I wonder...
I picked up your magazine from the Tourist Information Centre in the Town Hall and very interesting it is too!!
I was going home on the bus and a gorgeous little black girl sat next to me. She took great interest in the school photographs on page 11.
She thought the little girl picking her nose was especially funny and the little boy sat in the corner on the left amused her too for some reason. But she was especially puzzled over the child mask face. Why do you think she was sat there with a mask face? Was there any explanation given with the photograph?
I have to say the whole encounter provided me with a lovely few moments. In these days of suspected paedophiles (male and female) it was lovely for an old codger like me to interact with this little girl.
I worked for a few years in Rochdale Road Day Nursery in1963/65 and we had many children there from Miles Platting. From Butler Street flats and Queens Road, amongst other places. Do any of your readers remember their time there I wonder?
I never appreciated until many years later, what an historic area of Manchester I was working in. I used to walk most evenings to Piccadilly to catch my bus home (I lived in Wythenshawe) passed Mays the Jewellers (Pawnshop) and the bus depot. I always remember one advert on the hoardings; of Julie Andrews holding her carpet bag advertising the new musical The Sound Of Music, happy days.
I enclose a cheque for future copies for me and my friend (ex Mancunians) Mrs Jackie Markovic.