Dear Have Your Say
Having had your issue number 7 and seeing the two photos of pupils of St. Luke’s School, I would like to get in touch with the person who sent the photographs to you, also any other persons who may have contacted you who were also on the photos. My maiden name was Audrey Hughes. It would be nice to hear from some of the girls I went to school with. I am on the same row as the teacher, second from the end on the right. I can remember some of the girls names but not all.
Yours Faithfully
Audrey Skinkiss.
Well St. Lukes Pupils, Where are you? Ed.

Dear All
Thanks for Issue 8 My sister Hazel (nee Taylor) asked me to send this class photo of Holland Street School in 1959 (see front cover) and would be pleased to hear news of anyone from her class.
She says she only excelled in one subject-communication-that is she sat at the back of the classroom and talked a lot! She is on the front row of the photo sitting extreme right.

was interested to see a letter in issue 7 from Alan Britner as I was friendly with his sister Pauline who I remember wanted to be a singer and dancer. We lived a few doors away from each other on Bradford Road, backing onto the Gasworks, so the gasometer dominated my life.

Good luck with the magazine. It’s a great read. I look forward to the next issue.

Yours Sincerely
Pat Duncan.

Dear Have Your Say
Thank You for sending me the two magazines. I have spent a couple of hours today reading them and I found them very interesting regarding Miles Platting where I used to live (Joynson Street) until 1948. I noticed Alf Almond’s name, I believe I went to school (Holland Street) with Alf and one of his brothers in the thirties.

I Have lived in the Dordogne Valley in France for the past three years, reading your magazines brought back a lot of nostalgia to me. Thank You.

Yours Sincerely.
Harold Fulkes, France.

Dear All,
I have just been made aware of your magazine and I’m very interested in any articles regarding the Tripe Colony.
I was born there in 1942 and grew up there as did my wife, we now live in North Wales. I would be grateful if you could tell me how I could catch up with some of the letters from earlier editions.

I recognise some of the names of the letters and also articles. (Alf Almond was an ex bowling friend of both my father, Ernie Worsley and of my father-in-law Fred Seal.

In the latest edition my wife recognised some of the children in your front page photo No.7. (Are there names to go with it?)

If I come across any old photos or if I can provide you with any information please contact me.

Thanks
Frank Worsley.

Dear All,
Many thanks for the magazine. I am still trying to find photos of St Lukes church and St. Marks, if you should come across any will you send me copies (and the cost) I would be grateful.

Keep up the good work. Thanks Again
Tom Skudder, Middleton

Dear All,
Many thanks for issue eight of “Have Your Say”. Pictures of the Gasometer and gasworks clock brought back memories of Padstow Street where I lived until I married.

We never needed a clock in the bedroom all I had to do was look through the window and the clock was there, I think it chimed on the hour? but I’m not sure.

I remember going to the coke yard and spending my sweet coupons at Mrs. Scriveners sweet shop on the corner of Broxton Street and Bradford Road. I passed recently and the shop is still there! (Closed down of course!)

Remember Billy Griggs dress shop on the corner of Hooton Street and Bradford Road? To a young girl it was very glamorous. I think the dresses etc. had film star names. Billy Griggs and his wife were like film stars to me, he was very dapper and she was smart and sophisticated. Keep up the good work: I think a “Where are you now?” page would be good.

Florence Matthews. Cheadle Hulme.
PS I love the poems.

Dear Have Your Say
I recently visited England for a vacation to visit family and friends. We have lived in Canada for 34years. Amongst our friends are Elsie and Alf Almond who gave me some of your magazines ‘Have Your Say’. I really enjoyed them and thought I’d write to you, because they brought back all the happy memories of living there and I know all the areas’ very well although my husband and I lived in Moston; my husband worked on Oldham Road with Alf. When I visited them they took me for a drive around the areas’ that I knew, there was lots of changes though!

We didn’t have a lot of money in those days but families all pulled together and helped one another. We still say “The good old days” but we really wouldn’t want our children and grand-children to go through what we went through! Even though it hasn’t done us any harm. Thanks to all for the magazines

Sybil and Eric Howarth. Canada.

Dear Sir,
I have just read your magazine “Have Your Say” concerning Ancoats, Collyhurst and Miles Platting (Issue 8) and found it very good reading, it prompted me to put together a poem about my days as an Ancoats lad 1945-1953. Perhaps some of your readers will remember places I have talked about, carry on the good work.

Yours
Mr. A Hankinson

Dear Have Your Say Team,
Just by chance I came across your magazine Issue No. 8. I found it very interesting as I was born and brought up in Miles Platting. My mothers family came from Holland Street and before that Peel Terrace. I was born in Clara Street near the old New Street Fire station and Rhodes Street Wash-house and Baths.

Yours Mrs. F Carroll. Blackley.

Dear Editor,
I wonder if any of your readers have any knowledge or recollections of the Salford regiment of the Catholic Boys Brigade? I’m particularly interested in St.. Edmunds Company of which my Grandfather, George Herbert Williams was a member pre-WW1.

The photo (Front Cover) was taken in 1913 and seems to be an inauguration or presentation of a new banner. My grandfather is wearing his Boer War medals,

Fr. Tighe was the curate.

Dear Have Your Say Team
Thank you to the production team for all the time and effort necessary to publish such an interesting magazine.

Yours faithfully
Terry Davey. Stoke-on-Trent.

Dear Have Your Say
Thank You so much for sending me the magazines. Myself and my family have enjoyed reading them so much. They were born here in Blackpool but are interested in Manchester knowing I was born there. To me there is no place like Manchester.

Enclosed is a small donation. I would be grateful if you would send me the magazine when issued.

I think it is marvellous of you to do them.

I wish you all the best luck in the world.
Sincerely
Mrs Wyn Chard. (Blackpool)

Dear Sir
My wife picked up a copy of Have Your Say in Miles Platting Library where she works and found it very good reading. I also work in the libraries but I am based at Moston.

When I left school my first job was with Failsworth co-op. I used to go to all different locations, including the Miles Platting branch near the Playhouse Cinema. Those were the good old days, the only thing that was wild was the Woodbine Cigarettes that were sold in the shops!

Anyway keep the magazine going, it’s the tops. I have a poem I wrote a while back, I don’t know if you would like to use it or not.

Mr. N Jones (Moston).
We always keep poems for future use. Ed.