“My hope is that this work will give more and more of our young people a pride in their heritage and that deeper sense of belonging that flows from learning about the origins of one's own community."

Taken from the Introduction to ‘Wythenshawe - The Story of a Garden City’. Foreword by The Rt. Hon. Alfred Morris. M.A. (Oxon.). Member of Parliament for Wythenshawe and Vice-President of the Northenden Civic Society. 1989.

'If you wish to know the future, you must first study the past'