News n Views, News n Views, News n Views....
Up the Potters!
Photo Exhibition
A mini-exhibition of photographs -- never before seen in Stoke-on-Trent -- will be on display at the City Museum & Art Gallery from Monday, 22nd June to Sunday, 5th July.
The black & white photos, taken by Geoff Higgins, show the fams and the football at Stoke City's memmorable victory in the Autoglass Trophy cup at Wembly.
Not only, but also
Not only that, but the exhibition will be accompanied by the personal photo diary of photographer, Paul Morrall -- showing the day from a fan's perspective.
Those wanting to see the exhibition can go along Mon-Saturady, 10a.m. to 5p.m., and on the Sunday from 2p.m. to 5p.m. Admission to the museum is, as usual, free of charge.
Waggon Wheels
Still TurningNegotiations with Allied Breweries, owners of the Waggon & Horses public house, Bentilee, are still going on according to Mr. Tony Quinn, of takeover brewery, Burtonwoods.
Asked when it was likely to reopen he replied, "We won't know for at least the next two or three weeks."
Meanwhile, onetime ghost pub, "The Man O Clay" remains as packed as it never was.
P.E.P. UPDATE
Residents are still waiting breathlessly for the results of the Priority Estates Project's recommendations for Bentilee.
Said one resident who was at the last P.E.P. training day, "As far as I know Steve Sharples (a P.E.P. employee) plans to recommend the formulation of two Estate Management Boards to cover the Bentilee area." {This would probably be one per everybody each side of Ubberley Road.}
Meanwhile, P.E.P.'S conclusions are in the hands of Stoke-on-Trent City Council and their decision is unlikely to be known until September.
Mum's Plea
Mother of six, charity cyclist and Bentilee poetess, Ann Pass, has put out a plea for information, following the Social Services' decision that she can't look after her sixth daughter.
Wrote the Bentilee mother, "Two-and-a-half years ago I split up from my partner. My girls were placed with the family whilst I moved house. A few months later, I had all my children returned, exceptt one. The Social Services said, basicall, I was not fit to look after her."
"I'd like to know then 1) If I'm so unfit to look after her, why have I got five others at home? 2) I though the Social Services were supposed to keep families together; 3) What right does a mother have? 4) What right did the social worker have to decide to give my daughter to someone else? 5) Who do I now turn to for help, now that I've lost my trust in everyone? and 6) Didn't anyone consider my other five daughters when they took their sister away?"
Good questions, but not ones a bachelor editor can answer. Can anyone out there? Perhaps the 'people empowering' Bentilee Neighbourhood Project? Replies to the address given on page three will be treated in the utmost confidence.
Copyright The Bentilean 1999
Back to: The Contents Page | The Archive | The Bentilean Main Page