Brian Hallworth's Talk on "The life and times of Mr George Formby"

Brian Hallworth gave a great talk on - “Still leaning on a lamppost” the life and times of Mr George Formby, at Chorlton Good Neighbour's History Group meeting on Sep 6th 2012, attended by over 30 people. Here are some clips of his illustrated talk which gives a flavour of the talk and of the music of the great George Formby 

Brian Hallworth giving his talk

Lights, Camera, Drizzle

Chris Lee, a film and culture historian, gave a talk to the Chorlton History Group on 2nd August 2012, entitled "Lights, Camera, Drizzle: Manchester, England and Film". Nearly 40 people attended and enjoyed finding out about Manchester's film history and seeing a series of clips particularly of films made at the the Mancunian Film Studios on Dickenson Road 

 The audience enjoying Chris's presentation

 Chris and his wife Pam having a cup of tea before the talk

Hurray for Jollywood!

The next History Group talk will be on Thursday 6th Sep at 1.30pm  

“Still Leaning on a Lampost: The Life & Times of Mr George Formby" by Brian Hallworth

As usual, it will be held at Good Neighbours (Wilbraham St Ninian's Church). 

All welcome 

Tuesday Parent & Toddler Group

This group meets on Tuesday mornings in  term time. It is run by Good Neighbours together with the Church and provides  support and friendship for parents with very young children.  Numbers are kept deliberately low (12-14 parents ) so that they can benefit from the space and free time over a coffee whilst the volunteers look after the children. 

Here are some of the volunteers who have shown such a great commitment to this Tuesday morning group  Christine and Lesley have now retired fom the group and we are looking for high calibre replacements for them as they have been such key people.

 Sarah Brewerton, Christine Parkinson,Hilda Mason, 

Chris Bentley, Lesley Gilbert and Kath Lacy

Day Trip to Rhos on Sea

A day trip to Rhos on Sea, Wales on 25th July 2012 for over 40 people from Chorlton Good Neighbours, Ends with an interview with Joan who has lived in the same house in Chorlton for 85 years and reminisces about working for the Ministry of Food during the second World War and what it was like using the Anderson Air Raid shelter in their garden

Snooker & Bowling afternoon

Some members of Chorlton Good Neighbours playing snooker and bowls on a Tuesday afternoon in July 2012. We meet for a get together every Tuesday afternoon and play snooker, darts, dominoes and bowls (if weather allows) down at S Manchester Cricket Club where many of us have become members

Good Neighbours on the Frank Randle day in Blackpool

The 6th Great Frank Randle Day

Joyce, Arthur and Bernard from Chorlton Good Neighbours took part in the 6th Annual Frank Randle celebration day was held on 7th July 2012. It started off with a visit to his grave at the Carleton Cemetery near Blackpool by members of the Manchester based Cuthbert Club. After a cup of tea in the cemetery cafe we paid our respects at Frank's grave where flowers were laid, a bottle of guiness was poured by Chris Lee (aka Mr Cuthbert) and tributes given by actors Michael Leader (of East Ender's fame)  and Steve King. We also visited Norman Evan's grave whicvh has  a headstone in the shape of a wall and Steve gave a brief impression of Norman talking 'over the garden wall'

Joyce, Arthur & Bernard from Good Neighbours in front of Blackpool Tower 

The visit to the cemetery was followed by a showing of three Frank Randle films at the end of the North Pier in Blackpool. This was the highlight of the day which was commemorating the the northern comedian on the anniversary of his death. 

Followed by ukelele performances and a walk through Blackpool in the early evening as the hen parties got into full swing. What a day!

This is a still taken from the beginning of Frank Randle's short film "Bella's Birthday". It was produced by Mancunian films and as you can see , the opening shot was clearly taken outside the Horse & Jockey pub in Chorlton 

"AH'LL FETTLE THEE!"

Chris Lee and his dummy Cuthbert in front of the Frank Randle plaque 

outside the theatre on the North Pier at Blackpool 

Northern Belly Company at Good Neighbours

On Sunday July 1st the Northern Belly Company (www.northernbellycompany.com)  paid a visit to the Chorlton Good neighbours Sunday Tea and gave a performance of their dances. They then showed the clothes and decorations they used for the dances and got some users and volunteers to participate