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Barry Clark’s talk at the CGN history group on Tues 9th Sep at 1.30pm will explore the strong connections between Manchester and the Arts and Crafts movement but the talk’s main focus is about the Northern Art Workers’ Guild, founded in Manchester in 1896 by local architects, artists, and artisans. Barry will highlight the Guild’s distinctiveContinue reading Barry Clark – the history of the Arts & Craft Movement in Manchester
Activities & Engagement Administrator at Chorlton Good Neighbours, Chorlton Good Neighbours is a friendly, community organisation dedicated to reducing social isolation and supporting older people in Chorlton and Whalley Range, Manchester. We’ve been at the heart of the community since 1967 Join us and help build a stronger, kinder Chorlton! Position: Activities &Continue reading Applications (deadline Aug 22nd) are welcome for this post at Chorlton Good Neighbours
Visual Awareness Training Nina Rio (from Peru) is an enablement officer at Henshaws whose offices are at Washbrook House in Stretford. Many of us who grew up in the area knew Henshaws as “the Society for the Blind ” based on Chester Road in a large Victorian building that was eventually demolished in 1972. Henshaws nowContinue reading Visual Awareness Training by Nina Rios from Henshaws
Presentation to the chorlton good neighbours history group (Tues July 8th 2025) about Trafford Park, Manchester. I grew up there in the 1950s and memories of Trafford Park and Metropolitan Vickers have stayed with ever since, This is a shortened version of the talk and I have made 5 short videos about aspects of TPContinue reading Trafford Park & Metropolitan Vickers – a history
2ZY was Manchester’s first radio station, established in 1922 by Metropolitan Vickers (Metrovicks), in Trafford Park. The station was a pioneer in British radio broadcasting. The Metrovicks Broadcast Tower and 2ZY The transmitter was installed on the ornate cast iron water tower at the Metrovicks works in Trafford Park, Manchester. Test transmissions began on 17 MayContinue reading 2 Z Y Metrovick’s pioneering 1922 radio station
Trafford Park & Metrovicks I am doing a presentation about the history of Trafford Park (TP) next Tuesday 8th July at 1.30pm, Chorlton Good Neighbours, St Ninians’s Church (corner of Egerton Rd South and Wilbraham Rd), £3 for tea, coffee & biscuits If you are interested in the topic I’d like you to try somethingContinue reading History Talk: Trafford Park and Metrovicks
Another in my series of shorts about Metropolitan Vickers in advance of a talk I am giving at CGN History Group on Tues 8th July 1.30pm. It illustrates what an amazing infdustrial history Manchester has got, and espcially the pwer engineerinh at Metrovics SAR Class 1 ESAR CAL Freight Train on the Sishen Line,Continue reading When Manchester Made Trains
Ahead of my presentation about the history of Trafford Park at CG on Tues July 8that 1:30pm (all welcome). Here is a short video on how in March 1933, six British engineers working for Manchester firm Metropolitan-Vickers in the Soviet Union were arrested and found guiilty of espionage, sabotage and wrecking activities against Soviet electricalContinue reading 1933 Moscow trial of Manchester Metrovics Engineers
Glover’s Cables in Trafford Park played a crucial role in WW2 Operation Pluto (Pipe Line Under The Ocean) to fuel D Day Landings and the troops advance across France and Germany. This is in advance of the talk I will be giving about the history of Trafford Park at CGN on Tues July 8th 2025
This talk will about the history of Trafford Park and perhaps what the future might hold for it. As an introduction, here is a short video below about the 1933 “Metrovickers Affair” in Moscow where six engineers were tried for spying, Though some were convicted they all got repatriated to the UK even though, theyContinue reading Tues July 8th 1.30pm – A History of Trafford Park & Metropolitan Vickers
Its Clean Air day on Thurs June 19th 2025, ‘Let’s Talk Clean Air’ Whalley Range are starting it off with a banner drop on Princess Parkway in Hulme to encourage motorists to beep their horns to show support. This will be followed on Saturday 21st June with a 2pm parade & picnic in Alexandra Park,Continue reading Let’s Talk Clean Air – Banners, Puppets and Picnic in the Park
Tuesday 10th June 2025 Andrew Simpson “British Home Children” The story of how charities, individuals and Poor Law unions migrated over 10,000 children to Canada between 1870’s and 1930’s Tuesday 8th July 2025 Bernard Leach The history of Trafford Park & Metropolitan Vickers The talk will start with the de Trafford family’s sale ofContinue reading History Talks on June 10th and July 8th 2025
History Talk Tues 13th May 2025 1.30pm Ali Ronan – “Fearless Phillis” During World War One, socialist and pacifist Phillis Skinner appeared to be ‘simply a wife and a mother’, but she had a complicated back story, with untold secrets. Her husband Allan was a conscientious objector imprisoned in London and Phillis wasContinue reading Ali Ronan – “Fearless Phillis”
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