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Welcome
Contents Book Reviews
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to the new Community Index
Southern Cemetery
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Dates for your Diary
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Dear Readers, After a busy summer settling into my new role as editor, I’m really enjoying getting to know readers, advertisers and regular contributors. I love the way that Community Index encourages positive relationships between residents, businesses and community organisations. Please do get in touch if you are organising events in December and January and we will do our best to include the details. Although I’ve taken on day to day management, Lesley is still very much involved and this month she’s had a haircut! I understand the importance of a good haircut and advertiser Clive Victor Gale has done a great job on Our Great Leader. Let her know what you think if you see her out and about. With the festive season rapidly approaching, how about joining in with some pre-Christmas frolics in Fog Lane Park? The South Manchester Santa Dash is back again on Saturday 1st December and sounds like great fun. Taking part helps raise funds for local Red Cross projects. Register at redcross.org.uk/ santadash or call Clare on 0161 888 8918.
Joe Beech Joe Beech Editor Lesley Swann Director Sam Paechter Accounts
Cover Image SXC.hu Contributors Deborah Grace Nola Chesworth Lesley Swann Andrew Simpson Katherine Watson Geoff Garnett Deadline for next edition 15th November 2013
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Didsbury People
Review: Clive Victor Gale 5
Kiddie Jumble
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Santa Dash
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Chorlton Book Festival 12-13 Didsbury Players
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Didsbury Through Time
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Community Index
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November In Your Garden Local Sport
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Didsbury People Joanne Kaberry
Interview by Deborah Grace A debilitating illness gave Joanne Kaberry the push she needed to pursue her creative ambitions. Here the artist, photographer and one-time model discusses inspiration, silver linings and nocturnal mischief!
www.jk-photography.co.uk What do you do? I started out doing flower photography, selling prints and cards. I loved it so much I started studying at night school; then went on to study Commercial Photography at Stockport College. I’m still selling prints and cards, but I also do weddings, events, portraits and product photography.
How did you get started? I’ve been obsessed with the arts since I was a teenager. I also learned a lot about photography when I was a model and, most importantly, how the business works. But it wasn’t until I became ill with ME in 2000 that I really started to get into photography. I needed something to do that wasn’t too strenuous – that I could do when I was feeling up to it. Photography filled the gap.
Why do you think M.E. (myalgic encephalomyelitis or Chronic Fatigue
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Syndrome) is still so misunderstood as a medical condition?
there I found a tree full of fungi and had a ball photographing it.
ME is a complex illness and each individual experiences it uniquely. It can cause not just physical debilitation, but also neurological problems and mental health issues. People with ME can appear normal for a certain period of time; then they go back to feeling debilitated again and this confuses people. Unfortunately, some people are judgemental and think that because ME sufferers can behave normally at times, they must be faking it when they’re unwell. To hear someone say to you, ‘Oh for God’s sake, just get on with it!’ is extremely humiliating to someone who is seriously ill. Thankfully, I’m well enough to work now, but I still have to rest a lot.
Where do you find your inspiration? I love nothing more than getting in the car and zooming off to Alderley Edge. Last time I went
Although, I doubt I’ll use the images for any artwork!
Tell me a guilty secret. I once stole a flower from a neighbour’s garden in London! It was a very unusual camellia; really exquisite like a lotus flower. I went out late at night, dressed in black, and jumped over my neighbour’s wall only to be caught by an infra-red light, like a criminal! Operation Camellia had been a failure so I got up very early and went back for the flower in daylight. I took a picture of the camellia on my bathroom window sill which was very old and covered in mildew. It was the perfect background!
Complete the sentence, ‘I love Didsbury because …’ … I feel part of a community and I’ve got to know so many wonderful people while living here. I also like the proximity to the countryside, as I need to be immersed in nature regularly.
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Review : Clive Victor Gale by Lesley Swann
I’ve always been reluctant to get a haircut. I’ve had some bad experiences in the past; from the unfortunate shaggy dog perm to the experimental too short fringe. I’m nervous about making an appointment, so a haircut is a once every couple of years thing and often disappoints. Clive came to talk about booking advertising in Community Index a couple of months ago. It was the day after yet another bad haircut which had set me back £50 and was definitely not what I’d asked for.
Clive was very sympathetic and we had a long chat about how it could be put right. Then I waited a couple of months for it to grow out and called Clive. I’d not considered using a mobile hairdresser before, but it now seems like the obvious solution for anyone with a busy life or who, like me, has had bad experiences in salons. The whole experience was completely stress free. Clive was very easy to talk to and I felt comfortable (at home) enough to explain exactly what I wanted. He listened carefully and took the time to look at how my hair actually grows and sits. Before wielding his scissors he made sure he knew exactly
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what I wanted and there was the added bonus that I didn’t have to sit under unforgiving lighting feeling exposed, vulnerable and nervous! I actually enjoyed it and will definitely be booking Clive on a regular basis in the future. Clive has been working as a freelance hairdresser for more than twenty years and much prefers it to life in a salon. He takes great pride in his work and obviously really enjoys it. Most of his clients are long term regulars, but he does have some space for a few more clients in South Manchester. At £29 for my cut and blow dry he’s fantastic value and he’s even offering Community Index readers 20% off their first appointment.
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Book Reviews by Deborah Grace Eliot’s The Wasteland, the novel’s title underlines life’s bleakness and the futility of human striving in the face of mortality.
A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh Evelyn Waugh takes no prisoners in his blistering 1930s satire on the cream of English society. With savage glee he lays bare the moral bankruptcy of the party-going, moneyed classes and attacks both innocent and guilty without mercy. In its reference to TS
Aristocrat Tony Last enjoys an idyllic country existence. Devoted to his wife Lady Brenda and their only son John Andrew, Tony’s energies are focused on the upkeep of his ancestral home, Hetton Abbey, a money-eating, neoGothic monster of which he is fiercely proud. Content to follow the unchanging rhythms and traditions of endless generations, Tony is blissfully unaware of Brenda’s longing for excitement and the social whirl of London. When the opportunity presents itself, she Seymours – in the interests of self-advancement apparently had no qualms about bartering the lives of their daughters and nieces in a deadly game of favourites.
Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel For a young English noblewoman with ambitious relatives there could be perhaps no more dangerous place than the volatile court of Henry VIII. The great families of Tudor England – the Howards and the
At the beginning of Bring Up the Bodies, the sequel to Wolf Hall, Anne Boleyn, now Queen of England, is already living on borrowed time. The king, disenchanted with his second queen and frustrated at her inability to produce a live, male heir is casting his eye in the direction of a whey-faced Jane Seymour. The problem now is how to rid himself of the present incumbent and make way for wife number three. Seen through the consciousness of Thomas
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embarks - to the amusement of friends - on an affair with ghastly mummy’s boy, John Beaver. Following a family tragedy, Tony’s eyes are finally opened to the full extent of his wife’s betrayal. In a quest for self-discovery, Tony embarks for Brazil in search of an ancient, lost city. But a cruelly ironic fate has prepared for him his own personal hell. There is a strikingly contemporary feel to the snappy dialogue and intercutting of scenes, so that at times the text reads like a film script. No surprise then that the 1998 screen adaptation (James Wilby, Kristen Scott Thomas) was a huge success!
Cromwell, this account of Anne Boleyn’s swift and shocking demise conveys a sense of ruthless, cold-blooded efficiency. There are many agents in her downfall, but it is Cromwell, the king’s right-hand man, who effectively orchestrates the hysterical narrative of infidelity, incest and witchcraft that provides Henry with his solution. In just a few tumultuous weeks in the late spring of 1536 Anne Boleyn is brought down and delivered blindfold to the French swordsman. And thus, ‘a sharp sigh or sound like a whistle through a keyhole: the body exsanguinates and its flat little presence becomes a puddle of gore.’ Brilliant!
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Southern Cemetery John Prettyjohns (1823-1887) by Nola Chesworth Even if I didn’t already know his name it would have stood out from the ‘Notable Burials’ list; even if his name wasn’t on this list, and I stumbled across his grave, this is a man I would have been curious to know more about. For this name is one of the most beautiful names I have ever heard. John Prettyjohns was born in Devon in 1823, and died in Chorlton-on-Medlock in 1887; he earned his place on the notable burials list by becoming the first Royal Marine to win the Victoria Cross. Prettyjohns won this prestigious award on the 5th November 1854 as a Corporal at the Battle of
Inkerman, during the Crimean War, when, realising they were out of ammunition, he told his men to gather stones and throw them at the Russian enemy. He went on to become Sergeant, then Colour Sergeant; sailing the Andaman Sea during the Second Opium War, before retiring in 1865. Upon retirement he took up the position as Golfing Steward at a bowling club in Withington; he lived in South Manchester until he passed away in January 1887, outlived by his wife Elizabeth
who he is buried alongside, in a beautiful, heavily wooded part of Southern Cemetery.
Dates for your diary Cavendish Road Primary School Tues 5 November Annual bonfire & fireworks event
Christ Church, West Didsbury Sat 23 November William Byrd Singers 7.30pm Musical Director : Keith Orrell Rachmaninov: Vespers Sat 30 November Manchester Beethoven Orchestra
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7.30pm Conductor Frank Lennon Music by: Verdi, Britten, SaintSaens, Faure and Borodin
Chilcott: Be Thou my Vision Tickets £9 (£5 conc.) on the door or call 0161 366 0532
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Friday 15 November
At the Edge Theatre and Arts Storytime: 10.30–11.30am What’s a Story? Returning for its Ellen ninthTaylor year, – The Chorlton B ‘Magical World of Books’. Get dressed 1.30–3pm a selection of events, author visits and work up as your favourite book character and Find out how dramatic structure w everyone. include an Under-5s come and listen to stories, songs and Attractions from professional writer Ellen, a re Graphic Workshop for teenagers rhymes and meet our special guest. Novel Art writer for Coronation Street, who h For under-5s. World War II talkwritten on the Russian arctic conv for Casualty and Waterloo
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This festival opens with Returning for its ninth year, The Chorlton BookChorlton’s local poets. Hosted by Sarah L Dixon. Festival offers a selection of events, authorRichard visits O’Neill. Listen to his Readers, writers and wouldAll welcome. £2 (£1 concessions). and workshops to please everyone. Attractions unique take on traditional be writers are out in force
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Arts Centre Ellen Taylor – JUMP writers group Script In Hand Sunday 17 November What’s aperformance: Story? 1.30–3pm 3–4.30pm Walk andaTalk: Andrew 9.30pm This festival opens with Fourdramatic professional actors will present Find out how structure Simpson, Local Historian: Chorlton’s local poets. works, from This festival opens rehearsed reading of work developed by professional writer 2–3pm Hosted by Sarah L Dixon. with Chorlton’s Ellen, a regular writerJUMP for programme, an arts The Edge’s All welcome. £2 (£1 concessions). local poets. Hosted by Sarah Come and take Coronation Street, who has club for unemployed people. Suitable for a walk through L Dixon. All welcome. £2 (£1 19th-century Chorlton in the area also written for Casualty and anyone interested in emerging writers and concessions). calledonline: Martledge. Along the way Waterloo Road. Tickets £10. community arts projects. Book Saturday 16 November there will be tales of dark deeds, group Script or by phoning www.edgetheatre.co.uk Saturday November Food for the16 Soul: 11am–3pm; JUMP writers quite a bit about the people we performance: 282 9776. Places are limited and market outside the library In Hand 0161 Food forstall the Soul: 11am– might have encountered, and 3–4.30pm tickets are non-refundable.more Tickets £3.one silly story. Meet Meet storyteller and woodcarver 3pm; market stall outside Richard than O’Neill. Listen to his unique take on Four professional actors will the library at the Royal Bank of Scotland on & Love & Rock present a Sex rehearsed reading of traditional Romany North Country the corner of Barlow Moor Road. Meet storyteller and and woodcarver & Roll, Tony Walsh aka Longfella, stories. Come and buy some hand-carved
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exciting new poetry offers scene. Brimming with Tuesday 19 November Book Festival Northern warmth and humour, these The Beech Pub Quiz: 8pm. kshops to please accessible, musical poems were influenced Hosted by Copland Smith (local poet). by the songs that a soundtrack our lives. A Literary quiz toFestival test the mostwould well-read like to Storytime, Chorlton Book £2.50. and cultivated of memories. Prizes for s, and an over-50s thankthethe following sponsors: winners. £1 to enter, payable at the Beech. voys. Sunday 17 November
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Walk and Talk: Andrew Simpson, Local Historian: 2–3pm
Come and take a walk through 19thcentury Chorlton in the area called Martledge. Along the way there will be tales of dark deeds, quite a bit about the people we might have encountered, and more than one silly story. Meet at the Royal Monday 18 November Bank of Scotland on the corner of Barlow Monday 18 November Moor Road. The walk ends at the Art Post Box POW! Graphic Novels POW! Graphic Novels Art Café on Wilbraham Road, with soup and Workshop: 4–6pm Workshop: 4–6pm mulled BookingVicky is recommended Creativewine. practitioner Clarke will for Creative practitioner Vicky Clarke this popular event. £4.50. how work with you to explore layouts
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Chorlton Good Neighbours Coffee Morning: 10–11.30am at Wilbraham St Ninian’s Church, Egerton Road South Come and listen to the nationally recognised, gifted storyteller Christine McMahon. www.christinemcmahon.co.uk
Thursday 21 Tuesday 19 November The Beech Pub Quiz: 8pm. November Friday 22 November
Hosted by Copland Smith (local poet). Grand Day Out (over-50s session): Chorlton Good A Literary quiz to test Neighbours the most well-read 2–4pm Russian Arctic10– Convoys Coffee Morning: and cultivated of memories. Prizes for Come and hear this epic story. Presented the winners. at Wilbraham St 11.30am by Bernard Leach. £1 to enter, payable at the Egerton Beech. Ninian’s Church,
Saturday 23 November The Future is Unwritten: 2–4pm
How will we live in 20 years’ time? Where will you be? Join us for a creative journey into the future, writing and burying Road South An Autumn 8pm at Thursday 21 Almanac: November our ideas in a time capsule! Come and listen to theParish nationally St John’s Chorlton Good Neighbours Coffee The time capsule will be recognised, gifted storyteller Centre, Corner of Morning: 10–11.30am at Wilbraham planted in early December. For Chequers Road and Christine www. St Ninian’s McMahon. Church, Egerton Road South Lane, Chorlton ages 10–15. Book online. Come and listen toHigh the nationally christinemcmahon.co.uk Tickets are free but limited. for Christine the hazy recognised, giftedPrepare storyteller shades of winter a bountiful harvest Prebook using https:// Friday 22 with November McMahon. www.christinemcmahon.co.uk of tall tales, song-stories and folk music. chorltonbookfestival2013. Grand Day Out (over-50s We have gathered together some of eventbrite.co.uk Friday 22 November session): 2–4pm Russian Manchester’s best songwriters and Grand Day Out (over-50s session): At the Edge Theatre and storytellers for this previously sold-out Arctic Convoys 2–4pm Russian Arctic Convoys event. “Friday evening, people get Arts Centre Come and hear this epic story. Come and hiding hear this epic Presented together... from thestory. weather.” by Amanda Dalton: Getting Started Presented by Bernard Leach. TheBernard Kinks –Leach. Autumn Almanac. Tickets with Poetry: 2–5pm A lively, £2.50 prebookedAn or £3.50 on the door. Autumn An Autumn practical workshop with plenty of Almanac: 8pm at at Almanac: 8pm writing exercises and ideas for St John’s Parish St John’s Parish making and shaping your poetry. Centre, Corner of Centre, ChequersCorner Road and An award-winning play, ‘How to ofHigh Chequers Lane, Chorlton Disappear’ was shortlisted for Prepareand for the hazy Road High the Forwards Prize for Best First shades ofChorlton winter with a bountiful harvest Lane, Collection. Amanda also writes of tall tales, song-stories and folk music. for BBC radio. Tickets £10. Prepare for thetogether hazy shades We have gathered some of of winter with best a bountiful harvest Manchester’s songwriters and Book online: www. storytellers for song-stories this previously sold-out of tall tales, and edgetheatre.co.uk or by event.music. “FridayWe evening, get folk havepeople gathered phoning 0161 282 9776. Places together... hiding from the weather.” together some of Manchester’s are limited and tickets are The Kinks – Autumn Almanac. Tickets best songwriters and storytellers non-refundable. £2.50 prebooked or £3.50 on the door. for this previously sold-out Contact information event. “Friday evening, people get together... hiding from the Chorlton Library, Manchester weather.” The Kinks – Autumn Road M21 9PN Almanac. Tickets £2.50 www.manchester.gov.uk/ prebooked or £3.50 on the chorltonbookfestival door. Telephone 0161 227 3700
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Didsbury Players Preparing for panto season After four months of hard work, Didsbury Players got Didsbury singing and dancing last month with their self-penned and produced original musical ‘So Popera’! If you didn’t manage to catch it, here are a few snapshots that show how much fun everyone had! But there’s no rest for the wicked! They’ve recently started working on Aladdin, another genie-us of a pantomime, and in a little over two months, they’ll be bringing you power hungry villains, well-meaning but a little clueless kings, beautiful princesses, feisty genies and of course, their own melodramatic and cross-dressing Dame! Will the Princess convince her father that she doesn’t need a dull, self-absorbed prince to help her run the kingdom? Will the wicked Abanazar manage to enlist the help of the Genie of the Lamp to steal the throne and rule the kingdom? Will Aladdin get to woo the Princess and save the day? And most importantly, will Widow Twanky
bulldoze her way into the King’s heart? Join them in this spectacular family adventure to find out!
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Didsbury Through Time by Andrew Simpson We are outside the Wellington Inn and it is sometime after 1865 at the junction of Barlow Moor and Wilmslow Roads. Now I can be fairly certain about the date because 1865 was the year the Manchester Carriage Company was formed from a merger of the two bus companies serving the city and neighbouring townships. The larger was owned by the Greenwood Company and brought over 500 horses and 33 omnibuses to the merger, while what had been McEwen’s City Omnibus Company contributed the routes to Bell Vue, Rusholme, Longsight and Didsbury. The photograph is one of those wonderfully staged pictures which
says much about the novelty of photography at the time. The passengers stare back at you with that mix of curiosity and arrogance, and not a woman amongst them. And just as I can be certain that the date is after 1865 I can be equally sure that it can be no later than 1895 when the old Wellington Inn was torn down and the present large property was built. The Wellington Inn was once the Grey Horse and had a bowling green at the rear on the land which is now the library. I knew it as the Cavalcade and today it is the Zizzi Ristorante which points to how Didsbury continues to change and evolve.
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In an effort to capture the last century and a bit of the area’s history Peter Topping and I are working on a new book to be published at the end of the year on Didsbury Through Time.
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Acting For Fun Central Didsbury 431 4794
Monday of each month, 8pm - 10, Whalley Range Venue. Ring Ann 07814 861285
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Oneness Deeksha Meditation Saturdays
11am-12 at The Didsbury Parsonage, Stenner Lane Didsbury M20 2RQ. Donation £2. Enquiries to Christine 07734 072040.
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Social & Support Groups
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New Family Social UK
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November In Your Garden by Katherine Watson During November I will be taking time to overhaul a few things in my garden. Now that most of the herbaceous perennials are ready for a cut back and the garden has shrunk a little again, I can get to some of the structures that need a bit of TLC.
Now that most of the herbaceous perennials are ready for a cut back and the garden has shrunk a little again, I can get to some of the structures that need a bit of TLC
I have a rendered raised bed that has been painted black - successfully - for the past five years but has needed repainting at this time every other year (or every year for a finickity eye) and this year I’d like a change. I’m going to try a fairly new cladding system from Marshalls called ‘Stoneface’ - a natural stone veneer that comes in a variety of different colour ways and looks very easy to use.
Black or a dark slate works particularly well here as a contrast to the small seating area / gin terrace, paved with a creamy travertine, catching the sun for a couple of crucial early evening hours. The planting in this area will change too. The raised bed is quite deep with a small trimmed beech hedge
to the back and four box pyramids along its length. I wanted this area to have a feel of ‘loose formality’ so have interspersed the box with aquilegia ‘spitfire’ a bright orange version which works well but needs a bit more oomph and texture, so I’m thinking of introducing some stipa tennuissima for filigree contrast and some smatterings of sanguisorba ‘Nanna’. I’ve also got an out-of-hand pheasant’s tail grass (Anemanthele
lessoniana) enthusiastically moved from another part of the garden, but I think I might have to admit that my garden is just too small and offer it up for swaps. The beauty of our relationships with our gardens is that we can, not too painfully, change and tinker with things we get fed up of, even swap the occasional loved, but time worn item without the intervention of Relate
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Sport in Didsbury by Geoff Garnett More good news for sport in Didsbury With the work on improved and extended clubhouse facilities now well under way and on schedule for the new season, the Didsbury Playing Fields Association has been handed another financial boost. The DPFA (comprising Didsbury Toc H RUFC and Burnage Metro FC) has secured £48,732 of National Lottery investment from Sport England’s Protected Playing Field Fund and now people of all ages in the heart of Didsbury can look forward to decades of high-quality sport. DPFA will use the investment to
complete the drainage system at Simons Field for the Sports Hub’s training area, cricket outfield and a football pitch. DPFA chairman Mo Perkins said: “We’re delighted to have secured this investment which means that we can get our field to the optimum standard. The playing field will also be protected from developers for at least 25 years creating an enduring benefit for sport.” Sport England chairman Nick Bithel added: “The popularity of this legacy fund shows just how important good local playing fields are to grassroots sport. But Sport
Work nearing completion of the new clubhouse facilities England’s support for playing fields is about much more than money, every day our experts play a vital role in protecting sports provision through the planning system.”
Bright start for Parrs Wood Celtic Parrs Wood Celtic are one of several excellent football clubs in Didsbury who enjoy their game in the prestigious Lancashire and Cheshire AFL. The league celebrated its centenary in 2008 and Celtic have been members since 1987. The past four seasons have seen the club make great strides extending their membership to three teams, who all did well, last season. The first team just missed out on promotion to the Premier
division and again are well in the hotly contested promotion mix. Along with their other two teams they’ll be looking to take some silverware at the end of the season.
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First team in action against promotion rivals Castleton (Celtic in white shirts)
If you have any stories about sport in Didsbury contact Geoff on 0161 881 7550 or ggggarnett@aol.com
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Great Day for charity at Didsbury Golf Club THERE was a hugely successful Captain’s Charity Day competition at Didsbury Golf Club. A glorious day of sunshine helped to raise well over £2,000 for the joint charities of Macmillan Cancer Support and Motor Neurone Disease. One of the main items for auction was a signed St Helens RLFC shirt which was presented by Bob Cairns and there was also a special presentation to Ashia Miah the owner of the Gatley Cuisine Restaurant who was donated to receive a framed Man City shirt as a tribute to his support for the event over the last 12 years.
Sandy Jones presents St Helens shirt to Fred Finley
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