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December 2014
Didsbury
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Didsbury People
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Contributors Deborah Grace
Andrew Simpson
Katherine Watson Geoff Garnett
Linsey Parkinson
Didsbury People by Deborah Grace
Clare Howarth
Community activist, Clare Howarth, has been the force behind many local fundraising campaigns, including the restoration of the Lapwing Lane canopy and her more recent Christmas project - Light Up the Didsburys!
How long have you lived in Didsbury?
I’ve lived in West Didsbury since 1990. I came up to Manchester from the New Forest in 1984 to work as an assistant editor for Granada. Since 1993, I’ve been a freelance dubbing editor on dramas like ‘Blue Murder’, ‘Mrs Biggs’ and ‘An Appropriate Adult’ and I teach postproduction sound for a film course at Fielden Park. I also produce and sell the ‘area’ mugs (Didsbury, West Didsbury, Chorlton etc). But charity work takes up a huge amount of my time.
How do you feel about the newly restored Lapwing Lane canopy?
It looks fantastic! Over two and a half years we managed to raise £92,000 to rebuild the canopy. Instead of a run-down wreck with smashed windows, we now have a thing of beauty. It’s part of the area’s heritage and because
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local people contributed to it, they treat it with real pride and respect.
Tell me about Light Up the Didsburys!
After I joined the Didsbury Traders Association a year and a half ago, the Council told us there would be no more money for Christmas lights in Didsbury. So a group of us traders and local campaigners joined forces. Over the past year we’ve raised over £5,000 through charity quizzes and raffles and we’re hoping for a bit extra in private sponsorship. This Christmas there will be three light switchons in the area: one in Didsbury village; one in Burton Road and another, for the first time, along the Lapwing Lane arcade. I can’t wait!
Where do you find your motivation?
My childhood was very hard. After Dad left, my mum had to bring up five of us on her own. Then our house burned
down and, for four or five years afterwards, we lived in caravans. That experience has had a profound effect on me and I see life as very sad. So it helps me to keep busy. I’m a real doer; I love people and I love organising things. If I go with something, I give it 110%.
What makes you happy?
Being with family. I’m so proud of my girls, Poppy and Belle; and my partner, Steve, is my backbone.
How will you spend Christmas?
It’s important to spend Christmas with family and friends. On Christmas morning we’ll have a glass of champagne with smoked salmon and scrambled eggs. Then Steve and I will cook an enormous turkey – I always buy a 16-pounder because it’s traditional. On New Year’s Eve we’ll have friends over and I’ll cook a seven to ten course meal for eight of us!
Complete the sentence, ‘I love Didsbury because…’ ‘… in a big city, Didsbury is a little, beating heart and people here have a strong sense of community.’
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This time of year is a favourite for crafters: the dark, but cosy, nights give us a chance to try some new skills and tackle those more detailed projects. December is also the start of the festive season, when crafting is at its very best. Our friends at the Ministry of Craft have taken a bit of time out from their programme of courses to show us a decorative crafty quick fix, with a highend, purse-friendly result. Add a touch of handmade to your home, or to someone’s Christmas stockings!
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Layout your cupcake cases on a work surface (which makes the next repetitive actions easier!). Take your pencil, with the rubber facing upward and place the centre of the case over the rubber. Carefully scrunch the case around the pencil.
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Repeat this method until you have glued cases the full circumference of the ball. Each case should be around 1 cm apart (they’ll fan out to cover any gaps) and most balls handily have a line around the centre you can follow as a guide to start you off.
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Once the ball is almost covered, fold over a 10cm piece of cord or ribbon to make a loop and glue onto the centre of the remaining circle. Continue to add your cupcake cases around the ribbon.
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St Catherine’s Primary School
Singing star Martin Toal joins school pupils in musical fundraiser Pupils at St Catherine’s RC Primary School are hoping to hit the high notes with their latest fundraising bid.
Renowned Manchester tenor, Martin Toal, is joining forces with youngsters at St Catherine’s, on School Lane, in a magical, music-making venture to raise money for local charity, Francis House Children’s Hospice. Martin and the children have just made a CD of Christmas songs and carols, which is now for sale. Martin, who has sung for the Queen and at Wembley Stadium for the England football team, will also be taking part in the school’s charity carol concert, taking place on Thursday 11th December at St Catherine’s RC Church. All proceeds from the sale of CDs and concert tickets will go to Francis House, which supports children with lifelimiting conditions, and their families, throughout the North West. A sponsored fun and fitness day, held at the school earlier this year, has already raised more than £4,000 for the charity. Said Martin Toal: “I knew about the wonderful work carried out by Francis house and I wanted to do something to help. St Catherine’s is literally around the corner and the school already has strong links with the charity. And what could be more inspiring than seeing children help other children by raising money and awareness of such a great cause?”
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Didsbury Through Time by Peter Topping and Andrew Simpson (£14.99)
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Didsbury Through Time
Thoughts on a Didsbury just 56 years ago
by Andrew Simpson
‘History isn’t history if it’s about a time after your granddad’s first birthday’ was the oft repeated comment of one of my teachers back at Samuel Pepys Secondary Modern School.
Now I know what he meant. Only with the passing of a few generations can you get to see how events play out and to what extent they were the big moment or just a hiccup in the passage of time. But that does rather sideline so many interesting stories which are then just lost forever. And in the same way often leads us to discard those more recent pictures of the past which pretty much look like today. I was reminded of this when I came across this image of the War Memorial and Library from 1959. At first glance it does not look that much different but that is to ignore the huge changes that have occurred in just the last
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few decades. When Tuck and Son distributed this picture postcard, there was still a railway station opposite with a regular service into the heart of the city and the Jones family, having returned their overdue library books, had a choice of shops to visit. They could have wandered from the station up towards School Lane, calling in at grocery shops, a newsagents, Smith’s the dry cleaners and Tiny Tots (Outfitters) Ltd, along with Rushton’s the shoe repair service and BSM Radio. Inside, they would have been greeted with that old fashioned style of shop, with wooden and glass counters, high shelves and a lack of background music and customer announcements. And if that was not enough, there was the cafe on the corner of Warburton Road, along with the Conservative Club above R Dunn’s and the Liberal
Party Offices beside The Paint Shop, selling Capital Wallpapers, on School Lane. Today the same stretch is dominated by cafes and restaurants with a few independent traders, which is not to pass judgement on the changes, only to reflect that there will be many stories and even pictures of the time just 56 years ago when Tuck and Sons sold their picture postcard of the War Memorial and Library with its uncluttered pavement and parked scooter. All of which is a prelude to an appeal for memories, stories and pictures of this not so distant Didsbury. Picture; War Memorial and Library from the series, Didsbury, Lilywhite, issued by Tuck & Sons, 1959, courtesy of TuckDB http://tuckdb.org/ history
Read more on the history of Didsbury in Andrew Simpson & Peter Topping’s book Didsbury Through Time. chorltonhistory.blogspot.com
Book Reviews A Song for Ella Grey David Almond
I’m the one who’s left behind. I’m the one to tell the tale. I knew them both... knew how they lived and how they died.
Orpheus, the celebrated poet and musician of Greek mythology, travelled down to the underworld in an attempt to bring his beloved wife, Eurydice, back from the dead. In David Almond’s contemporary re-telling, the protagonists are teenagers and the setting is Tyneside, but the ancient tale loses nothing of its original power and lyricism in the hands of a storyteller whose hauntingly beautiful prose has the hypnotic, dreamlike quality of poetry.
Claire, the novel’s narrator, is Ella Grey’s best friend. The two girls have grown up together and now, their school days nearly ended, Ella, Claire and their friends are heady with the freedom and promise of a glittering future. Then, during a wild, Easter camping trip on the rain-swept Northumberland coast, a mysterious stranger appears on the beach and casts a musical charm over the party of young adults. From the start it is Ella who is caught hardest and Claire can only watch, helpless, as her childhood friend is lost to the cataclysmic force of first love. Drawing on mythic forces,
Almond’s story captures both the intensity and fragility of adolescent love, whilst the bleak beauty of Bamburgh beach provides the perfect landscape for the unfolding tragedy. Whether or not readers are familiar with the classical Greek legend, they will find Almond’s writing as compelling as Orpheus’s song. • Review by Deborah Grace
The Mistletoe Bride and other Haunting Tales Kate Mosse
I felt no pain or fear at the moment of my passing, just a simple slipping away. I died as I had lived. Quietly, gently, leaving little trace. A young bride, wed at Christmas, leads her guests in a merry game of hide and seek – with tragic consequences. Many readers will be familiar with the title tale, a popular ghost story associated with any number of English stately homes. Indeed, all of the stories in Kate Mosse’s beautifully written collection are inspired by traditional folklore and legends from England and France. Here, as in the best of truly haunting tales, it is the landscapes
themselves, as much as the wretched spirits, that linger in the reader’s imagination long after each story’s telling. On the melancholy salt marshes of West Sussex, a horrifying apparition in the form of a tattered, vengeful corpse is accompanied by ‘the stench of seaweed and rotting eggs.’ On a beach in Brittany, a young boy watches as the sea turns to glass and the souls of the drowned emerge, cloaked in ‘dancing ribbons of flame’. A grieving mother travels alone to south west France to find peace at the remote mountain site of an ancient atrocity. And on a grey, December
afternoon in Chichester Cathedral, a widow bids farewell to the Ghost of Christmas Past. The tales are all the more powerful for their simple, direct prose, while the accompanying author’s notes add a fascinating, personal perspective. • Review by Deborah Grace
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December In Your Garden By Katherine Watson
At the end of my decking I have an acer, palmatum atropurpureum, a Japanese maple that I planted about ten years ago when I got it free with some Queen of the Night tulips from Parkers.
Back then, it was a tiny stick of a plant that battled in its not ideal position of shade, leaning forward as it grew to reach the light. I’ve neglected it gently over the years, but it has valiantly kept going, with a moderate display during the autumn leaf fall and as a regular perch for a variety of birds eyeing up the feeder nearby. This year, I am determined to look after it a bit more in the hope that it will shine a little brighter, as it should. During the late summer, a very large sycamore that had become an ivy ball, in the neighbour’s garden, but situated right against our boundary, blew down taking with it the long cast of shade from our garden. The effect was incredible; the garden was immediately brighter and light was able
to access previously shady nooks and crannies, including the area where my poor acer is. On the other side, I have a berberis hedge which also leans towards the light and is a bit woody at the acer end so I’m going to take out a section of that to allow some light in from that side too. It won’t know itself. It fits well into the December garden – the shape of acers is generally quite satisfying without leaves and since I’ve had new decking - a black composite deck which cost as much as a small house - the garden could be moving in an East Asian direction (not physically but thematically of course). This serenity and sophistication will have to wait though, because this month, I’ll be dressing my acer up with some coloured festoon lights (I’ve been after some for ages), dusting off the nodding reindeer and embracing the necessary naff and tack of Christmas.
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Sport in Didsbury By Geoff Garnett
Northenden’s century old Golf Club gutted by fire Northenden Golf Club suffered a devastating blow when their 100-year-old clubhouse was completely gutted by fire.
Beginning in the early hours of October 18th, club steward Richard Singleton just managed to escape from his flat on the first floor and raise the alarm. At its peak there were 20 fire fighters trying to douse the flames. The clubhouse is now deemed unsafe and will be demolished. Club Captain Larry McDonald
said: “Our members are very upset and it is a very sad day. So much irreplaceable history and memorabilia has been lost and but we will rise, phoenix-like, from the ashes! Fortunately no-one was hurt and we can carry on without the building. “We’ve received tremendous support from other Mersey clubs - Withington, Didsbury, Sale and Chorlton – who are offering Northenden members free use of their facilities until the club is back on its feet.”
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Community Index Local groups and useful numbers Clubs, Societies & Groups
Acting For Fun Central, Didsbury 431 4794 Didsbury Civic Society didsburycivicsociety.org.uk Didsbury Cricket Club didsburyccsports.co.uk Didsbury Good Neighbours Every Tues 10-11.45am coffee morning. Holt Pavilion, Didsbury Park 07749 504298 www. didsburygoodneighbours.org.uk Didsbury Ladies’ Probus Club Alternate Monday afternoons in East Didsbury. Joan Woodall 434 2532 Didsbury Men’s Probus Club Alternate Thursday mornings in East Didsbury. Bill Woodall 434 2532
Didsbury Lawn Tennis Club Bob Peel, 445 0465 didsburyccsports.co.uk Didsbury Players celestaplayers.co.uk
Didsbury Village East Residents Association dvera.co.uk Didsbury Village WI didsburyvillagewi.co.uk
Dolls House and Miniatures Group 2nd Monday of each month, 8-10pm, Whalley Range Venue. Ann 07814 861285 Eat Green free cookery school, food bank, garden tool libraries and community growing activities. info@eatgreen.co.uk www. eatgreen.co.uk Ford Bank Residents Association fordbankresidents.org.uk Frets community guitar and singing, Fridays 10am, Didsbury Sports Club 07813 121478
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Friends of Didsbury Park friendsofdidsburypark.co.uk
Friends of Fletcher Moss Park Alan Hill 215 0971 awhill@globalnet.co.uk
Friends of Marie Louise Gardens marielouisegardens.org.uk Lipreading and Communication Skills classes Free to deaf people and their families and friends. Wednesdays 1 -3 pm at Mauldeth House 0161 832 0444 enquiries@ manchesterdeafstudies.org Manchester JKF Karate Club Didsbury MMU Sports Centre, Tuesdays 8.30pm Ben Pollock, 07894108944
Oneness Deeksha Meditation Saturdays 11am-12 at The Didsbury Parsonage. Donation £2 Christine 07734 072040 South Manchester Camera Club Mondays at 8-10pm, Didsbury Methodist Church smcc.org.uk Didsbury Over 50s Group 247 2323
South Manchester U3A 1st Tuesday of the month 2pm, Emmanuel Church. Edna 434 2509
West Didsbury Bookgroup Meets every four weeks at 7.30pm. Lively mixed group of all ages. Call 445 4483 leaving your name, address & landline West Didsbury Residents Association westdidsburyresidentsassoc@ gmail.com westdidsbury.org.uk Withington Civic Society Roger Smith 445 1473 withingtoncivicsociety.org.uk
Are you part of a voluntary or community group? Drop Joe an email on editor@communityindex.co.uk
Social & Support Groups Manchester Diabetes Support Network 860-5688 diabetesinmanchestersouth@ gmail.com
New Family Social UK charity for LGBT adopters, foster carers and their children. Meets every month in south Manchester. newfamilysocial.org.uk email: nwdevelopment@newfamilysocial. co.uk Rethink Manchester Carers in Action www.rmcia.blogspot.co.uk 07757 082 976 Useful Numbers Didsbury Library 227 3755
Environment on Call 954 9000 Mersey Valley Countryside Warden Service 905 1100 Manchester City Council 234 5000
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