Heritage

UNISON, biggest public sector trade union in the country owes its formation, in part to Prestwich Hospital staff...

Local historical collector, Craig Brisbane, has amassed an amazing collection of items relating to Prestwich Hospital...

After the hospital’s Doctor Montagu Lomax published his book, The Experiences of an Asylum Doctor in 1921, the country changed its attitude towards people with mental health problems...

Interviews with ex-staff from the hospital shine a light on some gruesome goings on...

The good, the bad and the very ugly!

What is it? What did it change? And just how important is the hospital that led to improved care for the whole country and was instrumental in the beginnings of the trade union movement?

After 600 years, Manchester Cathedral still making a huge contribution to Greater Manchester life...

“It is quite nostalgic but at the same time we are aware of the changes in the city region and we as a cathedral need to evolve with it...” Rogers Govender, Dean of Manchester

With some great music, poetry, talks, exhibitions and the Yiddish Dictionary launch, the Bury New Road Festival brought the best of Prestwich and Salford...

Bronze Age arrow heads, Civil War musket balls, photos, postcards and more from the collection of Craig Brisbane