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October 2024

Sham sailors of the dry land navy
They swashbuckled their way through the streets of Manchester, but this fake navy of sham sailors had never been within 30 miles of the sea
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Dean Kirby
6
Finding the lost souls of the River Irwell shipwreck
These are the names of the men and women who died in Manchester and Salford's forgotten maritime disaster
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Dean Kirby
5
Shipwrecked on the River Irwell
The forgotten story of the sailing barge Emma and her 300 passengers
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Dean Kirby
12
Dog and Duck
Step inside Victorian Manchester's most notorious thieving den
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Dean Kirby
2
The Pedlar's Song
And other poems from the lost Victorian Manchester street poets
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Dean Kirby
5
Jerome Caminada and the Ghost in the Piano Case
When the orchestra's sheet music began to vanish at the Free Trade Hall, Victorian's Manchester's ace detective fine tuned a clever way to catch the…
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Dean Kirby
Victorian Manchester’s Strangest Museum Rediscovered
What happened to William Bally's collection of 1,000 heads from his secretive phrenology museum in Manchester's King Street
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Dean Kirby

September 2024

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