King Street
Elegant city-centre street of Georgian and Victorian banks, offices and upmarket shops.
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This guide to King Street in Manchester follows Charles White, the eighteenth-century physician who practised and lectured in anatomy from his family home on this street, and the wealthy patient whose body passed into his keeping in seventeen fifty-eight. It weighs a local legend against the paper trail of her will, and moves from Ancoats Hall to a house in Sale and a society museum. Best heard standing midway along the street, among its banks and shopfronts.
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