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READER MESSAGES LATE JUNE From: "tomoko nakamura" <tomoko.n@m3.people.or.jp> Hello Aidan, I had been living in Manchester from May '97 to July '98. I do really like there. People who's getting my friends are very kind and sometimes to be too much friendly. I really like them because they always are honest basically.It's not only great thing but also quite rare, I suppose. I'm living and working in Tokyo at the moment. Here is too much busy always and somebody who's in here don't care of anything without their business. So, your sensitive and kindly pictures and writings reminds me of Manchester as lovely, cheeky and lively (everytime-something-happen! ) town whenever I visit your pages.
At the same time, your pages drives me up to there right now---. Anyway, I WILL come up to Manchester ASAP. Before that, I'm keeping in touch with your site. Thank you for your reading this poor English note. Please to see your pages and see you again. Keeping up your good health and good work. Tomoko P.S. I used to go to cafe in Manchester as well as central library (your last report's gave me a great impression and I got remembered several memories in there) . For example, Night and Day , cafe pop(oldham street), sand bar(near Berkley Bank on a corner of oxford road), 60/40, jazz cafe(withington), and so on. In that places' atmosphere was always relax and comfortable(and of course there are not too expensive!) So, I'll be happy if you could report these cafe near future. Cafe is the place of bringing up a kind of culture, in my opinion. Thank you very much for your message - Your right, "cafe-bar culture" is very important. Here's a picture of Night and Day from my Oldham Street walking tour. Envelope-to: aidan@anamaria.u-net.com I hve just read your latest from Sale an area which I am not very familiar with but thanks to you my knowledge of the Greater Manchester area is growing. As lad I grew up in an area what now is known as East Manchester and I think most people who grew up in the late fifties and sixties did not get the chance to find out much about their surrounding areas, although from reading the many letters to EWM a good many managed to travel far and wide to many different lands. Any way glad to hear that the sun has managed to make an appearence and that the weather is hot for a change. Personally after living in the southern hemisphere for so long I can't seem to feel warm until the temperature is in the low twenties, it can not be too hot for my liking, I have this theory that when it is hot you can always find a cool beer garden somewhere but when it is cold you can never find enough pullovers to put on.
You certanly get about on your travels I did not expect to see a photo of the railway arches in Philips Park, I think I told you I was brought up in the vicinity of the park and the Gasworks on Forge Lane not far from Richard Johnsons and the Pit, any way i have fond memories of those arches as when I was younger I had the opportunity to as we used to say" do a bit of courting " underneath those very arches and I dont think that I would have been the only one. One thing which is not to be meant as a critiscism but i believe that Philips Park is in Bradford unless the boundaries have been changed since I have been away. I have many fond memories of the Park as it used to be very popular when I was a lad I can remember people coming from miles around in the summer, the boating lake used to be crowded whith kids queing for hours to get a turn on the row boats, Ii think the cost was sixpence an hour, at the time I was growing up the park had Tennis courts, a bowling green, a playground where punch and Judy shows were held, and in the Autumn a grand Tulip Display in the lower gardens, to this very day my favourite flower is the yellow Tulip no doubt due to that influence. There was also a building known to us locals as the MONKEY HOUSE I dont know why i think it could have been used by "courting couples " much the same as the railway arches were, by the way as i recall Maynes bus company had a garage on the other side of those arches and they were still there when i was back for a holiday in 91/92, also where the Velodrome is used to be the Sturt Steet Power Station, one other thing about the park that i remember were the PARKIES, i think that they were returned solders given the job of what would be called Park Rangers these days they did a good job thinking back but as I youngster they were definetely regarded as the enemy . Well won't ramble on any longer just in finishing Ihave heard that the school I went to St John the Evangilist in Higher Openshaw is closing down. If any of your readers have information about it Iwould be pleased to here from them the school was only opened in the eary sixties and therefore not all that old. Regards Bill Mc Thanks - it's amazing what one photo can elicit! |
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