Trotters and tripe

How Victorian gutter merchants made a killing selling street food to drunks on their way home from the pub

It was said you could buy anything your heart desired on the streets of Victorian Manchester.

Gutter merchants sold their wares in the ginnels — fruit, flowers, toys, ginger beer, icecream, art, literature, toothpicks, bird whistles and combs.

And on the food stalls around Shudehill you would also find trotters and tripe being sold to drunks on their way …