Manchester Town Hall
Victorian civic palace on a grand square, its Great Hall lined with twelve murals of local history.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Manchester Town Hall leaves the council chamber behind for a Broughton attic in November sixteen thirty-nine, where a cloth merchant named William Crabtree pointed a telescope at the Sun because a young curate friend had asked him to. It follows the letters between two amateur astronomers, the Lancashire weather, and a question about what one man saw on a sheet of paper. Best heard in Albert Square, facing the building that holds his mural.
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