Volunteers Christmas Meal 2011

Chorlton Good Neighbours, Manchester. Volunteers Christmas meal, 20th Dec 2011. Only some of the 70+ volunteers for Good neighbours could make it to the meal, but a big thanks to all of our volunteers for their contributions throughout the year

Helen Hibberd, coordinator of Chorlton Good Neighbours Care Group, Manchester was on Woman's Hour, Radio 4 on 9th Dec 2011 to talk about neighbourliness. This is her part of the talk plus some photos of Good Neighbours users and volunteers

Chorlton Good Neighbours, 2007 video

This is part of a video shot in 2007 which describes the work of Chorlton Good Neighbours Care Group, Manchester. It focuses on the range of activities and services it offers to older people in the local community, and how how valued it is both by its users and its volunteers. It now caters to over 270 users and has over 70 volunteers

Christmas Party, Dec 2011

The Chorlton Good neighbours Chriustmas party was held on 4th Dec 2011. 

It featured the singing group the Sparklers

Visit to Brookburn Primary School

Sharing Memories

Members of Chorlton Good Neighbours on their visit to Brookburn Primary School, Chorlton on 23 Nov 2011. We were there to talk to the year 6 students about what it was like being in Chorlton during and after World War 2. The visit was enjoyed equally by children and adults alike, and we left stuffed full of the cakes that the children had made for us - and bags of them to take home too!

Bernard Leach

Micky Mitchell talked about her driving a petrol tanker around Manchester in World War Two, even in the middle of air raids

Bernard shows the children pictures form the "Memories of Chorlton" booklet produced by Chorlton Good Neighbours

Mary Platt

Arthur Brandreth

Jack Baker

Alan Brown brought along pictures of a Barrage Balloon on Beech Rd Park during the war and a photo of a train at Chorlton Station in the 1950's. 

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You can see above, some of the questions the children had prepared in advance

Susan Baker

Hilda Mason

Pumpkin pie

Cracking Good Food at Chorlton Good Neighbour Mon 7th Nov: Pumpkin pie, and spotted dick for pudding - terrific session! Many thanks to Rob & Co for a great morning's cooking

Sunday Tea

Typical Sunday Tea at Chorlton Good Neighbours, featuring bingo, food and music from members of the Beech Band

First Aid course

                                    

First Aid course at Chorlton Good Neighbours held on Oct 28th 2011

Philip Lloyd, historian

Philip Lloyd, Local Chorlton Historian and ex chair of Chorlton Good Neighbours talks about his life growing up in Chorlton-cum-Hardy. He has lived all his life above the family shop which was founded by his grandfather when the parade of shops opened on wat was the Darley park estate in 1910, 

The Sweet Cordials

                            The Sweet Cordials singing at Chorlton Good Neighbours, Sun Sep 4th 2011

John the Baker

John the Baker's memories of Chorlton. John still gets up at 3am most mornings to go into work at the Barbakan bakery. His memories of Chorlton, Manchester stretch back to world war 2 and, street parties at the end of the war. His mother delivered milk to neighbours in Chorlton with pails of milk in a handcart. His grandmother who was in Chorlton in 1910 remembers hearing Corncrakes oin the meadows, a bird now only found in the Hebrides

                                              

Marjorie Holmes

Marjorie -  90 years of Chorlton memories - Marjorie's memories of living in Chorlton, a place she was born in  90 years ago. As well as memories of St Clement's old church and going for milk at Ivygreen Farm, she was also in the RAF in WW2 as a flight mechanic and remembers German prisoner's of war working on fields next to Wilbraham Road

                                         

Joan, Christine, Marion & Enid

Joan, Christine, Marion & Enid having a discussion about their memories of Chorlton, before and after World War 2,  and their current roles as volunteers in Chorlton Good Neighbours

                                           

Exercising

Exercising to George Formby's "When I'm Cleaning Windows" at 

Chorlton Good Neighbours Spring Party on Sun Apr 3rd 2011

                                         

Open Voice Choir

Open Voice choir from Whalley Range 

performing at Chorlton Good Neighbours Spring Party  on Sunday 3rd April 2011

                                            

Ray show how to play the spoons

Ray show how to play the spoons at Chorlton Good Neighbours Spring Party

                                              

Farewell to Arthur, wheelchair support worker

A presentation at the Spring Party to Arthur Brandreth 
who has been the wheelchair support worker 

at Chorlton Good Neighbours for over 10 years

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Arthur, wheelchair support worker

Arthur Brandreth has been the wheelchair support worker at Chorlton Good Neighbours

 for more than 10 years, come rain or shine. He retires this week (01-04-2011). 

This video shows him, and Amanda who is taking over his role, taking Eileen out to the shops. This is Eileen's first time out and about for 2 months since coming out of hospital.

                                         

Joan Wood

Joan Wood of Chorlton Good Neighbours, looks back at her life in Manchester - 

bringing up a family in Chorlton and her work as a science teacher

                                        

John Brownhill plays the piano

John Brownhill playing the piano at Chorlton Good Neighbours, Thurs Mar 24th 2011. 

He taught himself to play 40 years ago

                              

Andrew Dawson, a volunteer with Chorlton Neighbours, talks about his involvement with CGN and his family's important role in the development of Chorltonville

                                      

Hilda's Paintings

Hilda Mason, shows the paintings she did since she joined art classes at Chorlton Good Neighbours. Followed by a coffee with Bernard on Beech Road

                                       

Phillip Lloyd's history of Good Neighbours

A short history of chorlton good neighbours given by Phillip Lloyd at the EGM held on Thursday 17th March 2011

                                 

Renee Smith

Renee Smith talks about her life in Manchester and Chorlton which she has lived in for many years

                                            

Tess Lamb

Interview with Tess Lamb of Chorlton Good Neighbours, looking back on her life in Chorlton

                                       

Hilda Mason

Hilda Mason of Chorlton Good Neighbours talks about her life in Chorlton and her views on how important CGN is to older people in Chorlton