This article explores the debate surrounding the identity of various places in Greater Manchester, highlighting their ambiguous geographic locations and diverse local loyalties.
Earlier this month an innocent question posted on a reddit messageboard sparked a fierce debate. 'Is Tyldesley classed as Manchester or Wigan?,' a user asked. You'd think there'd be a straightforward answer. But you'd think wrong. Tyldesley has a Manchester postcode, but a Wigan phone number and it comes under Wigan council. It straddles the Salford border, but its nearest town centre is Bolton.
It’s perhaps not surprising that the people of Tyldesley can’t agree exactly where their loyalties lie. And they're not alone. Across the region there are several places similarly wrestling with their own questions of local identity. From the border-straddling suburbs with divided loyalties, to the spill over estates that retain ties to their old inner-city homes, the former industrial districts re-branded by developers, here are the places in Greater Manchester no-one's sure exactly where they are: Prestwich 'I'm not from Bury' sang long-time Prestwich resident Mark E Smith in Bury Pts 1+3. And if you took a walk down Bury New Road you'd probably find many Prestwich folk would agree with the late Fall frontman's take on local geography. It's part of the borough of Bury, but it's inside the M60, has an M25 postcode and is closer to Deansgate than The Rock. In 2020 we asked the people of Prestwich if they live in Bury or Manchester and got more than 1,000 responses. And almost three out of four said Manchester. Greenheys It's not a name you hear used that often nowadays, but Greenheys was once a bustling working-class district of south Manchester and home to waves of Irish and Caribbean immigrants. However much of Greenheys was lost in the 1960s slum clearances and most of the area is now taken up by the Manchester Science Park, with very few of the original 19th Century buildings remaining, bar the Old Abbey Taphous
GREATER MANCHESTER LOCAL IDENTITY GEOGRAPHY TYLDESLEY PRESTWICH GREENHEYS
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