Tea with the parkie!
Many thanks for the magazines. I really enjoyed reading them; as did my mother Minnie Hutton who is 86. She used to live on Hailsham Street off Philips Park Road behind Forest and Simms Foundry. She attended Queen Street School. Later she became the landlady of the Shakespeare Hotel at the top of Philips Park Road. Her dad was a member of the Philips Park Bowling Club and won many trophies etc. My mum Minnie and my dad John moved to Stockport in the early 60’s to be landlord at The Egerton Arms in Stockport.

We often come back to Manchester to visit graves in Philips Park Cemetery. She has told me all about the area she was brought up in.

The cinemas, employment and of course the lovely shops on Ashton New Road.
She used to go the Mosley cinema for tuppence. Her dad worked all his life at Johnson’s Wire works. She once had tea with the park keeper in the now visitors centre in Philips Park as a reward when her dad won a bowling competition.

Mum suffered a stroke a few years ago but still has all her faculties and memories.

David Hutton
(son of Mrs Minnie Hutton