Meir, Staffordshire
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Meir is a suburb in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire situated between Lightwood and Longton.[1][2] Meir Park estate extends from Meir uphill to the Meir Heath and Rough Close village hall, located in Meir Heath.
Meir Aerodrome
Meir Aerodrome closed in the early 1970s[3] and the site has now become the Meir Park housing estate. The earlier parts have mainly aviation-associated street names. The last official flight was on 16 August 1973 when Fred Holdcroft flew a Piper Tri-Pacer carrying a Sentinel journalist to Manchester.[4] The last unofficial flight "a year or two" later by Eric Clutton was in a home-made folding machine called FRED (Flying Runabout Experimental Design) which the pilot towed home behind his car.[5][6] The light planes used to be parked on the grass alongside the A50 road, opposite the Airport Garage, which remains. Staffordshire Potteries had a factory (now demolished) beside the aerodrome.
Schools
- Abbey Hill Academy
- Crescent Primary School[permanent dead link]
- Meir Heath Primary School
- Ormiston Meridian Academy
- St Augustine's R.C. Primary School
- Sandon Primary Academy
Transport
Meir is situated along the A50. At the centre sits the junction with the A520. Once a notorious traffic jam site, a tunnel was built in 1997 to take the A50 underneath. The twin tunnels were walled with ceramic panels which were reported to have cost about £1,000 each when they began to come loose through rusting of their attachments after a few years[citation needed].
Meir was served by a railway station from 1894 to 1966.
Nearest places
- Barlaston
- Blythe Bridge
- Lightwood
- Longton
- Trentham
References
- ^ Cartlidge, Nicholas Jon (1996). A Meir Half Century. Photographs and news both church and secular from the years 1889 to 1939 covering the Meir and its near neighbours. Leek: Churnet Valley Books. ISBN 1-897949-15-4.
- ^ Cartlidge, Nicholas (2004). Meir Today, Gone Tomorrow. An affectionate portrait from within living memory. Leek: Churnet Valley Books. ISBN 1-904546-22-6.
- ^ Lycett-Smith, Roger (1998). Airfield Focus 34: Stoke on Trent (Meir). Peterborough: GMS Enterprises. ISBN 1-870384-68-7.
- ^ Holdcroft, Geoff (9 May 2006). "My father made last flight from Meir". The Sentinel.
- ^ Cartlidge, Nicholas (15 May 2006). "FRED deserves flight accolade". The Sentinel.
- ^ Clutton, Eric (2003). An Aeroplane called FRED. Tullahoma, Tennessee.
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towns and wards
- Abbey Green ward
- Abbey Hulton
- Baddeley Green
- Basford
- Bentilee
- Birches Head
- Blurton
- Blythe Bridge
- Bradeley
- Bucknall
- Burslem
- Chell
- Cliffe Vale
- Cobridge
- Dresden
- Etruria
- Fenton
- Florence
- Ford Green Brook
- Fowlea Brook
- Goldenhill
- Hanford
- Hanley
- Hartshill
- Hem Heath
- Heron Cross
- Lightwood
- Longport
- Longton
- Lyme Brook
- Meir
- Middleport
- Milton
- Normacot
- Northwood
- Norton le Moors
- Penkhull
- Sandyford
- Shelton
- Sideway
- Smallthorne
- Sneyd Green
- Stoke-upon-Trent
- Trentham
- Trent Vale
- Tunstall
- Weston Coyney
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- Lobby
- May un Mar Lady
- Oatcake
- Owd Grandad Piggott
- Potteries derby
- Potteries dialect
- River Trent
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