Page 12 - MANCHESTER PUBS

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An awful slum, the biggest wholesale market, a
notorious street gang and five interesting pubs with a lot
of history.

Once known at St Michael’s Ward the area had grown in the
space of less than 20 years and by 1794 the street pattern was
pretty much as we know it.

It included Angel Meadow a slum so infamous that like
Dante’s hell all who entered might abandon all hope.

But there was also the Smithfield Market which sold “all that
life could want” and off on Rochdale Road were the dangerous
Scuttlers, a street gang who took their name from the road.

And for those wanting to compare their walk today with a
stroll in the mid-19th century, Mr. Adshead’s “Twenty-four
Illustrated Maps of the Township of Manchester, Divided into
Municipal Wards and Corrected to the 1st of May 1851” is a
must.

It is according to one source “one of the cartographical
gems of Manchester, aesthetically pleasing, fascinating in its
detail, an object of beauty and utility freezing the great
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