Abbots Bromley Community Shop & Hub

19/10/2026

🔔 While Stocks Last! 🔔 We have these Organic Artisan products from the Authentic Bread Company. Pain au chocolate, teacakes, danish pastry, carrot cake, savoury scones

16/10/2026

Zoe’s cakes will be in the shop from tomorrow and until Monday (or whilst stocks last which we doubt will be long).

The cakes are a variety pack each containing:

Chocolate orange Brownie
Bakewell New York Cookie
Sticky Toffee Blondie
Mini Lemon Drizzle loaf

08/10/2026

Congratulations to you Ian & your amazing team - thank you for your invite to us all for this evening’s Preview of your recent refurbishment. It’s really stylish, some fabulous details, and thoughtful touches. Well done indeed!

17/09/2026

🔔 UPDATE 🔔 Your shop will be closed this Sunday due to private booking at the village hall. All pre-ordered newspapers will be delivered.

Thanks for your understanding.

09/09/2026

How lovely to have a chance to celebrate our Community Shop & Hub and the amazing volunteers that help to make the dream a reality!

Photo taken from the Bromley Bulletin, courtesy of Editor & Abbots Bromley Parish Councillor Dr Helen Lockey 💚

31/08/2026

🔔 BREAKING NEWS 🔔 We now have a daily selection of newspapers for you to purchase.

30/08/2026

Power Static by HABARI MONOCHROME

An exhibition of Large Format Black & White Silver Gelatin Prints

Monday 3rd August to Friday 11th September

Monday - Friday 8am - 4pm
Saturday 8.30am - 4pm
Sunday 9am - 3pm

There is something quietly haunting about the black-and-white photographs of Rugeley Power Station now on display at Antlers Coffee House in Abbots Bromley.

At first glance, they are photographs of an industrial building — steel, concrete, pipes, machinery and vast empty spaces. But look a little longer and another story begins to emerge.
Rugeley Power Station was once a giant on the Staffordshire landscape. Its cooling towers and chimney were familiar landmarks above the Trent Valley. Inside, enormous machines, endless pipes and walkways filled vast generating halls with the noise and rhythm of industry.

In black and white, that machinery becomes almost architectural. Light catches railings and steelwork before disappearing into shadow. Staircases climb towards unseen levels and huge pieces of equipment now sit silently.
But behind the machinery were people.

Every empty corridor suggests the workers who once walked through it; every control panel the engineers and operators who kept the station running. There were early starts, noisy shifts, tea breaks, conversations and the pride of knowing that what happened inside those walls helped keep homes and businesses across the region powered.

Today, much of that world has disappeared, making these photographs more than simply records of an industrial site. They preserve the scale, detail and atmosphere of a workplace that shaped the lives of many local people.

There is something particularly fitting about seeing them in a coffee house in Abbots Bromley. Someone may recognise a piece of machinery, remember a relative who worked there, or simply recall seeing those unmistakable towers on the horizon.

For younger visitors, they offer a glimpse of a landscape that has changed almost beyond recognition.

The photographs remind us that Rugeley Power Station was more than steel and concrete. It was a place of work, engineering and community, and a landmark woven into the identity of the area.

The machinery has fallen silent and the towers are gone, but for a moment, in shades of grey and white, the heart of Rugeley is still beating.

29/08/2026

Open this bank holiday Monday until 12.30pm

Opening Hours for this weekend only, Friday 1st May through to Monday 4th May

19/08/2026

Great Route Info for this years Horn Dance Committee