This thread is a mine of useful information. Quite pround to be a Mancunian. Which got it's name from the word Mamarian meaning breast, the shape of the two hills, Chude hill and Cheetham hill and Then there is Deansgate after the word Danesgate. Not to sure but something to do with the Danes/Vikings I think............
Shame the Labour Council couldn't be arsed saving such an historical building and allowed it to be pulled down (façade apart) and turned into a 5 star hotel.....The only city in the world with a music venue named after a repeal of a law. The Free Trade Hall. Understandably it was a shit law imposed by the Tories.
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First market stall in Leeds. First HQ and warehouse in Derby Street, Manchester.
Shame the Labour Council couldn't be arsed saving such an historical building and allowed it to be pulled down (façade apart) and turned into a 5 star hotel.....
and The Sex Pistols gigs upstairs in the Lesser Free Trade Hall!Was it not left empty when The Halle moved? Bar the Judas shout, probably its most famous moment, it was the third one.
According to Wikipedia he was buried in Crumpsall.Correct, and Marks is buried in Southern Cemetery?
Not even close. I got my O Level cert awarded on stage there...1977.Was it not left empty when The Halle moved? Bar the Judas shout, probably its most famous moment, it was the third one.
Not even close. I got my O Level cert awarded on stage there...1977.
Bloody youngsters. O Level cert there in 1973 and A Level cert there in 1975.Not even close. I got my O Level cert awarded on stage there...1977.