Now here is a festive treat ...... Tony's Chorlton-cum-Hardy Christmas Quiz, answers tomorrow.
1) What was the surname of the 2 brothers charged with the murder of P.C. Cock in 1876?
2) Which football league club was the young footballer, Peter Mee playing for at the time of his tragic drowning in the river Mersey near Jackson’s Boat in, November, 1923?
3) Whilst on the subject of football who was George Best’s landlady, while he was living in the area in the l960’s /early 1970’s?
4) Which curate at St. Clement’s church committed suicide at his lodgings on Stockton Road? Ans. Roland Joseph Blain –he took an overdose of Laudanum
5) What year did McDonalds restaurant on Barlow Moor Road open?
6) Which family was virtually wiped out by the bomb that also destroyed the old Chorlton-cum-Hardy Post Office in the “Christmas Blitz” of, 1940?
7) Which surname links the history of Chorlton Good Neighbours with the old off-license on St Anne’s Road?
8) Who was the parish priest of “Our Lady and Saint John’s” during the Second World War who had been awarded an M. C. in the First?
9) Which saint was the original Roman Catholic Church on the High Lane/Chequers (ex-Church) Road corner dedicated to?
10) Which soldier on the Manchester Road Methodist’s War Memorial has a double entry?
11) Which member of the Royal Family visited Cundiff Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy on the 24th October, 1969?
12) Many sons of Chorlton-cum-Hardy and Whalley range were killed on 20th July, 1916 whilst serving on the Somme as part of a “Public Schools and University’s “battalion attached to which regiment?
© Tony Goulding 2016
Lccation; Chorlton-cum-Hardy
Picture; Barlow Moor Road, At corner of Cranbourne Road, 1908, J Jackson, m17443, courtesy of Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives, Manchester City Council, http://images.manchester.gov.uk/index.php?session=pass
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2) Which football league club was the young footballer, Peter Mee playing for at the time of his tragic drowning in the river Mersey near Jackson’s Boat in, November, 1923?
3) Whilst on the subject of football who was George Best’s landlady, while he was living in the area in the l960’s /early 1970’s?
4) Which curate at St. Clement’s church committed suicide at his lodgings on Stockton Road? Ans. Roland Joseph Blain –he took an overdose of Laudanum
5) What year did McDonalds restaurant on Barlow Moor Road open?
6) Which family was virtually wiped out by the bomb that also destroyed the old Chorlton-cum-Hardy Post Office in the “Christmas Blitz” of, 1940?
7) Which surname links the history of Chorlton Good Neighbours with the old off-license on St Anne’s Road?
8) Who was the parish priest of “Our Lady and Saint John’s” during the Second World War who had been awarded an M. C. in the First?
9) Which saint was the original Roman Catholic Church on the High Lane/Chequers (ex-Church) Road corner dedicated to?
10) Which soldier on the Manchester Road Methodist’s War Memorial has a double entry?
11) Which member of the Royal Family visited Cundiff Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy on the 24th October, 1969?
12) Many sons of Chorlton-cum-Hardy and Whalley range were killed on 20th July, 1916 whilst serving on the Somme as part of a “Public Schools and University’s “battalion attached to which regiment?
© Tony Goulding 2016
Lccation; Chorlton-cum-Hardy
Picture; Barlow Moor Road, At corner of Cranbourne Road, 1908, J Jackson, m17443, courtesy of Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives, Manchester City Council, http://images.manchester.gov.uk/index.php?session=pass
Enjoyed reading about Chorlton cum Hardy!
ReplyDeleteI was born there and lived there until 1974.
Used to be a friend of Malc Brownhill! Bird watched on the site of Withington Sewerage Works for many years!
Fond memories!
Q11, I can't remember which of the royals it was but I was there standing outside my dads garage on the corner of Cundiff rd, I was 9 yrs old.
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