Volunteers at Experience made a video about the project
Experience

had introductory class, just creating our first comments on a blog.

Today I met Tracey Annette, Residents Liaison Officer for New East Manchester.

David is a Smiths fan, I myself am a Smiths fan as well.

It’s Friday morning and I am at The Generation Project talking to Mandy and Saffron about the East Manchester Community Reporters Project.

Whenever I visit Ordsall Community Cafe the conversation usually turns to the Salford Lads Club, which is situated on Coronation Street just around the corner.

For me the club is famous as it featured on the inner sleeve of The Smiths “The Queen is Dead” album.

Photo: Stephen Wright / Redferns

The Smiths famously posed in front of Salford Lads Club for the inner sleeve of The Queen Is Dead; this is one of the other photos from that session. From left to right: Johnny Marr, Morrissey, Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce.

The club, and the back streets of Ordsall, were used as the setting for the video of The Smiths “Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before” which was due to be a single taken from the album “Strangeways Here We Come”.

However when plans to release the single were shelved a re-edited version appeared as the video for ” I Started Something I couldn’t Finish”.

David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party, is a “apparently” a fan of The Smiths and on a recent visit to Salford Lads Club visited the Smiths Room.

Another surprising note is that the club, along with the tagline “Some jobs are bigger than others” (a reference to the “Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others” track which appeared as the closing track on “The Queen Is Dead” album), was used as part of a recruitment campaign for private health care company BUPA.

I am working with 4CT in East Manchester to set up a blog for the Parktastic project.

You can find out more about the work of 4CT here.

A group of Deaf people from Bury have produced a short video about the problems faced by Deaf people using Metrolink services.

Whilst at a recent meeting of Arts About Manchester’s In Touch programme I heard about the film “Welcome 2 My Deaf World” which was shown at the Cornerhouse as part of an Australian Film season.

The film tackles the educational experiences of two Deaf young people, Scott and Bethany.

(It is worth noting that although the topic of the film is the experiences of Deaf young people only the words of the Deaf characters are subtitled. There are no subtitles, in this version, for the hearing characters.)

You can watch, and download the film, on the TeachersTV website: http://www.teachers.tv

As you may have seen in the local press, the planning application at Greenbank Fields was recently ‘pulled’ by the City Council. This is a victory for local campaigners.
The representative of the developers, Dappa Homes, is quoted in the South Manchester Reporter (25th October) as saying, ‘We discovered that there was such opposition to the plans that we have decided to withdraw them – we got the message.’
Taken From Friends of Levenshulme email update.