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An Evening at a Chorlton Death Café

by Daisy Brocklehurst, with thanks to Dr Emma Liggins (Manchester Met), the Special Collections Museum, and Tea Hive Chorlton. On the hottest week of the year so far, in a café in Chorlton, strangers conversed and shared their experiences of death. From the outside it would appear as if this was…

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The Big Splash at Victoria Baths

The Big Splash at Victoria Baths is back for 2022 and making waves like never see. Victoria Baths’ weekend swim has become a much-loved event, with the pool standing empty of water (but not activity!) for the other 362 days of the year. One of Britain’s most iconic historic swimming pool complexes…

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