It's the silly story that unites an actress, a gift shop and our house here in Chorlton.
The actress was Marilyn Monroe, the gift shop was the Flying Machine on Wilbraham Road and the house was on Beech Road.
To be more accurate Marilyn was a cardboard folding cut out of the American actress which l bought on impulse sometime around 1979.
The Flying Machine was a wonderful cornucopia of odd things none of which were too expensive but most of them the sort of silly items which made you feel good.
I remember it being very crowded and always smelt of incense.
Ms. Munroe got to know the house, having once sat on an armchair in the front room and then by degree occupied the dinning room and the study before the ravages of time and the family dog consigned her to the cellar and eventually the bin.
Location; Beech Road,
Picture; Ms. Munroe visits Chorlton, 1979, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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