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The whole place was heaving!
“I wanted ideas to do things with my children”
How were Ancoats & Miles Platting named?

What on earth is going on
in our world?
St Jude’s Primary School

Victoria Mill Past and Present
Do you remember?

Dear Folks
I loved issue one which reached me through a friend of a friend. How can I get at least two extra copies and also future issues?

The article about Corpus Christi School brought back lots of memories for my wife and me. We worked out that Kathryn Bates, the writer, must have been there after 1961, whereas I was there from 1937 to 1941 (less a few breaks for wartime evacuation). Don’t know about the girls’ toilets, but can confirm that there was no roof on the boys!

I do believe that Tripe Colony has changed a bit since I was born and lived there, from 1932 till I married in1956, to Eileen Edwards, from Sandal Street - at Corpus Christi of course!
Louis Hannett

Kathryn replies: “I was at Corpus Christi from 1954 to 1964. All the houses on Tripe Colony have now been demolished”

Dear Have Your Say
I agree with Kathryn Bates (‘Is the Area To Blame?’ - issue 1). The area needs cleaning up and the houses facing me on Fulbeck Drive need something doing to them to improve them.
Teresa, Ancoats Under 5’s Group.

Dear Have Your Say
I was a pupil at Corpus Christi. I remember Mrs Kiernan, who used to be Miss Lynch. She was always dressed up and I bet she never knew we called her ‘Carmen Miranda’!

Miss Sheehan, we called ‘Mary Twirl’. We used to sing, “Mary Twirl is a good girl, she goes to church on Sunday. She prays for God to give her the grace to strap the girls on Monday”.

It’s sad to think our dear school will be closing. Three generations of my family went there. My brother won a scholarship to Xavarian and went on to Manchester University. My son went to Oxford University and my daughter to Bretton Hall, Yorkshire. So Corpus Christi did my family proud!

Good luck with your magazine. It’s very interesting!
Marie Pandolfo

Dear Have Your Say
I lived at 15 William Street, Miles Platting for twenty one years. I remember every inch of Corpus Christi School and Nelson Street School.

I would like to congratulate all of your efforts in promoting the sense of togetherness. Hopefully, it may help to infuse a sense of pride in the area.
Bernard Taylor

Dear Have Your Say
I would like to say, how much I enjoyed your number1 issue.
Being an ex-resident of Miles Platting and still working in the area, I could really relate to the magazine, especially ‘Schooldays Memories’, as I was a Corpus Christi pupil.

Dear Have Your Say
Good luck with the magazine and I look forward to issue 2.
Beryl Pennington (nee Cunningham)

Dear Have Your Say
I read and enjoyed your magazine. Because it is a local magazine I looked at it more closely than I would normally have done. The old photos in it made me remember my own links with the area.

One of my most vivid memories is during the war. We were at my grandmother’s house, at 115, Ridgeway Street. My sister and I were upstairs looking out of the bedroom window, watching the incendiary bombs being dropped on the area by parachute! We realised it was an unusual event and thought it was an invasion, but we didn’t really understand the gravity of the situation. Thanks for the reminder!
Kathleen Hough