The fall and rise of Nancy Dickybird

She was the terror of Manchester police, but Nancy Dickybird became beloved by Mancunians for her singing from the city's jail cells

Nancy Dickybird was a well known character around the streets of North Manchester.

So well known, that the landlords of the pubs in Miles Platting put out sentries to keep watch for her coming up the street.

The Manchester author Anthony Burgess wrote about Nancy in the first part of his autobiography Little Wilson and Big God.

Growing up in the district,…