Author Topic: Is there anywhere better in the uk to live than Manchester?  (Read 3712 times)

cheethamgirl

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Apols for spelling, it's a bi early in the day!  That should have read that over here 'Obligated' became simplified to 'obliged' but remains 'obligated' in US, and those were of course countries I visited, not coutries! Wot 'm I like? ::)   
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Cupcake

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Do you know, I absolutely love Manchester in the rain.  That's absolutely the best for me, walking about looking up at those incredible buildings in the Mancunian rain.  I know, I'm bats.....  :D
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cheethamgirl

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Then so am I.   :uglystupid2:
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Then I am safe in telling you I used to stand on the platform at Oxford Road station gazing at the top of the Refuge Building (Palace Hotel now) and just marvelling at the skill it took to make all those perfect curves from ordinary bricks.  And do not get me started on the floor of the Palace Hotel Foyer, or the Midland's glorious curly bits and authentic gallery, or any part of Manchester Town Hall, made with pillars of granite from each of the four countries of the UK, or the glorious Central Library, whose re-opening is a positively scary prospect..... for verily that will lead me on to Whitworth Street and Portland Street and who knows where we'll stop?!
 
I think I've stopped now.... although I may suddenly jabber about the Irwell at any time  :-[ 
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cheethamgirl

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'Know what you mean cupcake.  For me, it's rain on grey slate roofs (they're all red or beige tiled where I live now), the beautiful and unexpected Barton Arcade, St Anne's Square at Christmas, also the Refuge Assurance building (my mum once worked there as an insurance clerk), the mighty Midland (my cousin was a bell hop there), posh lunch in the Danish Food Centre on Corporation St (?),  Grey Mare Lane market of a Saturday, the gasometer you saw from the top of the bus along the way there, the Bobs at Belle Vue, school trip to Bakewell, the rag and bone men, the coal man's horse, Terry the chirpy milkman who whistled snatches from 'Carmen', the aroma of coffee from the Gaggia machine in Lorenzini's ice cream parlour on Cheetham Hill Rd, the smell of the Cheshire cheese wheel in Ashley's the grocers on same road,  sugar poured out into blue paper bags, loose Danish butter cut off the block and wrapped in greaseproof paper, stealing currants from the sack in front of the counter in Redman's (I was a toddler, 'thought they'd been put there so's kids could help themselves),  the taste of candy floss and the smell of diesel at the travelling funfairs, the bonfire night when they'd set the fire too close to someone's gable end and cracked the wall,  could go on forever but I'll put it all in my next book! 
Author:  'Odd Man Out - A Motiveless Murder?' & 'The Cheetham Hill Murder'

St Chads

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Hi everyone, I'm a new kid on this block ...I lived in Cheetham Hill from the age of eight and went to St Chads  from 59/65 for my sins ...I love Manchester and all it stands for .
I hope to have some good chats with like-minded folk.;-)
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cheethamgirl

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Hello and welcome St Chad's.   I was at St Chad's from about 1957 to 1960.  Memories of the school pop up on other threads in this forum too.  What are your memories of the place?  Remember Sister Philomena?
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St Chads

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Hi cheethamgirl ....how are you ? I do indeed remember St Philomena but not with any fondness , she and her cohort St Threase were pure evil imo .
I have many memories of St Chads and growing up in Cheetham Hill , i will be on again soon .
" Life calls the tune , we dance ".

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