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Manchester History @mcrhistory.bsky.social · 1d

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

Before Tinder, there was the Monkey Parade…

How our grandparents and their parents found romance.

davehaslam.substack.com

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Manchester History @mcrhistory.bsky.social · 1d

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...

Before Tinder, there was the Monkey Parade…

How our grandparents and their parents found romance.

davehaslam.substack.com

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Manchester History @mcrhistory.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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Manchester History @mcrhistory.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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Manchester History @mcrhistory.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Manchester History @mcrhistory.bsky.social · 4d

Hopwood Avenue off Corporation Street 1944.

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Manchester History @mcrhistory.bsky.social · 6d

Bonfire Night, Moss Side, 1972.

📸 Daniel Meadows

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Manchester History @mcrhistory.bsky.social · 11d

"Gruppe"

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Manchester History @mcrhistory.bsky.social · 12d

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.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14d

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

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 14d

In Portland, Oregon, masked ICE GOONS abducted and vanished US citizen Gonzalo Catalan last week. Tragically, his family remains unaware of his whereabouts and has not received any communication from him as of today.

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Manchester History @mcrhistory.bsky.social · 17d

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.

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Manchester History @mcrhistory.bsky.social · 18d

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.

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Gary. @gbh68.bsky.social · 22d

"Big" coats

Manchester History @mcrhistory.bsky.social · 24d

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

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Manchester History @mcrhistory.bsky.social · 22d

Belle Vue ticket office, Manchester. October 1982.

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Manchester History @mcrhistory.bsky.social · 24d

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

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Manchester History @mcrhistory.bsky.social · 24d

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

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Manchester History @mcrhistory.bsky.social · 29d

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...

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Manchester History @mcrhistory.bsky.social · Oct 12

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

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Manchester History @mcrhistory.bsky.social · Oct 11

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

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Manchester History @mcrhistory.bsky.social · Oct 11

The Museum & Art Gallery, Peel Park, 1878.

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Manchester History @mcrhistory.bsky.social · Oct 4

Maine Rd, 1975. Photo by Kemal Cengizkan.

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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · Sep 28

Thomas Testicale

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

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Manchester History @mcrhistory.bsky.social · Sep 29

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.

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Manchester History @mcrhistory.bsky.social · Sep 26

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.

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · Sep 26

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.

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