Great Mancunians...

[waterloo blue]

Karl Marx, Josef Engels and Anthony Burgess.

 

[Corky]

Steve Coogan

 

[Televators]

Emmeline Pankhurst, Anna Connell (honorary), Gracie Fields x

Interesting reading on Wiki.

Two women that today would be classed as 'bleeding heart Liberals', and a singer putting Rochdale on the map a la Robbie Williams/Stoke-on-Trent.

 

[scall11]

Robert Peel didnt do too bad did he?

 

[johnny on the spot]

Emmeline Pankhurst, Anna Connell (honorary), Gracie Fields x

Interesting reading on Wiki.

Two women that today would be classed as 'bleeding heart Liberals', and a singer putting Rochdale on the map a la Robbie Williams/Stoke-on-Trent.

Okay, how about Sheila Delaney?

 

[Televators]

Interesting reading on Wiki.

Two women that today would be classed as 'bleeding heart Liberals', and a singer putting Rochdale on the map a la Robbie Williams/Stoke-on-Trent.

Okay, how about Sheila Delaney?

Well at least I'd heard of the others!!

I shall go investigate.. hold fire...<br /><br />-- Thu Jul 08, 2010 12:27 am --<br /><br />Hmmmmm...

I notice they mention The Smiths on her Wiki page. Is she considered 'great' up there a bit like they are too? You know, any further south than Birmingham and she doesn't really cut it?

Anyway that's immaterial - she's mega famous up there?

 

[goon]

Magaret Ashton.

 

[Skashion]

Moonchester and Moonbeam.

 

[johnny on the spot]

Delaney ain't mega-famous, but her dramas are well renowned. Morrissey lifted half his lyrics for the first Smiths album from A Taste of Honey.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Krishna Bhanji.