George Best is stood in front of my grandmother’s car which she told me she loved.
I could take you to the exact street where this was in Manchester I’ve often had trips up to Manchester with my grandmother where she would point and tell me the stories of how they would hang out in the shop in the swinging 60s.
Malcolm Mooney was my grandad’s twin brother and these images are something that I feel is a part of my own history in linear Ridge it’s something that I’d really like to experiment with in my practise because this is something that I feel very proud of considering both my grandad and his brother didn’t come from a grand background at all yeah that came from h a council state in Manchester.
Keith Mooney was Malcolm’s twin brother but also my Grandfather who I don’t ever feel I truly met because he had a stroke a few months before I was born and I only really remember him being able to say minimum things like please, thank you and wine. Also, bird names because he loved birds but it was a bit awkward in public when he would start shouting ‘TIT’ or ‘SHAG’ completely unaware and pointing in the sky but you know got to see the humour in that and he certainly wasn’t a dull man even after his stroke and it is something I look back on fondly from growing up.