Alistair Lyall The Flying Scotsman Alistair Lyall gave an excellent talk at the History Group on Feb 6th 2014. A packed room of nearly 60 people heard him talk about his career as an engineer at Metrovics in Trafford Park. Some of the background information about the firm is included below. Alistair went on toContinue reading History of Metropolitan Vickers, Trafford Park (video)
Helen, Enid and Karen on Radio 5 Live (video/audio)
Helen, Enid and Karen were on Radio 5 Live this morning talking about Chorlton Good Neighbours and how we go about befriending older people. The clip begins with Enid & Karen talking to presenter Rachel Burden about how their friendship has developed and then Helen gave the background to how Good Neighbours years of experienceContinue reading Helen, Enid and Karen on Radio 5 Live (video/audio)
Spring Clean in the Good Neighbours Garden
Jan 24th was t our second meeting of the new year. It was a cold morning but we got ourselves organised and started clearing up properly in preparation for Spring which is not that far away Here Bernard is spraying the greenhouse with a Jeyes fluid mixture to clean and sterilise it afterContinue reading Spring Clean in the Good Neighbours Garden
Final Garden Session of the Year
Final Garden Club Session of the Year Friday Dec 20th was our last garden session of this year. It was a cold morning but we kept warm with some mulled wine, fruit punch and warm mince pies. We tidied things up, put the gazebo away and talked about what we do in the coming year.Continue reading Final Garden Session of the Year
Free TV Licence for over 75’s
FREE TV Licence for over 75’s Any one in Manchester age 75 and over is entitled to claim a free TV Licence for their main address. There are currently over 50,000 free TV Licences issued each year in Manchester and TV Licensing has asked us to encourage any of our members who are eligible for the concession toContinue reading Free TV Licence for over 75’s
A Christmas Carol from the Melodics
Christmas Carol from the Melodics Chorlton Good Neighbour’s singing group the Melodics, singing the Christmas carol “Hark the Herald Angels Sing”. A Merry Christmas from us all at Chorlton Good Neighbours. Please consider making a donation via our ‘donate’ button on our homepage at chorltongoodneighbours.org
Christmas Meal 2013
Christmas Meal 2013 75 Chorlton Good Neighbours users, volunteers, trustees and staff had an excellent Christmas meal at the Hough End Centre on Fri 13th December. Here are some photos of this event which as well as the meal included a raffle and bingo. All the proceeds from the raffle went as a tipContinue reading Christmas Meal 2013
Christmas Party , Dec 1st 2013
Good Neighbours Christmas Party The annual Good Neighbours Christmas Party was held on Sunday Dec1st 2013. It was a full house for the meal, raffle and entertainment provided by the Leetones – daughter Lisa and father Tony. This was a great start to the Christmas period with both users and volunteers having a a great time.
Story teller at Good Neighbours
Chorlton Book Festival Christine McMahon a story teller came to Chorlton Good Neighbours Coffee morning last week (21 Nov 2013) as part of Chorlton Book Festival and held a large audience spellbound
Bob Cowan presented with Arctic Star medal
Bob Cowan presented with Arctic Star medal Chorlton Good Neighbours has run a long campaign to get a medal awarded to our member Bob Cowan, 94, who is a veteran of the WW2 Arctic Convoys and who’s story we have told before (see http://goo.gl/hY76Md) The campaign was successful in that the UK government agreed to anContinue reading Bob Cowan presented with Arctic Star medal
Winter Warmer event at Trafalgar House (video)
Winter Warmer event at Trafalgar Court Good Neighbours had a stall at the “Winter Warmer” event at Trafalgar Court, an Anchor Housing scheme in Whalley Range on Thursday Nov 14th 2013. Carolyn O’Hanlon organised the stall and was helped by Peter Flynn and Bernard Leach The event was well attended, with lots of stalls andContinue reading Winter Warmer event at Trafalgar House (video)
Good Neighbours Garden in Late October
Amidst all the showers we managed to have a sunny Friday morning on 25th oct 2013 in the Good Neighbours Garden. We assembled a new bench, cleared away all the outside tomato plants, prepared the raised beds and planted some salad leaves and rocket which we had grown from seed. We also built another, smallerContinue reading Good Neighbours Garden in Late October
Day Trip to Llandudno
Day Trip to Llandudno On 11th Sep 2013 a full coach of Good Neighbours users and volunteers went on a day trip to Llandudno. Usually these trips get good weather, but it was a bit wet on this trip. Nevertheless, as can be seen from these clips Tess, Hilda, Pauline, Janice, Wayne and Pam allContinue reading Day Trip to Llandudno
Harvest and the garden
off to the Harvest festival Tony enjoying some lunch Paulette, Caroline & Paul in the CGN garden Carolyn working in the garden Tony collecting some runner beans Russell collecting our contribution to the Whalley Range Methodist Church’s harvest festival
Bowling in the late summer sunshine
Terry and Bernard play bowls on a lovely late summer day (24-09-13) at SW Manchester Cricket club social afternoon Gladys on the snooker table
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