Chorlton Good Neighbours

Chorlton Good Neighbours Christmas Party 2025. This annual event held at the wonderful local venue, the Hough End Centre was as good as ever and I even won a prize in the raffle!

Chorlton Good Neighbours Monday Exercise group meets every week at the CGH Hall at St Ninians.  Contact Helen at 0161 881 2925 for more information

History Talks in January & February  2026 On Tuesday 13th January 2026 at 1.30pm  Tom Grimshaw will give a talk about Health and Medicine over time with particular reference to health issues in Victorian Manchester On Tuesday 10th February 2026 at 1.30pm Bernard Leach will be talking about the Wood Street Mission in central ManchesterContinue reading History Talks in Jan & Feb 2026 →

Henshaws Blind Asylum in Manchester was conceived of over 200 years ago when Oldham hat manufacturer Thomas Henshaw donated £20,000 in his 1810 will to establish a charity to support blind people. Henshaws finally opened its doors in Old Trafford in 1837. The charity  was very much a product of its Victorian times rigid, institutionalContinue reading Henshaw’s “Asylum for the Blind” →

On Sep 25th 2025 Caroline & Stephanie from the Central Manchester Falls team visted Chorlton Good Neighbours to talk aabout fall prevention. They went from table to table to answer people’s questions and provide and fit new ferrules where the rubber tip on walking sticks had worn away. At CGN we has some new ferrulesContinue reading Falls Service at Chorlton Good Neighbours →

 

  Vicky Matthews works part time for local charity Together Dementia Support Here she talks about a new initiative in Chorlton “We are starting a Music  Cafe at Chorlton Central Church  every Monday from 13 October (1.30-3pm) for people with dementia & their carers. It is in a partnership project with The Camerata’s  ‘Music inContinue reading A music cafe in Chorlton for people with dementia, Mondays 1.30pm →

Barry Clark’s talk at the CGN history group on Tues 9th Sep at 1.30pm will explore the strong connections between Manchester and the Arts and Crafts movement but the talk’s main focus is about the Northern Art Workers’ Guild, founded in Manchester in 1896 by local architects, artists, and artisans. Barry will  highlight the Guild’s distinctiveContinue reading Barry Clark – the history of the Arts & Craft Movement in Manchester →

Visual Awareness Training Nina Rio (from Peru) is an enablement officer at Henshaws whose offices are at Washbrook House in Stretford. Many of us who grew up in the area knew Henshaws as “the Society for  the Blind ” based on Chester Road in a large Victorian building that was eventually demolished in 1972. Henshaws nowContinue reading Visual Awareness Training by Nina Rios from Henshaws →

Presentation to the chorlton good neighbours history group (Tues July 8th 2025) about Trafford Park, Manchester. I grew up there in the 1950s and memories of Trafford Park and Metropolitan Vickers have stayed with ever since, This is a shortened version of the talk and I have made 5 short videos about aspects of TPContinue reading Trafford Park & Metropolitan Vickers – a history →

2ZY was Manchester’s first radio station, established in 1922 by Metropolitan Vickers (Metrovicks), in Trafford Park. The station was a pioneer in British radio broadcasting. The Metrovicks Broadcast Tower and 2ZY The transmitter was installed on the ornate cast iron water tower at the Metrovicks works in Trafford Park, Manchester. Test transmissions began on 17 MayContinue reading 2 Z Y Metrovick’s pioneering 1922 radio station →