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Welcome
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!
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 Simon
Simon Hemsley SK Magazines T: 07952 005518 E: simon@skmagazines.co.uk W: www.skmagazines.co.uk
This month
Under the Hammer page 18
Could your doll, teddy or toy join feast of childhood nostalgia in Platinum Jubilee Auction?
This summer the nation will celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee - and Hansons will play its part.
On May 26 Hansons will host a Royal Memorabilia Platinum Jubilee Auction and entries are invited. Royal items come in many forms. We’ve sold everything from Queen Victoria’s bloomers and royal Christmas cards to a royal servant’s lifetime collection of memorabilia.
But there’s another way to take part. The sale will include a spectacular feast of childhood nostalgia - a pageant of dolls and toys to mark nearly 200 years of childhood by monarch. It will start with the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837-1901, work through the early 20th century and war years and finish with toys we have loved through the reign of our current Queen from 1952 to the present day. Hansons’ dolls and teddy bear consultant valuer Janet Rawnsley, a lifelong collector, will lead this important section. If you have a doll or teddy you wish to auction, Janet will be offering free valuations at St John’s Knutsford Church Centre, Church Hill, Knutsford, on May 6 and 20 and June 10 and 24, 11am-1pm. Experts will also be on hand to assess general antiques and you can consign to auction on the day. Dolls, teddies and toys make up a vibrant, nostalgia-fuelled sector of the auction industry. Keen collectors like objects that spark memories of formative years. Janet has a vast historical knowledge of dolls and teddy bears. She appreciates the workmanship that emerged in the early 1910s led by Käthe Kruse
(1883-1968), a pioneer of German dollmaking. She established manufacturing principles which exist to this day. Her original dolls remain highly collectible due to their realism and fetch high prices. She also admires the work of Sasha Morgenthaler (1893-1975), a Swiss artist and dollmaker best known for the Sasha doll produced in Germany and the UK in the late 1960s. Popular with collectors, Blitzy, the bear which Sasha dolls are characterised by realistic helped a little girl get through the Manchester expressions. Blitz sold for £1000 at In the 1980s Janet’s love of bisque-head Hansons fine French and German dolls began. But the bisque, cloth and felt compositions of the 1920s were swept away with factory wartime Dolls and teddy valuations innovation using celluloid, plastics and vinyl. British companies like Pedigree became market Charles Hanson with one of the royal Christmas cards leaders, clever enough to produce both expensive luxury dolls and cheap toys for shops like Woolworths. Whatever antique, vintage or rare doll or teddy you have at home, if you are considering selling, Janet would love to see it. She will be at St John’s Knutsford Church Queen Victoria outfit, part of Centre, Church Hill, Knutsford, WA16 6DH, collection of royal on May 6/20, June 10/24 June, 11am-1pm. clothing that sold for £17,000 Alternatively, email jrawnsley@hansonsauctioneers.co.uk. Twitter: HansonsUK Facebook: HansonsAuctioneersUK Instagram: hansons_auctioneers
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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EVERY MONDAY: THE LINDOW SINGERS
Wilmslow Academy Primary School, Handforth Road, Handforth 7:30pm. For more information contact Ann Epton, on 0161 485 2231 or Email
Harry.Epton@ntlworld.com or visit https://www. lindowsingers.org.uk/
Contact Penny on 0161 440 8059 or
mail@cheadlehulmefitness.org.uk
EVERY MONDAY: THE ROBINS SINGERS
Email sec.robinssingers@gmail.com for more information. EVERY MONDAY AFTERNOON AT 2 PM: ART AND CRAFT GROUP AT BRAMHALL METHODIST CHURCH
Call the Church Office for information
0161 439 1204
EVERY 3RD MONDAY OF THE MONTH: THE CURRY CLUB
Contact Hazel Hiley, 0161 439 1281 Email hazelhiley@gmail.com LAST MONDAY OF THE MONTH: GATLEY & CHEADLE DIABETES GROUP
Contact Jean 0161 485 1628. EVERY MONDAY & WEDNESDAY OVER 60’S MEN’S KEEP FIT
Contact John on 01625 877549 or Graham on
0161 483 7631
Contact Penny on 0161 440 8059 or Email mail@cheadlehulmefitness.org.uk EVERY FOURTH MONDAY OF THE MONTH: THE TREFOIL GUILD
Further details from Secretary.BramhallTG@gmail. com or 07887 950298. EVERY TUESDAY (TERM TIME ONLY): BROOKDALE YOUTH THEATRE
Email BrookdaleYT@outlook.com EVERY FIRST TUESDAY OF THE MONTH: BRAMHALL & WOODFORD SEWING & CRAFT CIRCLE
Contact Karen on 07860 458260. EVERY TUESDAY: BRAMHALL WORLD CIRCLE DANCE GROUP
Contact us through web site www.bramhallcircledance.wordpress.com or ring 07713 681439. First session free with SK booklet. FIRST TUESDAY OF THE MONTH: CHESHIRE LADIES LUNCHEON CLUB
Contact Joan Fitzgerald on 0161 428 2515. EVERY SECOND & FOURTH TUESDAY OF THE MONTH: STOCKPORT SYMPHONIC SOUNDS
Contact Liz Pennington on 0161 439 7484 FIRST AND THIRD TUESDAY EVERY MONTH: KNIT AND KNATTER GROUP
Contact Jean on 0161 439 8241.
EVERY WEDNESDAY: TODDLERS
Contact 0161 485 1605 for details. EVERY WEDNESDAY: POWNALL PROBEX CLUB.
Email pownallprobexclub.org.uk EVERY WEDNESDAY: BRAMHALL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
For more details. Email: info.bramhallps@gmail.com or
www.bramhallps.org
EVERY WEDNESDAY: STOCKPORT BARBERSHOP CHORUS
We sing as Harmony Revival and rehearse at 7.30 each Wednesday evening at Wesley Street Methodist Church in Hazel Grove and can be contacted via our website - harmonyrevival.co.uk, or by email to info@harmonyrevival.co.uk. EVERY WEDNESDAY: THE LAURENCE SINGERS
Email: enquiries@thelaurencesingers.org.uk or call Cliff on 01625 527204 or visit
www.thelaurencesingers.org.uk
EVERY WEDNESDAY: STOCKPORT COMMUNITY CHOIR
Email info@stockportcommunitychoir.org.uk or ring Phil on 07771 730 810. EVERY WEDNESDAY: BMC BABY CHAT BRAMHALL METHODIST CHURCH.
For further details telephone 0161 4391204. STOCKPORT LADYBROOK SPEAKERS CLUB
Contact Gaynor Dennett 07722 166605 visit www.stockportladiesspeakers.co.uk EVERY OTHER WEDNESDAY: ROTARY CHEADLE & DISTRICT DEMENTIA GROUP
Contact Rita Kumar 07899951600. EVERY WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH – PARKINSON’S UK – STOCKPORT BRANCH
Check out our web page
www.parkinsons.org.uk/local-support-groups/
regions/stockport-branch for a full list of our programme. EVERY SECOND WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH: THE ARTS SOCIETY NORTH EAST CHESHIRE
Contact Maggie Schofield on 0161 427 9451 or
inf0@theartssocietynortheastcheshire.org.uk
EVERY OTHER WEDNESDAY: STOCKPORT LADIES SPEAKERS
For more information go to www.stockportladiesspeakers.co.uk or email
sixdennett@aol.com
EVERY THURSDAY: BRAMHALL THURSDAY CLUB
Contact Carol Sargent g.davidsargent@btinternet.com, 0161 439 1779 or Facebook page, Bramhall Thursday Club. EVERY 1ST AND 3RD THURSDAY: PROBUS CLUB OF STOCKPORT SOUTH
contact Chris Ward 0161 483 5174 or email: chris@vistech.plus.com. EVERY THURSDAY (TERM-TIME ONLY): TNT - A YOUTH GROUP FOR AGES 10-15
Contact Elaine Noden 0161 355 1459. FIRST THURSDAY OF THE MONTH: WOODFORD WI
Contact Cheshire Federation of WIs at www.cheshirewi.org.uk or call 01244 347462.
