CI Chorlton & Whalley Range September 14

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September 2014

Chorlton & Whalley Range

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Contents

Make your own Fabric owl

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Your local independent toy shop

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Discover where you live

Joe Beech

On the cover

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Editor

Picture by June Gil

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Director

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Contributors Linsey Parkinson

Andrew Simpson Sam Paechter Cath Dyson

Chorlton Bookshop Leon Horton

Katherine Watson Geoff Garnett June Gil

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It’s time to play!

Why we should support our local independent toyshops bags.

By Linsey Parkinson So which was better: the anticipation or the reality? Going into the toyshop as a child with a bit of birthday money, able to choose whatever you wanted, was wonderful.

Think back and you’re probably smiling.

Local toyshops are special places and we all remember those we knew and loved. So where can today’s children go for that same thrill of excitement and possibility?

In the last year or so, Chorlton has lost Monkey Puzzle and Busy Bee Toys, while shops have also closed in Wilmslow, Bramhall, Poynton and Altrincham. South Manchester is down to its last two independents: Go Great in Burnage and Giddy Goat in Didsbury.

Chorlton families will remember Amanda Alexander as co-owner of Monkey Puzzle.

She left there two years ago to set up on her own at Giddy Goat. Selling toys is a serious business though: she faces stiff competition from supermarkets, bargain stores and huge online retailers.

Looking around, it’s obvious how Giddy Goat and other small toyshops are different from the pile-it-high sector: toys here are chosen by people who care. Dolls and teddy bears picnic in the window, there are play tables with trains, craft kits, colourful books and must-haves for even the tiniest babies. The pocket money section is bustling with children spoilt for choice and parents assembling party

“When I buy stock, I think of children opening presents at parties. I don’t want parents’ hearts sinking as they watch them open yet another piece of plastic tat. I stock toys I’d be happy to give as gifts, that I know children will love.”

So what’s on this year’s Christmas list?

“Dolls from Frozen in particular, but also the classics: Lego, anything with wheels, dinosaurs – and you can never have too many loom bands.”

Amanda chats with every child in the shop: she tells a small boy that the mean-looking knight he’s just bought enjoys spiders on toast.

His eyes shine.

Shopping locally for toys is especially important: independent toyshops bring colour and fun to our high streets, and give happy memories to our children.

Anonymous warehouses, brown boxes and shopping trolleys can’t do that and won’t even try. If we let the giants win the game, we’ll all be the losers in the end.

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New Terrace Markets at The PostBox Cafe local traders and allowing you to get your hands dirty creating something beautiful, from garden planters through to pumpkin carving.

From September The PostBox Cafe is launching a new collection of exciting Terrace Markets.

On the second Saturday of each month the market will feature a wide range of products, with something for everyone and all budgets. It should bring a real community feel to the area and will showcase the best of local and at-home businesses.

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On the fourth Saturday of each month a series of three markets will be held on rotation. September sees the launch of the Retro, Vintage & Salvage market, October is Antiques & Collectables and November is Home & Garden. “These new markets allow us to bring together some amazing and unique traders, not yet seen in Chorlton, and to use our wonderful terrace space� said Chris, owner of The PostBox Cafe.

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Through Chorlton Traders, businesses large and small have worked together to raise funds for local good causes, improve the appearance of Chorlton, establish and develop relationships with other local community groups and meet up regularly to share ideas, concerns and information.

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Book Reviews From Chorlton Bookshop

H is for Hawk

Helen Macdonald How often are we told ‘Don’t judge a book by its cover’? In this case, please do! The beautifully simple cover design really captures the essence of the book. This is a true life account about grief, obsession and nature, but above all about the magnificence of the Goshawk.

Helen Macdonald was left heartbroken by her father’s death and desperately needed an outlet for her grief. Remembering a childhood obsession with the classic book by T H White, The Goshawk, she fulfils an earlier promise made to herself and purchases her own goshawk to train.

We delve into a life where nothing

but single minded determination and obsession will do, isolating Macdonald from the ‘normal’ world and often sending her deeper into her grief. We are also treated to a biography of Macdonald’s inspiration, T H White, along the way.

Far from a depressing read, this book will leave you feeling uplifted and full of wonder at our natural world. This will not only appeal to fans of nature books but fans of non-fiction in general are in for a treat.

• Review by Joanna Legerton

My Teacher is a Monster Adam Murphy

The new school year is fast approaching, which makes this a very timely read. We love it at the Bookshop as it’s the latest offering from the genius who gave us Mr Tiger Goes Wild. Most appropriate for 4+, the humour and pictures will be appreciated by older children and adults as well.

Bobby really believes his teacher is a monster. She won’t even let him throw paper aeroplanes in class... how monstrous is that? One day Bobby’s worst nightmare comes true, he sees his teacher in the park. She still looks very monster-like to him.

When Bobby decides to help her with a tricky situation, the monster begins to turn human and he’s not so scared to go to school anymore.

In a great twist Bobby’s teacher also begins to see he’s not such a little monster after all.

This is a lovely take on the age old situation of not believing our teachers are actually human. This could be a useful book for all of those parents struggling to get their child used to a new teacher at the start of the school year.

• Review by Joanna Legerton

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Pavillion Cafe joins Tag! Scheme

Bach Choir appeal for new singers The Manchester Bach Choir is seeking new members to swell its ranks.

The 30-strong chamber choir, which performs regularly at Didsbury’s Emmanuel Church on Barlow Moor Road, is particularly keen to attract sopranos and tenors, but newcomers in all sections are very welcome!

Some previous singing or other musical experience would be helpful. However, if you don’t, but would like to enjoy a new hobby, please come along and try us out at one or two of our Tuesday practices (7.45 – 9.45 pm) at St Andrew’s Community Church, Hall Street, Offerton.

The Pavillion Cafe in Didsbury Park is the latest member of the TAG! Scheme. 2014 TAG! Cards cost just £2.50, and The Pavillion Cafe are offering a tasty 10% off!

The cafe, in Didsbury Park, is run by Didsbury Good Neighbours and functions as a social enterprise supporting the running costs of their building. They’re open Wednesday to Saturday, 10-5pm and 11-5pm on Sundays. Didsbury Good Neighbours really hope that the cafe will become a fixture for many years to come.

Why not go along and sample the high quality hot and cold drinks and lovely home made cakes and pastries for yourself.

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Rehearsals for the 2014/15 programme will begin on Tuesday 9th September.

Presenting three or four concerts a year, The Manchester Bach Choir tackles a huge range of classical repertoire from Bernstein to Bach. Performing to high musical standards, the choir also has a great reputation for friendliness!

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Taize Service relaunches at St Clement’s Church

Age-Friendly Whalley Range encourages residents to cook for their neighbours

This Autumn St Clement’s Church is relaunching its Taize Service. Taize is a quiet and reflective style of prayer, meditation and worship. Its distinctiveness comes from melodic chanting. The chants are simple and easy to learn and the thirty minute service also includes readings, prayers and times of silence; a time for mediation and rest at the beginning of the week. It is open to all.

Age-Friendly Whalley Range has been looking at ways to connect people who like to cook with older neighbours who could really benefit from a hot cooked meal.

The simple idea is to sign up Whalley Range residents willing to cook an extra portion of their lunch or evening meal for a neighbour living close by.

This could happen once a week or by arrangement between the cooks and diners.

Taize originates in an ecumenical community founded in the 1940s – both Protestant and Catholic. They opened their doors to visitors, particularly young people who wanted to spend time with the brothers to share in prayer and seek spiritual guidance. Today, over 100,000 people visit Taize every year and have brought the distinct style of worship experienced in Taize back to their home churches.

The service will be held at a new time of 7.30pm on the fourth Sunday of each month (this term: 28th Sept, 26th Oct, 23rd Nov). St Clement’s is on the corner of Edge Lane and St Clement’s Road. All are most welcome.

Cooks undergo a free DBS check and complete a short online food hygiene course – and are matched up with a local resident who signs up as a Diner.

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Together Dementia Support Can you offer support to a new dementia project?

A new Community Interest Company is being set up in Manchester to offer more support and community-based activities for people living with dementia. and they’re looking for volunteers who will enjoy sharing time, skills and activities with them.

Dementia (the most common form of which is Alzheimer’s Disease) can be a bewildering condition affecting personality, motivation and reasoning as much as memory.

The person with the illness may lose confidence or try to maintain appearances, arguing that there is nothing wrong with them. Living alone with dementia can lead to neglect and social isolation whilst living, unsupported, with someone who has dementia can place a great strain upon family relationships.

Having worked and studied in the field of dementia care for many years, I know how much self-esteem and wellbeing is boosted when people are included, celebrated and enabled to maintain skills and hobbies. Even as cognitive function is lost, people with dementia retain much of their individuality and ability to enjoy life.

Together Dementia Support will run a weekly drop-in for carers and a varied programme of activity sessions for people with dementia.

This could include indoor bowling,

walking, art & craft, baking, singing, poetry reading, or, perhaps a Men’s Group. There might even be counselling available for anyone who needs it.

If you have time to spare and would like to get involved with this rewarding project, there is a range of volunteering opportunities available. And, most importantly, if you would like to use the service, once it is up and running, please get in touch!

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Register your interest by e-mailing or phoning or you can attend an informal meeting to find out more on: Wednesday 17th September, 7.30pm – 9pm At the PostBox Cafe, Wilbraham Road 07854 335890

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New show celebrates 100 years of Chorlton library Writing and producing a new play is always exciting, stressful, scary, amazing, stressful, daunting, wonderful, audacious and hard. But with Opening 1914 the scales are definitely (well at the moment anyway) tipping towards the ‘exciting’.

It’s such a treat to be able to sit and write in the actual building where the play is set: to get our inspiration and like detectives find out about the real people who lived and worked in Chorlton 100 years ago and to imagine who and how they might have been involved in the opening of our library. Simon, the Edge’s composer and lyricist and I feel really privileged to get the opportunity to tell their story.

To give a nod of appreciation to those that helped to create the Chorlton that we all know and

love today. But what were they up against?

Travelling in Catalonia this year, we came across a beautiful building with a plaque, marking The Begur Theatre & Arts Centre.

Not dissimilar to The Edge, set up by a family in the late 1800s and at the heart of the community for over 50 years, only to close at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. We are imagining what it was like for our characters, working towards the opening of a long-awaited library, against the backdrop of a world, just three months into the Great War.

The Real benefits of giving to charity Throughout August The Horse and Jockey has been busy raising money for The Christie. In less than a month they managed to raise over £500. However the benefits haven’t stopped at the money itself. The Jockey team have come together to run Tough Mudder in aid of the same charity. It’s brought the team together, training to complete the 12 mile military style obstacle course.

Making money for charity helps build better communities. It has a positive effect on ‘cultural capital’ - a sense of one’s identity and an understanding of others.

Chorlton is no stranger to charity. Yearly events like the Beech Road Family Fun Day help raise money

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As a piece of theatre Opening 1914 will be performed at both the library and at The Edge in November as part of the Chorlton Book Festival. It will be part factual, part imagined. So, to accompany the production we will create an exhibition to share all of our research workshops’ discoveries. To find out more please get in touch either by emailing or writing to me at The Edge.

Janine Waters, Artistic Director The Edge Theatre & Arts Centre, Manchester Road, M21 9JG janine@edgetheatre.co.uk

for the park and bring together the generous Beech Road Traders. The traders offer financial support, but also their time.

From parents building new play areas for schools, (Brookburn Den), to festivals and events organised annually for the local area (Chorlton Book Festival), Chorlton is never short on people to help. We’re incredibly lucky to have so many people willing to give up their time and resources for charitable causes.

The Horse and Jockey will be running the Tough Mudder challenge on the 14th September and are looking to raise money for The Christie Charity.

The Christie help over 40,000 cancer patients each year and are a leading foundation in cancer treatment, research and education. You can support them by going to their Just Giving page www.justgiving.com/The-Horse-Jockey-Chorlton/ and leaving a donation there or popping it in the Christie box on the bar.

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For those who were born in the month of September the Sapphire is the traditional birthstone.

The September birth ower, the aster symbolises love, faith, wisdom and valour.

Many buyers over last few weeks will have looked to move in to their properties ready for the start of the new school term, alternatively, putting your property on the market in the coming weeks could mean you are in your new home for Christmas.

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Director The Gaffer, the brains and the back bone of the Chorlton squad. Shares his wealth of knowledge and expertise on a daily basis, within this busy line up and the local community, staying personally involved and keeping us one step ahead, leading to ongoing success.

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The engine of our midfield, pulling all the stops out to keep this well-tuned machine altogether. The Steven Gerrard of the squad.

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Make your own

Fabric Owl

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These little owls are a great project for using all those fabrics scraps and loose buttons and beads you have left over. They’ll look great around the house and they’re also perfect as favours or stocking fillers. If you prefer, you can fill them with rice to make them into paperweights, stick some lavender inside to scent your drawers or turn them into a garland for a party!

Instructions

1. Starting at the bottom corners, stitch the sides of the body to the sides of the belly.

2. Sew up the opening between top corner of belly and top corner of body.

3. Turn your owl inside out through the opening at the bottom.

4. Bring the top corner down to form the beak and stitch in place.

5. Add beak and eyes (use felt, buttons, beads or whatever you have to hand).

6. Fill your owl with stuffing and sew around the bottom to gather and close the opening.

7. Cut the base shape from felt or cardboard covered in fabric, and stitch to the bottom.

Use the pattern opposite to cut out the shapes in contrasting fabrics

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Discover where you live Walk, run and cycle in and around Chorlton

A cycle from Sale Water Park on the Bridgewater Canal to Walkden Gardens

By Cath Dyson This is an 8.5km (5¼ mile) circular cycle route from the car park at Sale Water Park. You can also start the route easily from Hawthorn Lane. It is a combination of canal towpath, quiet roads, park tracks and trails. There is one short busy road section where you can walk and push your bike if you prefer.

Use the Ordnance Survey map 277 Manchester, although the Open Street Maps (online at www. openstreetmap.org/ or Go Maps!!

App) is a lot clearer, particularly for details of the park tracks and trails.

Starting from the car park at Sale Water Park, near Bowlers, cycle along the bottom of the lake with the motorway to your left, turn right at the end of the water and take the path across the river and carry on following the tram lines north. Take the path left underneath the canal and loop back on yourself to the left and go up to the canal towpath.

Turn right onto the towpath and cycle down the canal for just over 2km, firstly going underneath the motorway and then start counting the bridges you go under and come

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off at the third. This is the junction with Marsland Road; turn left onto Marsland and cycle for just over 1km to Walkden Gardens, on your left at the junction with Derbyshire Road.

The Walkden Gardens are a wonderful space, see www.walkdengardens.co.uk, hidden within them are a number of individual gardens including the Dovecote Garden, Japanese Garden, mini Arboretum, and Theatre Lawn. This is a lovely space to spend some time, wander about, take a picnic.

On leaving the gardens, turn left onto Derbyshire Road, heading north. At Northenden Road, do a dog-leg, turning left then almost immediately right into Worthington Park. Another lovely space to cycle round and enjoy. To leave the park, keep to the right and take the small footpath next to the toilets in the top right/north eastern corner of the park.

Do another dog-leg, right then left this time onto Clarendon Crescent.

At the end of Clarendon turn left onto Dane Road and more or less straight away, turn right into Priory Gardens. Follow the track as it continues and then bends to the right. The motorway will be on your left, cross it at the bridge and descend down the path back to the starting point at Sale Water Park car park.

Fancy something longer?

Try the 23km (14½ mile) out and back route on the Fallowfield Loop from opposite Morrisons to the Grade II listed Moravian Settlement. Go to the very end of the loop and carry on another cycle path past Write Robinson School, then Fairfield Railway station to reach the A635. Turn left onto the A645, right onto Fairfield Ave, and then left onto Sister’s Street, to travel back in time at the Moravian Settlement with its own Chapel, School, Burial Ground and cobbled streets. Apart from the 1 minute on the A635 at the very end, the whole route is off-road on dedicated cycle routes.

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September In Your Garden

By Katherine Watson

Something changes in September, both in the season and in our own internal body clocks.

For me, being overly dramatic, the summer months, June to August, are always experienced with a distant anxiety – they will end; I won’t have made the most of it; I can’t bear the thought of short cold days…. But then September lands and I enter a settled comfort zone that signals the very start of autumn.

Barbara Kingsolver, the American novelist, sums this feeling up beautifully in her book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: “I always harbour a childlike hope through the berry stained months of June and July that summer will be for keeps. But then a day comes in early fall to remind me why it should end after all. In September the quality of daylight shifts toward flirtation”.

This year I am going to embrace September as a true bridge between summer and autumn by introducing some more salvias to my, already creaking, scheme. The huge genus salvia is a member of the mint family, lauded as a medicinal and healing plant since Roman times (Pliny the Elder writes significantly about sage in his encyclopaedic Natural History) and there are some beauties that will take you right up to the first frosts.

One of my current favourite flower colours is pale yellow so I’m going to try salvia x jamensis ‘La Luna’ and ‘Moonlight Over Ashwood’ which not only has pale yellow flowers but yellow leaves too. Salvia x jamensis ‘Los Lirios’ has soft pink flowers held on dusty purple stems and if you want something quite unusual Salvia discolour is a fantastic specimen with indigo blue flowers closely encased in silvery, downy calyces.

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Chorlton High School Getting co-operative with the Community Chorlton High became a Cooperative Academy in 2013, demonstrating its commitment to developing an outstanding school for the Chorlton community. As a Co-operative Academy it’s important that the school and its pupils work actively with a range of partners to make a positive difference in the area.

In the last year alone they have helped create a poetry trail around Chorlton (with Chorlton Arts Festival); hosted intergenerational writing events with Chorlton Good Neighbours; planted wild flowers in Chorlton’s Park and Water Park; held a community party for care home residents and baked lots of

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Christine Taggart, the school’s Community and Marketing Officer says: “This sort of engagement helps the wider community, but it also helps our pupils learn about social responsibility, fairness and having pride in where they live. When different people work together with a common cause, everyone wins.”

If you have an idea for a project the school could support, then get in touch. You don’t need to be a pupil or a parent - or even have a connection to the school - you just need to care about where you live and want to make a difference.

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The Story of Chorlton-Cum-Hardy One hundred years of a public library in Chorlton and an exciting new project from Edge Theatre & Arts Centre

By Andrew Simpson Now we are entering one of those long sustained periods of reflection on past events.

It began earlier in the month with the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War and will rumble on with coverage of the first big battles of that conflict and conclude with stories of the first war time Christmas of 1914.

And amongst all of that will be the 100th anniversary of the opening of our Library.

It is a story I keep coming back to, not only because it says much about how Chorlton was changing in the last decades of the 19th century but also because it was opened just two months after the Great War began.* From the 1880s into the 1920s our township grew a pace with an influx of new residents taking advantage of the housing boom which pretty much obliterated the countryside around what we now know as the Four Banks, off along Wilbraham Road and the long roads off Oswald. In the course of that development the old name for the area was lost and what had once been Martlege became ‘New Chorlton.’

I doubt that many who moved in even gave a second thought to that older Chorlton, instead they looked to stamping their own identity on the area. They set up sporting and cultural clubs and societies and above all wanted the Corporation to honour its promise of a public library, made when we voted to join the city in 1910.

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1914 and it is fitting that the Edge Theatre & Arts Centre are embarking on an exciting new project. It’s being funded by the Arts Council and The Edge want as many people from the local community as possible, to get involved.

Artistic director, Janine Waters says, “Opening 1914 will be a new piece of musical theatre with participatory workshops and accompanying exhibitions to celebrate the lives of ordinary people, opening a long awaited library, against the backdrop of a world just three months into the Great War. “We would love to hear from anyone who has stories, photos, letters, anecdotes or imaginings about the library in its early days. It opened in the November which coincides with the annual Chorlton Book Festival and this project will be a highlight of the birthday celebrations.

“Are you the great grandchild of Chorlton’s first librarian? Do you have an invitation to the opening

from the Lord Mayor in your attic? Do you remember stories from the streets surrounding the library in 1914? Do you have anything to share about the people who lived and worked in Chorlton during WW1?”

Now I am quite excited about the project, especially as it might give us an insight into how people got on with their lives when they weren’t thinking of the war or worrying about loved ones who had gone off to fight.

You can contact Janine at The Edge Theatre and Arts Centre, www.edgetheatre.co.uk.

Pictures; The Library in the early 1920s from the Lloyd Collection *Chorlton’s Libraries, http:// chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/ search/label/Chorlton%27s%20 libraries

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By Leon Horton It is no secret that the Merseybank and Barlow Moor estates, both of which run parallel to Southern Cemetery in Chorlton, have had more than their fair share of troubles in the past. Crime and anti-social behaviour, committed by a small but unwelcome minority, can be devastating to any community something the residents of these areas know only too well. But with the opening of their state of the art community centre, the Barlow Moor Community Association is fighting back...

It took years of campaigning, hard work and funding applications, but in January of this year the Barlow Moor Community Association (BMCA) proudly announced the opening of their brand spanking new community centre on Merseybank Avenue. A purpose-built complex with its own library, computer access, children’s playgroup, and facilities providing educational and recreational activities for all ages, the centre has already had a huge impact on improving the lives and social wellbeing of local

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Offering everything from teambuilding youth projects in games, sports and creative arts to familyorientated fun days to social events and day trips for the over 60s, the centre also runs regular advice and guidance sessions on issues such as housing, debt and unemployment. If that wasn’t enough, they provide classes in a variety of educational subjects.

And with your help they can do more. Partnered with Southway Housing Trust and numerous other organisations, the BMCA champion many regeneration projects in the area, and are keen to build upon this whilst extending other activities within the centre itself. If you can help, if you have specific skills or services you would like to offer, either as a volunteer member or director, they would be delighted to hear from you.

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Grand Day Out

Clubs, Societies & Groups

Chorlton Good Neighbours

Free computer taster sessions and a cup of tea, for the over 50s in Chorlton Library, Fridays 2-4pm 227 3700 d.gilligan@manchester.gov.uk

Barlow International Folk Dance Group Tuesday evenings at

Chorlton History Group

Greater Manchester Humanist Choir Sundays 2.30-4.30pm,

St.Ninians, Wilbraham Road Mary O’Mahony 881 0955

Chorlton Afternoon Townswomen’s Guild 2nd &

3rd Tuesday of the month, 2pm, Chorlton Library.

881 2544

Chorlton Aikido Club

881 2925 goodneighbours@ btconnect.com

Meets on the 1st Thursday of the month, 1.30-3pm at Chorlton Good Neighbours St Nininians Church, Egerton Rd South

Chorlton Kung Fu Wednesdays 8pm, Albany Estate, behind Morrisons 07774 723839

Chorlton Philosophy Group Tuesdays 7.30pm,

Wednesdays 7.30-9.30pm St Ninians, Wilbraham Rd www.lancashireaikikai.org 861 8456

upstairs at the Lloyds pub chorltonphilosophygroup. wordpress.com/

Community Allotment & Apiary

Once a month in the meeting room behind Chorlton library 7.30pm All welcome 881 1813 chorltonreadersgroup@gmail.com

Scott Avenue Allotment 07973 139068 or 07521 500223 uk.groups.yahoo.com/ group/grow_for_it/

Chorlton and Friends Gardening Group 3rd Monday monthly, in Chorlton Library, 7.30 - 9pm. Admission £3.00 candfgg@yahoo.co.uk

Chorlton Bookshop Book Group

3rd Tuesday of the month at The Horse and Jockey Pub 7.45pm Details from Chorlton Bookshop or call 881 6374

Chorlton Bridge Club

Christine Blackburn 225 8854 www.bridgewebs.com/chorlton

Chorlton Circle Dance Group

Tuesdays, 7.30-9pm Upper Hall, St. Werburgh’s Parish Hall, £5-7, 1st session free chorltoncircledancegroup.co.uk

Chorlton Civic Society

Chorlton Reading Group

Circolo Italiano Every Monday, 7-9pm at Union Chapel, Fallowfield. Intermediates and native speakers 881 8314 or guglielmifranco@clara.co.uk Coffee and Craft Mornings at

Chorlton Good Neighbours. Meet friends and have a coffee, with arts and crafts group. Thursdays 10-11.30am Wilbraham St Ninian’s Church 881 2925 cgncg.org.uk

Co-op members’ group

Every 2nd Wed of the month at 7.30pm, room above the Hardy Lane Co-op.Talks, trips, events.

Brenda 0752 507 1672 brenda.copnall@gmail.com

French Circle Tuesday afternoon or evening at St Werberghs Church Hall 881 8314

Chorlton Library meeting room. Check website for date of next meeting Chair - Mary Crumpton 07751 696 055 chorltoncivicsociety.org.uk

Friends of Alexandra Park

Chorlton Evening Townswomens Guild Meet every 2nd & 4th

friendsofchorltonmeadows. blogspot.com

Thursday of the month at 7.30pm Chorlton Library. 881 6354

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226 7525 friendsofalexandrapark. org.uk

Friends of Chorlton Meadows 881 6276

Chorlton Unitarian Church gmhumanistchoir@gmail.com @GMHumanistChoir

Intergen Volunteer opportunities for Chorlton residents 55+ to work with local primary school children.

Estelle Longmore 264 0089 or 07946761785 intergen.org.uk Manchester Clogging 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month, 10-11.30am, St Barnabas Church, Hardy Lane. £6 per class, Children £3. Liz 0794 4543479.

Find ‘Manchester Clogging’ on Facebook Manchester Flower Lovers’ Guild St Werburghs Church

Hall, Chorlton. Anne 881 6591 flowersnorthwest.net

Royal Scottish Country Dance Society Tuesday 7.30pm, Classes

at Manley Park Primary School, College Road, Whalley Range rscds-manchester.org.uk

Shakespeare House Community Centre Whalley Range M16 8NR,

823205 admin@r-squared.org.uk

Simply Cycling Longford Park, Athletics Stadium Mon & Fri 9.30 - Noon, Sun 1-3pm.

All abilties and ages welcome Sue 0775 342 8937 Helen 0787 162 1778 www.simply-cycling.org South Manchester Camera Club Mondays 8-10pm, Didsbury Methodist Church www.smcc.org.uk

St. Clements Fellowship

Barbara 881 5912 or Ida 0161 861 7158

Trafford Athletic Club, Longford Park. Mon & Thu 6-9pm.

Min age 9. Tonya 881 4488 www.traffordac.co.uk

Whalley Range Cricket & Lawn Tennis Club Indoor cricket nets

: Years 5 & 6: Fridays 6.30-7.30; Years 7-10: Friday 7-8.30: Seniors (16+): Tuesday and Thursday 6-9. £4 Kingsbrook Road, whalleyrange.play-cricket.com

Whalley Range Forum

JN8 Youth & Community Centre, 82 Cromwell Ave, M16 0BG 881 3744 communityforumwhalleyrange@ gmail.com

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Arts & Crafts Adventures in Painting & Drawing Tutor led art group.T New

term starts 16th Sept. Tuesdays 1-3.30.Chorlton Park Adult Learning Centre rowojo@hotmail.com Penny 0161 256 3528

Art Fusion Amateur artists meet

each Tuesday at 7-9pm at St Clements church hall. Fiirst session free then £5 ahomersham@ ntlworld.com www.artfusion.org.uk Friendly sewing group with a professional tutor. Mondays, 6.308.30pm (except second Monday of each month) Co-operative Hall, Hardy Lane. Angela 225 6931

Chorlton Alternative Art Class

Life drawing, all levels of ability welcome. £6 entry. Weds

Chorlton Art Group

Tuesdays, 10am to 12 noon at St. Werbergh’s church hall. Brenda at brensidebeck@aol.com

Chorlton Knits 1st and 3rd

Thursday of the month at Lloyds

Chorlton Sewing Club

1st Thursday of the month 7.30-9.30pm Chorlton Library chorltonsewing.wordpress.com

Co-operative Sewing Group

Fridays, 10am-12pm Co-operative Hall, Hardy Lane Pam 07906 311455

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Crafty Sew ’n’ Sews

7.30-9.30pm The Edge Theatre ww.chorltonalternativearts.com

Dolls House and Miniatures Group 2nd Monday of each

month, 8-10pm, Whalley Range Venue. Ann 07814 861285

Manchester Sing Out Choir (Gospel Choir) Tuesdays 7-9pm

St Johns Centre, Old Trafford. manchestersingoutchoir.org msochoir@live.co.uk

Stitched Up Textile

workshops 0161 881 7141 www.stitchedup.coop

Entertainment

Chorlton Film Institute

Under The Skin - 18th September.

Doors open 8.10 pm, film starts 8.30 pm Entrance £5 St Clements Church

Chorlton Folk Club

Thursdays 9pm Ellesmere Rd Cricket Club

Edge Theatre ‘Movie Moves’ and ‘Tap Dancing For You’ courses The Edge M21 9JG edgetheatre.co.uk Folk Songs and Tunes at The Beech 1st & 3rd Wednesdays for

Songs, 2nd & 4th for Tunes. Beech Road, Chorlton, M21 9EG

Therapy & Support Groups Breast Cancer Care Walking Group Every other

Friday at Chorlton Water Park bestfootforward@ breastcancercare.org.uk

Chorlton Anxiety Group 226 3871

Manchester Diabetes Support Network: Details/ venues/

monthly dates etc Register interest with Mike 860 5688 diabetesinmanchester@gmail.com

New Family Social UK charity for LGBT adopters, foster carers and their children. Meets every month in south Manchester. newfamilysocial.org.uk Rainbow Families 07903 397 108 rainbowfamilies@ hotmail.com

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Inside The Make It! Shop “I LOVE you for opening this shop.”

“My daughter has not stopped talking about how great your shop is - apparently you’ve changed her life by opening.”

“This is just what Chorlton needs!”

“I’ve had so many positive comments since I opened the shop in July”, says Danielle Lowy, owner of Chorlton’s Make It! Shop. “We’re a new independent, aiming to help all ages explore and enjoy their creative side. We stock craft supplies and all-inone kits include paper-crafting, sewing, knitting, crochet, felting, upcycling and weaving. We have cooking and gardening items too - upside-down hanging basket anyone?”

There are inspiring and colourful examples of creative makes all around the shop, as well as printed step-by-step tutorials to

take home. The shop’s Havea-go Table showcases different crafts and encourages everyone to dabble in something new.

There’ll be a range of workshops starting in the autumn too.

The shop has a wonderful Handmade in Manchester area, which offers a growing range of unique and beautifully crafted items by local artists. We saw customers buying gifts, cards and wrapping paper, then settling down to wrap their purchases in the shop.

“If you feel you’ve no time to make things, we can advise you on some great ‘quick fix’ creations as well as projects you can pick up and put down over a few evenings”, adds Danielle.

“Making something, whether it’s decorative or practical, is a brilliant way to relax and escape from some of the stresses of daily life”.

Pictured: Jewellery designer Hannah Lago with her work on sale at The Make It! Shop

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News from St Margaret’s Centre & Playing Fields Over the last twelve months St Margaret’s has been developing the use of their centre and playing fields. After consultation with the community, there are lots of exciting projects coming up. Why not get involved?

Make a Raised Bed

Saturday September 13th from 10am Led by the Community Award coordinator for the Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens and Sow the City, to show how it’s done, this is another step in the development of St Margaret’s Community Forever Garden. It will kick-start their long term plans for local

food grown by local people and shared with the community.

Bread Making sessions

The FREE monthly drop-in Bread making sessions will start again on Friday September 5th from 10am to 2pm at St Margaret’s Centre.

Blackberry Picking

They are lots of blackberries growing on the fields blackberry picking days are planned in September. If you are part of a local group (young or elder) and would like to come and pick blackberries and make delicious things like pies and smoothies then get in touch.

Open Voice Choir

Meet at St Margaret’s Church.

Term time Wednesdays 7.30–9pm. £5 (concessions always available) Free the natural voice bursting to get out of you. Have proper fun letting it all hang out, singing in harmony, songs from all around the world – African, Eastern European, Celtic, pop and other stuff.

To book a place on any of the above, please contact Claire on info@st-margarets-centre.co.uk or call 0161 862 9058 (Tuesday and Friday only).

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Sport in Chorlton

By Geoff Garnett

Bowls: A team win bragging rights at South West The eagerly awaited local derby in the Trafford Mixed Bowling League at South West Manchester Cricket Club featured the table-topping South West A against their division two promotion rivals South West B.

The A team reinforced their title credentials with a comfortable win with former cricket legend Harry Whiteley being one of the few stars for the B team who are still in with a good chance of joining them in the top flight.

One of their consistent stars for the A team has been Alex Mitchell (pictured) along with her brother Rob and they both posted big wins in the local derby.

In division one of the Trafford Evening League the Lloyds A team are continuing their unstoppable

title charge with another big win by 61 chalks at local rivals Bowling Green.

Lloyds have lost just two of their fixtures this season and at Bowling Green their winners were Charlotte Hough, Tom Mainwaring, Pete Smith, Amanda Ridley, Dave Phillips and Steve Cook. The Lloyds also look set for another league title as they retained their remarkable 100 per cent record in the Altrincham and South Manchester League with a 179153 win over Winton Social.

In the Sale and District League Steve Taylor from South West Manchester CC is the new Merit champion after a comfortable 2111 win over Rob Jordan of SMRBL in the final.

In the semi-finals Taylor beat club

Pictured: Alex Mitchell colleague Rob Mitchell 21-13 and Jordan accounted for Barrie Holland of SMRBL 21-20.

It’s neck and neck for the division one title with little between leaders SMRBL and Fallowfield who both recorded big wins as Quarry Bank lost out in a thriller at Chorlton.

Nursery still hold a useful lead in division two over South West with the top two well clear of Sale Cons after emphatic wins.

Cricket: Legends on show at Range Range juniors continued their busy and successful schedule with the U9s and U11s winning their respective matches against Brooklands and Urmston.

The U15s enjoyed a great win against Royton after scoring 166-2 off 20 overs.

The annual President’s Day at Whalley Range Cricket Club proved to be another big hit as former club legends showed their skills in the traditional match between ‘The Experienced

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Players’ and the ‘Older Players’.

The former team proved to have the edge.

Among those enjoying the day was former Range player and TV darts commentator John Gwynne.

Tim Hanbury and Joe Wood both scored 50s and Howie Butterworth and Ben Cooper each took two wickets as Royton were restricted to 70-7.

Pictured: Top legends recover after the match (John Gwynne second right)

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