From parrots to porn: The changing face of Manchester's 'wildest' street
If there's one street in Manchester that can lay claim to having the wildest back-story, surely Tib Street would be in the running.
Tib Street has its origins in the 1780s and was previously the central trading district of Victorian Manchester as well as the city's main shopping district in the post-war years. It was always associated with animals and livestock but its trade became geared more towards domestic pets as the area developed in the early 1900s.
Smith inherited the family pet shop from his parents and had been trading for years even before it was taken over by another family in 1972. When Kenneth Brown took over the business in the early '70s, he opted to keep the original shop's name as it was synonymous with the street which was still a buzzing pet shop paradise.
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