What’s On In Wythenshawe
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
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
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.