the Gemini Group were invited to the Lady Mayor’s parlour today , Frank Reid the Mayor’s right hand man talked about the history of Salford,and told us of the why and where of the different pieces of regalia, we had a lovely buffet ,took photo’s great afternoon very interesting,

march 27th cold a bit windy but a nice day out for Chalk history group to Jodrell Bank,then on to a farm for a lovely lunch,every body enjoyed the day

Friday night 20/3/09
a great night of music and dance, at St Sebastians Douglas Green .Salford.Mike Skeffington DJ with his wonderful selection of music, every one enjoyed themselves,the pie and peas was great the bar staff a friendly crew, look forward to next month for another lovely evening

Found this nice film on blip.tv. Hope you enjoy it!

Saturday Feb 14, a new gallery opened with Family photos of salford folk,what memories were stired up. the Street maps had people talking, remembering who lived where,new friendships were built that afternoon, Thanks to all who got it all together, well done

Betty Yardley was 90 on the 4th Feb 09, a lovely lady who served in the Wrens during the war years, so happy birthday Betty,

a good friend to many many people, and many people were invited to her party on Sat 7th, every one enjoyed themselves  the dancing and buffet  were great,thanks for the invite,Betty, already looking forward to next year’s party

A bank with NO money, what good is that? you may ask
And I will tell you, The best kind of bank,
Some body had a good idea of banking TIME
The members of this bank are there for one another,
With what skills have they to share, the time you give
By helping is given back to you by others helping you
To do the jobs you can’t manage yourself,
Everyone has a skill of some sort, even if it’s not manual
You could listen to a phone call, Read to someone, take the
dog for a walk, Baby sit, go on errands, all sorts of things normally
called favours, but in this bank its Deposits for Time, you can
Withdraw when you’re in need of someone’s time.

Link to Time bank Blog

An afternoon at the Lowry to see a band that took us down memory lane,the music was great, wished they had played more,I know the script was supposed to be funny but I could not hear all the wise cracks,the acting remineds me of school plays,they made it up with the music it was excellent,
a good afternoon

On the 15th Jan 09 there was a film about the last 100 years of Salford,it was shown to a full house at the Salford theatre on Liverpool St,
It was a collection of nine short films,
The first was of a charity parade made in 1901 people having fun in fancy dress
moving pictures was some thing new then, the quality of the filming was very good made by pioneering cameramen Mitchell and Kenyon,
another film about the A,R.P
air raid wardens, was a serious job at the time but it was comical to ,watch,
although it was Salford I did not recognise many places

Happy New Year every body.
our next meeting for chalk history is 30th January st Sebastian’s community centre Douglas Green Salford,