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Manchester
A to Z guide to Manchester’s unique political, cultural, ecological & economic landscape
word for froth on liquid containing yeast, giving bread rolls the name One of Manchester’s Barm cakes. most famous venues, Within the city enshrined in the city’s you’ll also hear popular music heritage bap, butty & muffin
in
Particular
Redstart
Black
A
tHE BIG Bio Diversity
The shopping alternative to the ‘dog eat dog’ corporate facades which boringly blight our city centres
Afflecks Palace
Ancoats
…a cradle of the
industrial revolution
Local community radio for South Central & Eastern Manchester
ALL FM Allotments
Our city has allotment sites
www.amas.org.uk How can I hope for world peace, when I can’t get you to say, ‘Hello’ in the streets
Apple Day
42
96.9 FM
celebration of apples, orchards and local distinctiveness
O C TO B E R
Lord Suffield a yellow culinary apple originating from Manchester in 1 8 3 6
Manchester is the cancer capital of England. With the highest death rates in the country and the largest cancer treatment centre in Europe.
Fairtrade Organic
clothes shop in
&
with more than any other area in the UK, we are the
capital of Britain Then Children’s Secretary Ed Balls saying in 2007 that every ASBO was a failure
ASBO
Chorlton
B D
Glebelands
stunning market garden in SALE bringing ORGANIC VEGETABLES from the soil to shoppers within a few hours
BAnD on the WAll
Barm old Lancs
B of the Bang Bridge-5
mill There are fewer in A stunning the UK than the 80 metre tall golden eagle but a Manchester’s sculpture in pair Centre for East Manchester nest Sustainable dismantled in the Living because it was an city engineering failure www.MERCi.org.uk centre
ISSUE
Bilwi
Nicaraguan town (formerly known as Puerto Cabezas) linked to Manchester
Boddies,
DEBDAlE
Eco-Centre
Our first community composting project and now much more Setup by Openshaw’s own eco-hero VAL RAWLINSON
www. debdale-eco-centre.com
from the arch of Chinatown to the Polish groceries of Levenshulme, Manchester’s ethnic diversity is displayed with pride throughout the city
Diversity
E
The
EMERGE
Home-grown, recycling social enterprise
The first identifiable Eccles Cakes were sold in Eccles, Salford, in 1793. So good, they were being exported worldwide as early as 1818. Production of the ‘real’ Eccles Cakes now takes place on Hyde Road in Ardwick
8th
Helping help
Manchester contains 34 designated Sites of the homeless Biological themselves Importance
in the north
the Cream of Manchester brewed in the city since 1778… …but we lost the famous Strangeways brewery in 2005
C
Fallowfield loop
co-operation the big C
Head quarters of the world’s largest consumer co-operative with a turnover of more than £9 billion, 4.5 million members and 87,500 employees
Chorlton:
has one of the best collections of independent shops in the city - a community with a strong local identity… …and determined to stay that way
Every city needs at least one champion of independent art and film. We have ours in the fabulous
Carol Batton
Manchester Poet
CORnERHOUSE
(which was once a carpet shop)
Eighth Day
The city’s original co-operative health food shop & café…
OXFORD ROAD
H
lancashire Day
HonEy
Haçienda Hydes Beer & Holts Beer, once one of the
most famous
NIGHTSPOTS MANCHESTER
BEE KEEPERS
www.mdbka.com
MANCHESTER
in the world, now another icon sacrificed to gentrification
both established during the 1800’s. Two of Manchester remaining family breweries, thriving in an age when the giants of the industry have swallowed up most independents
If you are going to grow-your-own food, start here www. hulmegardencentre. org.uk
F I
(1818-1883) KARL MARX
FC United
member-owned football team – a defiant offshoot from the Love United Hate Glazer campaign. Manchester helped pioneer the Internet w i t h Po p t e l provided the A n C ’s f i r s t e-mail address in the 1980’s
a ‘Feast’ for the senses:
much loved summer festival in
Cycle lane from Chorlton in the West to www. Gorton in the East streetsahead.org.uk
little
fairfield
– a part of East Manchester, which has lent its name to a pioneering family of social enterprises who deal sustainably with some of our city’s annual 2million tonnes of waste.
Farmers
market
Free Trade Hall
a gift to the people of Manchester, for many years a focal point for debate & c u l t u r a l a c t i v i t y. Eventually sold by the City Council to a multi-national hotel chain
Platt Field’s Park
Buy real food every few weeks in Manchester City Centre and northenden
Ireland
Area near Oxford Rd which Engel’s wrote about in:
The Condition of the Working Classes in England
Flavour the milk with lemonpeel, by infusing it in the milk for 1/2 hour • strain on to the bread crumbs, and boil for 3 minutes • add the eggs, leaving out the whites of 2, the butter, sugar, and brandy • stir well together • cover a pie-dish with puff-pastry, and at the bottom put a thick layer of jam • pour the above mixture, cold, on the jam, and bake the for an hour • serve cold, with a little sifted sugar sprinkled over.
Irk & Irwell
TWO OF OUR FOUR GREAT RIVERS
J
Manchester
Launched as a personal propaganda sheet in 1868, by Mitchell Henry, a local businessman who wanted to be a Liberal MP…
MAnCHESTEr’S J ew i s h histor y dates back over 200 years, and demonstrates the city’s long tradition of welcoming refugees
from around
the world
L
We were the country’s first
27th NOvemBer each year, celebrating in 1295 the first elected representatives LIMITED RESOURCES from lancashire Delivered fresh were called to organic food & green products to our Westminster by homes since 1988 King Edward I
Free City
nUClEAR
O
Rambler
The mANcheSTer
the world renowned
Hallé Orchestra,
based in Manchester, is the oldest professional Orchestra in Britain
M P
Ritz
Manchester’s oldest nightclub, once managed by Jimmy Saville
The
ManchesterTerrier Friederich Engels “The cat-like dog” brought philosopher, social scientist, historian and revolutionary, KArl MArx, to Manchester Bred to hunt rabbits, www. in July 1845 rats and mice maineroadfc.co.uk
Manchester tart
3 oz. of grated bread, 1/2 pint of milk, a strip of lemon-peel, 4 eggs, 2 oz. of butter, sugar to taste, puff-paste, jam, 3 tablespoonfuls of brandy
MANCHESTER
Civic Society Evening news
manchester
Keeping a watch over the city & fostering a sense of pride in Manchester
Poplar
Metrolink
Greater Manchester’s icon tram system opened in 1992
one of Britain’s rarest native trees & Greater Manchester’s own species
Parks
Manchester boasts
Pond weed
135 parks, gardens and open spaces
There’s a pond weed which is very very rare and lives in the Rochdale canal –
Emmeline Pankhurst
A founder of the suffragette movement who’s home is now
The Pankhurst Centre
- a unique environment in which women can learn together, work on projects and socialise
Rural Studies Centre …over 40 years
of practical rural education for school children
Parswood
PEtERlOO MASSACRE
Potato day
Annual events in February promoting and celebrating the humble potato
Floating Water Plantain Luronium Natans
(1858-1928)
On 16th August 1819 in St Peter’s Fields, armed cavalry charged a peaceful crowd of around 60,000 people gathered to listen to anti-poverty and pro-democracy speakers. It is estimated that 18 were killed, and over 700 seriously injured
Peregrine Falcons
Now breeding in Central Manchester these agile birds of prey, reach speeds of up to 180 mph in vertical dives
G K N Q
Vurt Jeff Noon’s
1993 novel of an alternative, hallucinogenic Manchester
Elizabeth Gaskell
Her novels reflected her social and political conscience and many were written from her house in Plymouth Grove, Victoria Park.
The
Kindling
Trust
fuel action for social change
Fledgling group working to: Ignite passion &
northern Quarter
between PICCADIlly and AnCOAtS this is the city’s creative quarter
north The Gay Village
is the focus for a thriving gay and lesbian community and economy
Queer up
R T
Vegetarianism
In 1809, the influential Rev William Cowherd, of Salford’s Bible Christian Church, asked his congregation to stop eating meat.
Rain …
I’m a rambler, I’m a rambler from manchester way. I get all my pleasure the hard moorland way. I may be a wage slave on monday. But I am a free man on Sunday
average rainfall is 80 cm a year, less than Glasgow, but that’s set to increase with climate change Watercourse buried below Tib Street in the northern Quarter, possibly named by the romans after the great Tiber river
Royal Society for the Lord Rutherford Nobel Prize Winner Protection of Birds for Atomic Science
pioneered in the city
Rusholme
the curry mile… …… a neon light illuminated, stretch of Wilmslow Road with end to end curryhouses, kebab shops, sari shops and jewellery stores
Didsbury in 1889
FOUNDED IN
(1871-1937)
S
Award winning co-operative grocery in Chorlton
– a must for the ethical shopper
liam Spencer
Strangeways Prison
Supermarkets
Best avoided if you like diversity, farmers, workers rights, the environment, a personal service or Manchester
uniqueness
lemn Sissay
Manchester’s most high profile poet and Mega Rider User
Slavery
Manchester was the scene of the very first mass meeting opposing the slave trade
Vegan Organic Network
Chorlton-based group striving for sustainable agriculture and living that is humane and ecological
STUDENTS
80,000
Scene of the worst UK prison riot in 1990 and the site of a hundred hangings in the 19th Century
river Tib
tony Wilson
trades Union Congress
held its first meeting in the Manchester Mechanics Institute in 1868
(1950-2007) Greater Manchester Ways produces 1,400,000 tonnes Manchester canals were once homes of municipal to many housewaste each year boat dwellers, but - equal to 175,000 ‘regeneration’ of the city centre has double decker forced many out buses! onto dry land
U
the Wesley
Supplies second-hand furniture, domestic appliances, household goods and clothing at the lowest possible prices to those in greatest need
Urban Splash
Love or hate their approach to inner city ‘regeneration’, their developments are certainly a feature of the Manchester skyline
W
The
Wai yin Chinese Women’s Association
provides services to women and men from Manchester’s large Chinese community
Water
Working Class
heritage and history celebrated at the
People’s History Museum
X
gave a controversial speech to a jampacked meeting at Manchester University’s Student Union
Malcolm X
IN 1964
V Y
Victoria Baths Manchester’s Water
Palace and Grade II* listed building lovingly protected by Friends and Volunteers
Voluntary Sector
employs 3% of the Greater Manchester workforce and Sold originally to supports 1.2 the Temperance movement as VIM Tonic million volunteers
yellow Bricks
Homes for Change
to give it its proper title, was prototype for mixed-use urban living or
Z
Zion Arts Centre
Creative space and support for young people in Hulme and beyond
From icons to unsung heroes, this poster highlights what’s unique about our great city. Facts and figures, a few things we’ve lost in recent years, some of our troubles, and a bit of pertinent history. Mostly it’s about the individuals and projects battling to preserve the best of the past and make the best of now to ensure a sustainable and just future for all Mancunians.
This poster has been produced by volunteers, to support The Kindling Trust (www.kindling.org.uk). It has been funded in part by Awards for All. (www.awardsforall.org.uk) Creative Commons protected. Inspired by the fantastic work of Common Ground (www.commonground.org.uk) Printed on recycled paper in Manchester.
Manchester
A to Z guide to Manchester’s unique political, cultural, ecological & economic landscape
word for froth on liquid containing yeast, giving bread rolls the name One of Manchester’s Barm cakes. most famous venues, Within the city enshrined in the city’s you’ll also hear popular music heritage bap, butty & muffin
in
Particular
Redstart
Black
A
tHE BIG Bio Diversity
The shopping alternative to the ‘dog eat dog’ corporate facades which boringly blight our city centres
Afflecks Palace
Ancoats
…a cradle of the
industrial revolution
Local community radio for South Central & Eastern Manchester
ALL FM Allotments
Our city has allotment sites
www.amas.org.uk How can I hope for world peace, when I can’t get you to say, ‘Hello’ in the streets
Apple Day
42
96.9 FM
celebration of apples, orchards and local distinctiveness
O C TO B E R
Lord Suffield a yellow culinary apple originating from Manchester in 1 8 3 6
Manchester is the cancer capital of England. With the highest death rates in the country and the largest cancer treatment centre in Europe.
Fairtrade Organic
clothes shop in
&
with more than any other area in the UK, we are the
capital of Britain Then Children’s Secretary Ed Balls saying in 2007 that every ASBO was a failure
ASBO
Chorlton
B D
Glebelands
stunning market garden in SALE bringing ORGANIC VEGETABLES from the soil to shoppers within a few hours
BAnD on the WAll
Barm old Lancs
B of the Bang Bridge-5
mill There are fewer in A stunning the UK than the 80 metre tall golden eagle but a Manchester’s sculpture in pair Centre for East Manchester nest Sustainable dismantled in the Living because it was an city engineering failure www.MERCi.org.uk centre
ISSUE
Bilwi
Nicaraguan town (formerly known as Puerto Cabezas) linked to Manchester
Boddies,
DEBDAlE
Eco-Centre
Our first community composting project and now much more Setup by Openshaw’s own eco-hero VAL RAWLINSON
www. debdale-eco-centre.com
from the arch of Chinatown to the Polish groceries of Levenshulme, Manchester’s ethnic diversity is displayed with pride throughout the city
Diversity
E
The
EMERGE
Home-grown, recycling social enterprise
The first identifiable Eccles Cakes were sold in Eccles, Salford, in 1793. So good, they were being exported worldwide as early as 1818. Production of the ‘real’ Eccles Cakes now takes place on Hyde Road in Ardwick
8th
Helping help
Manchester contains 34 designated Sites of the homeless Biological themselves Importance
in the north
the Cream of Manchester brewed in the city since 1778… …but we lost the famous Strangeways brewery in 2005
C
Fallowfield loop
co-operation the big C
Head quarters of the world’s largest consumer co-operative with a turnover of more than £9 billion, 4.5 million members and 87,500 employees
Chorlton:
has one of the best collections of independent shops in the city - a community with a strong local identity… …and determined to stay that way
Every city needs at least one champion of independent art and film. We have ours in the fabulous
Carol Batton
Manchester Poet
CORnERHOUSE
(which was once a carpet shop)
Eighth Day
The city’s original co-operative health food shop & café…
OXFORD ROAD
H
lancashire Day
HonEy
Haçienda Hydes Beer & Holts Beer, once one of the
most famous
NIGHTSPOTS MANCHESTER
BEE KEEPERS
www.mdbka.com
MANCHESTER
in the world, now another icon sacrificed to gentrification
both established during the 1800’s. Two of Manchester remaining family breweries, thriving in an age when the giants of the industry have swallowed up most independents
If you are going to grow-your-own food, start here www. hulmegardencentre. org.uk
F I
(1818-1883) KARL MARX
FC United
member-owned football team – a defiant offshoot from the Love United Hate Glazer campaign. Manchester helped pioneer the Internet w i t h Po p t e l provided the A n C ’s f i r s t e-mail address in the 1980’s
a ‘Feast’ for the senses:
much loved summer festival in
Cycle lane from Chorlton in the West to www. Gorton in the East streetsahead.org.uk
little
fairfield
– a part of East Manchester, which has lent its name to a pioneering family of social enterprises who deal sustainably with some of our city’s annual 2million tonnes of waste.
Farmers
market
Free Trade Hall
a gift to the people of Manchester, for many years a focal point for debate & c u l t u r a l a c t i v i t y. Eventually sold by the City Council to a multi-national hotel chain
Platt Field’s Park
Buy real food every few weeks in Manchester City Centre and northenden
Ireland
Area near Oxford Rd which Engel’s wrote about in:
The Condition of the Working Classes in England
Flavour the milk with lemonpeel, by infusing it in the milk for 1/2 hour • strain on to the bread crumbs, and boil for 3 minutes • add the eggs, leaving out the whites of 2, the butter, sugar, and brandy • stir well together • cover a pie-dish with puff-pastry, and at the bottom put a thick layer of jam • pour the above mixture, cold, on the jam, and bake the for an hour • serve cold, with a little sifted sugar sprinkled over.
Irk & Irwell
TWO OF OUR FOUR GREAT RIVERS
J
Manchester
Launched as a personal propaganda sheet in 1868, by Mitchell Henry, a local businessman who wanted to be a Liberal MP…
MAnCHESTEr’S J ew i s h histor y dates back over 200 years, and demonstrates the city’s long tradition of welcoming refugees
from around
the world
L
We were the country’s first
27th NOvemBer each year, celebrating in 1295 the first elected representatives LIMITED RESOURCES from lancashire Delivered fresh were called to organic food & green products to our Westminster by homes since 1988 King Edward I
Free City
nUClEAR
O
Rambler
The mANcheSTer
the world renowned
Hallé Orchestra,
based in Manchester, is the oldest professional Orchestra in Britain
M P
Ritz
Manchester’s oldest nightclub, once managed by Jimmy Saville
The
ManchesterTerrier Friederich Engels “The cat-like dog” brought philosopher, social scientist, historian and revolutionary, KArl MArx, to Manchester Bred to hunt rabbits, www. in July 1845 rats and mice maineroadfc.co.uk
Manchester tart
3 oz. of grated bread, 1/2 pint of milk, a strip of lemon-peel, 4 eggs, 2 oz. of butter, sugar to taste, puff-paste, jam, 3 tablespoonfuls of brandy
MANCHESTER
Civic Society Evening news
manchester
Keeping a watch over the city & fostering a sense of pride in Manchester
Poplar
Metrolink
Greater Manchester’s icon tram system opened in 1992
one of Britain’s rarest native trees & Greater Manchester’s own species
Parks
Manchester boasts
Pond weed
135 parks, gardens and open spaces
There’s a pond weed which is very very rare and lives in the Rochdale canal –
Emmeline Pankhurst
A founder of the suffragette movement who’s home is now
The Pankhurst Centre
- a unique environment in which women can learn together, work on projects and socialise
Rural Studies Centre …over 40 years
of practical rural education for school children
Parswood
PEtERlOO MASSACRE
Potato day
Annual events in February promoting and celebrating the humble potato
Floating Water Plantain Luronium Natans
(1858-1928)
On 16th August 1819 in St Peter’s Fields, armed cavalry charged a peaceful crowd of around 60,000 people gathered to listen to anti-poverty and pro-democracy speakers. It is estimated that 18 were killed, and over 700 seriously injured
Peregrine Falcons
Now breeding in Central Manchester these agile birds of prey, reach speeds of up to 180 mph in vertical dives
G K N Q
Vurt Jeff Noon’s
1993 novel of an alternative, hallucinogenic Manchester
Elizabeth Gaskell
Her novels reflected her social and political conscience and many were written from her house in Plymouth Grove, Victoria Park.
The
Kindling
Trust
fuel action for social change
Fledgling group working to: Ignite passion &
northern Quarter
between PICCADIlly and AnCOAtS this is the city’s creative quarter
north The Gay Village
is the focus for a thriving gay and lesbian community and economy
Queer up
R T
Vegetarianism
In 1809, the influential Rev William Cowherd, of Salford’s Bible Christian Church, asked his congregation to stop eating meat.
Rain …
I’m a rambler, I’m a rambler from manchester way. I get all my pleasure the hard moorland way. I may be a wage slave on monday. But I am a free man on Sunday
average rainfall is 80 cm a year, less than Glasgow, but that’s set to increase with climate change Watercourse buried below Tib Street in the northern Quarter, possibly named by the romans after the great Tiber river
Royal Society for the Lord Rutherford Nobel Prize Winner Protection of Birds for Atomic Science
pioneered in the city
Rusholme
the curry mile… …… a neon light illuminated, stretch of Wilmslow Road with end to end curryhouses, kebab shops, sari shops and jewellery stores
Didsbury in 1889
FOUNDED IN
(1871-1937)
S
Award winning co-operative grocery in Chorlton
– a must for the ethical shopper
liam Spencer
Strangeways Prison
Supermarkets
Best avoided if you like diversity, farmers, workers rights, the environment, a personal service or Manchester
uniqueness
lemn Sissay
Manchester’s most high profile poet and Mega Rider User
Slavery
Manchester was the scene of the very first mass meeting opposing the slave trade
Vegan Organic Network
Chorlton-based group striving for sustainable agriculture and living that is humane and ecological
STUDENTS
80,000
Scene of the worst UK prison riot in 1990 and the site of a hundred hangings in the 19th Century
river Tib
tony Wilson
trades Union Congress
held its first meeting in the Manchester Mechanics Institute in 1868
(1950-2007) Greater Manchester Ways produces 1,400,000 tonnes Manchester canals were once homes of municipal to many housewaste each year boat dwellers, but - equal to 175,000 ‘regeneration’ of the city centre has double decker forced many out buses! onto dry land
U
the Wesley
Supplies second-hand furniture, domestic appliances, household goods and clothing at the lowest possible prices to those in greatest need
Urban Splash
Love or hate their approach to inner city ‘regeneration’, their developments are certainly a feature of the Manchester skyline
W
The
Wai yin Chinese Women’s Association
provides services to women and men from Manchester’s large Chinese community
Water
Working Class
heritage and history celebrated at the
People’s History Museum
X
gave a controversial speech to a jampacked meeting at Manchester University’s Student Union
Malcolm X
IN 1964
V Y
Victoria Baths Manchester’s Water
Palace and Grade II* listed building lovingly protected by Friends and Volunteers
Voluntary Sector
employs 3% of the Greater Manchester workforce and Sold originally to supports 1.2 the Temperance movement as VIM Tonic million volunteers
yellow Bricks
Homes for Change
to give it its proper title, was prototype for mixed-use urban living or
Z
Zion Arts Centre
Creative space and support for young people in Hulme and beyond
From icons to unsung heroes, this poster highlights what’s unique about our great city. Facts and figures, a few things we’ve lost in recent years, some of our troubles, and a bit of pertinent history. Mostly it’s about the individuals and projects battling to preserve the best of the past and make the best of now to ensure a sustainable and just future for all Mancunians.
This poster has been produced by volunteers, to support The Kindling Trust (www.kindling.org.uk). It has been funded in part by Awards for All. (www.awardsforall.org.uk) Creative Commons protected. Inspired by the fantastic work of Common Ground (www.commonground.org.uk) Printed on recycled paper in Manchester.
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