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Dear Have Your Say
My mother’s father, Ernest Tonks, was a master grocer with premises on
both Hulme Hall Lane and Oldham Road. He was cousin to John Bolton Rogerson,
the ‘Manchester Poet’ who in 1849 was appointed registrar of the cemetery
at Harpurhey. He afterwards kept a tavern for a short time in Ancoats. Another
cousin was Bertha Crompton who made a tapestry which she gave to Worsley Parish
Church. It showed a religious scene in which strands of her own hair were used
for the hair of the figures portrayed.
Dear
Folks
Can your readers please help! Does anyone know the rest of this maypole song,
I used to sing as a child with my friends on May Day?
Along the merry maypole
and through the live long day...
Dear
Have Your Say
I have very proud memories of my brother William Peart of Padstow Street, Miles
Platting. He went to Holland Street School but was in the Boys’ Brigade
at St Luke’s Church. They used to go behind a curtain and all play a bugle
and my brother won the Silver Bugle for ten years running from 1956-66 right
up until the time of his death at 30 years old in January, 1966.
Dear
Have Your Say
I thought I‘d write and thank you for the magazine. I think it is good,
and people I have spoken to about the magazine love it!
My sister and I organise reunions every now and again and
the people we know who have read the magazine are really pleased with it. They
especially love the Then and Now page. It brings back lovely memories for them.
Dear
Have Your Say
I had your first edition passed to me by a cousin of mine, who, like myself
has fond memories of Miles Platting. I lived there from a very early age until
around 1957 which was the time that re-housing began, to make way for the bulldozers
which were to demolish the Miles Platting I knew. I don‘t object to your
printing my name, and it is for that reason that I am signing in the name I
was known by when I lived in Miles Platting.
Dear
Have Your Say
If anyone out there remembers the Glenn and Burns family, they may be interested
to know that Anne Burns, who married John Goulden, eventually emigrated to Lima
South America with her brother Bill, after the breakup of her marriage.
