Now long after the prints have been damaged or worse still lost, there are always the negatives.
Of course most of the time, these are consigned to the back of a cupboard.
And so it was with a collection I took in the mid 1980s on the streets off Cheetham Hill Road.
They were part of a research project on the Jewish Community and sadly the pictures and the notes have long gone, but the negatives have survived.
Not so the Club which was on the corner of Empire Street and Wooley Street.
I don’t know when the building was demolished but it has been replaced by a warehouse and factory.
The club was formed in 1886 and it was here in “November 1895 a meeting was convened at the Manchester Jewish Workingmen's Club to consider ways and means to alleviate suffering in the Jewish community. The creation of the Manchester Jewish Soup Kitchen in 1896 was the
result of this meeting.
In December 1906 a building in Southall Street was completed, with a purpose built dining hall.
The meals consisted of soup containing meat and vegetables, together with bread.
Mrs Dolly Phillips (1903-) and her husband, Harry, were at the forefront of the organisation. Mrs Dolly Phillips first became involved in the Soup Kitchen in 1920 at the age of 17. As Honarary Secretary she introduced the meals on wheels service in 1942.
The building on Southall Street was sold and the kitchen of the Manchester Jews Benevolent Society was used. In 1978 the service moved to Holy Law Synagogue in Rita Glickman House, Prestwich. In 1997 they had about 200 clients”.*
Location; Manchester
Pictures; the the Jewish Working Men’s Club and Soup Kitchen, 1986, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
* Records of the Manchester Jewish Community, 2015, Manchester Central Library, www.manchester.gov.uk/download/.../id/.../jewish_community_archives_guide.pdf
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| Manchester Jewish Working Men's Club, Empire Street, 1986 |
And so it was with a collection I took in the mid 1980s on the streets off Cheetham Hill Road.
They were part of a research project on the Jewish Community and sadly the pictures and the notes have long gone, but the negatives have survived.
Not so the Club which was on the corner of Empire Street and Wooley Street.
I don’t know when the building was demolished but it has been replaced by a warehouse and factory.
The club was formed in 1886 and it was here in “November 1895 a meeting was convened at the Manchester Jewish Workingmen's Club to consider ways and means to alleviate suffering in the Jewish community. The creation of the Manchester Jewish Soup Kitchen in 1896 was the
result of this meeting.
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| The Manchester Jewish Soup Kitchen, Southall Street, 1986 |
The meals consisted of soup containing meat and vegetables, together with bread.
Mrs Dolly Phillips (1903-) and her husband, Harry, were at the forefront of the organisation. Mrs Dolly Phillips first became involved in the Soup Kitchen in 1920 at the age of 17. As Honarary Secretary she introduced the meals on wheels service in 1942.
The building on Southall Street was sold and the kitchen of the Manchester Jews Benevolent Society was used. In 1978 the service moved to Holy Law Synagogue in Rita Glickman House, Prestwich. In 1997 they had about 200 clients”.*
Location; Manchester
Pictures; the the Jewish Working Men’s Club and Soup Kitchen, 1986, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
* Records of the Manchester Jewish Community, 2015, Manchester Central Library, www.manchester.gov.uk/download/.../id/.../jewish_community_archives_guide.pdf
I'm not too sure about it, but, I seem to remember as a child, going there for school dinners in 1940s/ 50s!
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