Dear Have Your Say Team
Many thanks for Have Your Say Magazine and looking forward to the next one. My grandfather Taylor and family lived at 106 Oldham Road and the premises is said to have comprised a double fronted shop, one side, sweets and tobacco and the other side crockery (Known as Taylors Pot Shop) We have tried to verify this from official records but to no avail so far.
Best wishes to all the team.
Sincerely Maurice Taylor.

Dear Have Your Say Team
Many thanks for sending the magazine to me. It’s very interesting and brings back memories of my childhood and of St. Patrick’s school and St. Barney’s church, they had a boys brigade band who practised Friday nights, I can just hear them blasting away blowing their trumpets! Childhood Memories by Marie Pandolfo brought back many memories for me too
Keep up the good work.
Regards A. Aston.

Dear Have Your Say
Thanks for the magazine please put my name on your mailing list. I will put a copy in the community room of Victoria Square.
Yours Truly
Amal Basu.

Dear all,
Thank you for the magazine.
Mrs M Howard

Dear Have Your Say
I found your magazines very interesting. My husband knew more of the landmarks and people in the magazine, as he is an Ancoats lad! I was born on Collyhurst Road, so hoping future issues feature more from that area, I’m not complaining because the magazines are great. My neighbours are from Bradford Road/Cobden Street. (Mooney and Stott) and Eric Mooney tells me Newton was the area near the Half Moon pub off Butler Street.

Once again Thank You and we are looking forward to the next issue.
Betty Molloy (Nee Walsh)

Dear All,
I understand that my friend Mrs Hall in New Jersey USA E-mailed you, after I sent issue 8 to her. We attended school together (1936-1939) at St. Mary’s Rd. Central School, Newton Heath. She was my best friend and still is though far away.

Yours Sincerely
Irene O’Neill

Dear All
Thank You for sending me the current Issue of Have Your Say. Fascinating as usual, plenty of good reading. Particularly enjoyed the Poem on the back cover.

I have sent the extra copy on to my cousin in Canada but my sister and her friend had difficulty in obtaining copies (She was eager to see herself on the front cover of a magazine) Could you please add her to your mailing list?
Yours Sincerely
Pat Duncan.

Dear Have Your Say
May you and your magazine have another successful year. We really enjoy reading it and seeing the old familiar names-Ralph and Peggy Wilkinson, Marie (Jordon) Pandolfo, who was in my class in Corpus Christi Infants and so on.

I think you may be interested in the Corpus Christi magazine of August 1919, it probably goes back further than most of your readers: I have it because it has a write-up of my parents’ wedding, James Hannett and Mary Elizabeth (“Cissy”) Donnelly.

As a kid in the 1930s I always wondered why Corpus Christi church was shown with a tower on the magazine cover, apparently it was planned as pictured but the tower never did get its top.
Best Wishes
Louis and Eileen Hannett.
(See front cover. Ed)

Dear Editor,
Re our phone conversation this morning on “Have Your Say” I will look forward to receiving copies when they become available. Wishing the magazine all the success in the future.
Yours Sincerely
Vera Matthews.

Dear Have Your Say,
What a refreshing change to see people in the community, that they are obviously proud of, and take pride in the work that they do. Good to read too, especially the recollections of some of the more mature members of the community. Liked the Pandolfo poem in particular. I was born in a little village on the Irwell Delta called Salford!

I can identify with many of your readers memories especially the Ralph Wilkinson account of the Corpus Christi Fife Band. I too was a member of a Fife Band (St. Thomas of Canterbury) before moving on to the Pipe Band. (I still play the pipes today. Everybody wants me on the 31 December. The rest of the year they can’t wait to get out of earshot!!
Keep up the good work team.
Fred Fielder. (G.M.R.)

Dear Have Your Say,
Thank You for sending the magazines, I was born in Ancoats, my family and I have enjoyed reading them so much. It is marvellous of you to do them. I wish you all the best of luck.

Keep up the good work.
Thanks again.
Kathleen O’Dowd.

Dear Editor
My sister who lives in Perth Australia, sent me a clipping from one of her newspapers regarding a magazine, “Mancunians of Ancoats, Collyhurst and Miles Platting.” As we were both born in Ancoats we were interested and I tried to get a copy from Smith’s Newsagents, they said I would have to go to Manchester to get it. I wonder if there is any chance of getting two copies sent to me if I send the cost and postage?
Yours Sincerely
Mrs E Chamberlain.

Have magazine will travel!
Editor.

Dear All
Happy New Year to all friends and supporters of Have Your Say. The magazine has gone from strength to strength. Thank you to all who contacted me and cong-ratulated me on my verse. Yes memories were brought back to childhood days so simple but happy.

I was delighted to see Roots of the Vine Video My mother-in-law’s family were in the photo on the cover. The Italian Association have worked hard and still are to keep their community going.
Best Wishes
Marie Pandolfo

Hi Maggi & Have Your Say,
I was working in Gorton Brook School last week and picked up your brilliant magazine!

I knew my dad would love it, as he was born in 1930 and lived in Ancoats and Miles Platting (in fact his eldest brother played with the Corpus Christi Band). Would it be possible to add my dads name to the mailing list so he will receive any future issues.
Bernice Collier

Consider it done. Ed.

Dear All
Please pass on my thanks to Pat Duncan for sending the class photo (Issue 9) that showed me as Ann Hughes, fourth from the right in the third row! I knew her sister Hazel quite well, many other names were brought to mind and I would be most interested in knowing what has happened to the rest of the class and where they are now!

My copy of Have Your Say is sent to me by my auntie who continues to live in Newton Heath whilst I moved down to the West Country some 25 years ago.
Ann Taylor.

Dear Have Your Say
Thank You for issue 8 of the magazine, I passed it on to my brothers family as my brother played in the Corpus Christi band (Photo front cover).
Yours Faithfully
Winifred Barnett.

Thank You to all our readers who sent in contributions, donations and stamps all gratefully accepted.
Editor.

Dear Sirs
On a recent visit my wife's brother brought down copies of your wonderful magazine. I was born in Miles Platting in 1929. My mother worked in a small cinema in Varley Street and when I was 11years old I joined her working in the Projection Room. During the war the cinemas were used by homeless people. Varley Street was hit badly during the bombing and I lost friends from school.

I remember one Saturday watching a wedding outside Corpus Christi Church (a wedding took place most Saturdays) a spy was caught taking photos of the gas works etc, somebody brought a policeman, who took him away.
Many memories of the district. Keep up the good work.
Yours Mr. T McGivern.