Lost Images of Whalley Range number 9 ....... the wedding reception at the Whalley Hotel

Now I couldn’t resist using this receipt for the wedding reception of Mr and Mars Sherratt which was posted recently on facebook by their daughter who has given me permission to reproduce it.

It is dated 1953 and is one of those wonderful little bits of history which are so often lost.

And reminds me of an earlier story about the Whalley Hotel from almost the same period.

Just two years earlier the Manchester City News carried the story of “Wally of the Whalley Says Goodbye.”

Mr Wally Summer and his wife Ethel had run the pub for four years and were leaving Manchester for Anglesey, where they were to take over the Anglesey Arms.

“It's going to be a wrench leaving” he told the City News, “we’ve made hundreds of friends since we came to Brooks’ Bar.  I’ve been amazed at the number of people who have come up to wish us luck.”*

The Anglesey Arms is still there just at the edge of the Menai Bridge.

But sadly the Whalley has closed its doors for good so the receipt and the story are a little of its history.

With a bit of digging I may be able to discover if Mr Bowden had succeeded Mr Summers but that is for another time.

Picture; from the collection of Jayne Sherratt Bailey

*Manchester City News November 16, 1951

“Wally of the Whalley” Says Goodbye ......... stories of the Whalley Hotel

“Wally of the Whalley” Says Goodbye

It is one of those headlines that you just can’t miss.

“Wally of the Whalley” Says Goodbye appeared in the Manchester City News for November 16th 1951 and featured Mr and Mrs Summer who had run the Whalley Hotel for four years.

Mr Wally Summer and his wife Ethel were leaving Manchester for Anglesey, where they were to take over the Anglesey Arms.

“It's going to be a wrench leaving” he told the City News, “we’ve made hundreds of friends since we came to Brooks’ Bar.  I’ve been amazed at the number of people who have come up to wish us luck.”*

The Anglesey Arms is still there just at the edge of the Menai Bridge.

Now in the fullness of time I would like to find out more about Mr and Mrs Summer.

Painting; The Whalley Hotel,  © 2013 Peter Topping, Paintings from Pictures,
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*Manchester City News November 16, 1951

Letters home from school ....... nu 2 come and join us

Now I can't remember just how the Education Department told us that our four had a place at Oakwood/Chorlton High School and I certainly have no record of the confirmation that I was to attend Samuel Pepys Secondary Modern School.

But this is how Manchester did it in 1954.

It is another of the documents that my friend Ann has passed over to e.

She began at Whalley Range High School for Girls in the September of 1954 and here is her letter of confirmation.

What I find fascinating is that her parents were invited down to the Education Offices on Deansgate to sign the "agreement to keep your son/daughter in attendance at the school until the end of the school year in which he/she reaches the age of 16."

Seven years later when it was my turn I assume we signed a bit of paper but essentially it was just a matter of me leaving Edmund Waller school in the summer and presenting myself with 240 young hopefuls in their brand new uniformsSeptember of 1961 at the school gates.

Location; Manchester, London

Picture; admission letter to Whalley Range High School, 1954, from the collection of Ann Love