Archive

• Chorlton Get Together Day 23rd June 2019
• Longford park seniors (55+) Bowling Club
• Forthcoming events at Good Neighbours in July
• Talk on history of Manchester’s Victorian glass industry
• Thursday coffee morning. 6th June 2019
• Circus Skills at the Drama Group
• June Sunday Tea
• FREE Drama Workshops for All Ages with Circus Skills!
• What’s On at Chorlton Good Neighbours in early June
• Last Thursday coffee morning (17-04-19) was very busy….
• Stories Project at Good Neighbours
• Interviews with Good Neighbours Volunteers
• New Outdoor Sign
• “Death at the Seaside” another Good Neighbours comedy mystery play
• Spanish Civil War talk
• James Bond Murder Mystery comes to Good Neighbours
• Chorlton Good Neighbour’s exercise classes
• South Manchester History – out of the box
• Coffee Morning Questions for Councillors
• On their way to perform at HOME
• Joyce, Gagarin and Russian TV
• CGN Events Feb / Mar 2019
• Training session for volunteers Feb 14th
• Drama Workshops explore improvisation
• Good Neighbours cut the ribbon at the local Co-op
• Drama Workshops start 6th Feb
• What’s On at CGN – Feb update
• Watch out for the video interviews
• Support from the Co-op
• Busy Coffee Morning
• “Snowed In” performance at HOME
• Nakib talks about “Snowed In” on Radio Manchester
• Spring Drama Workshops
• Try out our Exercise Classes in 2019
• Donation from Riley’s
• Christmas Celebrations
• Donations in 2018
• Christmas is coming at CGN…
• History Talks Feb-July 2019
• History Group meeting Thurs 6th Dec 2018
• A busy week for Chorlton Good Neigbours
• “Snowed in” more photos
• Snowed in”- the Performance
• Last rehearsal for our play “Snowed In”
• November Newsletter
• Halloween drama group session
• Fundraising raffle
• Trip to Hanging Gate pub
• CGN 2018 Annual Report
• Defibrillator demonstration
• Health and Medicine – History talk
• The Good Neighbours 2018 AGM
• Good Neighbours garden update
• CGN drama workshop interviews after first session
• Drama Workshops at CGN – week one with Sam and Nakib
• Positive Living group – meets every month
• History Talks Programme  Sep – Dec 2018
• CGN Drama Workshops start on Sep 19th
• Review of Lovechester1970s by Age Friendly Manchester
• ‘LoveChester 70s – the Film!
• Lovechester 1970s has its world premiere at HOME!
• “Lovechester 1970s – What Are You Doing Sunday Baby” 
• ‘LoveChester 70s – What Are You Doing Sunday Baby’
• Good Neighbours trip to the Longlands Hotel, Carnforth
• Talk by Joanne Williams on Abel Heywood, Radical Mcr mayor
• Lovechester 1970s – What Are You Doing Sunday Baby?
• Talk by Steve Millwood: 1970 & 1974 in words and music.
• Drama workshops: week 6, visit from the Royal Echange
• Sunday tea in May at Good Neighbours
• Shareen Fashions – closing after 44 years in Chorlton
• Good Neighbours Drama Workshops: week 4
• ‘Arts should be available on prescription’
• Chorlton Good Neighbours Stage Production supported by Royal Exchange Theatre
• Volunteer information sessions in April
• Good Neighbours at the Benito Lounge
• Drama Workshop week 3
• Talk by Angela Downing: the origins of Manchester Parks
• Drama workshop, week 2
• Drama workshop – first week at Good Neighbours
• Coffee Morning Surprise – free cakes and Easter Eggs!
• BBC1’s “Holding Back the Years” come to Good Neighbours
• Talk by Nicola Gardener: The history and Origins of Carnival
• Memory Boards
• A busy coffee morning, 15 March 2018
• Chorlton Good Neighbours Launch Free Drama Workshops for over 60s   
• Good Neighbours on  “Holding Back the Years”. Friday 23rd of March, BBC1 9.15am
• Chip Shop Chips at Good Neighbours
• Useful information and updates Feb/March 2018
• Visits from M/c Univ Music Society & Age Friendly M/c team
• Talk by Eddie Little: More on The Ted Heath Band
• Oswald Rd school gives Good Neighbours a Community Hero Award
• Chorlton Good Neighbour’s Drama Workshops for 60+
• History Group talk on “The Quirks of Chorlton cum Hardy”
• Chorlton Park Primary at Good Neighbours
• Andrew Simpson talks about his new book “The Quirks of Chorlton”
• Chip Shop Chips by Becky Prestwich
• Winter Warmer trip to Millstones, Harrogate
• Positive Living Group
• More events in Jan & Feb
• Chorlton Good Neighbours History Talks Feb-July 2018
• The importance of exercising
• It’s never too late to get on the stage…..
• Christmas Treat from Heinekens Brewery
• Good Neighbours Christmas Meal 2017
• Garden Group goes decorative for Christmas
• Melodics singing group – ready for Christmas
• “Holding Back the Years” – BBC at Good Neighbours
• Events in December 2017
• Coffee Morning Talk about Charlie Peace
• Children’s Books – CGN talk with Chorlton High students
• 3334
• Mickie Mitchell’s 100th birthday
• Talk on the History of Chocolate- including an Aztec drink
• Pharmacy students visit coffee morning
• New volunteer training session at CGN
• Good Neighbours at the Manchester Food & Drink Festival
• A Profile of Volunteers’ Motivations, Feelings and Perceptions 2012
• Chorlton Good Neighbours  Survey of Users 2011
• Good Neighbours Annual Report 2017
• Using an old ironing board to sieve soil (Video)
• 50th Anniversary Pebble Border in place
• Good Neighbours 50th Anniversary Party
• Finishing of the Garden shelter
• Building the Garden Shelter
• A Typical Good Neighbours Coffee Morning
• Day Trip to Clevelys
• 50 Volunteers Reflect on What Chorlton Good Neighbours Means to Them
• CGN timeline brochure 1967-2017
• Films celebrating 50 years of Chorlton Good Neighbours (videos)
• June 13th Trip to Southport
• Co-op celebrates the funds raised by its members for Local Causes
• Co-op Local Community Fund
• March news
• Designing and painting pebbles for the pebble border
• Trip out to Oswaldtwistle Mill
• Garden Update
• Celebrating 50 years of Good Neighbours
• University Music Society comes to Good Neighbours
• List of Community Groups and Social Support Contacts in Chorlton and Whalley Range
• Good Neighbours Christmas Meal 2016
• Merryn Cook’s talk about Chorlton Open Gardens
• Jean Finney’s talk about witches and superstitions
• CGN garden settles in for autumn
• Chorlton Good Neighbours hosts Age Friendly event
• Welcome to new worker – Philip Barrett
• The Paralympics: From Manchester to Rio – Mark Todd
• Age Friendly event at Good Neighbours
• Good Neighbours garden – October update
• Chorlton Good Neighbours AGM
• Bob Cowan and the Arctic Convoys (videos)
• Meet Moira Bowater – Good Neighbours new worker
• Good Neighbours Garden update
• Nancy Drumm’s 100th birthday celebration
• Good Neighbours and Men in Sheds
• CGN Garden update
• Chorlton Open Garden day
• Celebration of the Queens 90th Birthday at Coffee Morning
• Snooker afternoon in June
• Getting ready for Chorlton Open Gardens
• Job Vacancy at Chorlton Good Neighbours – Community Support Worker
• Easter egg time at Chorlton Good Neighbours
• Jacqui & Carli our local PCSO’s at the coffee morning
• Spring at last in the Good Neighbours Garden
• Hilda and Timmy at the Toddlers Group
• Last session of the year at Good Neighbours Garden
• Helen’ MBE presented to her at Buckingham Palace
• Community Health Clinic Project at Good Neighbours
• Good Neighbours AGM 2015
• Good Neighbours Garden Spring & Summer 2015
• Pets make another visit to Good Neighbours (video)
• Community Health Clinic Award (video)
• Noah’s Art visit Good Neighbours
• Another Russian medal for Bob Cowan
• The Good Neighbours garden in May
• Eyewitness Theatre – Safeguarding adults workshop
• March 2015 photos of Good Neighbours activities
• Coffee Morning and Snooker
• Finishing the Mosaics for the garden
• Making mosaics for the Good Neighbours Garden
• Leah Cavanagh wins the Manchester Creativity in the Community award
• Melodics Christmas Singalong
• Good Neighbours Christmas Meal 2014
• Leah wins “Be Proud of Manchester” Award for work with the Melodics
• Visit to Chorlton High School
• First Aid training session
• Melodics Concert at Longford Care Home
• Trip to Rivington Barn
• Arctic Convoy medal presentation at Manchester Town Hall (video)
• Unity Toy Box Circus visit Good neighbours
• CGN Annual General Meeting 2014
• Visit to the Bourne Poacher
• The Good Neighbours Garden in September
• The Sanctuary
• Bill Howe’s poem (video)
• Memories of Music
• Session on Frailty at Good Neighbours
• Good Neighbours trip to Rhos on Sea
• Good Neighbours Open Day
• Making Mosaics week 2 (video)
• Making Mosaics (video)
• Safe Handling and Dealing with Falls
• Garden Update 4th April 14
• Talk on Victorian Dress at History Group
• Spring is on its way in the CGN garden
• History Group at Manchester Histories Festival
• Thorntons Chocolate Morning
• Visit by Bishop of Manchester
• Planting some onions in the CGN Garden plot (video)
• The Lost Railways of South Manchester
• Longsight Traction depot
• Karen’s Exercise Class (video)
• Spring is on its way
• CGN Greenhouse – repairs after the gale
• Good Neighbours 2002 Golden Jubilee celebration
• Garden Club surveys the storm damage
• History of Metropolitan Vickers, Trafford Park (video)
• Helen, Enid and Karen on Radio 5 Live (video/audio)
• Spring Clean in the Good Neighbours Garden
• Final Garden Session of the Year
• Free TV Licence for over 75’s
• A Christmas Carol from the Melodics
• Christmas Meal 2013
• Christmas Party , Dec 1st 2013
• Story teller at Good Neighbours
• Bob Cowan presented with Arctic Star medal
• Winter Warmer event at Trafalgar House (video)
• Good Neighbours Garden in Late October
• Day Trip to Llandudno
• Harvest and the garden
• Bowling in the late summer sunshine
• St Francis House Children’s Hospice receive cheque
• Good Neighbours AGM
• Harvest time in the good neighbours garden
• Stars & Stripes day out
• Manchester Jewish History Walk
• Music in the Good Neighbours Garden (video)
• garden in July (video)
• Day trip to the Bourne Poacher (video)
• Natasha – the new service support worker
• The origins of the NHS in Manchester
• Doing the Lambeth Walk
• CGN Garden on a hot July day
• History Group: Thur July 4th 1.30pm: the NHS
• Chorlton Coffee Festival at Good Neighbours
• Chorlton Good Neighbours Garden: The Story So Far…….
• Chorlton Open Gardens event and CGN
• Greenhouse officially opened
• Progress on the Good Neighbours garden
• Garden in early June
• History Group: June & July Programme
• June: Sunday Tea and future events
• July History Group: The origins of the Manchester Jewish Community, Bill Williams
• Job Vacancies at CGN
• Making the greenhouse accessible
• History Group – May and June meetings
• Finishing off the Greenhouse
• 9 Lives – the History of Tatton Park
• Greenhouse nearing completion
• Installing the greenhouse windows
• CGN Stall at the Post Office
• Greenhouse frame completed
• Assembling the Good Neighbours Greenhouse
• Bob Cowan to get Arctic Star Medal
• Beetham Tower Photoshoot – not for the faint hearted
• Survey of Good Neighbours’ Exercise Classes
• Primroses, seedlings and spent hops
• Video of WW2 Event at Chorlton Good Neighbours
• Photos of WW2 Veterans Event, Feb 7th 2013
• Chorlton’s Arctic Convoy veterans on Granada TV
• Sunday Tea with the Leetones
• Gardening Club on Ice
• 2012 Garden Produce for Sale
• Art Exhibition at Chorlton Library
• Bob Cowan & WW2 Arctic Convoys
• Alan Wood – WW2 Fighter pilot
• Mickie Mitchell in WW2
• John Mackay – Chorlton Arctic Convoy Veteran
• History Group meets Thurs Feb 7th at 1.30pm
• New Year’s Lunch
• Happy New Year
• Russell thanks volunteers
• Bob to get Arctic Convoy Medal
• Gardening Club Christmas update
• A very rainy day in the garden…
• Baking Potatoes and Planting Bulbs
• Punch and Judy – talk by Rev Ian Mutton
• Good Neighbours Christmas Party
• Dominic Kelly, Storyteller
• Day Out at FC United
• Hops and Hardy Chrysanthemums
• An afternoon at the snooker club
• Autumn Leaves and Archeological Digs
• Compost Bays and History
• Chorlton in the Middles Ages
• Pumpkin & Leek Soup, Cheese Flan & Parkin
• Learning about Photography Session
• Woodchip, woodchip and more woodchip
• Bob Cowan and the Arctic Convoy medal
• Frogs, Woodchip and the Golden Autumnal Sun
• Visit to the Chill Factor
• Taters and Chainsaws – The Gardening Club Returns
• Enjoying the Autumn Sun on the Bowling Green
• Chainsaw and Potato cropping
• A good potato crop
• McMillan Coffee morning
• The Good Neighbours garden project, Jan to Sep 2012
• Denise’s Leaving Party in 1988
• Good Neighbours stall at ‘Faith on the Green’
• The life and times of Mr George Formby
• Lights, Camera, Drizzle
• Tuesday Parent & Toddler Group
• Day Trip to Rhos on Sea
• Snooker & Bowling afternoon
• Good Neighbours on the Frank Randle day in Blackpool
• Northern Belly Company at Good Neighbours
• Good Neighbours at Brookburn Summer Fair
• Exercise Classes at Good Neighbours
• Gagarin’s visit to Manchester
• Trip to Boundary Mill, Colne
• Jubilee Sunday
• Good Neighbours leaflet
• Planting potatoes
• Ruby, the Jubilee Queen
• Good Neighbours Radio Broadcast
• Good Neighbours’ trip to Morecambe
• Putting the Raised Beds in Position
• The Raised Beds arrive
• The Spring Fundraising Variety Concert
• MMU Design Lab Students return visit
• Gardening project – digging on a very wet April day
• Bill Williams’ talk on Manchesters Black pre-history
• Cracking Good Food’s Hot Pot session
• Wai Yin’s Tai Chi Demonstration
• Gardening project – learning about soil testing
• Day 2 of the Gardening project
• The 5 Ways of Wellbeing – what are they?
• Talk on Memory Loss and Dementia
• Don’s Exercise Class
• Chorlton Good Neighbours User survey
• The Gardening Project gets started
• Indoor Curling
• Thank you letter from Brookburn pupil
• Volunteers Christmas Meal 2011
• Helen on Woman’s Hour
• Chorlton Good Neighbours, 2007 video
• Christmas Party, Dec 2011
• Visit to Brookburn Primary School
• Pumpkin pie
• Sunday Tea
• First Aid course
• Philip Lloyd, historian
• The Sweet Cordials
• John the Baker
• Marjorie Holmes
• Joan, Christine, Marion & Enid
• Exercising
• Open Voice Choir
• Ray plays the spoons
• Arthur, wheelchair support worker
• Joan Wood
• John Brownhill plays the piano
• Andrew Dawson looks back
• Hilda’s Paintings
• Phillip Lloyd’s history of Good Neighbours
• Renee Smith, memories
• Tess Lamb, memories
• Hilda Mason, memories