Sunday 17 June 2012

Good Neighbours at Brookburn Summer Fair

The Good Neighbours stall


decorating their own cupcakes





             

Good Neighbours at Brookburn Summer Fair, June 16th



Carolyn on the stall


Arthur and Hilda telling people 
about Good Neighbours




Hilda on the Good Neighbours stall








A decorated cupcake!




Monday 11 June 2012

Gagarin's visit to Manchester - History Group talk

A talk by Gurbir Singh at the Chorlton History Group, Chorlton Good Neighbours, June 7th 2012. Yuri Gagarin visited Manchester on 12th July 1961. He came through Chorlton and was presented with a medal by the Foundry Workers Union based at Brooks Bar, Whalley Range. Several people at the talk had seen Gagarin on the day, including Joyce  from Chorlton Good Neighbours  who worked in the Union offices where he visited and she shook hands with him. At the end of the talk is a short clip from a film of the visit to the  union office at Brooks Bar



Gurbir Singh giving the talk at Chorlton Good Neighbours



Saturday 9 June 2012

Trip to Boundary Mill, Colne



A group of us from Chorlton Good Neighbours went on a trip to Boundary Mill in Colne (see www.boundarymill.co.uk). There were 15 of us in total in 4 cars. We originally intended to go to Buxton but the weather was so bad we decided to go somewhere that was indoors. This is a video clip of the experience of the four men who went there together in one ca



Sunday 3 June 2012

Jubilee Sunday






Special Jubilee themed Sunday Tea at Chorlton Good Neighbours. As well as the enterntainment, people shared some of their memories of the Queen's Coronation in 1953

Friday 1 June 2012

The New Chorlton Good Neighbours Leaflet

Information about our activities



A photo of some of the people involved
in Good Neighbours




At long last - finally planting some potatoes in the raised beds


Ruby, the Jubilee Queen