Afflecks
Indie market emporium of quirky stalls, with tile mosaics of local legends on its outer wall.
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This guide to Afflecks in Manchester's Northern Quarter follows Mark Kennedy, a self-taught mosaicist who came to Tib Street as a boy for its pet shops and joke shop, and the wall he covered in broken tile. It touches the market's beginnings in nineteen eighty-two, when James and Elaine Walsh rented stalls by the week, and the day the building changed hands. Best heard on Tib Street, facing the mosaics.
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