Mayfield Park
Riverside city-centre park where a long-buried river runs free again between lawns, bridges and trees.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Mayfield Park in Manchester stands on the banks of the River Medlock, a river that spent more than fifty years buried under concrete before the park opened in twenty twenty-two. It turns on one summer evening in twenty twenty-three, when Lahore artist Risham Syed opened the Manchester International Festival here with a work called Each Tiny Drop, and hundreds of people were handed small pots of unfired clay. Stand close to the water's edge to listen.
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