Stevenson Square
Cobbled Georgian square of red-brick warehouses, bars and an ever-changing street-art toilet block.
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This guide to Stevenson Square in Manchester's Northern Quarter goes back to March 1863, when the Lancashire cotton famine had left thousands of mill families hungry and American relief ships brought flour across the Atlantic. It follows the day the city's authorities chose to mark the gift, and a royal wedding, with a parade on these cobbles. Along the way you'll meet William Stevenson, the developer whose fashionable plans for the square never came to pass. Best heard beside the painted old toilet block at its centre.
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