All you ever wanted to know about Chorlton and Christmas but never knew you who to ask ...... booked for two nights at the Post Box Cafe

Well it began as a Christmas Talk and was so popular we have decided to run a second night.

This is the Christmas talk at the Post Box Cafe.  The first will be on Thursday December 12th at 7.30 pm.

Originally it was for just one night and was strictly about Christmas and Chorlton but ever one to present new and exciting opportunities there will be much more.

We will start with Christmas but in an effort to make sure the big day is not compromised before it happens; we are looking forward to some of the other festivals and holidays that you could have enjoyed as the year played out sometime in the 19th century.

Nor is that all because I have asked my old friend Mike Billington to come along and sing some traditional songs associated with the different seasons.

So there you have it, some Christmas stories and songs along with a little bit more featuring everything from Easter, Pace Egging, bull and badger baiting, and Harvest time, it’s just got the lot.

Tickets include the usual excellent pretalk dinner at 6 pm and the talk at 7.30.

Now I know the first night on December 12th is all but booked up so we will be running it again the following night on the 13th.

Yes I know that's Friday 13th but superstitions do have to be challenged or at least revisited.

And so to our seasonal postcard.

We are looking up Beech Road, towards Barlow Moor Road.  Away in the distance and now hidden by shops and a fast food outlet is the house Lime Bank.

To our right on the corner of what is now Beaumont Road is the farm behind the hedge, and jutting out on our left are the set of cottages which were only demolished in the early years of the 20th century.

And for anyone really keen on touching our history, I shall just say that if you look closely something of that old history is still there.

That said the card is really a bit of a fraud, for while it says a Christmas greeting from Beech Road you could have bought it at any time during the year minus the seasonal greeting.

Card manufacturers were ruthlessly commercially orientated and this particular image had been sold  all the year round from the beginning of the last century.  So what you got for Christmas was just a cheap seasonal addition.

Now that is not what we have in mind, but if you want to know more you will have to come along.

Picture; from the collection of Rita Bishop

* All you ever wanted to know about Chorlton & Christmas but never knew who to ask and a little bit more, Post Box Cafe, 7.30,  881 4853, www.thepostboxchorlton.co.uk