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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This week in 1567 Manchester Court Leet appointed two wettes (minstrels) instructing them to play each morning and evening.

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

2 October 1560 Manchester Court Leet ordered that no one should brew ale to sell unless they had ‘two honest beds for the accommodation of travellers’. ‘The sign of a hand was to be shown when ale was to be had, and when the tap was dry the hand was withdrawn.’

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

1 October 1814 on Bridge St Manchester the first provincial School of Anatomy was founded by Joseph Jordan, to address ‘low state of medical education’ and ‘moral and social dangers’ for students in London. He used corpses obtained by body snatching and kept bones under his bed.

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This week in 1823 The (Royal) Manchester Institution for the promotion of Literature, Science and the Arts was inaugurated. Its building, designed by Charles Barry, is now part of Manchester Art Gallery.

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thurs 8 October this walking tour about Women of Oxford Road ends at @eilzabethgaskellsh.bsky.social and includes entry to the house. Free for students, part of The Cultural Welcome @oxrdmcr.bsky.social A few non-student places available £18. Booking essential. oxfordroadcorridor.com/events/women...

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Guided walk – Women of Oxford Road

Pioneering women from the arts, literature, science, medicine and activism take centre stage on a walk exploring Oxford Road’s feminist legacy. Booking essential.

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

29 September 1810 Elizabeth Gaskell was born. Her novels covered tension between workers and employers in industrial Manchester. She enjoyed travel, socialising, food. On evenings out in Paris she would ‘make a buzz of talk, look at fine dresses, and I come home hungry as a hawk about one am’.

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This week in 1642 a rainy Manchester, supporting Parliament in the English Civil War, defended an attack by Royalist forces. Royalist Captain Standish, emerging from a house across the Irwell, was killed by a shot from @mancathedral.bsky.social tower, where the sniper had kept his (gun)powder dry.

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

27 September 1772 James Brindley died. Engineer on the Bridgewater Canal, he once used a model made of cheese when proposing one aspect, the Barton Aqueduct.

Corten (rusty steel) cut-out of a man in 18th Century wig and waistcoat, with wording ‘James Brindley 1716-1772’. Situated outside in grassy area with trees behind.

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

27 September 1772 James Brindley died. Engineer on the Bridgewater Canal, he once used a model made of cheese when proposing one aspect, the Barton Aqueduct.

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

26 Sep 1763 John Byrom died in Manchester. He wrote the hymn 'Christians Awake!’ and devised a form of shorthand. He was a buyer for @chethamslibrary.bsky.social which holds his own collection library.chethams.com/collections/... His son Edward founded St John’s Church. St John’s Gdns marks the site

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Chetham's Library | John Byrom Collection

John Byrom, poet, Jacobite and stenographer, was born near Manchester, into a family of prosperous merchants and linen drapers. He was educated in Lond...

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

25 September 1827 The Heaton Park horse races began. Held annually for a decade, the races would ‘afford a very agreeable treat to the sporting community in this neighbourhood’. In 1828, to attract a ‘more select’ crowd, spectators had to arrive on a horse or in a carriage.

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On Thursday 8 October, free for students, a few places available at £18 for non-students…

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

24 September 1873 A fire damaged Manchester Athenaeum, founded ‘for the advancement and diffusion of knowledge’ and now a building of Manchester Art Gallery. Charles Dickens proclaimed that the more a man frequented the Athenaeum for leisure ‘the better, gentler, kinder man he must become’.

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On Thursday 8 October, free for students, a few places available at £18 for non-students…

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

23 September 1836 Opera singer Maria Malibran died aged 28 while in Manchester to perform at a music festival. Her husband immediately left town and her funeral was paid for by public subscription, with burial at @mancathedral.bsky.social. Her body was exhumed 3 months later and returned to Belgium.

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

22 September 1880 Christabel Pankhurst was born in Old Trafford. She co-founded the Women’s Social & Political Union to campaign for the vote for women, with motto ‘deeds not words’. Actions of the WSPU became more violent, with Pankhurst directing bombing and arson campaigns.

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This week in 1792 the Assembly Rooms, Mosley Street, Manchester were opened. From there grew an area of fashionable clubs and societies centred on ‘the handsomest street in Manchester’, with @porticolibrary.bsky.social built opposite and the Theatre Royal behind.

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

20 September 1653 Manchester merchant Humphrey Chetham died. His wealth paid for a school and library @chethamslibrary.bsky.social, in buildings dating from 1421. library.chethams.com/about/histor...

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Chetham's Library | The life of Humphrey Chetham

Philanthropist and former High Sheriff of Lancashire, Humphrey Chetham of Crumpsall founded a school and library

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This week in 1573 in Manchester it was ordered that any alehouse keeper found drunken should be punished by one night’s imprisonment, and should no longer be allowed to keep an alehouse.

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This week in 1573 in Manchester it was ordered that any alehouse keeper found drunken should be punished by one night’s imprisonment, and should no longer be allowed to keep an alehouse.

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This week in 1573 Manchester Court Leet ordered that ‘any unlucky tippler who was found drunk should pass the night in the dungeon and pay 6d to the poor – if the drunkard could not pay the fine the publican had to pay it for him’.

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Fairylight @ericbearshug.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Suddenly realised I’d seen the memorial to these brave men in St Annes a couple of years ago.

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

17 September 1986 Ahmed Iqbal Ullah was killed, stabbed at his Manchester school. A report by Ian Macdonald examined racial violence in schools and identified that ‘racism was one of the vital ingredients’ leading to the Bangladeshi schoolboy’s death. @aiucentre.bsky.social takes his name.

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In the year to September 1885 Manchester recorded 1,163 arrests for drunkenness. 111 of those arrested were recorded as ‘not bona fide residents’.

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Ethel Crimble @ethelcrimble.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I think I met a descendant last week outside Wetherspoons, opposite the Town Hall. When I couldn't get up the stone steps he appeared from nowhere, put his arms round me, stuck his head in my back and determined to hoist me up, saying:' We can do this, love, this is Manchester.'😂

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In the year to September 1885 Manchester recorded 1,163 arrests for drunkenness. 111 of those arrested were recorded as ‘not bona fide residents’.

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

15 September 1830 Opening of Liverpool-Manchester railway line for passenger travel. William Huskisson MP was killed by a train, the first passenger death. The Manchester station building remains @sim-manchester.bsky.social which opened on site on 15 September 1983.

Replica railway carriages at National Rail Museum York. A yellow, covered carriage emblazoned with Liverpool Manchester Railway Company. Behind - a green open wagon.

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Manchester students, join me on this walk about the Women of Oxford Road, in conjunction with @eilzabethgaskellsh.bsky.social where we'll end. Part of The Cultural Welcome @oxrdmcr.bsky.social. Free for students incl entry to the House, booking essential. 8 Oct oxfordroadcorridor.com/events/women...

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Guided walk – Women of Oxford Road

Pioneering women from the arts, literature, science, medicine and activism take centre stage on a walk exploring Oxford Road’s feminist legacy. Booking essential.

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

'When I walk through the streets of Manchester, and meet load after load of cotton, I think of those 80,000 cotton plantations on which was grown the 125 millions of dollars’ worth of cotton which supplied your market... not one cent of that money has ever reached the hands of the labourers'

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

14 September 1859 African American slavery abolitionist Sarah Parker Remond visited Manchester and gave a speech at Manchester Athenaeum (now part of Manchester Art Gallery), highlighting the city’s complicity in slavery.

Aged photo of poised seated figure - woman in dress with full skirt, buttoned down bodice, full sleeves, lighter-coloured collar, hands resting clasped on lap.

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

13 September 1877 Manchester Town Hall was officially opened. Mayor Abel Heywood unlocked the doors with a golden key. Three days of celebrations included a procession of 50,000 from trade societies, who continued the party at Manley Park, Pomona Gardens, Alexandra Park and Belle Vue.

Wide gothic building (vertical lines, pointed arches) with central clock tower with spire, against blue sky.

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

12 September 1870 Wealthy philanthropist Eleanora Atherton of Quay Street Manchester died. After the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, she had claimed around £3,400 in compensation for her share as slave-owner of 726 enslaved people in two Jamaican plantations.

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Enjoyed a trip to the Station Agent's House Manchester today as part of Heritage Open Days. Dates back to 1808, now a holiday let run by The Landmark Trust, great views of Manchester's railway heritage and the 21st Century city. Open tomorrow, free entry. www.heritageopendays.org.uk/submission-e...

Brown/orange brick building, three bays across and three storeys high. Central portico with pillars and triangular pediment. Bunting and sign for the open day.

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

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