VOX POPPING IN WYTHENSHAWE CIVIC CENTRE YESTERDAY

Vox pop on the meaning of heritage.  Met so many lovely people passionate about history and heritage. A big thank you to John McCormack for filming and lightening-fast post-production.

BUXTON LIBRARY

Off to Buxton library today to finalise the second draft of my book. Probably unmarketable but it's been fun to write all the same.   Wish me luck!

MP MIKE KANE LENDS HIS SUPPORT TO OUR HISTORIES' DAY

MANCHESTER HISTORY FESTIVAL 6th June 2016

The Wythenshawe History Group is  holding an all-day event at Wythenshawe Library on the 6th June - details below.  If you are in the area (or country) or know people who are interested in local history and would like to come along and support it, please pass these details on.   

The Group (I am its Chair) is attending Manchester Town Hall on the 11th June where we have a stall and will be running presentations and displaying some of the artefacts we have in our collection, some dating back from the seventeenth century.  It would be great to see you on either (or both!) of these days.  Many thanks,  Stephen.

                      

INVITATION

As part of Manchester Histories Festival, the Wythenshawe History Group would like to invite you all to attend our Local History event at the

 Forum Library, Forum Square, Wythenshawe M22 5RX

on 6^th June between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

We will be in the Reference Library, first floor,

Conference Room (classroom) 1.

There will be people at hand to discuss all aspects of Wythenshawe’s history together with resources and artefacts to help you explore the origins of the ‘Garden City’ estate. There will also be presentations and displays about the beginnings of modern Wythenshawe. 

Refreshments will be available.

Please tell everyone you know about the event.

Everyone is welcome and we look forward to meeting you all.

The Wythenshawe History Group

ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON WITH HAT

  Always like photographs of  the former Poet Laureate with a hat.  Was he ever at his most sensual and erotic in the poem (sonnet) below?


Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Now the White
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;
Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;
Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry* font:
The fire-fly wakens: waken thou with me.

Now droops the milk-white peacock like a ghost,
And like a ghost she glimmers on to me.

Now lies the Earth all Danaë  to the stars,
And all thy heart lies open unto me.

Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves
A shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me.

Now folds the lily all her sweetness up,
And slips into the bosom of the lake:
So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip
Into my bosom and be lost in me.

No Second Troy

No Second Troy

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BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Why should I blame her that she filled my days 

With misery, or that she would of late 

Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways, 

Or hurled the little streets upon the great, 

Had they but courage equal to desire? 

What could have made her peaceful with a mind 

That nobleness made simple as a fire, 

With beauty like a tightened bow, a kind 

That is not natural in an age like this, 

Being high and solitary and most stern? 

Why, what could she have done, being what she is? 

Was there another Troy for her to burn?