Glad to be in Chorlton Past and Present exhibition tomorrow at St Clement's on Edge Lane

There is an Old Salvation Army call which I think I can correctly remember from my youth in south east London.
It would come as the band and chorus finished one of their rousing hymns and ran “come and join us, come and join us” to which we always responded “with a free cup of tea and a bun.” But I have to confess that this is all very hazy and it maybe that the band offered us the free cup of tea and the bun or maybe I just picked it up from some gentle dig at the Saly Army. I guess someone will correct me.

Either way it serves as an invite to the Glad to be in Chorlton Past and Present exhibition at the Big Green Festival tomorrow in St Clements’ Church on Edge Lane, and apologies to all those who live outside Chorlton.
We will be exploring what Chorlton was like in the 1850s and again at the beginning of the last century, and how it has changed. Peter will have some of his paintings on Beech Road on display and there will be photographs and stories by me of the road and its shops in the past. This in turn will provide a basis for a discussion on what we want for our community for the future.

And as part of this event we want you to enter the competition to win a a copy of my book* which will be out in the autumn with other prizes of Glad to be in Chorlton mugs by correctly identifying the picture detail from one of the paintings and one of the old photographs on display as well as telling us the shop which now trades on Beech Road from the location of what was Sunflowers.

Peter’s work is on display around Chorlton and can also be seen at https://www.facebook.com/paintingsfrompictures

Picture; © Peter Topping 2011 www.paintingsfrompictures.co.uk

*Chorlton-cum-Hardy A Society Transformed