UFO Club

Sneaky bits near Victoria Station

Northern Quarter

Northern Quarter

Derelict Manchester: Collyhurst

Derelict Manchester: Collyhurst: "The name Collyhurst originally meant 'wooded hill'. The hill is actually largely made up of red sandstone, hence the area is known as Re..."

Back Piccadilly

Paradise Row

Off   St Andrews Street

Ancoats

he Old English name for the district of Ancoats was "ana cots" which meant "old cottages". By the beginning of the thirteenth century it was already known as Elnecot. Land in Ancoats was bequeathed in the 14th century by Henry de Ancotes. Alas, the old cottages have long disappeared and the ravages of the Industrial Revolution have left a more significant impact upon the district.

Derelict Manchester

angel meadow manchester

"Its hard to imagine a less appropriate name. Victorian Manchester knew it as 'Angel Meadow'. Friedrich Engels called it 'Hell upon Earth.'

The living conditions of the Manchester working classes in the 19th century were famously chronicled by Engels who was inspired to draw up The Communist Manifesto based on the appalling human degradations he witnessed here.

In the mid 1800s, tens of thousands of mill workers crowded into the filthy slum terraces and subdivided cellars that Engels described as 'cattle-sheds for human beings.'

Victorian Manchester knew it as 'Angel Meadow'.