Archive of posts

• Christmas and its origins – a zoom talk by David Roughley on Thurs 1st Dec at 1.30pm
• Clem Beckett, Belle Vue Speedway Legend and Spanish Civil War hero
• Clem Beckett, Bellevue Speedway legend and Spanish Civil War Hero
• Manchester’s skyscrapers – a History and a Critique
• CGN Drama Group – it’s Story
• Louise & Kay – neighbours & now good friends
• PARKLIFE: by Chorlton Good Neighbours Drama Group
• Karen’s Monday Morning Exercise Group
• Welcome to Christina, our new support worker
• Manchester’s Skyscrapers – love ‘em or hate ‘em? History talk Oct 6th
• Latest CGN news 16th Sep 2022
• CGN Volunteer Feedback on the Pandemic year
• Chorlton Good Neighbours: Impact Report 2021
• Jane Harrop: Doll’s House Miniatures – a history
• CGN History talk, Sep 1st: Jane Harrop on the history of miniature making
• Chorlton bookbinders talk on video
• Thursday’s History talk on Local Bookbinders
• Chorlton Bike Deliveries new, Age-friendly Trishaw – “Teresa”
• Two part-time jobs available at CGN
• Two part-time workers needed at CGN
• June History Talk on Angel Meadow by Elizabeth Sibbering
• CGN History Talk: “Angel Meadow” by Elizabeth Sibberling, Thurs 7th July, 1.30pm
• CGN June Newsletter
• Day trip to Lytham St Annes Tues 12th July
• Jubilee Celebration at Good Neighbours
• Zoom Link for CGN History talk on Thurs 9th June
• History talk ‘The Peppered Moth’ -Thurs 9th June at 1.30pm
• CGN drama group: “The Wedding of the Painted Doll”
• History Talk: Thurs 5th May 2022 1.30pm David Winpenny” Eccentrics, Exotics and Erratics- buildings in gardens “
• April / May 2022 Newsletter
• May history talk: David Winpenny on Garden Design
• Nurse Eileen McEndrick at Thursday coffee morning
• Geo-located walk of Chorlton along Beech Road
• Digital Support sessions
• History Talk: Hulme Housing Clearances
• Zoom History talk Thurs 7th April at 1.30pm Manchester’s Slum Clearances: Hulme and Moss Side
• Health event at Chorlton Good Neighbours
• Cockles & Mussels – The Melodics
• Roger Browne’s Talk now online
• March History talk by Roger Browne – “Not Father O’Malley”
• Newsletter for Feb 2022
• History Talk 3rd Mar: “Not Father O’Malley” by Roger Browne
• Thursday morning technical support sessions at CGN
• Madge Addy – “The Manchester Nurse Who Became a Spy”, a talk by Chris Hall
• Thursday’s history talk on nurse Madge Addy
• Thurs Feb 3rd,  History talk at 1.30pm, Chris Hall – Madge Addy ‘the nurse who became a spy
• Nakib Narat’s HistoryTalk on Ellen Wilkinson Jan 6th 2022
• Activities as usual from now on
• History zoom talk, Thurs Jan 6th 1.30pm
• Hidden History: Manchester and China
• Age Friendly Christmas Edition Let´s Dance Live session
• Manchester University Music Society students sing Carols at CGN
• Join our Zoom Exercise Classes
• Zoom talk: “Hidden History : Manchester and China”  2-12-21 at 1.30pm
• History Talk Thurs 4th Nov 1.30pm: Mcr Cotton Trade & campaign to abolish slavery
• The Great American Songbook – performance 19th & 20th Nov
• New CGN drama course & Stories of our Lives sessions
• History talk 7th Oct: Shops & Elizabeth Gaskell
• CGN Members Survey 2021
• Digital Drop in at Good Neighbours
• 2021 Good Neighbours Annual Report
• History Talk, Thurs 7th Oct 1.30pm – “Mrs Gaskell goes shopping”
• CGN in Chorlton Arts Festival: drama group and Art group
• The Emily Williamson statue campaign
• My Generation – Manchester’s coolest over-50s Social Night
• Let´s Dance: The Imagination Museum 
• Sonder Radio Podcasting Course
• Office move and history talk link
• Sep. History talk on Emily Williamson founder of the RSPB
• History talk Thurs Aug 5th at 1.30pm on stained glass , with David Winpenny
• History Talk, Thurs July 1st 1.30pm
• Chorlton Good Neighbours Newsletter June 2021
• Next History Talk: the History and Science of prosthetic limbs, Diana Leitch
• Let’s Dance
• Mcr Covid – Community Briefing, June 9, 2021
• History talk – three Manchester botanists, Thurs 3rd June 1.30pm
• Older People’s Digital Inclusion Officer
• Trish’s fundraising update
• Trish’s fundraiser for Chorlton Good Neighbours
• Creative Workshops for Women
• A message from Ayako
• Local GP Dr Andy Coupes – ‘Covid Question Time’ every Friday at 1.30pm
• Information about vaccination sites in Manchester. January 2021
• Thursday Zoom exercise class at 11.00am with Karen Oakes 
• Gerrard’s The Builders Zoom history talk: Thursday Feb 4th at 1.30pm
• Belle Vue – Manchester’s Lost Wonderland History talk, Thurs Jan 7th 2021
• Christmas 2020 Newsletter
• History talk on Irving Berlin Thursday Dec 10th 2020 at 1:30pm  
• Getting the Flu Jab 2020
• November Newsletter
• Halloween in virtual Chorlton & a free course in accessing a virtual world
• The LS Lowry tapes – a talk by Angela Bogg, Thurs Nov 5th 1.30pm
• Chorlton Good Neighbours Annual Report 2020
• International Day of Older Persons (IDOP) Oct 1st 2020
• History of the River Irwell and its role in the Industrial Revolution
• ‘Odes to Chorlton’ video
• Thursday 17th Sept  Annual General Meeting
• ‘Let’s Re-Imagine Our Chorlton’
• How we responded to Lockdown – April to June 2020
• CGN June 2020 Newsletter
• Zoom History Talk July 2nd – “The Beatles Before They Were Famous”
• Zoom Talk by Emma Fox on the History of the Manchester Bee
• Paul Slater -sharing memories
• Thursday 4th June History talk by Emma Fox on Manchester Bee
• Chorlton Good Neighbours: Report May 2020
• High Sheriff Recognition Award for CGN
• May 2020 Newsletter from Helen
• Live Performances in Chorlton
• Chorlton Good Neighbours, an Update from Helen Hibberd
• Report on the volunteers training session, 4 March 2020
• Positive Living Group update from Debra
• Positive Living  Group’s Lockdown Tips
• Exercise – 10today and can you spot Bernard
• Easter letter 2020 from Helen
• Stories of Our Lives goes online!
• Message about the voluntary sector from Mcr City Council
• BIG THANK YOU to all Chorlton Good Neighbours volunteers and staff
• Update from Helen, CGN coordinator, 27-03-20
• Offers of help & the COVID-19 crisis
• A message to our volunteers about the Coronavirus
• Stories of our Lives  – an update
• Trip to the Devonshire Arms , Mellor
• Thursday coffee mornings during January and February.
• Setting up a neighbourhood care organisation
• Good Neighbours History Group 1.30pm Thurs 6th Feb
• Big Energy Saving Week at Good Neighbours
• Positive Living Group meets 1st Monday of each month
• History Talks programme Feb-July 2020
• Exercise classes at Chorlton Good Neighbours – Mon am; Wed pm; Fri am
• New Free Drama Workshops start on Feb 12th 2020
• CGN Christmas Party, Thurs Dec 19th
• Stories of our Lives Book launch, 14th Dec 2019
• Live Music now at the Bridgewater Hall
• ‘Coming home for Christmas’ – performance by CGN drama group
• Melodics at coffee morning
• Final coffee morning before the Christmas break, Dec 2019
• “Coming home for Christmas” Good Neighbours Drama Group
• It’s that time of year again…….ho ho ho!
• Seasonal update Nov-Dec 2019
• Fundraising for CGN
• Christmas Lantern Parade on Beech Road, Thurs 28th Nov, 5.45pm
• Coffee Morning Activities – visitors, paintings and actors
• Funeral Planning Workshop
• Christmas Meal at Houghend Police club, 19th Dec 2019
• Sunday Tea Christmas Party on Dec 1st
• Nov-Dec CGN Newsletter
• CGN Free Drama Workshops
• spooktacular Halloween on Beech Road
• Performing and Sharing “Stories of our Lives”
• CGN drama groups presents – ‘Staying Alive for Barry Gibb’
• Good Neighbours Annual Report Sep 2019
• Chorlton Good Neighbours AGM 2019
• Funeral Planning workshop 8th Oct 2019
• September 2019 events at Good Neighbours
• “Stories of our Lives” a new project to share memories
• Mini trip to manchester Central
• Volunteer training – motivations for volunteering with older people
• Drama group presents – “Staying Alive for Barry …
• Trips out to Rhos on Sea and to Trentham Gardens
• Thursday coffee mornings – a lot has been going on
• 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
• 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