15th May 2015

I went to the Plaza to see ‘The Bradshaws’.  It wasn’t until 2009 on returning to the North West that I first heard them on Tameside Radio.  To the surprise of many listeners, including myself, each of the characters is voiced by Buzz Hawkins   I was accompanied by Andy Hoyle, a churchwarden at St Thomas’, who was previously a presenter on Tameside Radio, and who knows Buzz well.  In the show Buzz mentioned going to school in Ancoats, St Annes.  I said to Andy, so did John Henshaw, and within seconds John stood up on the front row..  When I was priest at All Saints, Micklehurst in Mossley, I would see him in the Co-op, and he walked with St Joseph’s on Whit Friday, wearing his Manchester City scarf.