We lived in Failsworth, and remember vividly when Winston Churchill visited us during the War. I don’t recall the year but I do remember Winnie and his wife at the Failsworth Pole (Landmark) talking to us. I don’t remember now what was said but it was wonderful at the time. Although we are quite settled here now, we did go through some difficult times, but things worked out very well for us with hard work and determination.

We have been back to England a couple of times to visit and loved every minute of it. I don’t know whether or not we’ll come again since my husband is now 80years of age and I am seventy-five. England is always in our thoughts and we often reminisce, sometimes lovingly, sometimes humorously.
Marcella Hall (Nee Lockett) ex Newton Heath, Chadderton and Failsworth.

I love Have Your Say
I really appreciate that is now on the Internet. I used to live on Albion Street, Miles Platting, and went to Corpus Christi, then Nelson Street, then Holland Street.

I have lived in the USA since 1958, reading Have Your Say, brings back so many memories, I get positively teary eyed with each new copy. Life is so much better now than it was back in the 40s, but not half as interesting. I have to thank the Hazlegroves for being so kind as to send me copies of the magazine. Keep up the great work.
Mavis Thornton. Nee Hulme

Greetings
My wife and I received four issues of your fantastic magazine from a friend in Western Australia, and spent a few hours having a great time, good stories and photos, many a laugh, although neither of us come from the area, myself an ex Cheetham Hill Kid and my wife from Blackley the stories all had a familiar feel about them, and some shop and factory names were very well known to us.

We have lived in Sydney Australia since 1967 and being on the Internet, there are quite a few good Manchester web sites but yours has a more down to earth feel about it. Keep up the great work and we will send your site to many more ex-pats.
Cheers Tony and Sylvia Usher.

Greetings
I am of course an ex mancunian, I lived for roughly the first twenty years of my life in a shop in Mitchell Street, Ancoats and I attended All Souls School off Every Street, between 1919-1930. I marched with the Church Lads Brigade from 1923-1939 I played the silver slide drum and was a Drum Major for a few years on many a Whit Monday trip to Albert Square.

We left the UK in 1948 after I had served throughout the war with the RAF. I would love to contact anyone that remembers me, I am now 86, looking forward to hearing from you.
Eddie Bennion.

Dear All
I left Manchester in 1948 to live and work in London in the tailoring trade on the sales side until 1964. I met many famous people there including Rolf Harris, Michael Aspel who was then a BBC newsreader, Sir Malcolm Sergeant, Ron Moody, (made his clothes for about ten years) Kenneth Moore, and quite a few Hollywood stars of the time and directors amongst many others.

My wife and I then lived for twenty-four years in Malvern in Worcestershire until 1988. We returned to live in Manchester for just three years, (in Denton), then went to live just about five miles outside Blackpool until 1998, when we came to live here in the Dordogne Valley about 400 miles south of Paris!

We can watch English TV now and also receive Granada news bulletins so we are still able to keep in touch with all the Manchester news! We have two sons, our eldest is Douglas who lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa, and Paul who lives just ten miles from us here in France. Both are married with a son each.

My brother, Ian Foulkes lives in Whaley Bridge near Buxton.
Thank you for bringing back so many memories. Please keep them coming.
Kind regards, Harold Foulkes