bernard leach

Based in Chorlton, Manchester. Post regular videos onto Youtube for chorlton good neighbours, Royal Exchange Elders & as a MyGen community reporter

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Roy is a regular at Chorlton Good Neighbours. He talks about working for Radio Rentals and how they recycled and refurbished everything. He still renovates old radios and has a large collection of them
https://t.co/cZqLPvnNES

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Rates of non-melanoma skin cancer are predicted to reach almost 400,000 per year by 2025 in the UK. This is about how it affected me and how I now wear sun protection (UPF50+) T shirts as one additional way of protecting myself from the sun's rays
https://t.co/G9erGub3wI

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Janet Wolff will be giving a talk about the Germans who made Manchester their home, on Tues 9 July 1.30[m

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VE Day 1945 Julie's poem 'Liberation ' is her tribute to the WW2 generation which she read at the Chorlton Good Neighbours WW2 VE day party in May 2024
https://t.co/vyXP389zDn

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A Celebration of the WW 2 Generation by Chorlton Good Neighbours Drama group held as part of Chorlton Arts Festival. It includes dlipsof two of CGNs war veterans, Mickie Mitchell & Bob Cowen. Original videos can be found on youtube: @Btleachmcr

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Reflections on VE day and Jolivia's poems

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It is over 40 years since the NHS infected blood scandal and the unnecessary death of thousands of (mainly) boys and young men began. The Infected Blood Inquiry, started in 2017 & has finally published its report today. https://t.co/gyiMtV9D0J

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Chorlton Good Neighbours D Day party to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Normandy Landings on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 – the largest seaborne invasion in history The party was held at Hough End Centre, Chorlton on Thurs May 18th 2024
https://t.co/rntiUato14

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In 2007 my first video on YouTube was this "how to make flapjacks" which as part of a series that Green Chorlton was doing on the theme of "Chorlton Eats" This is a remix of the original which has been viewed 18,600 times
https://t.co/2moJDJxRiW

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The Older Men's Gym started a year ago at the YSG Gym in Whalley Range, Manchester. It is still going strong, as are its members. Long may it remain so. It was set up as a partnership between Ashville Surgery Health Champions, MCRActive and YSG Gym.
https://t.co/K4UbxvC585

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Mike Brough, DJ-ing at las weeks Good Neighbours coffee morning

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Don't Spare the Rod" (1961) starred Max Bygraves and Donald Pleasance. It was about a supply teacher coming to a tough East End School and not wanting to use corporal punishment. corporal punishment was banned in state schools in England in 1987
https://t.co/Qs22Lc0IYc

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The NHS Infected Blood Inquiry, after 6 years is finally due to publish its final report in May 2024. This is the story of the victims and their families who hope for the truth about the many years disastrous decisions and the subsequent cover up
https://t.co/7RTlgkZ1fi

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Bob Cowan, born in Moss Side was 93 when I interviewed him in 2012. He talks about the sinking of HMS Mashona in1941. Later he was on Arctic Convoys, Malta convoys and passed through Hiroshima soon after the atom bomb was dropped
https://t.co/VY8CiAcGjw

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The new wave of large pop concert venues are enticing fans back in huge numbers by creating immersive hi-tech experiences.Meanwhile small venues from which future stars learn their trade, are closing down in large numbers
https://t.co/hL8HFPjLtO

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pour the milk before the tea? whatever next. Perhaps a dash of salt
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Fray Bentos steak and kidney pies. Ever tried one? Good luck!
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Marjorie Holmes lived in Chorlton all her life. I talked to her in April 201. Here she talks about her being brought up in Higson Road, her memories of the milkman's horse that always knew which house to stop at, and her war years in the RAF.
https://t.co/05AoHiSOiA

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The Doctors Who Conquered the Alps: Hunziker, Bayard & Eggenberger and the fight against Switzerland's Goitre Scourge. Yet the shame & desire to forget meant that the 3 country doctors who conquered this terrible disease have been forgotten by history
https://t.co/GE6c9F5AWd

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Chorlton Good Neighbours has a snooker session every Tuesday afternoon 2-3.30pm at SW Manchester Cricket Club all CGN members welcome https://t.co/1Y4dWlcNQ0