The Lichfield Blog (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Lichfield residents are being urged to join the battle to bring the Staffordshire Hoard back to the region. Following the news that the Anglo-Saxon gold treasure found near the city had been valued at more than £3million, Staffordshire County Council said the figure would allow them to start planning for the Hoard’s return. Now Stoke-on-Trent City Council [...]
Archaeology in Europe (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Birmingham council taxpayers will not have to pay to acquire a haul of 7th Century Anglo-Saxon treasure, according to plans by the city's authority. The hoard, valued at £3.285m, was unearthed in Staffordshire. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent are both hoping to buy the treasure from the Crown. Read the rest of this article...
News for Medievalists (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
A committee of independent advisors have valued the Staffordshire Hoard at £3.285 million. This figure will be split equally between the finder, Terry Herbert, and the landowner, Fred Johnson. The landowner, the finder and the two museums which hope to acquire the hoard, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery and the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, have all approved the valuation....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
If Labour cannot win the coming election with Gordon Brown, it certainly can't win it without him ( Here's the last hard choice for Labour: leader or country , 14 November). Imagine the bickering and infighting among his potential successors, none of whom has shown any flair or national leadership potential. What that would do to an electorate, already thoroughly disillusioned by politics and politicians,...
Lancaster Unity (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The British National Party has lodged a complaint with the police on race grounds after students were directed to a list of names and postcodes of members on the internet. Staffordshire University's student union president Assed Baig posted an article on the union website, which contained a link to a site identifying 30 BNP members living within two miles of the university's Stoke campus in College...
Jon Slattery (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Birmingham Mail editor Steve Dyson on his blog picks out a picture from the Staffordshire Newsletter's nostalgia page. The paper had asked readers to identify the people in the picture taken in the Newsletter's old editorial office. Reader Anne James, the former front desk manager, identified cub reporter Aidan Goldstraw. He had a string of speeding and parking tickets, so the office asked Cheryl the...
The Lichfield Blog (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Chasetown FC Reserves saw their Staffordshire FA Challenge Cup campaign ended at the second round stage against Wolstanton United. The game took a while to settle with both teams guilty of conceding possession on a heavy pitch on a cold and wet afternoon in Stoke-on-Trent. It was Chasetown who had the first real chance of the game [...]
Simon Darby (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
So what does someone as wicked, bad, heretical and incapable of seeing the benefits of the destruction of British society like me do on my birthday. A dabble with the occult perhaps or some other foul deed emanating around the concept of racial intolerance? Well it started off at 6.00am with a strong cup of tea and an inspection of the fridge to determine the calorific damage from the previous night....
Kinverkid (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
It's the big half century birthday for me in June next year and I've been toying with the idea of running a fifty miler. I was looking at various places to run it and I think I've decided on a route where friends and family can best join me. I thought I might drive up towards Stoke-On-Trent in North Staffordshire and join the canal between there and Stone. I will start from there with anyone who wants...
TouristNetUK (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Monkey Forest, Stone road, Trentham, Staffordshire, ST4 8AY. Located just a few miles from the city of Stoke-On-Trent is Monkey Forest . This amazing attraction offers the opportunity to see a troop of Barbary Macaques and have very real close encounters with them as you walk through their 60 acre woodland enclosure. Although there are guides stationed along the way who will answer any questions and...
Female of the Species (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
The next book on my list of reviews is Paranormal Stoke-on-Trent by Matt Hicks and Terri Setterington (£9.99 History Press ISBN 978-0-7524-4885-5). This contains a few areas of Staffordshire that have become vaguely known to me recently as my eldest daughter and her fiancé have moved into the vicinity, so it was with some interest that I have read of a few sightings and unexplained happenings...
The Hob Goblin: Further Tales from the Enchanted Island (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
The find in a field near Brownhills in South Staffordshire of more than 1,500 gold and silver objects by Terry Herbert, a local metal detectorist from Burntwood, in July 2009, termed the Staffordshire Hoard, has been well publicised and is unprecedented as the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found, comparable to the other great Anglo-Saxon collection of Sutton Hoo, is now at the British Museum...
Good Food Shops (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
I can remember going to Trentham Gardens as a small child, and going on a cable car to look at the M6 motorway! I understand the cable car was removed shortly afterwards, as it kept breaking down. The Italian Gardens at Trentham are now being restored and are now a tourist attraction again. There's also a garden centre and shopping village, which is where today's destination is. The Country Larder...
Birmingham Central (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
Over 40,000 people have seen the Anglo-Saxon gold found in Staffordshire which has been displayed at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham hoards Anglo-Saxon gold , as it leaves for London to be valued, The Staffordshire Hoard goes into hiding . People have queued for hours to see 80 of the 1,500 objects unearthed with visitors donating £30,000 in collection boxes so far to support moves...
Daniel Buxton Photography (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
staffordshire Hoard Images taken by Daniel Buxton Photography Staffordshire Hoard Update The Staffordshire Hoard exhibition closed to public view at 9pm on Tuesday October 13th. Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery extended the opening hours to meet the huge public demand to see the Hoard during the display, and visitors took full advantage of this . A queue of visitors could be seen every day to see...
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