Local historian, Robert Trueblood assesses the achievements of the Artisan Naturalists...
Read moreThe lives and times of John Horsefield, Richard Buxton and James Percival
Read moreWho were they? What did they achieve and what were they doing in the Railway and Naturalist pub?
Read moreHere Chrissie McBride remembers 463/465 Bury New Road, when the houses were filled with mad and incredible characters...
Read moreFour rare items saved for the Bury Archives...
Read moreUNISON, biggest public sector trade union in the country owes its formation, in part to Prestwich Hospital staff...
Read moreLocal historical collector, Craig Brisbane, has amassed an amazing collection of items relating to Prestwich Hospital...
Read moreAfter 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...
Read moreInterviews with ex-staff from the hospital shine a light on some gruesome goings on...
Read moreThe good, the bad and the very ugly!
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