Now I am looking forward to Manchester Retold ......A City’s Journey Through History, which is a special evening of readings and book signings with local authors, hosted by the History Press at Central Ref.*
As the title implies this will be an opportunity to sink deep into our collective history with Graham Phythian, Joanne Williams, Michala Hulme, Sheila Brady, Michael Billington, and me.
The subjects covered by the six historians include Manchester during two world wars, the darker side of the city’s past, the history of Urmston, Flixton and Davyhulme, and the contribution of the residents of Chapel Street in Altrincham to the Great War.
And it is of the Great War that I want to write about today.
Shelia Brady has written a comprehensive and moving account of the impact of the war on just one street.
This was Chapel Street, which was “was a row of old Georgian terraced lodging houses in Altrincham, home to some 400 Irish, English, Welsh and Italian lodgers.
From this tight-knit community of just sixty houses, 161 men volunteered for the First World War.
They fought in all the campaigns of the war, with twenty-nine men killed in action and twenty dying from injuries soon after the war; more men were lost in action from Chapel Street than any other street in England. As a result, King George V called Chapel Street ‘the Bravest Little Street in England’”.**
And as we will be in Central Ref in the heart of Manchester it seems only obvious to mention the last book and author, which is Manchester Remembering 1914-18 which is my book.
Manchester Remembering 1914-18 draws on official reports and newspaper accounts as well as letters and photographs and a multitude of other personal items.
Much of this material has never been seen before and some of it is unique in that it allows us to follow families through the whole conflict challenging many of those easy and preconceived views of the war.
So here is the story of George and Nellie Davison of Harpurhey and Hulme, Miss Rebecca Chapman’s first week as a Salford tram clippie, Mrs Fannie Jane Barlow’s, a Red Cross nurse from Chorlton and others from Newton Heath, Didsbury and Fallowfield.
And many of the items in the book have been supplied from collection owned by David Harrop who is displaying some of that collection upstairs on the first floor of the Library. The exhibition is called in Flander’s Fields and will run till the end of November.
All of which just leaves me to say that Manchester Retold will take place in the Performance Space of Central Ref, and is free ...... but with only 108 places you are advised to follow the link and book soon.*
* Manchester Retold, https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manchester-retold-a-citys-journey-through-history-tickets-51397657778?aff=ebdssbdestsearch#
** Chapel Street, Shelia Brady, 2017, £16.00
***Manchester Remembering 1914-18, Andrew Simpson, 2017 £12.99
The subjects covered by the six historians include Manchester during two world wars, the darker side of the city’s past, the history of Urmston, Flixton and Davyhulme, and the contribution of the residents of Chapel Street in Altrincham to the Great War.
And it is of the Great War that I want to write about today.
Shelia Brady has written a comprehensive and moving account of the impact of the war on just one street.
This was Chapel Street, which was “was a row of old Georgian terraced lodging houses in Altrincham, home to some 400 Irish, English, Welsh and Italian lodgers.
They fought in all the campaigns of the war, with twenty-nine men killed in action and twenty dying from injuries soon after the war; more men were lost in action from Chapel Street than any other street in England. As a result, King George V called Chapel Street ‘the Bravest Little Street in England’”.**
And as we will be in Central Ref in the heart of Manchester it seems only obvious to mention the last book and author, which is Manchester Remembering 1914-18 which is my book.
Manchester Remembering 1914-18 draws on official reports and newspaper accounts as well as letters and photographs and a multitude of other personal items.
So here is the story of George and Nellie Davison of Harpurhey and Hulme, Miss Rebecca Chapman’s first week as a Salford tram clippie, Mrs Fannie Jane Barlow’s, a Red Cross nurse from Chorlton and others from Newton Heath, Didsbury and Fallowfield.
And many of the items in the book have been supplied from collection owned by David Harrop who is displaying some of that collection upstairs on the first floor of the Library. The exhibition is called in Flander’s Fields and will run till the end of November.
All of which just leaves me to say that Manchester Retold will take place in the Performance Space of Central Ref, and is free ...... but with only 108 places you are advised to follow the link and book soon.*
* Manchester Retold, https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manchester-retold-a-citys-journey-through-history-tickets-51397657778?aff=ebdssbdestsearch#
** Chapel Street, Shelia Brady, 2017, £16.00
***Manchester Remembering 1914-18, Andrew Simpson, 2017 £12.99
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