Access Champion

The train from Huddersfield to Manchester didn't have a voiceover and on the northern train, we were sat by the toilet.  I don't remember Manchester Oxford Road station other than there being a hill to get out. Something the charity I founded, Leigh Network, does is bring families affected by the life limiting, debilitating and terminal illness, mitochondrial disease, together. In August 2022, we held our very first weekend for adults! I found the Brooklyn Manchester Hotel on the CHUC (Ceiling Hoist Users Club) website and chose it for that reason. Many with Mito require accessible rooms, including a hoist and a profile bed. Fortunately, the Brooklyn provides all three. Although, there’s only one profile bed and two hoist rooms. Throughout the organising of such a monumental weekend, for our charity, the staff were brilliant and put my frazzled mind at ease. When we arrived at the hotel we went into a beautifully decorated foyer. With dim lighting, a checked floor and artistic ...

  Bright yellow sunflower bathed in sunlight -all images the same. Recently, it was a good friends life celebration service. She died to a similar condition that I have. Sunflowers were her favourite💛💚 When my mum phoned up the assistance, I think we confused him, because we had three trips on different days to book.  The first was Liverpool to Huddersfield. I think this was a TransPennine train. The journey was fine, they had a voice over to announce each stop, and a bell alerted passengers to the approach of a station. Huddersfield station was a new one to us. It’s quite a nice, small station, from what I saw of it, like Liverpool Lime Street train station. It had a lift to get you up to the concourse from the platform. To exit the station there’s a stairway and a ramp. To get from the platform to exit, we had to go up and down in a lift. As we didn't know the area, we decided to get a taxi. We saw a Hackney, the only accessible cab, but as we went over, it was empty....