Welcome to SK Bramhall & Woodford Welcome to the May / June issue of SK Bramhall & Woodford. Our Events Spotlight page features the Stockport Historical Society and Jo Hoddes Prevent Breast Cancer charity team who are Painting Bramhall Pink throughout the month of May. Check out page 10 and join in!
This month Under the Hammer page 18
As it’s May, and after a very hard couple of years the Duck Race and Family Fun Day at Bramhall Park is back! All the details can be found on page 26. Remember if you need a lift the Duck buses are running again and it’s free! Sharon Rankin our Interior Design guru is urging you to make the most of your outdoor space and hopefully get ready for a lovely summer. Page 12. We have four pages of events in and around the area along with two pages of Children’s Activities, to help get you out and about within the community. Remember if your club or group is looking for more members, drop me an email and I’ll do my best to spread the word. Grab a brew and enjoy the read. Cheers
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Could your doll, teddy or toy join feast of childhood nostalgia in Platinum Jubilee Auction? This summer the nation will celebrate the (1883-1968), a pioneer of German dollQueen’s Platinum Jubilee - and Hansons making. She established manufacturing will play its part. principles which exist to this day. Her original dolls remain highly collectible On May 26 Hansons will host a due to their realism and fetch high Royal Memorabilia Platinum Jubilee prices. Auction and entries are invited. She also admires the work of Sasha Royal items come in many forms. We’ve Morgenthaler (1893-1975), a Swiss artist sold everything from Queen Victoria’s and dollmaker best known for the Sasha bloomers and royal Christmas cards to doll produced in Germany and the UK in a royal servant’s lifetime collection of the late 1960s. Popular with collectors, memorabilia. Sasha dolls are characterised by realistic Blitzy, the bear which But there’s helped a little girl get expressions. another way through the Manchester for £1000 at In the 1980s Janet’s love of bisque-head to take part. Blitz sold Hansons fine French and German dolls began. But The sale will the bisque, cloth and felt compositions include a of the 1920s were spectacular feast of swept away with childhood nostalgia factory wartime a pageant of dolls and innovation using toys to mark nearly Dolls and teddy valuations celluloid, plastics 200 years of childhood and vinyl. by monarch. It will start with the reign British of Queen Victoria from 1837-1901, work companies through the early 20th century and war like Pedigree years and finish with toys we have loved became through the reign of our current Queen Charles Hanson with one of the market royal Christmas cards from 1952 to the present day. leaders, Hansons’ dolls and teddy bear consultant clever enough to produce both expensive valuer Janet Rawnsley, a lifelong collector, luxury dolls and cheap toys for shops like will lead this important section. If you Woolworths. have a doll or teddy you wish to auction, Whatever antique, vintage or rare doll Janet will be offering free valuations at St or teddy you have at home, if you are John’s Knutsford Church Centre, Church Hill, considering selling, Janet would love to see Knutsford, on May 6 and 20 and June 10 it. She will be at St John’s Knutsford Church and 24, 11am-1pm. Experts will also be on Queen Victoria Centre, Church Hill, Knutsford, WA16 6DH, hand to assess general antiques and you outfit, part of collection of royal on May 6/20, June 10/24 June, 11am-1pm. can consign to auction on the day. clothing that sold Alternatively, email for £17,000 Dolls, teddies and toys make up a vibrant, jrawnsley@hansonsauctioneers.co.uk. nostalgia-fuelled sector of the auction industry. Keen collectors like objects that spark Twitter: HansonsUK memories of formative years. Facebook: HansonsAuctioneersUK Janet has a vast historical knowledge of dolls and teddy bears. She appreciates the workmanship Instagram: hansons_auctioneers that emerged in the early 1910s led by Käthe Kruse
Contents Welcome - Page 3 Events - Pages 5,6 & 8 Events Spotlight – Page 10 Interior Design – Page 12 Community Care - Page 14 Club News – Page 16 Under the Hammer – Page 18 Children’s Activities - Pages 21& 24 Charity News – Page 26 Food & Drink – Page 28 Health & Wellbeing – Page 30 Mindset Advice – Page 32 Financial Matters – Page 34 In Stitches – Page 36 Community Index – Page 38 Wellbeing Pilates – Page 40 Ad Index - Page 42
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