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Jude Rhodes's avatar

Fascinating account of the massacre; so much is written about it but you have brought the people involved to life. Thank you Dean

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Anne Forster's avatar

Such a wonderful epitaph of that awful day. Some things never change do they? Just the cause is different . The Peterloo peaceful supporters had 'right' on their side though ,fighting for a just cause that eventually came to make all our lives more equal.

When the marchers turned off Rochdale Road (St Georges Road I think then?) and evaded the authorities they would have passed through a pleasantly rural area beginning to be more industrial down by the river with dye works, no rows of terraces though yet . They weren't built until the 1870s or thereabouts , I grew up in one of those. Onto Collyhurst Road , not sure if that was the name then for the low road following the Irk, I've seen it named Portland Street leading to Ashley Lane.

In earlier times they may have passed someone looking after the pigs that were turned out onto the grassy places as the pigs kept in Angel Meadow couldn't stay there during the day . Those days had gone though. As they proceeded it would have become more built up and eventually into the wretched place of Angel Meadow.

Mrs G Linnaeus Banks' book 'The Manchester Man' gives an interesting account from the lead character's viewpoint and how he got mixed up in the massacre.

I know you'll know this information Dean but some of your readers may not.

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