STAGE TWO
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MANIPULATIONS
the PETERLOO MASSACARE was a massacare which took place in ST PETERS SQUARE, MANCHESTER on MONDAY, 16TH AUGUST 1819. With 18 deaths and 400-700 inguries, the event is now widely forgotten, no tributes stand in the square despite the lives given by MANCHESTER workers, desperate for the right to vote.
MAMUCIUM is the name given to MANCHESTER by the Romans, who first settled here in 79AD and built this fort in what is now CASTLEFIELD. Unlike PETERLOO, there now stands a reconstruction of the roman fort, made c.1982 with remenants found in an archaeological dig, which still continue frequently in the area.
ANGEL MEDOW- once the most dangerous, poverty ridden slum of the industrial revolution, home to 30,000 factory workers is now a green sanctuary in one of the most developed areas of MANCHESTER. Lowry documents the site post demolition 1941, but still standing is the now demolished ST MICHAELS CHURCH- deemed at the time to be MANCHESTER'S ugliest church.