzie Meek has been to see the progress...

The history of the Abbey Hulton area is in its name. On a piece of land, just off the main road is the remains of the Hulton Abbey where there was once a monastery.

The site dates back to the 1200's and some work has been done in the passed to expose the church walls.

Over the years the land has become overgrown but it's now being tidied up and restored. Here’s the latest from the site...

History: Abbey Hulton

Description: Abbey Hulton takes its name from the former Hulton Abbey, which was located about half a mile from Milton, on the east side of the road from Stoke to Leek, next to Carmountside Primary School. In the Domesday Book, Hulton is recorded as ‘Heltone’ meaning ‘hill town’

The abbey, dedicated to St Mary, belonged to the Cistercian order, the White Monks. It was founded in 1223 by Henry de Audley in what was then a remote part of the county, in keeping with the traditional kind of site which the Cistercians chose for their religious houses. The Audleys continued to be benefactors of the abbey during the Middle Ages, although it was always poor with only ever a small number of monks. Following the economic pattern of the Cistercians, the monks of Hulton Abbey were engaged in sheep farming and they had sheepfolds at Normacot and at Mixon in the middle of the 13th century, as well as granges at Hulton and Rushton in Burslem. They were also producing tiles at Hulton in the 14th century.

Sir James de Audley, who was notable for how courageously he fought under the Black Prince at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356, was buried in the choir of the abbey church in front of the high altar with his wife. There is a tradition that, when the abbey church was demolished and the tombs opened, the lady’s hair had continued to grow luxuriantly. Hulton Abbey was surrendered to the Crown on 18th September 1538 by which time it was worth only £200 per year and had only nine monks including the abbot. It was always one of the poorest of Staffordshire’s monasteries.

The abbey site and its lands were sold to Sir Edward Aston of Tixall, near Stafford, in 1543. He later sold to the Sneyds of Keele in the early 17th century. Excavations of the abbey site took place in 1884 and again in the early 1930s. Stone from the abbey complex was used in a number of buildings in the vicinity, including Abbey Farm. A manor house at Hulton is shown on the map, which accompanies Dr Robert Plot’s ‘Natural History of Staffordshire’ published in 1686. In the hearth tax returns of 1666, 30 houses are listed, a little different to the Abbey Hulton of today.

It was the Housing Act of 1919, which was to transform the area. This facilitated the beginnings of much-needed housing development in many parts of Stoke on Trent, including Abbey Hulton, which helped to re-house families from Burslem, and later in the 1930s from Hanley, under slum clearance programmes. In 1922 Abbey Hulton became officially part of the County Borough of Stoke on Trent. Originally part of Burslem ecclesiastical parish, Abbey Hulton now has its own church, St John’s, built in 1963.

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Mark Fisher MP surgery will be

Held on

20th November 2009 4:30 - 5:30

Mark Fisher MP

House of Commons

London

SW1A 0AA

Tel: 0207-219-4502

Fax: 0207-219-4894

Mark Fisher MP

The Office of Mark Fisher

76-80 Lonsdale Street (Cromavision)

Stoke-on-Trent

ST4 4DP

Email: markfishermp@parliament.uk

Tel: 01782 848468

Tel home: 01782 713813

Fax: 01782 845658

Anyone caught drinking alcohol in parts of the area to face a fine of up to £500 or arrest.

The new alcohol-free zone is being introduced to stop the area being blighted with anti-social behaviour.

It gives Staffordshire police powers to confiscate alcohol from anyone drinking on the streets if they are believed to be causing a nuisance.

Almost 100 children each year pick up a serious eye infection from dog mess. Children and adults can also get it on their shoes without realizing it and walk it indoors. Everyone walking a dog must clean up after it. No excuses. Always take a bag with you, close and tie it and dispose of the mess in either the red dog bins or any street litter bin provided by the council. Otherwise you can put it in the bin at home.

Remember in most areas of Stoke-on-Trent it is a criminal offence not to clean up after your dog. If you don't "bag it and bin it" you risk on the spot £50 fines, or up to £1000 if we take you to court.