Talking soft plastics and recycling in the CGN garden
Joyce, Lorraine & Mary discuss how they recycled long before the present crisis and why sorting out the plastics remains a problem
Hilde at Chorlton Good Neighbours
Hilde age 92, came to Manchester after her family had to flee wartime Austria. She loves the company and support she gets at CGN
food labels are getting smaller and smaller
Mary from Chorlton Good Neighbours talks about how packaging labels seem to be getting smaller and smaller
Joyce, Lorraine & Mary talk about Chorlton Good Neighbours
Joyce, Lorraine & Mary talk about Chorlton Good Neighbours – Thursday coffee mornings, Friday exercise classes – and what they get our of it and how important it is to them
Anna & Mike – Chorlton Good Neighbours Volunteers
Anna & Mike are partners who both volunteer at Chorlton Good Neighbours. Here they talk about why they do it, what they get from doing it and how they support the people they visit, give lifts too or provide with cups of tea at coffee morning and events. They hope too that if or whenContinue reading Anna & Mike – Chorlton Good Neighbours Volunteers
VE Day 1945 Liberation, Julie’s poem
VE Day 1945 Julie’s poem ‘Liberation ‘ is her tribute to the WW2 generation which she read at the Chorlton Good Neighbours WW2 VE day party in May 2024
CGN Drama Group & WW2 generation
A Celebration of the World War 2 Generation by Chorlton Good Neighbours Drama group. Performed May 22 & 23 as part of the 2024 Chorlton Arts Festival. It includes short videos of two of CGNs war veterans, Mickie Mitchell and Bob Cowen. The original videos of interviews with Mickie and Bob can be foundContinue reading CGN Drama Group & WW2 generation
Memories of VE Day
On May 16th 2024 Chorlton Good Neighbours had a party to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D Day Landings. Some of our older members gave their personal memories of the celebrations on VE day towards the end of WW2. In addition Jolivia Gaston read us two poems – Conflict and Liberation – with herContinue reading Memories of VE Day
CGN History talk 14th May: the Holy Name & St Augustine’s
Tuesday 14th May at 1.30pm  all welcome Bernard Leach :  History of the Holy Name & St Augustine Churches This follows on from the talk on Irish Manchester that I gave over a year ago. The two Roman Catholic churches are close to each other on Oxford Road, Manchester and are important both to theContinue reading CGN History talk 14th May: the Holy Name & St Augustine’s
April, May and June History talks at CGN
“I came out shivering” Bob Cowan and the sinking of HMS Mashona, 1941
Bob Cowan was 93 years old when I interviewed him in 2012. He was born in Moss Side, Manchester. This is part one of his memories and experience of war at sea during WW2. Here he talks about the sinking of HMS Mashona in 1941 . In later videos I will look at his experienceContinue reading “I came out shivering” Bob Cowan and the sinking of HMS Mashona, 1941
Public Realm Plan for the centre of Chorlton goes live
The City Council’s “Public Realm Plan for the centre of Chorlton” has now gone live . You can download it at: https://is.gd/9ccc6j It’s long and full of idealised images of perfect happy people in perfect weather on unreal looking public spaces, which I find a bit creepy. Also the maps of the different parts ofContinue reading Public Realm Plan for the centre of Chorlton goes live
How Green are we at Chorlton Good Neighbours?
How good at re cycling and re-using are we at Chorlton Good Neighbours? Recently Zaza Donohue gave out a questionnaire about green issues (mainly re-cycling) to about 60 of Chorlton Good Neighbours attending our popular weekly coffee mornings. This is the feedback session Zaza gave on Feb 8th 2024. Relatively speaking we come out asContinue reading How Green are we at Chorlton Good Neighbours?
Marjorie Holmes
Marjorie Holmes lived in Chorlton, Manchester all her life. I interviewed her in April 2011 three years before she died. Here she talks about her being brought up in Higson Road, her memories of the milkman’s horse that always knew which house to stop at. She also talks about her war years in the RAF,Continue reading Marjorie Holmes
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