Free Trade Hall
Palazzo-style sandstone hall facade on the Peterloo site, birthplace of suffragette militancy.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Free Trade Hall in Manchester starts with a small tablet on the building's side and an election rally on an October evening in nineteen oh five. It follows Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney, a mill worker from Saddleworth, as they walk into a hall full of Liberal politicians with a question to ask. Along the way it touches the ground beneath the hall, St Peter's Fields, and the older Manchester fight for a voice remembered there.
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