UK UFO Sightings

July 1st, 2008 No Comments   Posted in Paranormal

There appears to be an increase in the amount of UFO sightings in the UK.We thought it would be a good idea to keep a log of the most credible .

Do you believe in UFOs? Have you seen a UFO? Please feel free to leave a comment.

Date: 30th June 2008

Witness: Michael Madden

Age: 25

Occupation: Royal Navy Engineer

Location of sighting : Junction 21 M5 Motorway ,near Weston -super -Mare,Somerset

Witness Comment: I work with aircraft and grew up next to Manchester Airport so I know exactly what a plane looks and sounds like.

This was definitely not a plane,i t was a circular disc which was glowing bright, hovering hundreds of metres up.

Other people must have spotted it.It was unlike anything I’ve ever seen in my life.

What’s On In Wythenshawe

June 25th, 2008 No Comments   Posted in What's On

This is a list of the some of regular events that are on in the Wythenshawe Area. Please feel free to leave details of your upcoming event using the comments section. 

Every Monday

Over 50’s club
Brookway Community Sports Faciity
2.30-4.30pm
Loads of activities including bingo,table tennis,carpet bowls & table tennis

Every Tuesday 

Clothing Shop
Brwonley Green Methodist Church,Broadoak Road
Open Tuesday & Friday Mornings

Cheeky Monkeys Mums & Toddler Under 5’s Club
Royal Oak Community Centre
10.00-12.00am
Free Admission

Every Thursday

The Oak Tree Lunch Club
12.00-2.00 pm
Newall Baptist Church,Tuffley Road

Every Friday

Spiritual Healing Sessions
7.15-9.15 pm
Gatley Hill House,Church Road,Gatley
Healing by Donation

Brownley Green Mehodist Church,Broadoak Road
Clothing Shop Open Tuesday & Friday Mornings

Every Saturday

St Lukes Church
Brownley Road,Benchill
Vestry Hour
10.30-11.30am
All Welcome

Terry’s Memories of Wythenshawe I

June 3rd, 2008 No Comments   Posted in History

Terry’s Memories of Wythenshawe I

Ask anyone in their forties what they remember from their childhood and
I can bet that they will talk, pretty much, about the same things;… Tank tops,
flared trousers, split knee loons, snake belts, Oxford Bags, the Carpenters,
Man from Uncle, etc,etc,etc,…
Go forward a generation and you will get a different list; New Romantics,
Punk Music, Doc Marten Boots, drainpipe jeans, Starsky & Hutch, etc,etc,…
And so, with each generation, you will get a list that differs from the last. But you could get these same answers anywhere, from Lands` End to John O` Groats. From the early Fifties onwards we have been living in the age of mass media where people up and down the country, indeed across
most of the world, can have a shared experience.
But there must be something that is unique to Wythenshawe.
Perhaps we were all wearing the same penny round shirts, drinking the same illicit Party Fours or Party Sevens that sprayed half their contents on those gathered around expectantly; We may all have watched the same episode of
“The Beverly Hillbillies” ( remember how the street emptied when someone shouted that it was on ?), we may all have swapped the same Man From Uncle chewing gum cards, but,………and please don`t ask me to define this,…………
somehow there must be a difference between a housing estate in Manchester and a housing estate in London or Edinburgh.
I am hoping that, by the simple act of writing my recollections, someone, somewhere, will either provide the answer or at least point me in the right direction. Until they do I will inundate this website with my memories of the
place. If you don`t believe me,……keep watching 
…………………

Please feel free to post a comment or share your memories of Wythenshawe using the box below

Paranormal Activity in Wythenshawe

May 29th, 2008 1 Comment   Posted in Paranormal

Steve Mera of Manchester’s Association of Paranormal Investigators(MAPIT) and Training has kindly provided Wythenshawe365 with the following summary of some of the paranoral activity in Wythenshawe. There’s been a number of investigation and occurances in Wythenshawe over the last 30 years.
In 1980 there was a large circular object seen hovering over Wythenshawe Park. Seen by at least 12 witnesses outside the Royal Oak Public House which is now a McDonalds. The sighting was only as short as two
minutes but all witnesses reported the same object.
There have been numerous reports of paranormal phenomena. Wythenshawe Park has had its main share of them with Phantom white ladies seen at the window of the Hall and outside the Hall at nioght carrying a lantern of some sort. Monks have regularly been seen
in the grounds of the hall and occasionally the strange sound of gunfire and battle scenes.
A few houses around the Wythenshawe estate have also been associated with paranormal experiences. Apart from Baguley Hall, which derives its name from the Bigalow Baguley family from the U.S. Several council house tenants have reported phenomena. One such families disturbances were investigated in 1996 after reporting their problems to the local coucil office. They later were moved to another home. At the time they blamed a
kitchen fire on the disturbances. Strange hand marks were appearing on the ceilings in the home. More recently there have been reported phenomena taking place in a warehouse in Sharston, Wythenshawe. We are currently monitoring it. A house on Gib lane which has recently been sold due to the family not wanting to stay in because of the disturbances was documented.Childrens toys moving of their own accord and other
items around the house was often found disturbed from their normal resting place. The family quickly vacated.

 

Brief History of Wythenshawe Hall

May 29th, 2008 1 Comment   Posted in History

Wythenshawe Hall

The original Hall was built around 1540 by Robert Tatton, possibly on the site of an earlier medieval building. Fourteen generations of the Tatton family lived at the hall until 1926 before the estate was sold to provide new housing for the people of Manchester.

Probably the most notable incident in the Hall’s history came during the English Civil War of 1642-49 when it was beseiged by Cromwell’s troops. Royalist Robert Tatton defended his home for over three months during the winter of 1643-44, with the help of more than fifty servants, tenants and neighbours. Six of the defenders were killed and it was only the arrival of two cannons from Manchester that finally forced his surrender.