McMillan Coffee morning

McMillan Coffee morning at Chorlton Good Neighbours, 27 Sep 2012. 

Featuring some of Joan's relatives, a raffle, bingo and the Melodics singing grouip 

The Good Neighbours garden project, Jan to Sep 2012

This video summarises the progress to date of the aim to transform the overgrown piece of land at the back of the Church into a garden an allotment. We now have the raised beds in place and thanks to Bramall Construction (www.bramallnw.com), we also have a patio area, which they constructed for free. We aim to get a greenhouse and shed so that we can really start planting for the coming years

Denise's Leaving Party in 1988

Clips from a video made by Ian Hobbs in 1988 of Denise Jones's Leaving Party. Denise was leaving Chorlton Good Neighbours to go and live in South Wales. Included in these clips are Helen, Enid and Arthur who are all still active in Chorlton Good Neighbours but unsurprisingly look a little bit younger in this video!

Good Neighbours stall at 'Faith on the Green'

On a lovely sunny, Saturday autumn day (22-09-12) chorlton good neighbours had a stall at the Faith on the Green event on Chorlton Green. It was held to mark the 500th anniversary of St Clement's Church. Thanks to Carolyn, Jane & Janice who came on the stall. Our Good Neighbour's balloons were popular with children, though it takes practice to assemble them properly!

Carolyn on the stall

Ray

Janice, Bernard & Ray, with Ray's two dogs

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