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Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1997 16:55:33 -0800 Subject: B/W Photo of Bridgewater Canal behind GMEX I loved this photograph You've done with Manchester what Ansell Adams did with Yosemite. You have a rare skill! Ian
Thanks & lots of festive cheer, Hannah. Here you are: From: "JAMES CUNNINGHAM" jcunny53@hotmail.com First off let me say thanks a million for keeping all of us far flung
Mancunians up to date and in the picture, I`ve followed "Eyewitness"
almost since the first issue came out and the quality of both the words
and pictures are way above anything else connected with the big M currently
on the net. Just one thing is missing, born in Ancoats, I was pleased to see you
have covered parts of the area with your trusty camera,but what about
next door! Miles Platting! home of the brave (my mother and the rest
of the family have lived there for over 20 years, which in my book makes
them very brave). Not one picture in all of the "image collection",
Tell me this is a mistake soon to be corrected and I will sing your
praises from the mountain tops of Sweden. keep well, keep on Here you are: From: David Boardman db@mail.espbed.edu.on.ca I just finished watching "Reckless" the movie with Robson Green and Michael Kitchen and made by Granada. I was enjoying the glimpses of the city that even after so many years is so familiar and so much part of me. Then I came up here and read the story of the brick throwers on the bridge. I suppose that's the essence of Manchester - a wonderful idea - a magnificent spirit and at the same time ugly, scruffy and at times ruthless. Thanks once again for some great copy and brilliant pictures. Oh, and thank you for settling a family argument. I recently found an old school friend who now lives in Blackley which my wife of Saskatchewan origin wants to call Black-lee, thank you for confirming that it is indeed Blake-lee. Cheers Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 19:08:57 +0100 Hello Aidan, just a line or two of congratulations on a great set of
pages....the old pics of M/c are especially interesting. I have an old
photograph of the original unveiling of one of the statues (not sure
which), with assembled local civic dignitaries of the time, one of whom
is my great-grandfather, the then Chief of Police for Central Manchester.
If you like, I will scan it and Email to you to use as you wish. Please
let me know if this is ok. Cheers, Hi Aidan...sorry its been so long, been busy! A word of thanks to you...I
have made contact with a cousin I never knew thru your site. She found
the Statue pics, and contacted me by Email. We are currently compiling
a family tree, and she has unearthed many news reports of the 1890s,
including a big Police scandal involving a Superintendant and a Brothel!!
Its fascinating reading. Meantime, have a look at the pics I have uploaded
to:-
From: "Howard Pheby" hpheby@hotmail.com Aidan From: "Howard Pheby" hpheby@hotmail.com I married a New Zealander who's mother is Maori and father is from
Hollinwood! What a combination. We have three children now I manage
a division of a Pacific Islands based computer company and cover Australia,
Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Samoa, Tonga, Cook Islands and Solomon
Islands. Pretty full on travel wise but it has been As the internet is prominent even in these places, it is great to get
on and see what is happening in Manchester, which will always be home.
You may not know it but you have a silent but enthusiastic following
in the Pacific Island. I know people in Fiji, the Papua New Guinea highlands
and the beaches of Vanuatu who have "Aidan's Photos" of their
favourite or local haunts from home as their I'm glad your wife likes Manchester. It must get difficult weather
wise at this time of year. I remember taking Tina (my wife) back to
Manchester for the first time for Christmas. She couldn't believe how
dark it was. Getting light late and dark early and never really having
full sun. I comforted her by telling her we make up for it in the summer.
Her father tells her about the "cotton weather" and how if
we didn't have the climate we had, we would never have had the cotton
industry and how we should be thankful for the weather (I am a firm
supporter of Manchester, but I've never heard anyone say THAT before). Anyway, I was thinking about Manchester and all the rain you have had
recently as we were experiencing 36 degrees (C not F!) on the weekend.Thanks
for taking time to put your newsletter together. It is a great read
and very refreshing to see someone so into and so postive about Kind regards Envelope-to: aidan@anamaria.u-net.com I am really pleased to get a reply from you, I didnt expect one from you I know you are really busy. I live in the Washington DC area, not to far from the( Clintons). I left Manchester in 1958. I was born in an air raid shelter in Miles Platting, our house got bombed out soon after I was born. Then we moved to Alburn St, Miles Platting, I know the house I grew up in no longer exsists, it was right accross the street from St Lukes Church, later my Mother moved to Blackley after I married a (Yank) and moved to the USA, I understand Miles Platting is a regular war zone these days but if you are ever in that area I would love to see what it looks like now, perhaps a picture yes......I correspond with lots of ex-Mancunians by Email in the states many of them have your website as a link to their web pages. You have a big following here, E mail back on forth about what pictures O'Rourke has this week, and do you remember this or that we love it , Thanks again Mavis Thornton Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:54:50 -0800 (PST) Anyway, I like your column a lot, it helps me keep in touch with a
city I have grown to love. I am returning for 6 months starting January
when I can get a blue card through BUNAC so I can work. p.s. maybe you can help me find a job!
Thanks, nice to know people are accessing Eyewitness in Manchester
from as far away as... Didsbury! And finally... just about the only negative e-mail message I have ever received - I think in response to this picture:
As a Middleton lad living in San Diego California I foynd your Eyewitness
Manchester brought back many memories. The sight of that dismal dirty
city as compared to the view out of my office window of beautiful San
Diego Bay confirmed my reasons for leaving Manchester in the first place. David A. Reeves
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