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Gnosall Parish News

Produced by publishers of The Popular Village Monthly


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Letters & Announcements

Llangollen & Llandudno

Day trip to Llangollen and Llandudno Thursday 2nd May 2024

Leaving Gnosall at 8.00am Leaving Llandudno at 6.00pm

One pick up only in Stafford £25

If interested please contact Vivien on 0791 080 5532

Vivien

Purchase of the GPN

Single copies of the current GPN can be purchased at several places in the village at the full retail price of £1 each.

We would like to thank the staff of the new Morrison store for agreeing to sell the GPN for us. You can also buy copies at the Post Office/Express or the Bakery in Wharf Road and in the Community Library.

If you live in the village and would like to receive the magazine every month, contact Bob Colman at

subscriptions@gnosallparishnews.com or phone 01785 823955.

Magazines will be delivered to your door each month and the subscription rate is just 80p per copy (paid for the year in advance).

Reminder to current subscribers: most subscribers have now paid for the year, but if you have not, please pay your distributor as soon as possible or drop money off at Holly House, The Rank.

Regrettably we will have to assume that you no longer want the magazine if we do not receive your payment soon.

The GPN Team


 

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GNOSALL OPTOMETRISTS

In view of the recent notification patients will have received regarding the closure of the Optometrists in Gnosall and the transfer of business to a sister practice in Stafford or alternative practices in Eccleshall or Penkridge, Jenny and Peter Mincher‐Lockett would like to thank all patients and staff who supported us from our initial opening of the Gnosall practice in February 1985, to our sale of the business and retirement in 2011.

We opened our first Opticians practice, from scratch, at 18, Stafford Street, Stafford in 1969, followed by the purchase of Newbolds Opticians, Stafford in 1970 and another practice in Market Drayton in 1975. We needed a location to accommodate a workshop to serve all our practices, so our home village provided us with an ideal venue to open another business and house our workshop. We were very fortunate to engage David Garside as our workshop manager and his wife, Ann Garside who became our first receptionist and both remained with us until our retirement. Helen Bundy was also a well‐respected member of staff, joining us in 1996 and continuing for several years beyond our retirement. Subsequently, both Stafford and Gnosall practices were sold to a long‐standing employee of ours, Sarah Edge and her business partner, Jan Goodwin, and traded under the name of Goodwin & Edge Ltd, even though the Mincher‐Lockett name was retained, both in Stafford and Gnosall. This continued for 10 years until they, also, wanted to reduce their commitments and sold both Stafford and Gnosall in 2011.

We are assured that all Gnosall patient records, together with Emma and Kellie, the present Gnosall staff, will be transferred to Stafford, or, if more convenient, Eccleshall or Penkridge. We wish the new owners, since 2021, every success for the future.

We retained the ownership of the entire Old Forge building, throughout, but it will now be placed on the market.

The end of an era.

Jenny and Peter Mincher‐Lockett

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