A year with My Tunstall - Part 1 - Jan to June 2010
Well, what a year this has been. It seems to have flown, but look back over this years posts in the archive section, I suddenly realised it's not flown, so much has gone on things have simply faded. For starters at the beginning of the year, this site wasn't called MyTunstall, it was Bankeyfields.
The other highlight of this year for me is the campaign to raise enough money for Ruby Owen so that she could have her life saving treatment, which caught the heart strings of all in Stoke on Trent.
Highlights of the year.
After a month of no grit the Bankeyfields estate had, had enough, the city had enough, we were all ready for a thaw
- EDL Protest March
- Should Tunstall Baths be saved - Vote now
- Councils running out of grit - what can we do
- Useful Gadgets for the cold weather
- Jan 12th Tuesday 2010 - Stoke-on-Trent, Tunstall Snow Pictures
Belive it or not the campaign to help Ruby Owen only really kicked off in Feb of 2010, it seems so very long ago, and I remember dailiy checking the Just Giving page thinking they'll never do it, please let them do it. Well Miricles do happen, and I'm so glad the Owens have both thier girls with them this year.
- Ruby Owen: Appeal to raise £250,000 to pay for pioneering treatment to save her life
- Name change proposal, mytunstall.co.uk? Was it the right thing to do?
- Sandyford Fire Station: Operational and open by October 2010 - they'd never have it done I thought at the time
- Rubbish in the open-space My personal pet hate, will history repeat it's self
- Speak and Spell Emulator - was it as good as you remember? - ace
Lots going on, people raising money for Ruby, new users making the site their home, chaos on the A500
- New dog laws - will they "lead" to less irresponsible dog owners?
- Companion and Fun dog show at Haywood Engineering college Burslem - 1st May 2010 new user Dereth makes her mark, and adopts MyTunstall :)
- 12 months later Stoke gets Google Street View, and isn't it good. Yep street view hasn't been around all that long
- The late great Dave Follows (Me und Mar Lady cartoonist), and the late great potteries accent
- A500 Speed Limit - 50MPH!!!!!!!!
- New website for Congleton Veterinary Centre - I made this
- New ...Tunstall town photos
- Ruby Owen, Charity Night at Tunstall's Floral Park - Friday, 09 April 2010
- VIP tickets for Stoke City v Aston Villa - Ruby Owen
After a journey up to Leeds for a Hyperlocal conference I come away inspired and finally put into action a plan I'd had the year before called Where in Tunstall
- Where in Tunstall begins, with the very first post Where in Tunstall 1 which easy and won by BedHair
- Backyard Chickens, stories and information about keeping egg laying hens in your garden excellent blog about keeping chickens
- Petrol in a Diesel engine the night of hell
- Tunstall 2010 Council Election poll who would become victorious in the tunstall election
- Saturday night glass throwing teenagers cause trouble on the Bankeyfields Park - trouble starts up again on the Bankeyfields openspace leading the Residents Association (NHW at the time) to contact the police and have the park added to the asbo list
- The Sentinel's "This is Staffordshire" gets a new look
- A500 Cameras 40mph now in effect - 40MPH!!!!
Where in Tunstall is taking hold now, speeding on Reginald Mitchell Way becomes ever more apparent
- Car Crash on Reginald Mitchell Way, finishing in a Beaufighter Grove Garden
- Stoke on Trent need to make it to the polling stations this thursday - Vote ya buggers, or else look what happens, you won't get represented!
- New feature for MyTunstall, WYSIWYG editor - do you use it?
- Burglary: Car Keys stolen from house, and car stolen, in Packmoor
- Mow Cop Castle and the Old Man of Mow Gallery - one of my favorite sets of photos
- Hill Chorlton Farm - Spring Lambing + Gallery and this one
- Fly tipping at Harry Hancocks becoming a serious problem
The Bankeyfields Neighbourhood Watch Scheme grows into a Residents Association, world cup madness and britain has talent?
- Bankeyfields Residents Association - Meeting and Electing new members - Date set: Monday July 12th 2010 7:00pm/7:15pm Steve, Rich, Mike and myself are elected to the new board, with Alan, Steve, Ian, Bryn and Janet joining the crew
- Come on England, I've done my bit, it's down to you now
- England flag/decorations/group shot picture nominations
- Bankeyfields: Openspace maintenance contract (£10k a year, is it worth it) - Some FOI information received something isn't quite right here, we start to investigate
- backyard beekeeping - Briliant blog about bees
- water leaks in streets/roads. How long should you wait when for a leak to be fixed when there is a hosepipe ban
- Reginald Mitchell Way race way
- What a wonderfull day at kids karnival!
- Where in Tunstall 18 - St. Aidan's Church on Summerbank Rd
Part 2 will appear later
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