Diary of Events

 
Date and Contact

Event

 

Friday
25th April
7:45 for 8 pm

Email:
David Clegg
or Phone
07429 151313

Talk at Red Bull Hotel, Church Lawton
(4th Friday as 3rd Friday is Good Friday)

See Meetings page for full details of the pub

HS2 and Brindley

Comparing the now abandoned HS2 northern section passage through mid-Staffordshire with Brindley’s escapades there in the late 1700s.

Michael Priest

If you would like to join others for a pub meal before the event,
contact David Clegg for details.

 

Thursday
15th May
10 am – 3 pm

Email:
Tony Walker
or Phone
07708 320470

Cheshire Locks Working Party

The location will be Lock 62 at Malkin’s Bank.

Parking info – I have got permission from Malkin’s Bank Golf Club for us to use their overflow car park for easy access to Lock 62. It can be accessed from the main road through Malkin’s Bank village. By Sat Nav use postcode CW11 4XN.

If you’re travelling from Rode Heath on the A533, carry on for about 1.5 miles until you come to a crossroads. Turn left onto New Inn Lane and follow this for about half a mile. Turn right at a 3 way junction just before Hassall Green onto Betchton Road. Carry on for about a mile and turn left into the entrance to Malkin’s Bank Golf Course just before the new houses. Carry on over the canal bridge, then right through the main car park and carry on to the signposted Overflow Car Park.

If you’re travelling from Sandbach, take the A533 to Alsager. After about half a mile, just past the Co-op and opposite the Top of the Hill Chip Shop, take a right onto Hassall Road. After about 0.8 miles Hassall Road takes a gradual left and becomes Betchton Road. Carry on past the new houses and right into Malkin’s Bank Golf Course. Proceed to the Overflow Car Park as above.

 
We will meet as usual at 10-00 a.m. and work through until 3-00 p.m. If you are able to stay all day , please bring a packed lunch and a drink. Be sure to wear old clothes that you don’t mind getting dirty and marked with paint. Stout footwear is appropriate and bring along a waterproof in the event of rain.
 
Tony Walker and John Brighouse will lead the work party (Contact Nos. 07708 320470/07808 878317 respectively).  We very much look forward to welcoming as many of you as are able to attend.

 

Saturday
17th May
10:30 for 11 am

Email:
David Clegg
or Phone
07429 151313

AGM at Stoke Boat Club, Endon ST9 9DU

Refreshments from 10:30, AGM at 11 am

The AGM will be followed with a buffet lunch at 12
and an optional guided walk at 1:30pm.

Please make sure that you let David Clegg (david@thecleggs.co.uk) know by 3rd May if you wish to attend the AGM so that enough food is ordered. It would also be useful if you let him know whether you will be going on the walk.

The guided walk will be led by Alison Smedley. It will start at the Holly Bush Inn, Denford Rd, Leek ST13 7JT [5 minutes drive away]. The walk is about 3 miles taking 2 hours, but is a figure of eight, so passes the start after an hour if you need to leave early.

This walk is based on the Caldon Canal heritage walk on the IWA website . It will be led by Alison Smedley and will include (as a special treat) a look at the remains of the staircase flight of locks that is in her garden [NOT accessible to the public!]
 
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