Welcome back …… Chorlton’s own community newspaper

Now everywhere should have its own community newspaper.

Chorlton Post, 2022

And so, after a short break we have one again and I am so pleased. 

The arrival of the first issue of Chorlton Post through the letter box took me by surprise and I have already become a fan.*

It has all you could want, ranging from reports, about people and events, as well as book reviews, a wine column, help with gardening, along with “Green Chorlton News” and a certain regular history series.

Added to which it is always nice to see a piece from Jeff Smith our local MP.

Historically Chorlton Post is in a long line of newspapers which have served the community from the South Manchester Gazette, The Chorlton and Wilbrahamton News, The Chorlton Journal as well as the Stretford and Chorlton Journal.**

Chorlton and Wilbrahampton News, 1936

And my own favourite the alternative Chorlton Green which ran from January 1984 till sometime in May 1986, which announced in its first editorial, “Let 1984 come alive with Chorlton Green....Chorlton Green is a community newspaper and offers Chorlton the voice it’s never had before – in personal opinion, in creative work and as an information exchange”.

Chorlton Green, 1986

For over a decade we had Community Index which morphed in to Open Up, and I had high hopes that the company that purchased it would retain its format. 

But things change and its successor has an editorial policy of concentrating on offering up details of local businesses, and space could not be guaranteed for tales of how we lived in the past here in Chorlton.

Open Up, 2018

So Chorlton Post has brought community news back into our homes.

Location; Chorlton

Pictures; Chorlton Post Issue 3 November 2022, Open Up, July/August 2018, The Chorlton and Wilbrahamton News, July 16th, 1937, from the collection of Maggie Watson, Open Up, July/August, 2018 

 *Chorlton Post, www.chorltonpost.co.uk

**All that’s fit to print ....... reading Chorlton’s news over the last 150 years, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/2018/06/all-thats-fit-to-print-reading.html