This week in 1908 the Barmaids’ Political Defence League, led by suffragists Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper, demonstrated in Stevenson Square Manchester against a licensing bill which would ban female pub staff, risking ‘the livelihood of 100,000 respectable, hard-working women’.
20 April 1872 An elephant Maharajah reached Manchester having walked with a keeper from Edinburgh to Belle Vue Zoo. His skeleton is kept at Manchester Museum.
This week in 1870 a complaint was made in the Salford Weekly News of the ‘great nuisance created by the selling of crumpets, watercress and onions’ in the streets on Sundays.
19 April 1781 Manchester’s Elizabeth Raffald died. She wrote a bestselling cookbook, the first Manchester and Salford street directory, and a book on midwifery. She ran pubs, a shop, cookery school, servants’ employment agency and had maybe up to 16 children, few surviving childhood.
Wow. She would have been unstoppable today!
19 April 1781 Manchester’s Elizabeth Raffald died. She wrote a bestselling cookbook, the first Manchester and Salford street directory, and a book on midwifery. She ran pubs, a shop, cookery school, servants’ employment agency and had maybe up to 16 children, few surviving childhood.
This week in 1870 a complaint was made in the Salford Weekly News of the ‘great nuisance created by the selling of crumpets, watercress and onions’ in the streets on Sundays.
17 April 1888 The Football League was formally created at the Royal Hotel Manchester. It originally included no Manchester teams.
15 April 2010 Manchester hosted the UK’s first live televised leaders’ debate prior to a general election.
17 April 1888 The Football League was formally created at the Royal Hotel Manchester. It originally included no Manchester teams.
15 April 2010 Manchester hosted the UK’s first live televised leaders’ debate prior to a general election.
This week in 1848 a temperance conference (encouraging abstinence from alcohol) was held in Manchester and lasted three days.
This week in 1848 a temperance conference (encouraging abstinence from alcohol) was held in Manchester and lasted three days.
13 April 1872 Samuel Bamford died. He had been imprisoned for protesting for voting reform at the Manchester meeting which became the Peterloo Massacre.
His grave/memorial in Middleton Parish Church graveyard
Map of the Peak District National Park, designated 13 April 1951
Happy birthday to the Peak District National Park, designated #otd 13 April 1951. Originally 555 square miles of moor and valley, the 'great north roof of England.' It would never have happened but for one woman... 1/4
13 April 1872 Samuel Bamford died. He had been imprisoned for protesting for voting reform at the Manchester meeting which became the Peterloo Massacre.
12 April 1866 Charles Dickens gave readings of his work at the Free Trade Hall Manchester, and was overwhelmed by the enthusiastic response.
12 April 1866 Charles Dickens gave readings of his work at the Free Trade Hall Manchester, and was overwhelmed by the enthusiastic response.
This week in 1852 The Manchester Guardian (now @theguardian.com) reported on the town’s Knott Mill Easter Fair – along Deansgate and Liverpool Road – as a ‘collection of monstrosities, absurdities and nastiness’ with ‘glaring evil on every side’.
This week in 1852 The Manchester Guardian (now @theguardian.com) reported on the town’s Knott Mill Easter Fair – along Deansgate and Liverpool Road – as a ‘collection of monstrosities, absurdities and nastiness’ with ‘glaring evil on every side’.
The original Manc Noir…
10 April 1960 The premiere of the film 'Hell is a City’ was held at the Apollo, Ardwick (O2 Apollo). It was shot on locations in and around Manchester with a chase scene on the rooftop of the Refuge Assurance Building (now Kimpton Clocktower Hotel).
10 April 1960 The premiere of the film 'Hell is a City’ was held at the Apollo, Ardwick (O2 Apollo). It was shot on locations in and around Manchester with a chase scene on the rooftop of the Refuge Assurance Building (now Kimpton Clocktower Hotel).
This week in 1572 Manchester Court Leet appointed nine officers to ensure that swine (kept in the streets by many Mancunians) were brought to Collyhurst to forage each day.
Manchester April 1837 ‘Great distress prevailed amongst the working classes on account of bad trade and the dearness of food’.
Manchester April 1837 ‘Great distress prevailed amongst the working classes on account of bad trade and the dearness of food’.
7 April 1580 Mancunians no longer had to bake at the lord of the manor’s oven but the Court Leet asked ‘all loving neighbours’ to bake there.
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