Hi There
Ref Issue No. 22 CARR was indeed the correct spelling of Jim Carr who had the Chippy at the corner of Rodney St and Portugal St. His Son Ralph was in my Class at George Leigh St. School and with me - Billy Hunt, Dick Reynolds and Cecil Midgley. Ralph was a Member of the School Swimming Team that swam for and won the final, for the Dixon Cup at New Islington Baths in 1936; and Jim Carr asked us to take the Cup round to him to display in his shop window.

We did this and Jim sat the whole team down at the one and only table in the shop and told us that we could have anything we wanted to eat! I well remember us stuffing ourselves to bursting point with Chips, Fish, Ribs, Peas and Cabbage and he also sent us on our way with a Pestle Bone for supper.

Sadly Ralph Carr and Dick Reynolds are now deceased and I believe that Billy Hunt immigrated to Oz many years ago and I haven’t heard anything of Cecil since the War ended but I’ll bet none of us will ever forget that feast in the Chippy.

I thank you for jogging my memory of such a wonderful occasion
Arthur Wozencroft

Dear friends,
Keep up the good work you are doing for so many people. Wishing you and the team and all concerned best wishes and success in the future.
Bill and Marie Lister

Dear Have Your Say,
I was born at 186 Ridgeway Street, next door but one to Stacey’s chip shop. Our names then were Joan and Irene Crockett; two of seven children. We notice some letters are from Jack Fairclough and wonder if he is brother of Sheila-who was a friend of our sister Marian.

I remember being evacuated to Hazel Grove. We thought it was a long way from home. One of my friends then was called Vera Smith she lived in Silver Street? Their house was flattened by a land mine in the Manchester Blitz. We had moved to Moston by then and I went next day to see if she was safe and luckily she was.
Joan Bower nee Crockett

Dear Have Your Say,
Thank you for the magazine.
It is so good to read about the old days from other peoples’ memories. I guess we old-uns could compile a book about our roots; Collyhurst, Miles Platting & Newton Heath to name a but a few. Memories live longer than dreams.
Doris Bennett

Dear all,
Thank you so much for your wonderful Magazine, it gives me so much pleasure to receive it.
Ann Mawby

Hi There,
Just a quick line enclosing membership cheque on behalf of Mrs Edith Owen and Mrs Alice Cloag. Like myself they really love the magazine and can’t wait to read it.

Your work is really apprecialted.
Mrs. D. Green

Have your say team,
Thank you for Have Your Say magazine, I always enjoy them, hope to see you at the open day.
Frances Carroll

Dear HYS,
Thank You for Have Your Say, it brings back so many memories.
James Gibson

Hello Everybody,
Thank You for the spring issue just received together with my article on page 10. Hope some of your readers found something of interest and nostalgic.

Good luck to all of you all
Harold Foulkes
Sorry we didn’t use the photos’ that you sent with the article Harold, they got mislaid! see page 9.

Dear Have Your Say,
Herewith enclosed please find my membership fee and a donation. Keep up the good work.

Great magazine, you do a fine job.
W R Squires

Dear Have Your Say,
Thanks for magazine which I look forward to getting each time.
May Hunt

Dear Have Your Say,
My very best wishes and deepest apologies for being late in sending my membership fee.
So it is with belated pleasure that I send a cheque including a donation.
Ken Hamlet

Dear Team,
At last I’m putting pen to paper – why? Because in your last issue (22) of Have Your Say Magazine, my sister Joyce is mentioned again along with our old shop – the herbalist on Oldham Road next to blooms (see Photograph) which was next to Seanors undertakers.

Our grandparents on my mother’s side Also St. Luke’s my old school (Mr. Roberts included).

I also played football, Stan, but not on the fire station doors but on the walls of the sorting office opposite, never thinking that one day I may be working there, which I did years later 1965-1972. Fred Binks and Les Kane, two your readers also did time at East Delivery Office.

Best wishes lads, hope you are still going strong. Good days. I retired from royal mail as we now call it in 1991 and lets be fair it hasn’t been the same since.

Stan Sutcliffe – that name rings a bell. If you don’t know me, you will know Wilkinson’s grocery and off licence on Dale Street, opposite the chippy. Roy the son was my best mate until we both married – he lives in Northampton now.

To anyone who remembers Joyce and I, we send our very best wishes.
Many Thanks
George Lydon.

Dear Have Your Say Team,
Once again your excellent magazine contains a high standard of features, letters, information and humour.

Keep up the good work, it brings a lot of pleasure to a lot of people.
Mr. V. A. Keetley

Dear Have Your Say,
Thank you to all who work so hard for this magazine, which allows us to relive many memories
Joan Loizou

Dear Team,
With reference to the Photograph of St. Mary’s Road Newton Heath School; on the front cover of issue 22. Please can you tell me the date this photograph was taken?

I went to St. Mary’s Road Central School in Newton Heath from 1937 until 1940, and because I know how strict the school was about uniforms and what one could not wear. I wonder if this is another school in St. Mary’s Road?
I enclose SAE for your reply.
Yours Sincerely, Irene O’Neill

Dear Have Your Say,
Once again Thank you for magazine, lovely reading and happy memories.
Hope you are well and happy.
With love and best wishes.
May Burrows

Dear All,
Thank you for the magazines which I have enjoyed reading.
Mrs R Heron

Dear all,
I must be getting old, I can’t remember whether I’ve paid my subs or not.

Anyway the enclosed cheque should keep the books straight.
Carry on the good work.
Joe Greenhalgh

Dear Have Your Say Staff,
Thank you, once again for your latest magazine, which I always enjoy reading.
My family used to live on Bradford Road, opposite Bannerman’s Mill until we grew up.
Mrs Grace Ennis

Dear Have Your Say,
Once again my friend Sylvia and myself, want to thank you all for a great afternoon on Wednesday 27th Sept.

You all go to a lot of trouble to give us things to see and talk about. Sometimes we meet strangers, but before the afternoon is over we feel we have made new friends. It would be nice to see a few more from St. Luke’s Miles Platting. I am sure they can’t all have emigrated but maybe moved to outside areas.

The hot pot was great too, so here to the next time.
Olwen Grimshaw (nee Owens) and Sylvia Parren (nee Jones)