Penkridge on the River Penk, Staffordshire, UK

PENKRIDGE GOODIES needs help.
This long-standing group of volunteers in Penkridge has been raising funds (THOUSANDS OF POUNDS) for thirty years for good causes in our community.

THEY NOW NEED SOME HELP IN THE FORM OF SOME YOUNGER PEOPLE to help them with their fund raising events, particularly with the regular Friday morning Jumble Sales in the village.
PLEASE CONTACT WIN LAFFAN ON 714379

COME ON PENKRIDGE! You responded magnificently to the request for more Volunteer Drivers to come forward to help keep our Voluntary Car Scheme running.
CAN SOME OF YOU SPARE AN HOUR OR TWO TO HELP "THE GOODIES"?

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Remembering Penkridge People
If you want someone remembering, let the webmaster have a few details, including a photograph if you wish
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Please let the Webmaster know of any errors, corrections, updates, links that don't work

FOR SALE
Brand New Roof Tiles - surplus to an extension job
Redland 50 Double Roman "M"
about 300 - 50% of cost
Tel: 714393 - Penkridge
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Who Lived in Penkridge in 1901?

A new booklet by Robert Maddocks, based on 1901 census, containing the names of almost everyone living in the Parish of Penkridge at the time. Includes 1901 maps, some new photographs and some biographical details - 85pp.
Available from The Pot Shop, Hawkins Electrical, Haling Dene Centre and the Town Crier.
Price Ł6 plus postage - All profits to be used to support further books of local interest. First print sold out in a week. Re-print available in next few days.

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHOPS AND BUSINESSES

Click SHOP - Trade or Business - Professional - Market
You can get it all in Penkridge.

Tell us all of new businesses you know of in our community! And we'll mention them here
LANDCRAFT Landscaping
Irving Decor (Painter & Decorator)
Work Time Solutions (personal & business)
The Balloon Room
Penkridge Kitchen Design
H.P.D. Ltd. (Builders)
Gailey Trout Fishery
Whitehouse Pharmacy have new website
Emian Enterprises Ltd. (Home & Property Maintenance)
TJ DJ Mobile Disco
Pillaton Pools for Fishing
Pete Jennings - Planning Architect
Holiday Cottage in Centre of Penkridge

Penkridge Business Association
Penkridge Neighbourhood Network

SEE Change in Penkridge
(A Major New Project in our Community)
Sustainable Development -
the only way forward

THIS WAS OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED RECENTLY AT AN EVENT AT RODBASTON - MORE NEWS TO FOLLOW.
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Some scientists disagree with the global and UK predictions for climate change

PART-TIME DEPUTY BAR MANAGER AT HALING DENE Centre required - details
TEMPORARY BAR STAFF REQUIRED
To cover functions & weddings at Haling Dene

PART-TIME CLEANER REQUIRED
To cover holidays & sickness at Haling Dene Centre - Phone/apply to the Parish Administrator or Bar Manager (Tel:714157 or Email)

Five Marriage Venue Choices in Penkridge - Haling Dene Centre, Quality Hotel, Rodbaston College, Methodist Church or St. Michael's Church

Children's Services Directory

Staffordshire Children's Trust

South Staffs Housing Association proposing to redevelop in Kempson Road and Littleton Crescent
Details of flats, houses and bungalow
Planning Applications submitted

Penkridge Conservation Area is being revised - Comments were invited on the proposals

Penkridge Floods back on 15 June 2007
More recent photos welcome

Click here for further details and map of Penkridge showing potential flood areas
A Strategic Flood Assessment is being carried out by SSDC
More flood photos

If you are not already familiar with "YouTube", click here to see a selection of "YouTube" video's taken in Penkridge during 2007. Please let the webmaster know of any new ones you come across.
Some of them are very interesting!

Images of Penkridge

Archived pictures of People and Events in our community over the last 3 years
Penkridge - situated in the county of Staffordshire in the
centre of England -
once the "Capital of England"

Have a look at this satellite image of the Wolgarston Way Allotment site

Parliament and Penkridge
More information about your MP
and how he votes and his performance in the Commons

Jaspers Shop about 100 years ago - click picture to enlarge including an appeal for help for information about the family who used to run this shop

Four Star Cottage to let in the Yorkshire Dales National Park by a local Penkridge person

Voluntary Groups, Societies
Clubs, Charities -
Over 100 - all needing support and which provide essential services to us all - the young and elderly especially - can you spare an hour or so to help?

Helplines

Aged between 13 and 18 years?
Penkridge Air Training Corps. invite you to consider trying them out. For FULL Details, including pictures, click here

We ask that you

Report any fly tipping or dumping of rubbish immediately to:
South Staffs District Council
Telephone 01902 696314
Fax 01902 696305
E-mail:env.general@sstaffs.gov.uk
and Environmental Pollution, particularly of the River and Canal, by phoning: 0800 807060 (freephone to the Environment Agency)

Transport within, to & from Penkridge - Timetables for Trains and Buses. Taxis and Car Hire

Voluntary Social Car Scheme
Drivers needed urgently
Concessionary Travel
Concessionary Travel from April 2008
Anyone who currently has tokens and wishes to switch to the new All England bus pass from April 2008 will have the opportunity to apply for one - details how to do this will be explained in a letter to be sent out in March 2008 by SSDC.

New Toll Road proposal - read more

NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH
We now have 22 schemes in Penkridge which covers about 15% of the community. Contact Vicki Singleton (01785 235995) and get full details of setting up a scheme in your road/area. Work with your neighbours (and the police) to look out for each other

Penkridge Neighbourhood Network
IT Security Awareness
Web & Internet
Penkridge Flood Map & Photos

Report a Street Scene Problem (Litter Bins, Dog Bins, Abondoned Vehicles, Needles, Dead Animals, etc.) to District Council

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Report Highway Faults - Street Lighting; Roads and Pavements; Traffic Lights Pedestrian; Blocked Road Drains - email:clarence@staffordshire.gov.uk
or doitonline or phone 0800 232323

Penkridge Railway Viaduct (The Seven Arches) built by Thomas Brassey.
He was also involved in laying the first Trans-Atlantic cable

How the Railway came to Penkridge

Penkridge Talent - artists, craftspeople, photographers - any more out there?

Main Contents of this Web Site

Penkridge Civic Award Winners
1994 to 2007

Penkridge Town Crier -
and his predecessors

DID YOU KNOW?

Many famous people knew and visited Penkridge, if only from the vantage point of Teddesley Hall. They included the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, Handel, John Wesley, Alexis de Tocqueville, Daniel Defoe and George Orwell. The essence of the history of Penkridge, lies with its people.

J R R Tolkien
(author of Lord of the Rings)
has a Penkridge connection.
He and his wife lived for a time in a cottage on the Teddesley Park Estate

Bob Maddocks tells us of the connection between Penkridge and Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell

Stay Safe in Penkridge

Don't forget, for non-emergencies
now phone 08453 30 20 10

Neighbourhood Policing

Welcome to PC 3965 Steve Prince who has taken over in Penkridge.
Home Security Advice
Civil Contingencies Website
Crime Incident Report Form
Submit your comments

Latest Watchdog Alerts from Trading Standards

Local Action Group

Police, Fire & Ambulance
Police Community Support Officer
Drugs Raid in Penkridge

Village/Town News - OYEZ

Images of
Penkridge people, events and places

Florence sails
from Penkridge

Weather (BBC) in Stafford
BBC News Website

TrustMark - to help you find reliable and trustworthy tradespeople to make improvements & repairs to your home.

Eat and Drink in Penkridge
22 Pubs, Restaurants and Take-aways

Accommodation - Hotels, Bed & Breakfasts, Camping. For advice on starting a b&b or setting up a camp site, contact the webmaster

Join the Penkridge Community
If you would like an invitation to join the Google Group "Penkridge Community", then send an email to the Webmaster
More details

A Penkridge mystery for you to solve

If you are an aspiring writer or poet, then take a look at our LATEST IDEA to help budding writers in Penkridge get their efforts more widely known

Log on to Bob Maddocks' website where you will find lots of fascinating information about the people of Penkridge in timespast

Inter Parish Games 2008
DO YOU WANT TO TAKE PART AND REPRESENT PENKRIDGE?

History of Penkridge
Books and leaflets

Fragments from the History of Penkridge An Online History of Penkridge
The Open Fields of the Cuttlestone Hundred
Penkridge - the Capital of England?
Lord Hatherton's Diaries published
Scheduled Ancient Monuments
Penkridge Civic Society
Thomas Brassey - Railway Builder
Lord Hatherton and the Railways

A Vision of Penkridge through Time - 1801 to 2001 including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions
Lord Hatherton & the Railways
You must read this fascinating insight into Penkridge's past and the coming of the Railway

Religion in Penkridge -

including Methodist Chapel and St. Michaels's Church

Sport and Recreation

Football, Cricket, Tennis, Bowls, Golf, Rugby, Darts, etc.

Monckton Recreation Centre

Peace Memorial Hall (the original Village Hall in the centre of the community)

Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal

Wildlife in the Parish

Wildlife diary

Sites of Wildlife Importance

3 Species of Dragonflies seen over pond in new Burial Ground

AFTER Consultation County Council Cabinet decision is TO CLOSE SILVERDENE CARE HOME
Town Crier made one last appeal
to County Council Cabinet
1,200 elderly in Penkridge IGNORED!
click here for latest information
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Major Changes along A449 from M54/i54 to Gailey Roundabout where traffic lights are being proposed - Full Details and consultation
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County Council considering closure of County Farms, several of which are in Penkridge Parish. Details

Education - Schools, College
Wolgarston High School
Penkridge Middle School
Marshbrook First School
Princefield First School
St. Michael's First School
St. Leonard's First School, Dunston

Childcare (including Out of School Clubs, Nurseries, Pre-School Playgroups, Childminders)

Rodbaston College including
Penkridge IT Centre

PENKRIDGE LIBRARY - 24 hour renewal & reservations line - 0845 3300740

Do you think this foreground and
the flags enhances the view of the Church?

Go look closely at the buildings and how they look and their settings - are there eyesores or faults that could be changed with a bit of thought and committment?

Stop those unwanted phone calls, faxes, post, emails, etc.

Neighbourhood Watch Schemes - more needed in Penkridge
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For more NEWS click here

Crown Bridge on Fayre evening

PCSO Del Slater and his Village Bike (courtesy Penkridge Business Association)

Click on image to ENLARGE

"On the spot FINES now to anyone selling alcohol to people under the age of 18"

Stay Healthy in Penkridge

Click this link for Health Services in our Community

Order Repeat Prescriptions ONLINE

Health Centre, Chemists, Opticians,
Foot Care, Carer Groups, NHS Direct.
Helplines, Accessing Medical Records
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CPPIH - Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health
Your Local PPI Forums
and Forum contacts

Keith Burton and Macmillan Cancer Relief in Staffordshire. He raised over Ł2,700 on his walk in 2007. What will he do in 2008 we wonder?

Voluntary Organisations that help and support Penkridge

Community Council of Staffordshire
S Staffs. Council for Voluntary Service

Other Local Village Web Sites
Lapley, Stretton & Wheaton Aston
Brewood & Coven
Dunston & Coppenhall

HELP LINES

Local Authorities and other useful Links
Registrar
Staffordshire County Council
South Staffordshire District Council
Penkridge Flood Plain (maps & photos)
Public Access to Planning

Homecheck before you buy a house
Environment Agency (EA)
The Renewable Way
South Staffs. Housing Association

Ablon-sur-Seine (our Twin)
and "espace de discussion"

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Radio Stations

David Kidney MP

More information about your MP
and how he votes

SEE Change in Penkridge (A Major New Project in our Community) Sustainable Development - the only way forward

SEE Change in Penkridge
(A Major New Project in our Community)
Sustainable Development -
the only way forward