Soviet era maps from 1975 show how Russian tanks were set to invade Manchester via Bury New Road...
Read moreWho is he? What has he changed? And just how important is he?
Read moreThere was Karl Marx...There was Friedrich Engels...And there was Mary Burns...Mary Burns?
Read moreWith spies trying to track every move of Friedrich Engels while he was in Manchester and Salford, he had official addresses and unofficial secret addresses. No-one knew where all these were until Roy Whitfield uncovered the web...
Read moreWhile all the places Engels lived are completely demolished, here's some commemorative sites....
Read moreFriedrich Engels - From Germany to Salford and Manchester, and the world...
Read moreFriedrich Engels - the man who really did change the world lived in Strangeways at the start of Bury New Road
Read moreManchester United’s special old training ground, The Cliff, was where everyone from George Best to David Beckham got their football education. But where is it? What’s so special about it? What else is in the area? And Is there paranormal activity at work?
Read moreHere are some details on the ace organisations that have funded the Bury New Road project...
Read moreA brief unscientific vox pop amongst friends came up with...“That link road between town and motorway”, followed by various fairly negative adjectives, which, although essentially true, we shall pass on because this is primarily a project with a positive mission. Living there myself, I always assumed it started at Chetham’s School and ended past the motorway at Besses o’ th’ Barn, where Bury New Road...
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