Ida Bradshaw Chorlton historian ...... and friend

There will be many in our community who were saddened at the news that Ida Bradshaw has died.

Ida

She always styled herself the "unofficial archivist of St Clements Church" and she was my friend. 

Her passion for Chorlton's history was infectious and l welcomed her regular phone calls about some "new find" that she had uncovered from her trawl of the church archives.

More that that l often benefited from one of her discoveries which in turn found themselves into a blog story.

And Ida was many other things.

I still have her folders of art and craft work recording not only her own output but pictures of exhibitions and group activities.

All of which kept her busy and sometimes it was difficult to pin her down to meet up as she mixed church business, trips to Central Ref, and visits to parishioners along with Saturday mornings at some craft event.

Her funeral will be at St Clements Church on Wednesday February 4th at 11 am

Picture; Ida Bradshaw, 2019, from the collection of Peter Topping