Dear Friends
My wife and I have pleasure in enclosing our membership subscription. Thank you for the copies of the magazine which we enjoyed reading and passing on to Australia and many other interested family members and friends up and down the country.
Freda and Jack Simms
Congratulations To Freda and Jack who celebrated their Diamond Anniversary recently.

Dear Have Your Say Team,
Thank you for sending the magazine.
Keep up the good work.
Alice brook

Dear Have Your Say,
Thanks a lot for the magazine, which I always look forward to because I think it is a good read about the good old days around Miles Platting and Ancoats, I always seem to know someone who writes to you.
I hope all your team are in good health.
George Rowland

Dear Have Your Say
Sorry for my late membership fee. So much has happened within my family. We are great grandparents, and don’t seem to have a minute. We had three great grandchildren up to a few weeks ago and now we have six as my grandson and his wife had Triplets! Twin girls and a boy, they are out of this world! They were born four weeks early and one of the girls was only 2lb-3ozs at birth, however she is catching up with the other two and all is well.

All this from two born & bred Collyhurst people! My parents used to say ‘salt of the earth’ where neighbours and friends from that part of Manchester and surrounding areas looked out for each other.

Keep up your fabulous work Have Your Say, we are looking forward to the next issue.
Joan Eyers and family

Congratulations on the family Triplets

Dear All
I really enjoy reading Have Your Say. I lived at 33 Edensor Street Beswick after I was adopted at the age of three years in 1931.

I attended St. Anne’s school in Every Street, until I was nine years old. When we moved to Cheetham Flats 13 Dareliegh Avenue where I then attended St. Malachy’s Collyhurst, from where I left aged 14 years in 1942. I went to work for H. Vos in Spear Street, Stevenson Square. So when I read about these areas and memories of happy days it’s great.
L. Leach Nee Pope

Dear Team
Thank you for Have Your Say. As usual I always love to read it cover to cover. Many names refresh my mind, places and incidents. Although I will be 80 in October I still recognise some of the names and places. I left Manchester upon my marriage at St. Mark’s Church on the 2nd September 1950. My late husband and I enjoyed a marriage of over 53years before he passed away.

I still have three brothers in the North and South of Manchester, so still visit from time to time, but not the area where we lived, known as ‘Tripe Colony ‘ so called because the houses had been built by the Pendleburys’ who had a Tripe factory.
Best wishes for your continued success.
Kathleen Bradshaw

Dear Have Your Say
Please find enclosed membership fee plus donation. Could you please send me 3 more copies of issue 21? I would like to send them to my son in Australia and other members of my family. I am 94yrs of age and enjoyed all your issues, but in the last one, news of my past friends and my childrens’ friends. It arrived on my 94th Birthday and made my day. Thank you all so much
Margaret Bowden

Dear All,
Thanks for the new magazine, keep up the good work.
Lilian Jones

Dear Team
It is with great sadness that I have to inform you that our dear friend Joe Tomlinson passed away on 7th May 2006.
Olwen Grimshaw
Joe was the 99year old ‘celebrity’ who was at the open day last September and also featured in Issue 20.

To everyone at Have Your Say,
Many thanks for issue 21of Have Your Say. Again a very good read’. I’m not sure that I have paid a membership fee for 2006 but if not please use enclosed as a donation.

Best wishes and every success to the magazine it is a great reminder of my fathers younger days in Miles Platting and his family connections there.
Maurice Taylor

Dear Committee members,
I want to say thank you for the wonderful open day you organised on Sunday 4/6/06. I had a lovely time, even the hot-pot was just like mum used to make. Compliments to the chef!

I would also like to thank my friend and neighbour Beryl Marsland without whose help I wouldn’t have made it. I won one of the raffle prizes so what more could an 82year old woman ask for?

In my younger days I was known as Annie Burgess so if there was anyone, who attended the open day but didn’t recognise me, I say “Hello!”
A. Hazlewood

Dear Have Your Say
Thank you for sending us copies of Have Your Say magazine, which we still find interesting, having grown up in the Miles Platting area and remember quite a few names.
Alan and Mavis Britner

Dear Friends
Thank you so much for your most enjoyable read
Len & Doreen Walker

Dear Team,
Would you kindly note my new address and alter your records accordingly? I have enclosed my membership fee and a donation for your good work to your great, wonderful Have Your Say magazine.

I am 68 years old and lived at 88 Cobden Street Ancoats. I attended St. Anne’s school in Carruthers Street as an infant, leaving as a boy at Cambrian Street in 1953.
Tommy Rooney

Dear Have Your Say
Your magazine is very interesting; my old address was in Harpurhey, but I knew a lot of the areas mentioned in the articles. Nostalgia is an important thing to our memories as we get on in years.
Mrs. B. Robinson

Dear Have Your Say
Many thanks for sending me your local magazine for Miles Platting. I lived in Albion Terrace from 1939-1961. My Grandma and her 6 children lived there all her life. Thank you, the magazine is wonderful.
Gail Parland (Dawson)

Dear Have Your Say
Thank you all for your good work in producing Have Your Say. Both my husband and myself enjoy it, bringing back many memories
K. Walsh

Dear Have Your Say
We would like to thank you for all the enjoyment you give to us with Have Your Say Magazine. Keep up the good work.
Anthony & Josie Heald

Dear Have Your Say
Thanks for Issue 21, fascinating as ever, especially the item about sister Teresa Taylor who Eileen knew many years ago.
Louis & Eileen Hannett

Dear Have Your Say
We enjoy all your magazines they bring back some wonderful times in Miles Platting. Keep up the good work.
Wilf and Margaret Hanson

Dear Have Your Say
Here are our subs for this year, going off what is says in the magazine we are very late with this, sorry! Hope we don’t get booted out!
Jean & Arnold Howarth

Dear Have Your Say
Thank you for the latest Have Your Say. We do enjoy reading it and can relate to so much of the content. Keep up the good work.
Thelma & Harold Stewart

Dear Have Your Say
Thank you very much for sending me a copy of your magazine. It is always very welcome.
Ernie & Celia Jones

Dear Have Your Say
Dorothy Ferguson in Canada received her first copy of Have Your Say and was very pleased with it. She said it made her very homesick even though she has been there 35 years.
Mrs S Hynes

Dear Have Your Say
Thank you very much for the Have Your Say Magazines.
Could you send me any future issues? I would be very grateful.
I have enjoyed them so far.
Mrs. E. Riley

Dear Have Your Say
Thank you so much for the magazine I enjoy reading very much. Lovely the memories of my childhood you do a good job hope you all keeping well and happy. With love & best wishes
May Burrows (Holland)

Dear Have Your Say
Thank you to the team for sending Have Your Say Magazine. We have so many Ancoats friends that love receiving them.
Mr. & Mrs. R Stringer

Thank Your to all our readers for their encouragement and support.
The Team