Dear Team,
Am enclosing cheque for Have Your Say magazine. Keep up the good work. I couldn't bear to part with past copies when having a sort out recently! Treasure them all, such lovely, memories of Miles Platting & Corpus Christi.
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Just to say a very thank you to you and all the staff for printing my appeal. Also thank you to Mrs Clare Henderson, and her son Darren Henderson for very kindly sending me a picture of the Hobby Horse in Prussia Park. It brought great pleasure to a miserable Sunday afternoon.
Dear all at Have Your Say Magazine
Thank you for such a marvellous heart warming magazine.
I used live at 52 Rhodes Street first down from the public baths & wash-house. My best friend was Sylvia Green, (Pelham) with whom I am still in touch. I look forward to spotting names I know when the magazine arrives, and one regular correspondent I recognise is John Fenton, who used to live in Rhodes Street, on the next row to me. Thank you to all the team for your dedicated hard work.
Dear Have Your Say Team
Thanks again for your Magazine good to read all the names and memories that keep coming in. You've got my old brain box ticking over. Best wishes to all.
Dear HYS
Please find enclosed my cheque. Take out what you need to cover the cost of the recipe book! Then use the rest towards running the excellent service you provide for all Manchester "ex-pats".
I for one appreciate your efforts and my boss (the wife) has assured me, cooking and baking will commence this weekend, if I'm good! "Just like 'me mam' used to make!
Dear Sir or Madam
Enclosed, please find my subscription for this year's Have Your Say. I was very pleased to see the article on Walter Yeomans in the winter 07 edition. I knew Walter when I attended George Leigh Street School. I was in the same class as his sister Alma.
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I found the magazine most interesting as I lived in Ancoats for 50 years of which I am proud. My cousin paid for my first years subscription. Keep up the good work!
Dear Sir/Madam
Many thanks for sending your magazine on a regular basis. We really enjoy catching up with all the news especially the recent one that had a photo of the shops on Hulme Hall Lane, where my Parents had 3 shops.
Thanks once again.
Dear friends
Thank you very much for copies of Have Y our Say. I am 96, and I really enjoyed reading it. I re-lived my childhood, when I read Doreen Coverleys article. I was brought up in Jervis Street and remember the Coverley's and the Parker's. My Aunt Lizzy and Uncle Charley lived opposite the slaughter house as we called it. They had sons, Charley, Ted, James, daughter Gladys. Sadly there are all gone now, except Jim Patterson who lives in Backpool. My name was Maggie Carey, I married George Bowden who lived in Cucheth Street. opposite George Bros. grocers shop. I miss all my friends, but Ethels' P?, Lewis, and Atkinson, all keep in touch with me, and call to see me. now I cant get out.
Dear Have Your Say
I would be grateful if you could send me your Magazine. I love it.
I was born and bred in Collyhurst and attended St. Patrick's school and remember Sharp St Ragged School very well. We used to go to the evening Sunday school after we had done our duties at St. Patrick's so we could go to the Christmas Party on Christmas Day.
Dear Have Your Say
Thanks once again for the great mag', such lovely reading. It's always nice seeing the photos of old buildings (issue 27) and reading about Towns being rebuilt.
We left Ancoats 1938 for Leicester. I was 10. Mum said to us don't tell folk that you're from "Ancoats" say "Miles Platting" I was the only one to tell the Truth as I was born at Grandad Rimmers, 46 Lowe Street Miles Platting, it was posher than Ancoats in those days. I'm still proud of where I'm from.
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Once again on behalf of my friend and myself, I want to thank you all, for a lovely afternoon. My friend Sylvia Parren (nee Jones) and I have been coming to these Do's for so long I can't remember how it all came about. All I know is that we always enjoy them. The get together of Sun 27 April was more special than most, as we met more people, who we had known in our younger days, and it was Great.
Of course over the years, we have made new friends, Kath Bates and Stella McDonald; to name two of the Stalwarts of the magazine, and now we think of them as friends. I do feel sorry for those who have either moved too for away from the area, or in poor health, and are unable to attend these special get togethers'. Everybody, like us, appreciate all the had work, which is put into these occasions to make them special for us, and the dedicated efficiency to bring us each issue of the magazine
Thank you again for a great afternoon. The buffet was an extra bonus. Here's to the next time.
Dear Have Your Say Team
I thank you all for sending me the magazine it is nice to read about old times I lived in Collyhurst I went to St James' Church School happy days.
Dear all
Thank you so much for the magazines you have sent me over the past years. Both my husband and I have really enjoyed them. I come from Collyhurst but knew all the surrounding areas you write about. Please find enclosed my membership fee for the next twelve months and a donation for your kind service.
Dear Team
I am so sorry to have bothered you about the letter that Jack Fairclough sent you a few years ago with my photo. I never for one moment thought you would have the original photo and doubted that it still existed I didn't realise that Jack would make any enquires. You can imagine my great joy and surprise this morning. I just couldn't believe it. I still can't! I had half hoped that you might have an old copy of "Have Your Say" with it in but I can assure you that you have really make my day.
Jack Fairclough's sister Sheila and I are great friends. We started school on the same day 80years ago. She phones me every evening since I have been in the nursing home, she intends writing to you. It is just a year since she lost her husband and sometimes she feels very lonely. She is simply longing to get in touch with Joan Crockett, Sheila's name is Mrs. Norbury (nee Fairclough)
I know you will be hearing from her very soon. Once more thank you for every thing. I think your magazine is wonderful.
Dear Sir
Will you please arrange for my wife Mrs Marjorie Green to receive delivery of "Have Your Say". A friend recently lent her a few copies and she has become very interested. She was born in Maydal St, Miles Platting on the 26 Jan 1935 and went to Abbott St school, she was also evacuated to Tissington Derbyshire for 4 years. Her cousin Roy Nally is in the 25 issue 2007 also other people she's recognised.
Dear Sir
I have been having your magazine passed on to me for ages now, and every time I read it I promise myself I will have my very own magazine, so here I am at long last sending in my subscription plus a little extra donation (worth every penny).
I was born in Collyhurst and went to Abbott Street School until 1958. They were wonderful times for me and as some of your other readers have pointed out, we had very little, but we never felt deprived because there was always someone worse off than you! (Although looking back, I don't see how). Anyway, thanks a million for sharing your stories.
Hello Have Your Say
I sent this by email last year, but it may have got overlooked.
Re issue 23 can I correct Alf Almond about the houses on Tripe colony. I was born in 1929 at 3 Kersley Street and lived there until I married in 1957. Only two rows of terraced houses were built without what was called box rooms. The middle terraces between Kersley Street and Falmouth Street, facing Joynson Street had no box rooms built over the kitchen. All the other rows had box rooms which were eventually turned into bathrooms but none of the houses had inside toilets we still had to go 'down the yard' Some even had washhouses.
A Mr.Simpson who lived in Joynson Street. put his Austin 7 in his back yard, his back doorstep must have been a foot high from the entry but how he got it up I cannot remember. In this issue you mentioned Sanderson Street. My brother Gerald Blanthorn had a grocers shop at the rec. end of the street I wonder if any of your readers remember him. He was there until the property was pulled down. Gerald passed away 11 years ago but Doreen is still with us and lives in Rochdale.
Going back to the colony your reader wrote about going for coke, we posh people from 'over the lane' did just the same. Gerald and myself had to go and get six penny worth, Mother said take a big bag with you. One Saturday we pushed a pram with a bag of coke to my uncles who lived in North road. Longsight behind Belle Vue when we got to Hyde road the wheel came off we kept putting it back on what a job! We came back on the 53 bus minus the coke. Never again.