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Summer on a Shoestring
Free activities for children in the holidays
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Bathroom Angels A lot of our Chorlton and Whalley Range houses have very small bathrooms, which may be due to the fact that the Victorians didn’t value cleanliness quite as much as they said they did. If you want to make the most of a small space or create a second bathroom or en suite - a wet room is a great solution, which can really add value to your home.
A wet room is simply a shower room that doesn’t have a visible shower tray. The water drains away through a waste in the tiled floor. The wet room concept is simple: installing one in your home perhaps less so. You definitely need to call in the experts if you’re going to get it right. Your wet room’s floor needs to slope gently down towards the plughole to channel water away safely. The room also needs to be tanked so that its walls and floor are completely waterproof. A very large, sloping shower tray is usually set in place under the floor, then tiled over. If you have a solid floor, you can still have a wet room, though: rather than going under the floor, a platform can be made to raise the shower area and accommodate the tray, trap and drain, all neatly out of sight. The tiles you choose for your wet room are important. Mosaics, riven surfaces and non-slip tiles are best for avoiding accidents. You also need to ensure there are no pools of standing water left behind after you shower. Combine a wet room with a wall-mounted basin/vanity unit and toilet and you have a stylish, contemporary
(and easy to clean) space that suits the whole family. You can even include under-floor heating as part of the job and do away with your radiator! The team at Bathroom Angels can advise on every aspect of creating a wet room, and they stock everything you’ll need, from fixtures and fittings to a beautiful range of tiles and specialist flooring. Costs vary, but you may not need to splash out as much as you think: around £600£800 more than a normal shower installation. But who wants normal?
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Just Write at The PostBox Cafe A ‘special delivery’ space for anybody interested in writing. Explore ideas, whittle worlds with words. Tracy Tyrrell has been playing with words for years. A compulsive reader, dreaming of being a writer who, until recently, hid her notebooks, passion and ambitions like a secret smoker hides their emergency lighter; never in view, always to hand. Earlier this year she amazed herself by winning the Edge Hill MA short story Prize.
She is an experienced English teacher (but don’t let that put you off) and an enthusiastic workshop leader. She hangs about on twitter as MrsT, call in and say Hi or have a look at her blog: mrstwritesinclemency. blogspot.co.uk
Ernest Hemmingway says writing is easy ‘you just sit at a typewriter and bleed’ - MrsT knows writing is less painful when you link up with like-minded people who support your scribblings and nurture your talents. Each monthly workshop will include: • a range of activities to get our writing muscles toned for action • extracts from expert writers to help us sharpen our writerly tools • a look at what writers say and write about writing - I’ve not found anyone who thinks it’s easy but almost everyone agrees it’s a lot of fun
• time to think, talk, relax and write • information and advice on all things writing, including competitions and publishing • LOTS of encouragement and support
Launch event/teaser on Tuesday 26th August, 7pm, then Second Monday of the month (Starts September 8th) 7-9pm. Bring a pen, a notebook and a bit of enthusiasm - who knows where it might lead?
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at the Seaside with Punch & Judy and more.
With an ever growing group of locals joining in the fun, we look forward to seeing more of you soon! Learn to create new recipes and enjoy some baked treats too! Fortnightly
Fabric Craft Club
Wed 6th & Tues 20th, 7pm-9pm
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Chorlton Cinema Project Special Summer Screen event at Chorlton Park for August. Join our mailing list online for further info.
Chorlton Community Market Sat 9th, 10am to 4pm
An amazing collection of local and charity based stalls with our tasty Posh-Dogs BBQ. This month’s special community event – Chorlton
Mon 18th, 7pm to 9pm Time to get crafty with fabric! This thoroughly enjoyable evening is a chance to get together and share craft tips and learn new fabric crafts. Whether you’re an absolute beginner or a practising crafter, come along and get crafty!
£3 - 1st session free
Mumsnet Meetings: Extra meet-ups for Summer Get together with other local mums in a child friendly environment. A chance to chat and share advice, tips and make some new friends and play-dates. Pram parking
provided during the get together. Contact jomallaber@gmail.com for August dates.
The People: A Talk and Dinner with author Selina Todd Fri 22nd, 7pm
The Sunday Times’ best selling author hosts a wonderful 2 course dinner and talk about her new book, The People. See advert below for details.
Chorlton Arts Market
Sat 23rd, 10am to 4pm Over 20 unique stalls at this magical and unique monthly market. Includes live music and Posh Dogs BBQ.
We are excited to announce The PostBox Cafe will be popping up at Chorlton Park and around Chorlton in our PostBox-To-Go Van, bringing you a selection of hot and cold drinks, home-baked treats and more
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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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Summer on a shoestring By Linsey Parkinson Ahh, the summer holidays. The anticipation is blissful if you’re young and in uniform: less so if you’re a parent with an overworked wallet. As we head into August, the novelty’s probably wearing thin and the restless fidgeting has well and truly begun. Remember, though, that not every bit of summer holiday entertainment needs to cost a fortune: it only feels that way. All Sorts to Do (www.manchester.gov.uk/allsortstodo), from the City Council, lists children’s activities from sports and outdoor fun to environmental, art and craft workshops. Whatever the British summer may throw at us, there’ll be something on offer in parks, museums, galleries and libraries all over town. Almost everything is free, though you may need to book in advance for some events.
Pay your council tax to Manchester? Then your children can swim free at the city’s ten leisure centres (which include Chorlton and Withington) during the holidays. If they’re under 16, just fill in a registration form for each child and dive right in.
Get lost in a good book
Illustration © Sarah McIntyre for The Reading Agency
Meanwhile, over at the library, the Summer Reading Challenge is in full swing. The Mythical Maze is a magical way to enjoy reading for fun, with surprises all along the way. Children aged between 4 and 11 who borrow and read six books over the summer will win stickers and goodies as they go. Every young reader completing the challenge goes into a prize draw for goodie bags and a Big Star Prize. It doesn’t matter which books they choose, as long as they’re ones that they’ll love. The good people at the library have been buying some great new fantasy, mythology and monster books to whet reading appetites: from Cyclops to Cybermen, dragons to daleks, they’ve got it covered. There’ll be lots of Mythical Maze activities to fire the imagination too. No need to book for these sessions but do get there early, as they’re always popular and space is limited. No cash required.
Hone your gardening skills at
The Lost Plot
Nestled behind the Southern Cemetery is an organic garden created on a permaculture design. The garden has a mixture of fruits, and vegetables, as well as a peaceful wildlife area. It is known as The Lost Plot and it is open to the community to come and learn new skills, meet new friends and share the produce that has been grown through everyone’s hard work. Environmental charity, Action for Sustainable Living, was instrumental in setting up the project in 2005 and it continues to provide administrative and practical support. The plot has also had funding from Manchester City Council and worked with Cracking Good Food to provide cooking workshops. The Lost Plot is open each Sunday from 11am - 4pm and everyone is welcome! To sign up and confirm your attendance, contact Steph at thelostplot@afsl.org.uk. Don’t worry if you’ve never done any growing or gardening, as members of the plot will be happy to assist you and get you settled in! There is always plenty of work to get stuck into and jobs vary, so there’ll be something suitable for everyone. We hope to see you there!
The Mythical Maze Summer Reading Challenge is produced by The Reading Agency and delivered by local libraries in the community.
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What’s on in Whalley Range Making Whalley Range more Age-Friendly
Alexandra Park Opening Celebration get involved Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st August
Community groups/artists etc - do you want to put on an activity or have an information stall? Send us your proposal and we will get in touch Individuals - can you offer any skill or would you like to be involved lots of volunteer opportunities
Heritage Forum - we are looking for people who might be able to do some research for us
Contact alex.park@manchester.gov. uk 07734 137 403 (leave your contact details)
Whalley Range Community Forum is working with the City Council’s Age-Friendly Manchester team to establish a steering group of local residents and representatives of relevant groups, to look at developing a range of projects, which will make Whalley Range more age-friendly. For further details visit:
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Book Reviews From Chorlton Bookshop
How to Build a Girl Caitlin Moran
Following the huge success of How to be a Woman and Moranthology, Caitlin Moran has once again turned her hand to fiction (her first attempt was published when she was just 15). The female lead, Johanna is very much based on Moran’s early life and much of the story will be familiar to fans, but don’t let this deter you.
Johanna Morrigan has disgraced herself on local TV and is as utterly mortified as only a 14 year old girl can be. Things must change and change they do. By the age of 16 Johanna has transformed herself into a hard drinking hard living music journalist. Comparing
Adam Murphy
Back in the day, children’s magazines like The Eagle used to deliver covert lessons in history in the guise of comic strips, in amongst the thrills-and-spills adventure tales.
The rather fine weekly Phoenix Comic has updated the formula for today’s young readers with great success. For instance, Corpse Talk is a two-page celebration
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This novel is written in the usual manner that fans have come to expect from Moran, quite jokey and light hearted. It’s a hugely enjoyable read, a cross between a ruder version of Adrian Mole and a slightly less annoying Bridget Jones! Although only just available in hardback, it’s still quite short so would make perfect beach reading, or a quick read when hiding from the kids during the school break. • Review by Joanna Legerton of the lives of assorted figures from history. The twist is, well, they’re dead - and they’re, um, exhumed as zombies for the purposes of a one-to-one interview. It may sound gory (the gleeful warts-and-all Horrible Histories approach) but actually, it’s just a curious, light-hearted premise allowing for some pretty in-depth, but always hugely accessible, factual information to be delivered, along with lashings of flair and humour.
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herself to Jo from Little Women she believes that, through her writing, she’s going to save her family from the poverty it’s struggled with for years. However she will not be living a ‘Little Women’ lifestyle as Johanna is determined to sleep with as many rock stars as possible along the way! As with all bubbles, this one is about to burst and we see Johanna dealing with a life that doesn’t quite match expectations.
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This volume collects a job-lot of the weekly strips, and if you know someone who’s after a summer holiday read that’s got plenty of substance (and a lot of cheek), this could be a winner. • Review by Andy Murray
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Community Spin Decks Showcasing the best of our local musical talent
Jo Rose
Community Index catches up with Chorlton folk hero, Jo Rose to discuss his new album Black Box Songs and upcoming european tour with First Aid Kit.
How did you start writing songs? I started playing guitar when I was about seven years old when I was obsessed with The Beatles. I just wanted to learn every record back-to-back. I can still become absolutely fascinated with one particular artist and try to bring gleanings of their music into what I do. Townes Van Zandt, Silver Jews, Jason Molina, Smog, Simon Joyner and Neil Young have all had that effect on me.
How’s the new album going? We’ve just completed the final mixes and a close friend, Cliff Saffer, has done this extraordinary front cover. It was a long process to figure out what arrangements and approaches suited each song, but I’m glad that we took our time with it. Thus far, the songs have all been presented to the public in their barest form, just me and a guitar, the contribution of friends in the production and arrangement means it’s actually become a very broad, diverse, dynamic record.
And you’re going on tour? I’ll be touring with First Aid Kit over September and October, playing in the UK and my first ever shows in Europe. We’ve been friends and fans of each other’s music for the past four years or so. We met when I supported them at The Deaf Institute and we’ve been close ever since. I’m looking forward to playing in unfamiliar surroundings with some very lovely and talented people.
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What is your favourite Chorlton venue? The space that’s now Strange Brew is one I’ll always have a strong attachment to. It’s a very intimate place to play and I’ve seen a lot of great bands there. Somehow the inconvenience of having to move through the bands to use the toilet just adds to the sense of inclusion. I’m also very fond of the basement in Mono. It’s a very enclosed, low-ceilinged space, but there’s something positively punk-rock about that. Chorlton is great for characterfully imperfect venues.
How would you describe your music in three words? Lo-fi trad country. Photo by Ben Page
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Alexandra Park Children’s Learn By Linsey Parkinson On a leafy cul-de-sac in Whalley Range, there’s a place where almost anything is possible for children in search of a learning adventure. Alexandra Park Children’s Learning Community (APCLC), for ages 3 months to 7 years, has a unique ethos. Influenced by the Reggio Emilia approach, the community celebrates children as individuals. This means allowing them to find their own answers - in their own way and at their own pace.
One of its directors, Dr Susana Lopez Penedo, says: “We don’t call ourselves a school, and we don’t believe that learning should be a passive activity. Children have enormous capacity to create their own learning journeys. We have much smaller groups and a higher adult-to-child ratio than you’d find elsewhere. This means that the teachers, artists and educators who work with us can observe and help them to work together to explore their own interests.” “While this may seem a very relaxed approach, that’s not the case – it just feels that way for the children. We’re OFSTED inspected and we have an above-average number of qualified teachers. The children all learn Spanish too: speaking two
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ning Community languages at an early age really helps development.” As parents, we have more freedom to choose our children’s education than we might think, and there’s no obligation to attend full-time mainstream school. It’s clear that children find their own niche at APCLC and feel happy, safe and confident. Older children help make decisions on what they want to see there and how they’d like money to be spent. They’re outdoors as much as possible; whether that’s out on trips learning about the world, or in the gardens connecting with nature. They especially love to help Geoff, the community’s chef, to plant and harvest produce from the on-site allotment. Another of the centre’s directors, artist and educator Effie Delphinius, facilitates art and creative activities. “There are so many ways for children to express themselves here. It’s not always about talking – we use an awful lot of paint! Our children really care about what’s around them; they respect themselves and others and become totally absorbed in learning. If a child is upset, the others go to great lengths to comfort him. Another child became passionate about reading and writing because he wanted to help find a lost cat. The best way to learn is to feel relaxed and enjoy what you do. That’s our secret. And it works.”
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Getting their hands dirty Brookburn Primary School transforms neglected waste land into a thriving adventure playground Brookburn Primary School is taking classes outdoors and encouraging them to get dirty. Their Parent Teacher Association has been very busy transforming a neglected overgrown area of waste land into an adventure playground for pupils.
‘Dolphin Den’ is a hillocky area with excellent climbing trees, sand pits, dens, bridges, willow teepees, a mud kitchen and a dry stone river bed. These are seamlessly linked by a network of paths which gives children freedom and lots of space to run, hide, play, build dens and lots more. Firouz Thompson, Chair Brookburn PTA said: “We saw the potential in this area and our vision was to make this den into a natural, safe and thriving area of outdoor fun, adventure and learning. We wanted to make sure that the children had a chance to experience the outdoors and risk-taking that we all once took for granted.” Work on the project started a year ago. It took 13 weeks to build and create with contributions from every pupil, teacher and more than 200 parents and volunteers from the local community, all led by May Malteno from Pathways Consultancy and Andy Sheridan, a woodland management volunteer coordinator, at a cost of £11,500. Janet Davenport, Deputy Head Teacher added: “It’s great to see the children exploring and experiencing the den and enjoying the adventures it has to offer. I’ve noticed that they are playing in different ways and in different groups to their usual choices - it’s offering more opportunities for children to play collaboratively.”
From September Brookburn PTA is looking to develop the allotment and woodlands area within the school grounds. If you think you can help, you can volunteer to work solely or with work colleagues or help to raise funds by match funding, fundraising or donating at www.charitychoice.co.uk/brookburnpta Please email friendsofbrookburn@gmail.com or follow them on Facebook and Twitter.
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Ingredients 225g summer fruits: raspberries, blackberries, redcurrants, blackcurrants etc To sweeten: 2 thoroughly ripe bananas OR 2 tablespoons clear honey 1 large pot of whole milk natural yogurt
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Method 1. Put a few of the
fruits to one side, then pulverise the rest with an electric hand blender.
2. Push the resulting
mush through a sieve to remove the seeds.
3. Pulverise the bananas, if you’re using them.
4. Mix the yogurt,
sweetener, and fruit purée together.
5. Place both your
mixture and the fruit which you put to one side, separately
in the freezer for a few hours.
6. When your mixture is
frozen, but not rock hard, remove from the freezer and comprehensively re-pulverise with the hand blender. This will break up the ice crystals and make your lollies smoother.
7. Chop up your frozen
whole fruits and mix in.
8. Place in lolly moulds,
ice cube trays, or any suitable container and return to the freezer. Your summer fruit yogurt lollies will be ready in a few hours.
Smoothie
You can make a great smoothie simply by adding 500ml of iced water to the same ingredients and liquidising the lot!
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Discover where you live Walk, run and cycle in and around Chorlton
A walk and cycle from the Old Road through Kickerty Brook By Cath Dyson This is an 8km (5 mile) walk or a slightly longer cycle (9km/5¾mile) circular route from Hawthorn Lane (at the end of Cartwright Road). It’s mostly off road, on tracks, and canal towpaths with a short road section. Use the OS map or Open Street Maps (http://www. openstreetmap.org/ or Go Maps!! App). You could choose to start from Sale Water Park, taking the clear path north next to the tram lines to the bottom of Hawthorn Lane. But I love Hawthorn Lane or ‘the old road’ as it is known. It is magical and you can feel like you’e been transported back in time (see old images of the lane,very different from today, on Andrew Simpson’s blog, http://chorltonhistory. blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/lookingout-of-chorlton-old-road-in-1930. html). From Cartwright Road, turn down Hawthorn Lane, passing Turn Moss Playing Fields and Stretford Cemetery on your right, before going under the canal. At the end of Hawthorn Lane, turn left, then keep right, following the signs for the Trans Pennine Trail (TPT), through Stretford Ees underneath
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the A56. You pass through some woodland, emerging to run parallel with an M60 slip road. Go up a slight slope, then keep left past a small sub-station. The obvious path leads you to the corkscrew path, up to the bridge over the motorway. Cross the bridge and follow the obvious path, ignoring any smaller paths on your left, through Kickerty Brook, to pop out at the River Mersey. The walkers’ route turns left/east and follows the river back to the A56. At the A56, leave the river and turn right. We only have about ½ km (7 mins) walking along the busy A56 until we reach Glebelands Road. Cross the A56 here onto Dane Road. Cyclists,on the other hand,turn right/west and after a couple of minutes cross the river over the lovely iron bridge parallel with the motorway (this is the Carrington Spur). Immediately after the bridge, turn left, leaving the TPT by the track underneath the motorway. This takes you past Ashtonon-Mersey Golf Club, down
Church Lane. At the junction with Glebelands Road, turn left. You are on Glebelands for 2km, not long and it’s not too busy or unpleasant. At the traffic lights, cross the A56 on to Dane Road. Now walkers and cyclists are back together! Go along Dane Road and take a left onto Meadow Road. At the end, you reach Crossford Bridge Playing Fields, go into the park and turn right immediately. At the end of the path turn left and follow it as it bends to the right, just after which you join the canal. Turn left on to the canal and go underneath the motorway. We follow the canal for about 750m. Look out for the blue sign, ‘Trans Pennine Trail/Mersey Valley’, pointing left, follow it to leave the canal and re-join the TPT near the start of our route. Turn right to get back to Hawthorn Lane and retrace your steps back to Cartwright Road and Chorlton Green. Instead of leaving the TPT at the iron bridge, next time carry on and follow it to Dunham Massey or Lymm for a full day of adventuring!
Cath Dyson co-organises navigation walks and training, see http://mapandcompass.wix.com/mapandcompass.
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“Our pupils love the new play-log. They couldn’t wait to clamber on it after it was set in place! It’s been fantastic for inspiring creative play: they might pretend it’s a giant beanstalk, or a shipwreck, or pretend to be a princess stuck at the top. Or they just love to climb and jump from it.” The play-log is perfect for developing balance and coordination and acts as a useful congregation point for groups. It was supplied and installed by TreeStation, who supply Unicorn Grocery and a great many customers in South Manchester with quality firewood. TreeStation is determined to put every scrap of wood in the city to
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Managing Director Phil Benn explained: “The play-log isn’t our only unusual creation: we’ve made huge strawberry planters out of hollow tree stumps, all manner of chainsaw sculptures including chairs and bird tables, and we are currently cutting massive poplar trunks into decorative benches for another school in the city. We are always looking for the next challenge, and would rather create a sculpture for people to enjoy than
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Community Governors wanted
Do you have the skills and commitment to support your local High School? Chorlton High School is looking for community members who are interested in becoming Community Governors for the school. With 1,500 students and over 200 staff, the school holds a prominent place in the Chorlton community.
It specialises in the Arts with fantastic facilities including a theatre, recording studio and professional dance studios. In recent years the school has had excellent results and has played a significant role helping children from the local area to achieve their potential. As a Co-operative Academy, the school has a community membership which is open to anyone in the local community. This membership elects a number of Community Governors to sit on the school Governing Body bringing
additional skills and experiences to support the rest of the board, who are made up of parents, staff and student representatives. In particular the school is looking for members with expertise in Finance, HR, Co-operative Development or the Arts, but a simply commitment and passion for supporting the education of young people is a key attribute. Full training is provided for all Governors. This is a fantastic opportunity, not only to put something back into your community, but also to develop your own personal skills. If you are interested in this opportunity, please contact Christine Taggart, Community and Marketing OfďŹ cer on c.taggart@chorltonhigh.manchester.sch.uk or 0161 8821150.
More information on the school can be found on the website www.chorltonhigh.manchester.sch.uk.
If you are interested in attending or to ďŹ nd out more please contact Anna Richardson a.richardson@chorltonhigh.manchester.sch.uk or call 0161 882 1175.
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Make your own N PIPES PA
By Sam Paechter
To make pan pipes, you’ll need about 1m of rigid plastic tubing, like the sort plumbers use these days. Your local independent hardware store should have a variety to choose from. The external diameter should be between 1cm and 2cm. 1.5cm is ideal for pipes where the longest pipe is no more than about 20cm long. If your tubing is wide, make longer, lower panpipes, if narrower, make shorter higher ones, but the wider your tube is, the quieter and breathier your pipes will sound. You’ll also need some sticky tape and some blu-tack and sandpaper.
Method 1. Carefully use a junior hack saw to cut a piece of pipe about 20cm long. If your cut is rough, clean it up with sandpaper. Place a disc of blue tack over one end, being very careful to ensure the end is completely sealed and there are no leaks. Blow across the other end to make a whistling sound, as if you’re blowing across the top of a bottle. This will be your lowest note. 2. Now cut a slightly shorter piece and seal the bottom. Play your two tubes one after the other. The shorter tube will
play a higher pitch. If you like how the two pitches sound together, go on to your third pipe. If not, repeatedly cut a little off the shorter pipe until its pitch is to your liking.
3. Repeat until you have four or five tubes between about 20cm and 10cm long.
4. Tape the tubes together with the open ends in a straight line and you have your pan pipes.
If you’d like your pan pipes to play specific notes, you can find charts on the internet to tell you exactly how long to cut them! 29
The Story of Chorlton-Cum-Hardy
Remembering the Great War, 100 years ago this month By Andrew Simpson The Great War has now faded from living memory, but in the month that marks its start 100 years ago, I would like to focus on one of our young men who went off to fight. He was William Eric Lunt, born here in 1895, and died of wounds in the 36th Casualty Clearing Station at the Somme on October 14th 1916.
The Lunt family lived in Chorlton and made their living from farming for all of the 19th century. In 1845 they rented two acres of land off Moss Lane* from the Egerton estate and were market gardeners growing a variety of food for the Manchester markets. His smallholding was mostly orchard, stretching back from Moss Lane to Rough Leach Gutter and was a smallish amount of land, and, like many of our market gardeners, Lunt may also have had other jobs. And we know that he paid 4s. 7d a week in rent and in that cottage he and his wife brought up six children. Not only this but we can follow him through his activities in the local Methodist church and his participation in our first brass band which started up sometime in the 1820s. And the Lunt family perfectly reflect the changing nature of Chorlton. As the 19th century came to a close, more and more of the agricultural land was given over to housing, perhaps the Lunts saw it coming and while they may have retained their land they had, by 1901, opened a shop at number 60 Sandy Lane, selling fruit. Young William had chosen to work as a warehouseman apprentice. William was just 19 when he joined up on September 5th 1914; just one month after the war had broken out. He was a fit young man weighing 129 lbs and was 5’ 11 inches. His army records describe his complexion
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as sallow, his eyes brown and his hair dark, and that, at present is all we know of his physical appearance. In fact that is about all we have, for though there are eighteen military documents, as well his birth certificate and two census returns, none of them shed any light on who he really was, his likes and dislikes, or whether he was serious, humorous or, like most of us, a bit of both. He was to become part of that new Kitchener’s army of young idealistic volunteers, many of whom were to die at the battle of the Somme. I wish there was more. I know he had joined up at Ardwick, was assigned to the 8th Battalion of the Manchester Regiment and remained in Britain until the summer of 1916 when he embarked at Folkestone landing on July 27th at Boulogne. There were other young men from Chorlton who went, including another three also called Lunt, from Beech Road, who all died on the Western Front, along with the son of our historian T Ellwood and, of course, many others, some of who are remembered on the memorials in St Clements Church and outside the Methodist Church on Manchester Road. Some of them I will include in the new book on Manchester and the Great War which will be published early next year. And if there is anyone who has any pictures, diaries or other memorabilia from that conflict, I would welcome them getting in touch with me, courtesy of Community Index. *Sandy Lane **http://ww1cemeteries.com/ ww1frenchcemeteries/ heillystation.htm
Pictured; Allied Victory Medal, awarded to servicemen and women who had served between August 1914 and November 1918
Buy Andrew Simpson’s book The Story of Chorlton-CumHardy or visit him online at chorltonhistory. blogspot.com/
A real Scottish knees-up
Scottish Country Dancing for fun, fitness and friendship Scottish country dancing is a hobby for all ages (our dancers range from their twenties to their eighties) and it’s an ideal way of meeting people and making new friends. It’s been shown to be superior to other forms of physical activity in building levels of fitness and, because it’s an enjoyable social activity, it develops a sense of community and encourages long term involvement, which has been linked to good health, longevity and a positive attitude. Scottish Country Dancing can even contribute to the prevention of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, perhaps due to the complex interplay of the cognitive skills needed to memorise steps and formations and co-ordinate with others, and because dance music engages the mind. The Manchester branch of the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society (RSCDS) was formed in 1935 to preserve and further the practise of
traditional Scottish country dancing by providing classes and social dances, as well as doing demonstrations on Burns Nights and other occasions. We have held classes at Manley Park Primary School for many years and our qualified teachers, musicians and friendly members will make you welcome and help you learn. It doesn’t matter if you are a man or a woman, have done Scottish dancing before or have not. Come along for a fun, inexpensive evening out in a convivial atmosphere.
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Community Index Local groups and useful numbers Clubs, Societies & Groups Barlow International Folk Dance Group Tuesday evenings at
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
Wednesdays 7.30-9.30pm St Ninians, Wilbraham Rd www.lancashireaikikai.org 861 8456
Community Allotment & Apiary Scott Avenue Allotment 07973 139068 or 07521 500223 uk.groups.yahoo.com/ group/grow_for_it/
Chorlton Evening Townswomens Guild Meet every 2nd & 4th
Thursday of the month at 7.30pm Chorlton Library. 881 6354
friendsofchorltonmeadows. blogspot.com
Chorlton Good Neighbours
Friends of Longford Park info@
Chorlton History Group
Grand Day Out
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,
upstairs at the Lloyds pub chorltonphilosophygroup. wordpress.com/
Chorlton Reading Group
Chorlton and Friends Gardening Group 3rd Monday
Once a month in the meeting room behind Chorlton library 7.30pm All welcome 881 1813 chorltonreadersgroup@gmail.com
Chorlton Bookshop Book Group
Circolo Italiano Every Monday, 7-9pm at Union Chapel, Fallowfield. Intermediates and native speakers 881 8314 or guglielmifranco@clara.co.uk
monthly, in Chorlton Library, 7.30 - 9pm. Admission £3.00 candfgg@yahoo.co.uk
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 Library meeting room. Check website for date of next meeting Chair - Mary Crumpton 07751 696 055 chorltoncivicsociety.org.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
Friends of Alexandra Park
226 7525 friendsofalexandrapark. org.uk
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Friends of Chorlton Meadows 881 6276
folp.co.uk friendsoflongfordpark. org.uk
Free computer taster sessions and a cup of tea, for the over 50’s in Chorlton Library, Fridays 2-4pm 227 3700 d.gilligan@manchester.gov.uk
Greater Manchester Humanist Choir Sundays 2.30-4.30pm, 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
ww.chorltonalternativearts.com
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
Trafford Athletic Club, Longford
Chorlton Sewing Club
Whalley Range Cricket & Lawn Tennis Club Indoor cricket nets
Drum & Percussion Group
Park. Mon & Thu 6-9pm. Min age 9. Tonya 881 4488 www.traffordac.co.uk
: 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
1st Thursday of the month 7.30-9.30pm Chorlton Library chorltonsewing.wordpress.com
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
Playing Brazilian and Cuban rhythms. Thursdays 7-9pm St. Margarets Church, Whalley Range Sue 226 4311
Friday at Chorlton Water Park bestfootforward@ breastcancercare.org.uk
Dolls House and Miniatures Group 2nd Monday of each
Chorlton Anxiety Group 226 3871
Manchester Sing Out Choir (Gospel Choir) Tuesdays 7-9pm
monthly dates etc Register interest with Mike 860 5688 diabetesinmanchester@gmail.com
month, 8-10pm, Whalley Range Venue. Ann 07814 861285
St Johns Centre, Old Trafford. manchestersingoutchoir.org msochoir@live.co.uk
Manchester Diabetes Support Network: Details/ venues/
Stitched Up Textile
Arts & Crafts
workshops 0161 881 7141 www.stitchedup.co.uk
New Family Social UK charity for LGBT adopters, foster carers and their children. Meets every month in south Manchester. newfamilysocial.org.uk
Art Fusion Amateur artists
Entertainment
Rainbow Families 07903 397 108 rainbowfamilies@ hotmail.com
Whalley Range 4 Wildlife
wr4wildlife@yahoo.co.uk wr4wildlife.wordpress.com
meet each Tuesday at 7-9pm at St Clements church hall. Fiirst session free then £5 ahomersham@ntlworld.com www. artfusion.org.uk
Chorlton Alternative Art Class
Life drawing, all levels of ability welcome. £6 entry. Weds 7.30-9.30pm The Edge Theatre
Chorlton Film Institute
Wadjda - 17th July. Doors open 8.10 pm, film starts 8.30 pm Entrance £5 St Clements Church
Chorlton Folk Club
Thursdays 9pm Ellesmere Rd Cricket Club
Local MP John Leech - MP 8 Gawsworth Avenue M20 5NF Tel: 434 3334 johnleechmp@parliament.uk
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Sport in Chorlton
Bowls: Lloyds win Clash of the Titans
Cricket: Range on top in local derby
A big crowd of supporters turned out to watch the clash between the top two teams in the Altrincham LV League as The Lloyds Hotel hosted their great rivals Sale Excel.
By Geoff Garnett
South West Manchester 98-8, Whalley Range 141-8
Pete Smith is on a great run of wins for the Lloyds and he set them off in style with a cracking 21-8 win. Ryan Sandham doubled the lead before Excel hit back with Craig Morrison beating Steve Ridley by four chalks.
Range’s Jhangir Abbas hits out The excellent drainage of South West Manchester’s ground enabled the Saddleworth League derby to get under way with most of the region’s cricket washed out. The match was reduced to 24 overs per side and Range had Farhan Ahmed leading the way with 50 with other useful contributions taking them to a formidable 141-8. Range skipper Waqas Malik led from the front and South West were always kept in check as he took 6-37 in 12 overs to restrict them to 98-8 and give Range local bragging rights.
But Lloyds were then virtually unstoppable as the wins flowed from Dave Phillips, Craig McGuigan, Mike Geraghty (pictured), Lee Fletcher, Paul Dooley and Chris Alderson with the only other loss for Lloyds being a rare defeat for Michael McDonnell.
Whalley Range CC juniors enjoyed another good week, led by the u9s who won their first game of the season against Hale Barns in a real team effort. Abby Nicholson took her first wicket playing for Lancashire Girls u11s and, on the same evening, the u15s beat Glodwick. The u15s then beat Saddleworth champions Greenfield in the LCB KO preliminary round match after restricting them to 87-8. Butterworth and Appleby put on 40 for the first wicket and then Joe Wood smacked a quick 30 for a comfortable eight-wicket win.
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Are you separating and unsure which path to take? Slater Heelis has provided clear direction for over 240 years. Our team of Resolution family specialists are here to support you with first class legal advice and provide the direction you need. The team focuses on divorce, separation, civil partnerships, same sex marriages, finances, pre-nups/post-nups and children arrangements. Our family team all live in and around the South Manchester area; living within the same community offers us a unique insight into what affects all our daily lives. You are just a tram ride away from one of our offices in Manchester city centre or Sale.
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