Ancoats Day, Sunday 3 March 2019

Part 1, Little Italy, 11.30am.
Meet: Band on the Wall, Swan Street.
Booking: Please book here with eventbrite.

Part 2, New Islington, 2pm. 
Meet: New Islington tram stop.
Booking: Please book here with eventbrite.

This is the forgotten end of Ancoats, with its strange Londonesque name, once home to the Royal Ruby Cycle Company, which made bikes for the Russian Tsar; filthily industrially Holt Town; and infamous Every Street, the thoroughfare that launched a thousand bad music hall jokes. That’s where the socialist graveyard with a safety tomb could be found, next to the Roundhouse Settlement, painted by Lowry, with its Henry Hunt of Peterloo Memorial, and grand Ancoats Hall where Bonnie Prince Charlie stayed.