It is one of those sites that I suspect has something for everyone.
I first got to explore the Rusholme as a student later was a frequent visitor to Plaza on Upper Brook Street and later still to the old CP Bookshop on Hathersage Road, and since then spent some happy times with my old friend Joe and Bron who lived in Victoria Park and more recently as a parent of children at Xaverian College.
My interest was sparked again when I came across Mrs W.C Williamson who wrote Sketches of Fallowfield and the Surrounding Manors Past and Present in 1888. Like our own Thomas Ellwood Mrs Williams recorded the memories of people who lived in the area when it was still a rural community.
And for anyone interested in the area there is plenty on Rusholme and Victoria Park Archive, ranging from old photographs, letters, personal accounts and all the usual ephemera which recreate past lives.
Photograph, map of the area, 1818 from Williams, W.C Sketches of Fallowfield and the Surrounding Manors Past and Present 1888
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