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Salford-born actor Albert Finney declined a CBE in 1980, and a knighthood in 2000. He described the idea of knighting people as "a disease".

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Piccadilly Bus Station, Manchester, early 1980s.

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Bonfire Night, Moss Side, 1972.

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Angel Meadow, Manchester 1890. A young barefooted child carrying a quart of ale from the local pub.

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Confirmed - a new BBC Two one-off documentary, 'The Hacienda: The Club That Shook Britain' will be broadcast on Saturday 5th November. "It combines rare and unseen archive footage with first-hand insightful testimony from those who were involved during the Hacienda's heyday."

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Bonfire Night, Moss Side, 1972. Photograph by Daniel Meadows.

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Boy dressed as cowboy staring out at newly built tower blocks in Collyhurst, Manchester. January 1968. Photo by Dennis Hussey

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Clint Eastwood on St Peter's Square, Manchester, June 1967. Eastwood was on a UK tour promoting 'A Fistful of Dollars'.

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Corbieres is hidden away on Half Moon Street, a back alleyway between Cross St and St. Ann’s Square. It was opened in 1978 by #mcfc footballer Mike Doyle. Historically, the quality of the the music on the jukebox has always been one of the most commented-on features of the bar.

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It’s 44 years ago today since Joy Division were photographed on the Epping Walk Bridge in Hulme, Manchester, by Kevin Cummins. 6th January 1979.

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Footage of Prime Minister Harold Wilson officially opening the Mancunian Way on 5 May 1967. The highway in the sky...

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The Ritz, Whitworth St, Manchester. c.1930. Millions of feet on the dancefloor since, and so many memories...

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A cleaning lady polishes the banisters at the ABC Cinema in Manchester, during a performance by the Beatles, 20th November 1963.

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This is in a world where for 90% of Mancunians the Manchester Central Convention Complex is still called G-Mex two decades after it was renamed.

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Twitter will officially rebrand as X later today, Elon Musk confirms.

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WH Smith bookshop, Victoria Station, Manchester. 1925

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Tib Street, Manchester, 1974

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The City pub on Oldham Street, Manchester closed down for good today - 4th September 2022 - with a history going back over two hundred years. For some time it was called the King's Arms. The City 1804 - 2022.

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Manchester, 1992. No Bridgewater Hall, no Deansgate Locks, no Hilton...

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The Mancunian Way, 1963 The red bus is on Oxford Rd (just at where Hatch now is) about to go under the Mancunian Way, towards All Saints, heading south.

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Afflecks Arcade, Oldham St, Manchester, 1990. Identity and Eastern Bloc - two classic shops of the era.

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Why is Band on the Wall called Band on the Wall? The enterprising landlady wanted space to get more drinkers in so she put the performers on a stage built into the wall, accessible by steps. The photo shows servicemen & women frequenting the venue during the Second World War.

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So who went to Quaffers in Bredbury???

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The Merseyway Shopping Centre, Stockport, 1970.

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University of Manchester's Whitworth Park student residences (aka. "the Toblerones") in 1976.

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The Smiths at the ruins of the old Manchester Central Station - a building which was later revived, becoming known as G-Mex. Photo from May 1983 (photo by Paul Slattery).

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Manchester, 1954.

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There was a time when the weekend meant a visit here...

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The Roadhouse on Newton St, Manchester. Closed in 2015. A great venue/club. So many bands played there who later went on to big success. The White Stripes, and Coldplay among them...

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Tib Street entrance to Affleck's Palace, 1995.

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Violet Carson (Ena Sharples from 'Coronation Street'), photo taken in 1968 by John Madden. She is standing on a balcony on one of the newly built high-rises on the Hulme/Moss Side border - with Moss Side in the background...

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Hot dog man chatting up three Manchester City fans, Maine Rd, 1977. Photograph Iain S. P. Reid #hotdog

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Sixty years ago, 27 May 1958 the first ever performance of Shelagh Delaney's 'A Taste of Honey' was performed at the Theatre Royal Stratford East.

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15 June 1996, twenty-five years ago, on a sunny Saturday morning, the IRA bombed Manchester. Fortunately, tens of thousands of people were successfully evacuated from the area before the bomb exploded. More than two hundred people were injured but there were no fatalities.

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The Arndale bus station. A joyless place!!

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Hulme, Manchester, 1987.

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The Beer Keller. Not for delicate souls.

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Cyprus Tavern, Princess Street, Manchester mid-1970s. How about a 'Like' if you ever had a night out here???!

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Corn Exchange, 1990.

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1970. A group of children hold a football after playing a game by a garage in the back streets of Manchester. Photo by Bob Thomas Sports Photography.

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Railway viaduct, Stockport, 1954.

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A young lad in Collyhurst dressed-up as a cowboy, January 1968.

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Stolen from Ivor, Manchester Arndale Centre, 1998.

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Happy 75th Birthday to the @NHSuk Trafford General Hospital (built 1926-28) is known as the birthplace of the NHS. On this day in 1948, the hospital was symbolically handed over to health minister Nye Bevan, thus becoming the first in the world to offer free healthcare to all.

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The Hacienda night club and music venue, Whitworth Street West, Manchester. Photo taken: 22nd December 1994.

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The Bee Gees visit their former school, Oswald Road County Primary, Chorlton, Manchester, in 1981.

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Clippercards were launched in December 1979 by Greater Manchester Transport. The ten trip ticket... 10 journeys for the price of 9. In operation from 1979 to 2004.

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Cotton mill workers, Manchester, 1905 - photograph from the National Archives @UkNatArchives

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Parrswood, East Didsbury. 1930.

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A newly built tower block of social housing flats rises up behind a street of partly demolished terraced housing in Collyhurst, Manchester, 1965.

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Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook at Salford Grammar School, 1969 #joydivision #neworder

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Ancoats. Photo taken this morning by @garethmanc

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L.S. Lowry, English painter and illustrator was born on this day, November 1st in 1887 (d. 1976). Here he's pictured back at his hometown of Pendlebury, Salford, the location of so many of his paintings. Photo from 1964.

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Children on Acomb St near Whitworth Park, Manchester, 1972. The old Denmark pub in the background (photo @MancLibraries )

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A bus stop in Manchester in 1976. The stop is on Corporation Street looking down towards what is now the Printworks. Approximately where the side entrance to Selfridges is now. The very recognisable cladding on the original Arndale visible opposite the stop. Photo by John Bulmer,

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Market Centre (aka. "the underground market"), Manchester. Entrance on Brown Street, just off Market Street. The building to the right is now Tesco. At one time Market Centre housed up to four record stores and various shops selling jeans. Plus a hippy shop and a tattooist...

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Policeman using a radio in an unmarked Marina car in Hulme in 1975. On the back the Eagle pub and the Robert Adam Crescent

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Peveril of the Peak, photo from 2007. A glorious pub.

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Moss Side, 1964. Photograph by Shirley Baker.

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Christmas decorations adorn the outside of Lewis's, Market St, Manchester. 1949. The building is now occupied by Primark. The Arcade on the left was a covered L-shaped walkway running from Market Street and out onto Mosley Street. The Arcade entrance shown here is now Caffe Nero.

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Dry Bar, Oldham St, Manchester, United Kingdom, Architect; Ben Kelly Design. Seen here the year it was opened; July 1989 by Factory Records (catalogue number 'FAC 201').

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Manchester, 1977. Photographer John Bulmer.

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Two women walking in the rain along Mosley St, Piccadilly Gardens, 1959. They've just walked past where Burger King is currently situated, and the linen shop on their left is now a Santander bank.

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Whitworth Street West before the building of Deansgate Locks. Date c1988/9. Photographer David Evans (via Facebook).

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View from the steps of Manchester Art Gallery looking towards St Peter's Square, September 1937.

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21st May 1982 - the opening night of the Hacienda club, Whitworth Street West, Manchester. This is the building that became the Hacienda - photo from 1964 (pic @archivesplus @MancLibraries ) #fac51 #Hacienda

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Salford born playwright Shelagh Delaney, pictured after a press conference reception prior to her new play 'The Lion In Love' opening at the Palace Theatre, Manchester. September 1960.

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Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester. December 1947.

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Hulme, Manchester, January 1980. Photo © Peter Young. Overlooking The Eagle Pub and Robert Adam Crescent. via @britcultarchive

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Major scenes! Crowds greeted boxer Muhammad Ali when he visited Stretford Arndale (now @StretfordMall ) to promote Ovaltine @Tesco 12 October #otd in 1971

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Moss Side, Manchester. Spring 1972. Group portrait by Daniel Meadows: Manchester City football supporters on their way to a game at Maine Road. The young woman on the left has written CITY in biro on the turn-up of her right trouser leg #mcfc #DanielMeadows

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Circus Tavern, Portland St, Manchester. 1970. Said to be one of the smallest pubs in Britain. Also one of the oldest pubs in Manchester - the building dates back to 1790, although it only became a pub in about 1840. Still in operation today and listed as a Grade II building.

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St Peters Square, Manchester 1911. The Midland Hotel had only been open a few years and Central Library was still two decades away from being built.

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20 Feb #otd in 1988 - 20,000 gathered in Albert Square to protest Section 28 drafted by Margaret Thatcher's Tory government to clamp down on public discussion of LGBT rights. Ian McKellen behind the banner flanked by Michael Cashman & Peter Tatchell. Photo by Peter Walsh.

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Deansgate, 1988.

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Rememberig Mark E Smith, who died a year ago #OTD A unique artist, great writer, charismatic frontman, and argumentative and disordelry son of Salford. Mark E Smith (5 March 1957 – 24 January 2018)

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A rag and bone man pulling a handcart loaded with waste and scrap along a street in Manchester, England in 1976. Photo by John Bulmer.

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Construction of Central Library, St Peter's Square, Manchester, 1930 - 1934. View from the top of the Midland Hotel. The library was designed by E Vincent Harris. The library was officially opened by King George V on 17 July 1934 @MancLibraries @archivesplus

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Christmas decorations at the Lewis's store, Manchester, 1949. The view is Market Street, the building now houses Primark.

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Shoppers using a travelator when visiting Merseyway Shopping Centre, Stockport (photo circa 1970). The Merseyway Shopping Centre, one of the earliest shopping precincts in the United Kingdom, opened in 1965.

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Manchester, 1977. Photograph by John Bulmer.

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Tib St, 1984.

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15th June #otd in 1996, amazing there were no fatalities when the IRA bombed Manchester. We all remember where we were that unforgettable Saturday...

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Happy birthday @MarcusRashford 23 years old today and already, for so many reasons, a Manchester icon.

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Deansgate, Manchester, August 1976. The two-screen ABC cinema offering a choice between 'All the President's Men' and 'It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet'. The cinema had opened as Deansgate Picture House in 1914. The cinema closed in 1990. It's now the Moon Under Water public house.

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Man with dog, Manchester, 1946. Photographer; Charles Fenno Jacobs

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Shambles Square, Manchester, 1983.

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Cat jumping, Salford, 1957. Photo Neil Libbert. #CatsOnTwitter #Salford

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Oxford cinema on Oxford Street, Manchester. 1968. And the same spot 56 years later....

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A group of men wait at a bus stop in Trafford, Manchester, 1971. Photo by Romano Cagnoni.

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A primary school teacher leading a group of children across a road, Manchester, January 1956. Photograph by Bert Hardy for 'Picture Post'.

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The top of Fennel Street, 1981. Photo by Ted Motler. This view is now the site of the National Football Museum.

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Piccadilly, Manchester, possibly 1988. Debenhams, Giant Hot Dogs and Chelsea Girl on the far right.

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The former Manchester Central railway station. The station stood empty from 1967 until 1984 - during that time used as a car park. Then it was transformed into G-Mex - and is now known as Manchester Central, hosting conferences and events.

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Mr and Mrs Lackfield with their children George and John of Blackley in Manchester setting off on a day trip in the rain. 1942.

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Rowntrees/Lloyd's Cafe, Back Pool Fold, Manchester, 1914 #MeatTeas Later became the New Exchange Cafe. In the 1980s it was home to Geese Clothing.

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6 January #otd 1979 Kevin Cummins photographed Joy Division on a bridge over Princess Parkway, Hulme, Manchester.

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Ford Capri, Manchester, 1977. Photo; John Bulmer.

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Train passengers at Victoria Station on August bank holiday 1937. That view is still possible today - the refreshment area to the bottom right is now Starbucks. There's now a Gregg's along on the left.