Welcome to the Wyrley-Wide-Web
('Wyrley-Wide-Web' and the weaving spider logo are protected under copyright, 1999 - 2002)

If you wish to save this page on your bookmark / favourites list then please use http://www.wyrley-wide-web.co.uk as everything else is liable to change. This is also the home of the 'Great Wyrley Community' web site, http://www.great-wyrley.org.uk
accessible via the Community Council of Staffordshire (http://www.staffs.org.uk)

Contents

Introduction
What's new?
Emergency Numbers
Computers & Internet
Councils & Politics
Charities
Commercial Policy
Courses
Employment
Events & Entertainment
Fun
Geography & History
Housing
Library
Links
Local Businesses
Places of interest
Meeting Places
Newspapers
Nurseries/childcare
Places of worship
Pubs and Clubs
Recycling Centres
Radio
Residents
Schools
Social Services
Societies
Sports and Leisure
Telephone & Post
Travel

Introduction

The Wyrley-Wide-Web serves the community of Great Wyrley (including Landywood and Churchbridge) and Little Wyrley 
If you tell us what's going on then this can become a useful community resource. If you don't it can't.

• contribute any information that you think would be of interest to other members of the community

• tell us of any links to existing local information

• tell us which of the ideas (in red) you would like to see developed first

• make any comments that will help us to provide a more useful site

• volunteer to help - provide contact information for local groups, reports on sporting events, local history or advanced notification of local events

Email  to webmaster@wyrley-wide-web.co.uk

What's New

Local Emergency Numbers

Police

Cannock (01543) 574545. Cheslyn Hay (01922) 413072. 

Health

Great Wyrley Health Centre, Wardles Lane. (01922) 415515 

Doctors 

Dentists 

Nearest Hospitals

Manor Hospital, Moat Road, Walsall. (01922) 721172 
Staffordshire General Hospital, Weston Road, Stafford. (01785) 257731 
Cannock Chase Hospital, Brunswick Road, Cannock. (01543) 572757 [ no accident & emergency ]

Pharmacists

Cannock Chase D.C. late night rota

Pets

Vetinary Surgeons
R.S.P.C.A. 0870 5555 999

Geography & History

Neighbourhood statistics
Geology, Height Above Sea Level
Maps

The Forest of Mercia
roads, footpaths, parish boundaries, old maps. Currently, see the Cheslyn Hay web site.

The name of the village was recorded as Wereleia in the Domesday survey, as Wirlega in 1170 and 1176, and as Great Wyrley by 1300. 

Photographs - new & old.

Local places of interest

The Forest of Mercia
Little Wyrley Hall
Wash Brook & Gains Brook
Watling Street 

Wyrley and Essington Canal - canalroutes.org.uk,Canoeist Guides 

Travel

Rail

Plan your journey from Landywood Station  (linked site includes maps and timetables)

Railway Noise Reduction Campaign

Buses

Great Wyrley Routes
Landywood Routes

The Green Bus Company, Great Wyrley

Taxis
Traffic information
Cycling

Safer Routes to School

[ From Joanne Wild, TravelWise Road Safety Co-ordinator, Development Services at Staffordshire County Council, joanne.wild@staffordshire.gov.uk ]

Last year parents and pupils of schools in the area were surveyed about their thoughts on safety in the area.  The results of the surveys were discussed by a steering group consisting of engineers, councillors, teachers, police, nurses etc.  Engineers will be designing a list of safety measures eg road humps, speed cushions, mini-roundabouts etc and pupils at school will be encouraged to study how to be safe near the roads.  A leaflet has been published to illustrate where the traffic calming features may take place.  All pupils and parents will receive a copy and there should be copies in the library, health centre etc. or you can download the following documents in PDF format (this may take some time, depending on the speed of your link): Introduction (929 KB), Safer routes to school  (1,784 KB)

Traffic calming measures

Wyrley Residents Against The Humps

Expedition

G.W.H.S. Morocco 2002 expedition

Telephone & Post

Telephone Area Code - Great Wyrley numbers are prefixed by the Cheslyn Hay code (01922). This is the same code as the rest of the Walsall area. 
Postal Address - Great Wyrley is in Staffordshire but has a postal address of Great Wyrley, Walsall, West Midlands. 

Post Offices

Great Wyrley Post Office, 196 Walsall Road. 413024 
Sub Post Office, Wardles Lane. (Now inside Quinton Spar)

Library

Great Wyrley Library

Councils & Politics

2005 County Council Division Election Results

2001 Election BBC Vote 2001 Staffordshire South

Great Wyrley Parish Council 414768  Parish Council Chairmen and Clerks
South Staffordshire (01902) 696000 South Staffordshire Council
Staffordshire County (01785) 223121 Great Wyrley's County Councillor
Member of Parliament
European Parliament West Midlands in Europe
Political parties - (Please send contact information)
South Staffs. Labour

Nurseries/childcare

Nurseries

Schools

Great Wyrley High School
Hall Lane.
01922 857030

Landywood Primary School
Holly Lane.
01922 857020

Moat Hall Primary School
Johns Lane.
01922 857005

St. Thomas More R. C. 
Primary School,
Huthill Lane.
01922 857075

Courses

CCTC courses in Great Wyrley

"My Time" - A women's course on how to discover the real you...

For more information visit http://www.ssha.co.uk/Advice/CustomerInformation/Rents/AdviceAndSupport/MyTime.htm 

Employment

Employment Service Job Centre
Career Guidance Services

Housing

http://www.estateangels.co.uk/place/31387/Great_Wyrley

Housing association:

South Staffs Housing Association Tel. 01785 312000

Message from SSHA 17/9/01:

Garages for Rent: We have garages available for vehicles or storage which provide:

• Secure parking

• Clean, dry storage

• A dry place to work on your car

• A possible reduction in motor insurance costs

• All this for £5.03 per week.

We currently have vacancies in Great Wyrley and other areas. Visit:- http://www.ssha.co.uk/housing_available/garages.htm or contact abromfield@ssha.co.uk for details.

Social Services

Great Wyrley Day Centre 419829
Community Support Unit 156 Walsall Road.418501 or 418502

Places of worship

Anglican parish of Great Wyrley; St. Andrew's, Landywood; St. Mark's, Great Wyrley

Great Wyrley Methodist Church
Upper Landywood Methodist Chapel
[ Information about where people of other faiths or denominations who live within the community go to worship would be useful ]

Meeting Places

Great Wyrley Community Centre, Landywood Lane. 414768
Great Wyrley Youth & Community Education Centre, Hall Lane. 412603 
Old People's Centre
Star Land

Pubs and Clubs

The Davy Lamp
The Robin Hood
The Royal Oak
The Star
The Swan
The Wheatsheaf
Blowers
Great Wyrley Working Men's Club & Institute, 343 Walsall Road. 412332
Harrison's
Old Wyrley Hall

Societies

Boys Brigade
Great Wyrley Scout & Guide Centre, Walsall Road. 412450
Venture Scouts, Scouts, Cubs, Beavers, Guides, Brownies and Rainbows
Great Wyrley Community Band

Marching Bands

Great Wyrley Townswomen
Great Wyrley Darby & Joan Club

Cheslyn Hay & Great Wyrley Flower Club

Sports and Leisure

Cheslyn Hay Leisure Centre, Saredon Road, Cheslyn Hay. 417790 

Walsall MBC list of sports sessions in Great Wyrley

Basketball

A basketball area is planned in Phase 2 of the Youth Investment scheme

Cricket 

Essington & Great Wyrley Cricket Club, Broad Lane, Essington. 

Dancing

Diet & Fitness

The Rosemary Conley Diet and Fitness Clubs held in Great Wyrley and Cheslyn Hay
Class information and E Slim Newsletter
Contact: Joanne Stanton at JoLStanton@aol.com

Football

Davy Lamp FC
Great Wyrley FC, Hazel Lane.
Great Wyrley Ladies FC
Wyrley Juniors FC
Wyrley Juniors Girls FC
Wyrley Rangers Ladies FC

Gardening

Grow native plants to support local wildlife - Flora for Fauna
Flora for Fauna for WS6 postcode

Gymnastics
Horse Riding
Martial Arts

Choi Kwang Do, 1st Floor, 136 - 138 Quinton Court Shopping Centre, Wardles Lane.

Skating and skateboarding

A new skateboard park opened on Saturday, 26 October 2002 on land between Landywood Station and the Community Centre. It is the first phase of a £33,000 youth investment plan. A rail will be added soon. Phase 2 should provide a youth shelter and a basketball area. The scheme was organised by the parish council with funding help from the S. Staffs Housing Association. Negotiations are underway with the owners of the Quinton Shopping Centre for a drop-in centre on the site.

Snooker

Landywood Snooker Club, Landywood Enterprise Park Pk 23, Holly Lane. 701147.
Email: info@landywood-snooker.co.uk

Table Tennis Club

Charities

Landywood District Voluntary Help Centre, 154 Walsall Road. 418381 & 410247
Air Ambulance

Residents and Ex-residents

Anyone visiting this site from abroad who went to school in the UK may not have heard of  the popular commercial site http://www.friendsreunited.co.uk You can register free and post some details about yourself but you can only send messages to others who have registered if you pay a fee of £5 per year (as of January 2003)

Message from Phillip Nash in Thailand

"Dear all, 

It is very pleasing to see a web site about the old village, it has brought a tear to my eye . I am sitting in the school
where I work and all the children are practising for the sports day, it does stir many memories - all good, I  must add.

It would be nice to hear from anyone I know in the village, however, I would be most grateful if someone could email
me any photos of the village or schools, or even send me brochures or postcards of any local attractions. I feel that my
students would be very grateful for the chance to see what life is like for kids from other cultures.

Keep up the Wyrley spirit and I wish you all the best of fortune.
Thanks...

       Phillip Nash  emperor_nash@hotmail.com
       T.I.T. Tower,
        Soi Wat Pai Ngern,
         Bangkorlaem,
          Bangkok 10120,
           Thailand. "
 

Message from A. Russell

"I used to live in great wyrley during the 80's and went to Landywood primary school until
'88. I would be interested to know if any of my former teachers still taught at the school and about
the changes to the buildings there. I have very fond memories of the place and would be grateful of
any information you could give me.Yours sincerely Mr A.Russell" AdRusse@aol.com

Reunion - Great Wyrley High School sixth form 1989 - 1991

Andy Lyons writes:

"I would like to try and arrange either a gathering / reunion of former pupils of Great Wyrley High who attended the sixth form during the years of 89 - 91, before we lose touch completely. It's been ten years since we left and it would be nice to catch up with old friends. Many people I still see regularly but it would be nice to get everyone together, an ideal time maybe being Xmas 2001 when many of you will be in the area visiting relatives.
To help in this I'm looking for people who were in my year such as Si Jones, Paul Selvey, Annette Rider, Joanne Derry, Sarah Philips, Helen Dunning, Lisa Cooper, Andrea Lort to name but a few. Many people stayed on to take A Level exams in 1991 but there were quite a few who left in 1990 having stayed just for the first year. In the first instance please email me at andy.lyons@edwards.boc.com"

Susan (nee Freeman) Filippi used to live in Fair Oaks Drive, Landywood and attended Landywood Primary School. She emigrated to Australia in May 1973 at the age of 10.  She would like to hear from anyone who knows her and she is curious to find out how the area has changed.[ Susan's Email address is not currently working - we are waiting for her to make contact again ]

Alison (nee Nicklin) Voita sent an Email on 22 Aug 2000: 
"I miss Great Wyrley! I desperately want to seek out old friends. I used to live in Great Wyrley and attended Great Wyrley High School from September 1986 to July 1990.  I emigrated to America in 1991 at age 17 .  I would love to hear from anyone that knows me." Email to alivoita262@cs.com

Dale Houlston made contact early in 2001:
" I was born in Cannock in 1968 and lived at 11 Kingswood Drive.  My mum and dad are Dot and Barry and my sister is
Kim. We moved to Skegness in 1978. I would like to make contact with anyone that thinks they knew me or any of my family when I was a little chap" " I remember Anthony Podmore; The Woods Family, Jonathan, Chris, Tim, Phil, Steve, Chrissie; The Parr family; Chris Smith's family; Phillip Johnson's family. Would like to here from anyone. We used to play all day down at the fields down at the bottom of Pool View in the old mining shacks. Hope to get an email  from someone soon."  dalehoulston@impactboston.ltd.uk

Directory of Email addresses of current or past members of the community [ need to investigate privacy and legal aspects ]
Oral histories [ transcripts or sound ]
Requests for local information

Computers and the Internet

Broadband Internet in Great Wyrley
The Cheslyn Hay exchange reached the 400 threshhold set by BT and was converted to allow ADSL Broadband connections.

See http://www.adslguide.org/ for comparisons of ISPs offering an ADSL service.
WARNING - Any kind of 'always-on' Internet connection is at greater risk of malicious attack so you should consider installing firewall software.

Public Internet access points Great Wyrley Library
Computer courses

This site - technology
We curently use only static HTML written using the free, open-source Mozilla Composer. We intend to continue to use only Open Source software.

A hit counter.

Local newspapers

Cannock & Rugely Chronicle
Cannock & Rugely Mercury (Central Indepenent Newspapers Ltd.) General enquiries 01543 414414
Cannock Chase Post  http://www.chasepost.co.uk
Express & Star  http://www.expressandstar.com or http://www.westmidlands.com
Sunday Mercury

Local radio

BBC Stoke & Staffordshire
Other stations

Recycling Centres

For further advice contact South Staffordshire Council on 01902 696316

Plastic
Shoes
Spectacles
Batteries

Events & Entertainment

Great Wyrley Carnival 

Firework display 

Normally on 5th November on the Star Land

New Year's Day Walk

'Beating the bounds' walk from the Scout Hut

Rememberance Day Parade

On the Sunday nearest 11th November, from the Scout Hut to the War Memorial

Fairs / Fetes

Usually held on the Star Land

Art

Millennium Art - Exhibition & Calendar 2000

Cinema  http://www.ents24.co.uk/web/whatson/cinema/ws6.html

Clubs http://www.ents24.co.uk/web/whatson/clubs/ws6.html

Dance

Music http://www.ents24.co.uk/web/whatson/music/ws6.html

Local Bands

Great Wyrley Community Band

Backtrackers
DPD -  including MP3 files of their closet classics 'The Seafarer' and 'The Oak'
Jinx

Theatre & Comedy http://www.ents24.co.uk/web/whatson/theatre/ws6.html

Fun

Cartoons
Puzzles

Links

Midlands weather (from the Met Office)
Traffic information
Local directories
Our neighbours in cyber-space Cheslyn Hay,Essington, Norton Canes

Commercial Policy

This site is run on a non-profit basis for the benefit of the Community of Great Wyrley under the rules of the Community Council of Staffordshire. The rules allow commercial sponsorship of the site to cover production costs but this is not currently necessary. The initial guiding principle used by the Wyrley-Wide-Web webmaster is that advertising will not be carried but references to local businesses may be made if he perceives that to be of benefit to the community and visitors. If any business within the community already has a web-page then any request to add a URL link from this site will be considered. 

Local Businesses

First Impressions Vintage Car Hire