Bolton Food and Drink Festival is due to begin today manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/food-…

Shopping in Moss Side Precinct, 1975. Photo - Kemal Cengizkan

One of my favourite street scenes in Manchester. I make sure I pass here to and from Piccadilly.

A message from the Manchester Tourist Authority…..

Ken Dodd opens the Golden Bake Away food store in Burnage, Manchester. Pictured with fire-eater Derek Lever. 17th March 1975. Photo by Chris Paterson.

29th August 1940 six people were killed when German bombs landed in Hulme (pic @gmpmuseum) and Moss Side.

Wythenshawe is the peanut making centre of the UK. We knew this right?

Saturday reading Urban geography in The Atlantic WHY DO RICH PEOPLE LOVE QUIET? The sound of gentrification is silence. By Xochitl Gonzalez theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Heaton Park, 1908.

this is how i’ll dress to the oasis gig. as liam intended

Getting in the Ticketmaster queue

Tickets were 3 shillings and sixpence when I joined the Ticketmaster queue #Oasis

PICTURING ECCLES: Salford City Council has announced plans for Picturing Eccles, a new photography project from the town’s Photographer in Residence, Paula Keenan. Starts this Friday... manchesterwire.co.uk/picturing-eccl…

One of the most beautiful souls has left us. The brillant Danielle Moore of Crazy P has died suddenly and she has taken so much light with her. One of the best in music, an amazing person and an amazing singer, performer and songwriter. I know there will be a great sense of loss

THE HEATON MOOR ART CAFE WITH GREAT LOCAL IPA, COFFEE AND COMMUNITY ART CLASSES Art Club on Heaton Moor’s Shaw Road is one of those places that every neighbourhood should have. Stuffed with great art, local beer, coffee, a free library, a cool garden at the back and some solid

M62 closure dates, diversions and rail services impacted as major bridge work begins manchesterworld.uk/news/traffic-a…

On the Eighth Day shop at 111 Oxford Road, photographed around 1973. On the Eighth Day began life #OTD 4th Sept 1970 as a craft exchange and alternative centre above a boutique on the now demolished New Brown Street in Manchester city centre; moving to Oxford Rd in 1972.

I remember going in about 1985 to buy ingredients for my first attempt at a proper curry. I’d got the recipe out of NME for some reason.

This week in September 1852 Manchester Free Library opened in Campfield. Manchester was the first authority to establish a rate-supported public lending library. It became so busy in the first week a police officer was assigned to control the crowd around the borrowing desk