Shambles Square
Tudor timber-framed pubs, dismantled and rebuilt beside the cathedral, around a lively beer-garden square.
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This guide to Shambles Square in Manchester opens at eight o'clock on a Georgian evening, with a landlord, his horsewhip and a maid holding a mop bucket. You'll meet John Shaw and his punch house, the High Tory regulars who drank there, and the shorthand-inventing poet John Byrom, born in the crooked black-and-white building beside it. Best heard standing in the square with the timber-framed pubs in front of you.
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