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AUGUST 2022
Advertising enquiries
Lisa Cuthbert - Sales Manager
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Email: info@thestafforddirectory.co.uk
Kate Hood - Sales Associate
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Editorial enquiries
Jennifer Dellicompagni - Editor
Tel: 01785 318704
Email: info@thestafforddirectory.co.uk
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National Trust Staffordshire Centre talks
Cloudy 2 Clear Windows
Stafford Camera Club
Tim Saunders annd family visit Uppark in West Sussex
AMG Financial Solutions
Taste the Milk at Lower Drayton Farm
Slimming World Stafford
Sudoku puzzle
Crossword puzzle
Recipe of the month
Stafford Lions
Property of the month with Caley & Kulin
Soroptimist International of Stafford - Local Heroines
Puzzle solutions
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The Staffordshire Centre’s Autumn programme
of talks at Walton Village Hall, Green Gore Lane
in Stafford starts up again in September. There
is no need to book in advance, just turn up at
the door and pay as you go in. However, it would
help the organisers if you book your place(s) on
our website https://www.ntstafford.org.uk/ go to
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All talks start at 2:30pm and you do not have to be
a member of the Centre to attend. Admission is
£4.50 for non-members of the Centre and talks are
followed by tea and biscuits.
LIFE IN THE FIFTIES
13th September
A Talk by Bill Durose
Do you remember what it was like in the fifties?
When TV was B&W and Radio Luxembourg was the
radio station of choice if you wanted to listen to
music recorded less than twenty years ago? When
we rock ’n rolled to the music of Elvis Presley and
the Everley Brothers.
And who could forget
Harry Rodger Webb?
People were just starting
to enjoy free health care with
the introduction of the newly
launched National Health Service. Kids
were going to school in their new school uniforms -
to experience the benefits (or otherwise) of the 11
plus exams, yearning for the day when they could
wear drainpipes, brothel creepers or winklepickers.
Bill Durose gives a talk illustrated with live music
and song about home life, education, health and
historical events in the nineteen fifties.
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Our new season starts at 8pm on Tuesday 6th
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We are a small friendly club with members of
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We will be starting off the season with a nice
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We will have a display of prints from the club to
show the range of work the club produces.
This is a free drop-in session.
Newcomers and people of all skill levels are welcome to join the club. We meet Tuesday nights at Stafford Cricket & Hockey Club.
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TIM SAUNDERS & FAMILY VISIT
Uppark in West Sussex
Dreams take time to achieve. It certainly did at Uppark,
the magnificent stately home on the Hampshire/West
Sussex borders. The idea came to mind back in 1590
but it did not actually become a reality for another
hundred years. Those of us thinking of adapting and
improving our homes can sympathise with this. After
all it does take a huge amount of thought to get a
design right. There is ornate architecture and as we
walk around the house we savour the atmosphere,
the high ceilings and wonderful furniture including
a grand piano. “Look at this,” says my wife Caroline,
pointing at the extravagant wood panelling that
surrounds a door leading from one room into
another. Of course each room has a grand fireplace,
a selection of sofas, massive paintings and large
windows looking out onto the gardens. Then there
are the ruffelled curtains, the bare floorboards and
large rugs. Look up and the ceilings have cornices
and mouldings unlike many of our homes today.
This is something totally different. This grand home
is crammed full of wonderful furniture. We’re sure
that we spy some that is Chinese. “Ah, no it isn’t,”
says volunteer guide Richard Jones. “Chinese design
was fashionable at the time and so it is highly likely
that the furniture was made in Europe to look like it
was Chinese.” Interesting. In fact Richard is a mine of
information. “Sir Harry Fetherstone went on a grand
tour of the world and brought back various pieces
that appealed to him. He had paintings produced,
too.” Richard talks about the house and how it was
a challenge to get water to the property saying that
it had to be mechanically harnessed from nearby
South Harting village. In 1954 Uppark was handed
to the National Trust by the Meade-Fetherstonhaugh
family, who still reside at Uppark today. In 1989 there
was a devastating fire, which resulted in a pioneering
conservation project to rework the damaged
interiors.
We visit the wine and beer cellars and a volunteer
talks to Henry (6) about the bell system. If a bell rang
a job had to be done. There must have been an army
of servants and we visit their quarters where their
clothes are hanging up. A regimented and orderly
routine would have been necessary to run such a
house. Very Downton Abbey.
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Introduction
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For the tuna
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• 80g spring onions – thinly
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• 5 red onions
• 100ml soy sauce
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• 100ml sake
• 60g caster sugar
• 12g ginger – finely
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• 2 garlic cloves – thinly
chopped
• 1½ dried red chillies –
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Across:
10. Drag, 11. Tie, 13. Abe, 16. Tabloid, 19. Tranq,
2. Autopsy, 20. 6. Bass, Ratio, 8. 21. Acai, Tutti, 9. 23. Hear, Erupt, 10. 25. Afflict, Drag, 28. 11. Emu, Tie, 13. 30. Abe, One, 16. Tabloid,
19. Tranq, 20. 32. Ratio, Ruin, 21. 33. Tutti, Amid, 23. 34. Agin, Erupt, 35. 25. Dusk, Afflict, 36. Achieve. 28. Emu, 30. One,
Down: 1. Bait, 3. Throb, 4. Pedro, Bade, 7. She, 8. Aga,
32. Ruin, 33. Amid, 34. Agin, 35. Dusk, 36. Achieve.
12. Idea, 14. Bust, 15. Bathtub, 16. Tequila,
17. Darkest, 18. Apostle, 22. Term, 24. Udon, 26. Finch,
27. Inane, 28. Edge, Down: 29. Urn, 30. Odd, 31. East.
1. Bait, 3. Throb, 4. Pedro, 5. Bade, 7. She, 8. Aga, 12. Idea, 14. Bust, 15. Bathtub,
16. Tequila, 17. Darkest, 18. Apostle, 22. Term, 24. Udon, 26. Finch,
27. Inane, 28. Edge, 29. Urn, 30. Odd, 31. East.
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8 9 3 6 4 2 1 5 7
7 6 4 8 1 5 9 2 3
2 4 5 3 8 9 7 1 6
9 8 7 1 5 6 3 4 2
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