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On Wednesday, I had the pleasure of visiting the Castlefield Viaduct ahead of its reopening next weekend.
Certainly the collection of steel-and-glass towers at one end of Deansgate, home to high-powered German cars, footballers, and pristine white trainers, make it feel like Manchester is becoming a slimmed-down version of the capital. Rents and house prices also add to that feeling — and so does the price of a pint in town.“Everything just works in London,” a pal, who had moved down south, told me a few weekends ago.
So I don’t think Manchester is becoming ‘another London’, I just think it’s becoming a larger and more important city on the world stage. In Britain, we associate that with London, as it’s the UK’s only mega-city. That’s not copying the capital, though. 'I ditched my bar job to follow my passion - now I talk to pets beyond the grave' This first story is certainly weird and wonderful — but there is a wholesome touch, too. Lizzy Adams was stuck in a bar job she wasn’t too happy with, and in her early-30s, had ‘a breakdown’ after her mental health took a turn for the worse.
“I said, ‘This is going to sound really bizarre, but I think she just told me!’ the more I was going out and seeing animals, the more I was hearing what they had to say and having visions.” Mike Buckley, from Saddleworth Historical Society, said the row is one of the earliest examples of workers' housing in Saddleworth, Damon writes. "The big boom in workers' housing came in the late Victorian period," Mike said. "It was the beginning of the factory system. Until there were small mills and people worked from home. When Greenfield mill opened the workers came down from the hills to work there.
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