I love to read tales of happenings in my old home town
I LIVED in Stockport for the first 50 years of my life.
Since moving away, I have subscribed to the Stockport Express to keep me in touch with events (etc) that are happening in Stockport.
In a recent edition, you were covering the marriages that have taken place at St Mary’s Church.
I recognised the photo of Mortimus Roy Jones and remember him telling me how he came to choose his stage name of Steve Russell.
I lived in Buckingham Street and worked for many years at the chemist shop on the corner of Buckingham Street and Bramhall Lane, Mellor/ Hirst.
A few years ago, I wrote to the Express when a photo of VE Day was published of the residents of Cambridge Street, Russell Street, Windsor Street, Buckingham Street and Ernest Street.
As a result of this letter, I received letters from several people I grew up with, namely Peter Hornby, Jean Stanway, Peter Johnson, Joyce McCardle, Sheila Francis and An Scott.
So thank you to the Stockport Express in conjunction with the Heritage Society for keeping alive the memories of bygone days of Stockport.
If anyone who remembers me would like to take the time to write to me, I would love to hear from you. Sybil Marshall nee Webb Lincoln
DOCS SHOULD STOP OPS
IT’S obvious that other doctors did try to put a stop to Dr Ian Patterson performing unnecessary operations but why couldn’t they insist the same as any other profession?
For example, the case where a train driver was drunk and the station staff held him back until the station police were brought. They weren’t going to let him take that train out.
But is it progress that at least these other doctors were allowed to suggest that maybe another doctor could do something wrong? Is the day on the way when the lord of the manor can do some wrong? Ann Priestner Stockport
A CALL FOR REVOLUTION?
JUST a week after the general election we saw John McDonnell calling on the unions to create a revolution and bring a million people onto the streets and march on London to oust the government in the wake of the recent bombings and fire etc, in fact it was just days after that awful fire.
If you voted Labour at the election this is what you voted for. Unions running the country, strikes, disruption, uncertainty, job losses, the evidence is there with his call for disruption on July 1.
The people of this country should be getting together to make the country work not getting together calling for disruption.
What this man has done is called for a revolution to get them in power proving they only care about them and not you, me or the country.
Do you really want to go on strike with no pay for weeks? Do you really want to live hand to mouth with no food or heating?
Read between the lines and that’s what you voted for. Ask yourself how small firms could afford £10 per hour and survive and remember as wages go up so do prices to pay for it. Sara Moor Shaw Heath