Rochdale Shopping Centre, 1989.

Princes Street, Stockport. 1910.

Manchester, November 1970. Traffic flows past the central library in Manchester. The library's design was the result of a competition held in 1927 for a new library and town hall extension and was completed in 1934.

Manchester, November 1970. Traffic flows past the central library in Manchester. The library's design was the result of a competition held in 1927 for a new library and town hall extension and was completed in 1934.

King Street, Manchester, on a wet Sunday in November 1936...

King Street, Manchester, on a wet Sunday in November 1936...

So sad to hear that Mani has died. God, he was such an ace bloke. A properly ace bloke.

Shoppers line the counter at Lewis's store in Manchester, waiting for a delivery of bread to fill the empty shelves, during a bakers strike in the North West of England. October 1969.

Lots of memories, none this elegant!

BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation" As opposed to doing what with their children??

Any memories of evenings at the Ritz on Whitworth St? This is the dancefloor way back in November 1938.

Down the road. If I listen carefully, I can hear the tight trousers.

November, 1981: the Bee Gees, back where they grew up, visit their school in the Manchester suburb of Chorlton cum Hardy.

What did Chelsea Girl end up becoming? River Island?

Manchester in the fog #Scape #CityScape #Manchester #StreetScape #Weather #Fog #EastCoastKin #Photography

Chelsea Girl, 5 Piccadilly, Manchester. Photo taken November 1971. What a shop front!

Prison officer watches as a prisoner talks to a visitor at Strangeways Prison, November 1948. Photo by Bert Hardy.

It's Friday! Yates’s Wine Lodge, Ashton-Under-Lyne, 1983. Photo by Martin Parr.

Definitely worth a read, a great piece of social history. Teenagers promenading in towns and cities on Sunday evenings, flirting, cruising. It was dubbed the “monkey parade” or the “monkey run”. HERE davehaslam.substack.com/p/before-tin... pic.x.com/jGWhmGu2FG

Definitely worth a read, a great piece of social history. Teenagers promenading in towns and cities on Sunday evenings, flirting, cruising. It was dubbed the “monkey parade” or the “monkey run”. HERE davehaslam.substack.com/p/before-tin...

Belle Vue Gaol, Manchester, during demolition, 1892. Conceived as a short term project to alleviate overcrowding, it operated 1850-1888. Novelist George Gissing served a month's hard labour in 1876 after being found guilty of stealing money from fellow students at Owen's College.

Loreto Convent, Upper Moss Lane, Hulme. Approx 1965. In 1977, after a reorganisation of Catholic educational provision locally, Loreto became a co-educational 6th Form college.

Jacob Epstein was born #otd in 1880. His sculpture 'Genesis' can be found at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester @whitworthart.bsky.social

Hopwood Avenue off Corporation Street 1944.

Bonfire Night, Moss Side, 1972. 📸 Daniel Meadows

Saxophonist Johnny Roadhouse with his 1930s Rolls Royce in Manchester, March 1960. He opened up his music store, Johnny Roadhouse Music in 1955 on Oxford Road. He died on 11th April 2009.

This is what happened to my Grandfather in Frankfurt, Germany on 9th November 1938, commonly known as Kristallnacht.

Congratulations Lucy Powell, the new Deputy Leader of the Labour Party - born in Manchester, Powell attended Parrs Wood High School. She's been MP for Manchester Central since 2012.

York Cinema, York Street, Hulme. The cinema would survive the 'slum clearance bulldozers in the 1960s, becoming a four-screen cinema under the name Unit 4, later renamed the Aaben. As the Aaben, it was an independent “art house” cinema through the 1980s.

"Big" coats

Belle Vue ticket office, Manchester. October 1982.

Three women in Manchester photographed in their winter coats, October, 1970. (Photo by Sefton Samuels).

Three women in Manchester photographed in their winter coats, October, 1970. (Photo by Sefton Samuels).

14th October 1964 - the Beatles played at the ABC Cinema, Ardwick, Manchester (the Apollo). They also appeared on 'Scene At 6.30' on Granada TV, miming to 'I Should Have Known Better'. Pic from the Granada appearance...

Oxford St, Manchester c1959/60. Includes the Plaza ballroom and the Odeon.

11th October #otd in 1851 during a stay in Manchester, Queen Victoria praised the city's "very intelligent but painfully unhealthy-looking population".

The Museum & Art Gallery, Peel Park, 1878.

Maine Rd, 1975. Photo by Kemal Cengizkan.

Thomas Testicale England, Lancashire, Manchester, Electoral Registers, 1820-1939

A woman in pink sweeping the street in front of her house, in Lower Broughton, Salford. 1969. The Poet's Corner pub in the background. Photo - Michael Goodger.

The Theatre Royal, Peter St, opened in September 1845. It closed in 1921, was then converted to a cinema, bingo hall etc. From 1978 it was Discotheque Royale. Its stage is thought to been one of the few to have featured both Charles Dickens, and an episode of the Hitman & Her.

26 September 1763 John Byrom died in Manchester. He wrote the hymn 'Christians Awake!’ and devised a form of shorthand. He was a buyer for Chetham's Library which holds his own collection. His son Edward founded St John’s Church. St John’s Gardens marks the site.

"Farage’s mistake is to assume that unease about migration in general translates into support for any and every proposal to make life hard not only for potential arrivals, but for migrants already long settled in Britain." Predictably top piece from my #BGE2024 co-author, @robfordmancs.bsky.social

Corbieres is hidden away on Half Moon Street, a back alleyway between Cross St and St. Ann’s Square. Opened in 1978, the quality of the the music on the jukebox has always been one of the most commented-on features of the bar.

I've seen too many 1970s crime thrillers. I'm expecting that car to blow up.

little changed! 🥰

The Salisbury pub and steps up to Oxford Rd station, 1979.

Calling Manchester students @officialuom.bsky.social @manmetuni.bsky.social @rncmlive.bsky.social - I'm guiding a history walk on Women of Oxford Road, for Elizabeth Gaskell House as part of The Cultural Welcome @oxrdmcr.bsky.social. Free but booking essential. oxfordroadcorridor.com/events/guide...

It was good to visit Embassy Village last week to see onsite progress with this fantastic #homelessness project in central #Manchester

Market Street, Manchester, in 1975.