North Staffordshire does not appreciate the importance of its heritage or the major role heritage based tourism plays in economic regeneration.
Far too many heritage buildings have already been demolished and those we have left face an uncertain future.
The Phoenix Trust is the voice of North Staffordshire’s heritage community and will support and give publicity to campaigns to save any heritage building in our region.
If you and your friends are working to save and regenerate a local heritage building or any other local heritage asset email phoenixstaffs@mail.com and let us know.
As summer turns to autumn, explore the Churnet Valley with your camera and enter your snaps in our photographic competition A Year in the Life of the Churnet Valley.
A Year in the Life of the Churnet Valley is a competition for amateur photographers of all ages.
Organised by The Friends of the Churnet Valley and The Phoenix Trust, the competition allows snappers to photograph life in the valley throughout the year. There are no categories and snaps can be taken of anything or of any activity in the valley. Here are a few suggestions. You could use your camera to photograph:
Heritage buildings and historic markets in Leek and Cheadle
The Caldon Canal and the Churnet Valley Railway
Village life in Alton, Cheddleton, Oakamoor and Denstone.
You can use any kind of digital camera, phone or other device to take your photos. The competition runs until the end of February, 2013. For more details go to www.northstaffordshire.co.uk/?p=9160
The Government’s Regional Growth Fund has given Leeds £500,000 to boost tourism.
Marketing Leeds will use the money to expand the city’s tourist industry and create over 300 new jobs.
Lurene Joseph, chief executive of Marketing Leeds, said: “The visitor economy makes a huge contribution to the prosperity of Leeds and there is real potential for further growth.”
Leeds’ tourist and hospitality industry already employs over 45,000 people and contributes nearly £1.13 billion to the city’s economy every year.
Speaking on behalf of the industry, Gordon Jackson, the chair of the Leeds Hotels and Venues Association, said: “The city is the perfect destination for academic, professional and business conferences.”
Do you come from The Rookery, a former mining village near Kidsgrove?
If you do, can you remember the Wesleyan Chapel in High Street which was demolished in the 1970s?
Can you picture, in your mind’s eye, Rowbothams’ buses which passed through the village as they ran between Spring Bank and Tunstall via Whitehill, Newchapel and Chell? Did you travel on those buses when you went to school or when your parents took you shopping in The Potteries?
Or did you go on a PMT bus which made its way to Tunstall via Kidsgrove and Goldenhill?
The Phoenix Trust’s historical geographer, Betty Cooper, and its chief executive, David Martin, are writing a book about The Rookery and St. Saviour’s the village’s heritage tin church, which the Church of England is going to demolish.
If you spent your childhood in the village or have lived there most of your life, David and Betty should be grateful if you would be willing to share your memories with them.
The village has changed a lot over the years. It no longer has a post office. Robinson’s general store where you could buy anything from a pineapple to a tin of paint has gone too.
If you are from The Rookery, David and Betty would like to know about village life there when you were growing up.
They are interested in all aspects of life in the village and things you could tell them about include:
Your parents, your family and your friends
Your interests and hobbies
Your favourite TV and Radio programmes
Visits to the the cinema and the films you went to see
Holidays and day trips to the seaside
The schools you went to and your favourite subjects
Your first day at work or your first day at college.
If you would like to share your memories of The Rookery with Betty and David please email phoenixstaffs@mail.com
Australian mining magnate Clive Palmer plans to employ a Chinese shipyard to build a replica of the ill-fated Titanic.
When it has been built, Palmer dreams of cruising into New York Harbour on Titanic II accompanied by Hollywood movie stars, Chinese Communist Party leaders and descendants of passengers who sailed on the first Titanic in 1912.
R.M.S. Titanic
The original Titanic was the largest liner in the world when it was launched.
Many said the ship was ”virtually unsinkable” but it sank on its maiden voyage to New York after hitting an iceberg in April, 1912, killing 1,517 passengers and crew.
Palmer is reported to have told Australian journalists that his shipping company, Blue Star Line Pty Ltd, had reached a “memorandum of understanding” with Chinese shipbuilder SinoTrans to build Titanic II. He said the new ship would have the same dimension as the old version with 840 rooms and nine decks.
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