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Welcome to the January edition of Community Index Dear Readers Welcome to 2014’s first issue of Community Index! We’re really excited about what the new year will bring for Chorlton and Whalley Range. It’s a promising time for local independents in Chorlton. Building on the success of last month’s Small Business Saturday and Chorlton Art Market which highlighted a central role small businesses play in creating and maintaining thriving communities. So this year our new year’s resolution is to keep you informed about Didsbury community groups, events and businesses, along with our regular features. This month resident wordsmith Leon Horton discusses his own resolutions on page 9, Andrew Simpson takes a new years stroll on page 10 and we celebrate the publication of Chorlton artist John Hamilton’s children’s book on page 22. Expect more exclusive local features throughout this year and we are setting our sights high to bring you an even more engaging community magazine. Stay classy, Chorlton!
Joe Beech Joe Beech Editor Lesley Swann Director Sam Paechter Accounts
Cover Image Tea Hive, upstairs by Joe Beech Contributors Andrew Simpson Leon Horton Chorlton Bookshop, Katherine Watson John Hamilton
Contents Book Review
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Tea Hives Cake Corner
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Gaiea
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Viva La Resolution!
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The Story of Chorlton-Cum-Hardy
15th January, 2014
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McCarthy and Stone
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January In Your Garden
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Andrew Graham Shoes
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Chorlton Players
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Southern Cemetery
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Local Artist Releases Book
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Community Index Sport in Chorlton
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Business Index
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Established in 2012, initially to raise money for Christmas lights, Chorlton Traders has had a busy year. 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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Thank you to everyone who supported our Christmas lights fund and came along to another successful switch on event on 7th December. A very big thank to Father Christmas and Alfie the Elf, pupils and staff at Chorlton High School and the Edge Community Choir. Congratulations and thanks are also due to Alice for organising another successful art market
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in the precinct. We’d also like to thank Manchester City Council for their support, along with the management and staff at Development Securities. Also thank you to John Leech for pushing the plunger to switch on the lights and the library staff for all their help. We look forward to seeing you all again next year. Looking back over 2013, we must also say a big thank you on behalf of all the traders for supporting local
businesses, not only in the run up to Christmas and on Small Business Saturday, but throughout the year. Let’s continue and make 2014 a great year for local businesses. We are looking forward to a busy year, with new Chorlton Traders projects on the horizon including a community garden and a fundraising drive to install a defibrillator in Chorlton.
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Book Reviews
from Chorlton Bookshop Didsbury Through Time
Peter Topping & Andrew Simpson Peter Topping and Andrew Simpson are both well known in their specific fields. Peter is a local artist and historian who has reached the dizzy heights of having a picture displayed behind the counter of Chorlton bookshop! Andrew is an extremely well respected local historian who seems to know something about everything local and historical. His last book “The Story of Chorlton Cum Hardy” was a fascinating look into Chorlton’s rural past and has become the Bookshop’s best seller to date. They therefore make the perfect team to produce this new book about Didsbury and its history. Combining old images with Peter’s new paintings
this is a delight for fans of local history and Didsbury in particular. Through meticulous research we are shown a picture of the changes which have occurred in Didsbury over the last 100 years. ‘Didsbury Through Time’ is a beautifully produced book which has obviously been a labour of love. It’s rare in a history book to have the old and the new side by side; this is such a great way to illustrate the changes in Didsbury.
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Tea Hive’s Cake Corner Pear and cinnamon crumble cake Ingredients For the cake 300g butter, at room temperature 230g caster sugar Seeds of 1 vanilla pod or 2 tsp vanilla essence 3 eggs, at room temperature 1 tsp cinnamon 450g self-raising flour
Method 1. Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/350F/gas 6. Grease and line a 24cm springform tin. 2. To make the crumble topping, place the flour and butter in a bowl. Use your fingertips to rub the butter into the flour until the mixture resembles coarse breadcrumbs. Stir in the sugar and flaked almonds. Place to one side. 3. To make the cake, beat
together the butter, sugar and vanilla until pale and creamy. Then add the eggs one at a time, scraping down the bowl and beating well after each egg. 4. Sift the flour and cinnamon together. Gently fold alternate spoonfuls of flour and milk into the butter mixture. Then fold in the prepared pears until well combined. Pour into the tin and sprinkle over the crumble topping. Bake for 1 hour, until risen and firm to the touch or
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275ml milk 2 medium pears, peeled, cored, diced into 1cm cubes
For the crumble topping 115g plain flour 75g chilled butter, chopped 80g light muscovado sugar 75g flaked almonds
until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. 5. Either leave to cool in the tin or serve warm with custard for a nostalgic treat!
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1. Make wise choices Make sure your financial choices reflect your ethical, social and environmental values. If you prefer to shop local and support companies with sound ethical principles, apply the same criteria to your finances. Collectively, we can make a difference to how and where the major financial institutions put their, and our, money.
2. Individual savings accounts Opening an ISA is a great way of saving money either as a lump sum or through regular contributions. What’s more, it’s tax free. Shop around and decide whether or not you need instant access to your money or whether you can afford to have your money tied up for a bit longer. For further information on ethical banks, credit unions and building societies offering ISAs check out www. moveyourmoney.org.uk for upto-the minute information.
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Viva La Resolution! by Leon Horton Maybe it’s because we’re driven towards selfimprovement. Maybe it’s because we’re feeling fat and fed-up after an overindulgent Christmas. Maybe it’s because there’s nothing better to do in January. Whatever the reason, many of us will stagger from the hangover of another Christmas and hit the gym of the New Year making resolutions we know we won’t keep. So why do so many of us set sail for failure in this way? It could be argued that in our initial enthusiasm we tend to set the bar too high (get out of debt, change jobs, travel the world, etc), but since the majority of resolutions tend to be more pragmatic (lose weight, take up a hobby, spend less time on Facebook, etc), might we not expect a reasonable return on our hopes for the coming year? Not so, according to a study from the University of Bristol. Thanks to grant money wellspent, scientists now know that 88% of people who give themselves New Year resolutions are doomed from the off, despite the fact that 52% claim to be confident of success. It’s not all doom and gloom, though. They also claim that men, by and large, achieve more by setting specific targets (to reduce their alcohol intake from ten to five pints a week,
say, rather than just saying ‘cut back on the booze’), whereas women are far more likely to succeed if they make their goals public and get support from friends and family. Personally, I always opt for a three-pronged attack; a trident of try harder, if you will; an easy goal, a not so easy goal, and a goal so ludicrous that it just might happen. Last year my three resolutions were: to take up gardening (which I duly did), to give up smoking (which I duly didn’t), and to produce a piece of writing so exquisite, so masterly, that it would live in history as a testament to what human endeavour can achieve...
“In ancient times, Babylonians and Romans would begin each year by making promises to their gods to return borrowed objects and pay their debts; these days we are more likely to promise to cut up our credit cards and stop using payday loan companies.”
Ah, well. One out of three wasn’t bad. The practice of making New Year resolutions is found in many cultures, stretches back centuries, and has, of course, changed considerably over the years. In ancient times, Babylonians and Romans would begin each year by making promises to their gods to return borrowed objects and pay their debts; these days we are more likely to promise to cut up our credit cards and stop using payday loan companies. In medieval times, knights would take the ‘Peacock Vow’ at the end of the Christmas period to
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reaffirm their commitment to chivalry; in modern times, we might resolve to stop ending relationships by text message. Whatever our reasons, whatever our concerns, in the making of resolutions - be they social, material or philosophical - it matters not if we fail. What matters is that we have the willingness to improve our lives and, by implication, the lives of those close to us. This year my big three are: to give up smoking, to enrol on an Open University course, and to use my meagre talents to praise a wise and caring government in all their policies. Ah, well. One out of three won’t be bad. Vive La Resolution!
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The Story Of Chorlton-Cum-Hardy Out on another walk across the township, north from Chorlton Brook to Dog House Farm by Andrew Simpson January is one of those quiet months, Christmas has come and gone, the bills to pay for it are still coming in and the weather just adds to the gloom. Back in the 1840s when most people depended on agriculture there was little enough going on. The ground might be free of frost but most of the day to day work would be given over to maintenance, whether it was cleaning ditches, seeing to hedges or mending fences. A lean time perhaps, for many of the labourers who lived here, but an opportunity for our four joiners and the carpenter. Joseph Renshaw was the oldest. At 70 he may have been looking to retire but there were three younger men who worked the wood. Of these Edward Worth, and Henry Moulder lodged at the Grey Hound pub over the rivers and William Pinnington lived with his sisters on the green. They would have done repair work on houses and farm buildings, and what was known as hedge carpentry which involved repairs to field gates, posts and fences. They would also have provided for the other needs of the community. Many in the village sat on chairs and at tables which had been made or mended by them and some in the township would have made a final journey in their handicraft, for coffins were locally produced. John Renshaw had made a fine one for the late James Bythell in 1821. It was lined with flannel and cost £4 and 9 shillings [£4.45p] which was paid off in three instalments the last being 1824. Buy Andrew Later still Simpson’s book Richard “The Story of Pearson Chorlton-Cumcharged the Hardy” or visit Bailey family him online at chorltonhistory. just £2 and blogspot.com/ 2 shillings [£2.10p] for a
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coffin completed in the February of 1854. So with little more to report I shall set off on a walk sometime around 1847, starting at the bottom of what is now Sandy Lane where it joins St Werburghs and off along Moss Lane to Dog House Farm. It is still possible to follow this route by picking up St Werburghs Road at Park Brow and walking north to join Kings Road and then along Kings Road and Kingsbrook Road. Dog House Farm stood on the site of the present cricket and tennis pavilion.
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Today this is a walk which takes us past rows of mid twentieth century housing but back in 1847 almost our entire journey would have been along a country lane empty of houses. There was just one group of houses and this was Moss Cottages on the south side of what is now Kings Road between Daventry and Withington Roads.
off the green in the village and worked at Dog House taking the garden produce to sell in the city three times a week in the summer months.
It was home to eight households consisting of 42 people in total, ranging from 65 years of age down to two months. They were mainly families who made their living from the land, and so while there was a joiner the rest gave their occupations as farmer, a gardener or agricultural labourer. How big the cottages were is unknown but it is unlikely they would have had more than four rooms, and in the case of two households this meant cramming ten people into one house and six into another.
She remembered the farm house as a “historic 300 year old twelve roomed cottage.... Most rooms faced south or west. A large barn and coach house sheltered it from the north and east winds. In the cobbled yard was a pump and trough close to the kitchen.”
It was an isolated little community surrounded by fields and ponds in all directions and some of its inhabitants must have worked for Dog House Farm. This was one of the largest farms in the area and in 1851 John Chorlton farmed 380 acres and employed eighteen labourers, eight of whom lived on the farm. And somewhere here in June of 1838 Mary Moore “was robbed and cruelly murdered.” 1. She lived
Dog House Farm survived longer than most; it was only demolished in 1960. The last tenant was Norah Templar who had moved there with her family in 1912 and left forty six years later in 1958.
Nothing of Dog House Farm or the surrounding fields are left. We have reached the sports pavilion on Kingsbrook Road, and we are out of the township in Whalley Range. This is now a densely packed residential area which is a scene so utterly different from the one Mary Moor or even Norah Templar would have known. 1: From her gravestone in the parish churchyard Pictures; detail of the OS map for Lancashire, 1841, courtesy of Digital Archives Association, www.digitalarchives.co.uk and Dog House Farm from the Lloyd Collection
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January In Your Garden by Katherine Watson January is ordinarily our coldest month and for some, the longest; after Christmas and new year celebrations have passed and the garden seems to be locked in a dormant slumber punctuated only by the extraordinary plants that choose to flower at this time. One such is the Hellebore - often called Christmas or Lenten rose - although not related to the rose in any way and in fact part of the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae. Families and Genera (genus) such as rosa or ranunculaceae denote the groupings that botanists have created to tie in certain plants that bear similarities. Clematis are also part of the Ranunculaceae family and there is a striking similarity between the flowers of many clematis plants and hellebores. Hellebores are an invaluable plant for the January, February and March garden and there are quite a few varieties to choose from. Some of the more common ones are the purple edged green flowers of Helleborus feotidus or stinking hellebore worthy for its name alone and Helleborus niger a
“...the Hellebore - often called Christmas or Lenten rose although not related to the rose in any way” semi-evergreen perennial lighting up many shady spots in British gardens. Helleborus argutifolius sports a profusion of tight green flowers with something of a 70’s swimcap effect. H. x sternii has similar attributes.
Perhaps the biggest variety comes with the hybrids with brilliant white blooms right through to near black; elegantly speckled flowers and blousy double apricots. One of the most fantastic hellebores is H. x hybridus Harvington Lime with, as you’d expect but will still wonder at, lime green, saucer shaped flowers. Luckily, most hellebores like the woodland conditions of some moisture and shade but are pretty hardy and reliable, clumping up after a few years to produce a definite presence in an uncertain month. Online stockists include Crocus and Ashwood Nurseries for a good range of hybrids.
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Chorlton Players January production of The Wizard Of Oz With its cold days, long nights and back to work feel, January isn’t always everybody’s favourite month. But, one local drama group is working hard to ensure that residents of South Manchester needn’t have the post Christmas blues. Hot on the heels of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the Chorlton Players’ new show, The Wizard of Oz, promises to be a high point of their fiftieth anniversary year. First written in 1900, the book has delighted millions with its moral of pursuing your dreams, no matter how hard the journey. Dorothy (played by Laura Davies), is a young Kansas girl who gets transported by a whirlwind to the magical land of Oz. Donning her ruby slippers, she follows the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City to meet the mysterious Wizard (Graham Phythian). Along the way she befriends the Cowardly Lion (Vicky Lynch-Mathew), the Tin Man (Rohan Shenoy) and the Scarecrow (Pete Lynch-Mathew). Working together and aided by the Good Witch (Emily Heyworth) and the Munchkins, they must overcome many challenges to free Oz from the spell of the Wicked Witch (Jean Hall) and return home. Adapted specially for stage, the play was chosen because of its enduring popularity in many forms. “Many people know and love the film,” explains director Jonathan King. “But we feel that there is something about seeing it on stage which makes it extra specially magical. This will be a really beautiful and happy production with lots of colour, music and singing. We have a brilliant cast of adults and children and some amazing special effects. It is a play to lift everybody’s spirits. ”
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Sir Alexander Matthew Busby (1892-1919) by Nola Chesworth Sir Alexander Matthew Busby, born 26th May 1909 in North Lanarkshire, began his football career aged eighteen when he signed to play for Manchester City. He played for the team until 1939 when he was sold to Liverpool; a team he later went on to captain, before he took on the role of football coach in the Army Physical Training Corps during the Second World War. In 1945 Busby signed a contract with Manchester United, and stayed with them until he retired in 1969. During his time in
charge of Manchester United, Busby led his team to win the league championship on five occasions, the FA Cup in 1948 and 1963 and the European Cup in 1968; an achievement for which he received a knighthood. A year after winning the European Cup, Busby stepped down as manager, however he remained a director of the club for eleven years after his retirement, before being made president in 1982. Busby died, following a battle with cancer, in Cheadle on the 20th January 1994 and was buried alongside his wife, Lady Jean who had
died six years earlier. Their grave is surrounded by ivy, and red flowers; the colour of the team to which Busby dedicated much of his life.
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Local artist releases book Inspired by son who who really, really, really, loves Lizards ‘The boy who really, really, really, loves Lizards’ is the first children’s book written and illustrated by Chorlton artist John Hamilton. It was inspired by frequent trips to Manchester Museum with his son Oliver, to see the live lizards, frogs and snakes in the vivarium. On one visit, vivarium curator Andrew Gray allowed Oliver to hold the frogs and lizards and see the back rooms where they're looked after. This increased Oliver’s fascination and gave John the idea for the book. Andrew liked it so much he decided he wanted the museum to publish it. Oliver says, “I think the book is amazing. It’s really good that I’m in a book!’ It's published by Manchester Museum and was launched at the end of October to coincide with the reopening of the vivarium, which has been closed for renovation. The Museum have also produced edition prints and greeting cards to sell along with it.
You can buy 'The boy who really, really, really loves Lizards' from Chorlton Book Shop, Manchester Museum and the Manchester Art Gallery.
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Community Index Clubs, Societies & Groups
Chorlton Knits 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month at Lloyds
Barlow International Folk Dance Group Tuesday
Chorlton Kung Fu
evenings at St.Ninians, Wilbraham Road Mary O’Mahony 0161 881 8955
Chorlton Afternoon Townswomen’s Guild 2nd
& 3rd Tuesday of the month, 2pm, Chorlton Library. 0161 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 07521 500223 uk.groups.yahoo.com/ group/grow_for_it/
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
Wednesdays 8-00pm, Albany Estate, behind Morrisons 07774 723839
Chorlton Philosophy Group Tuesdays 7.30pm,
upstairs at the Lloyds pub. chorltonphilosophygroup. wordpress.com/
Chorlton Reading Group
Once a month in the meeting room behind Chorlton library 7.30pm All welcome 881 1813 chorltonreadersgroup@ gmail.com
Chorlton and District Rotary Club Every Wednesday 6.45 pm Hough End Centre, Mauldeth Road West, rosie.paver@gmail. com
Coffee and Craft Mornings at Chorlton Good
Christine Blackburn 225 8854 www.bridge webs.com/chorlton
Neighbours. Meet friends and have a coffee, with arts and crafts group. Thursdays 10-11.30am Wilbraham St Ninian’s Church 881 2925 www.cgncg.org.uk
Chorlton Civic Society
Co-op members’ group
Chorlton Bridge Club
Chorlton Library meeting room. Tuesday 12th Nov 7.30pm. Chair - Jenny Slee 0757 0879 091 chorltoncivicsociety.org.uk
Chorlton Evening Townswomens Guild
Every 2nd Wed of the month at 7.30 p.m. Room above the Hardy Lane Co-op.Talks, trips, events. Call Brenda 0752 507 1672 brenda. copnall@gmail.com
French Circle Led by
Meet every 2nd & 4th Thursday of the month at 7.30pm Chorlton Library. 0161 881 6354
enthusiastic native speaker. Tuesday afternoon or evening at St Werberghs Church Hall 881 88314
Chorlton Good Neighbours 881 2925
Friends of Alexandra Park
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Chorlton History Group
Meets on the 1st Thursday of the month, 1.30 - 3pm at Chorlton Good Neighbours St Nininians Church, Egerton Rd South
226 7525 www.friends ofalexandrapark.org.uk
Intergen Volunteer
opportunities for Chorlton residents 55+ to work with local primary school children. Estelle Longmore 0161 264 0089 or 07946761785 www. intergen.org.uk
Manchester Flower Lovers’ Guild St Werburghs Church Hall, Chorlton. Anne 881 6591 flowersnorthwest. net
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
St. Clements Fellowship
Barbara - 0161 881 5912 or Ida - 0161 861 7158
Whalley Range Cricket & Lawn Tennis Club
every Friday indoor cricket nets :Years 5 & 6: 6.30-7.30; Years 7-10: 5.30-6.60: Seniors (16+): 7.30-8.30. £4 Springbridge Road, William Hulme Grammar School
Whalley Range Forum
JN8 Youth & Community Centre, 82 Cromwell Ave, M16 0BG 881 3744 info@ whalleyrange.org www. whalleyrange.org
Whalley Range 4 Wildlife wr4wildlife@yahoo.co.uk wr4wildlife.wordpress.com
Arts & Crafts Chorlton Art Group
Tuesdays, 10.00 to 12.00 at St. Werbergh’s church hall. Brenda at brensidebeck@ aol.com
Chorlton Sewing Club
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1st Thursday of the month 7.30 - 9.30pm Chorlton Library chorltonsewing.wordpress. com
Friends of Longford Park
Drum & Percussion Group
Friends of Chorlton Meadows 881 6276
info@folp.co.uk friendsoflongfordpark.org.uk
Playing Brazilian and Cuban rhythms. Thursdays 7-9pm St. Margarets Church,
Whalley Range Sue 226 4311
Dolls House and Miniatures Group 2nd
Monday of each month, 8pm - 10, Whalley Range Venue. Ann 07814 861285
Music & Entertainment Chorlton Film Institute
I’m So Excited - Thurs 16th Jan. Doors open 8.10 pm, film starts 8.30 pm Entrance £5 St Clements Church
Chorlton Folk Club
Thursdays 9pm Ellesmere Rd Cricket Club
Folk Songs and Tunes at The Beech 1st & 3rd
Wednesdays for Songs 2nd & 4th for Tunes. Beech Road, Chorlton, M21 9EG
Manchester Sing Out Choir (Gospel Choir)
Tuesdays 7-9pm St Johns Centre, Old Trafford. manchestersingoutchoir.org msochoir@live.co.uk
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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Sport in Chorlton Range move on Whalley Range CC ended the best year in their long history by winning more awards and cups at the Manchester Association Awards event.
Range who were always too hot for Freckleton to handle after scoring in the first minute from a tap-in by Rob Kinsella.
It’s 39 years since a team from the Land C won the Lancashire Amateur Cup but Whalley Range, now in their 113th year have hopes of ending the long drought as they reach the quarter-finals.
Range had a host of chances before Joey Kinsella doubled the lead just before the break.
It was relatively easy for reigning champions Whalley
The chances continued to flow and taking advantage were Joey Kinsella, Liam Bennion.
Action from the game, Range in red and black
Junior golf thrives in Chorlton Young golfers are being given great coaching by the experienced professional team at Chorlton Golf Club. Each Sunday morning coaching, with golf gear provided, is on offer on the club’s practice area with PGA pro Marcus Dunning, himself a former top junior champion, and assistant professional Joe Mannion. Marcus said: “We welcome children from the age of four upwards to come along and try our junior coaching, which has an emphasis on fun and friendly competition. The club also supports junior golf by offering free membership for the first year.” To find out more contact the professional team on 0161 881 9911.
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Marcus and Joe are pictured with a keen group of young golfers If you have any stories about sport in Chorlton or Whalley Range contact Geoff on 0161 881 7550 or ggggarnett@aol.com WWW.COMMUNITYINDEX.CO.UK
Lauriston win local derby The local derby at South West Manchester CC saw visitors Lauriston knock the early Levenshulme Snooker League division one leaders off their perch in a dramatic 4-3 win. The foundation for the victory was laid with breaks of 38 for Phil Burrows and 32 for Lee Mitchell. The first two matches of the new season had seen South West, with star man Colin Riley (pictured) in hot form storm to the top of the table Droylsden A took full advantage of South West’s defeat to take over at the top with a 7-0 whitewash of Denton.
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