Manchester Craft and Design Centre
Victorian fish and poultry market turned light-filled hall of maker studios in the original stalls.
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This guide to the Manchester Craft and Design Centre on Oak Street, Manchester, starts in nineteen seventy-three, in a Victorian fish and poultry market facing a new kind of rival a few streets away. It follows the empty years, the city council's search for a use, and the artists, bands and parties of the nineteen eighties. Stand among the small ground-floor booths while you listen.
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