For classical music enthusiasts, those who are curious, or even people looking for a new way to spend their evenings in Manchester, the Hallé has something for everyone as they transition from their Spring Season to the next phase of the year, ensuring they end the season on a high note. The Hallé is now wrapping up with some of the biggest events of the year so far and has the perfect way to end a successful run; by celebrating several important figures in musical history and even its own roots as a Manchester institution.
How Manchester's Red Bank slum welcomed Jews and Ukrainians before changing the world - as it faces its biggest transformation
20.03.2022 - 11:09 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Red Bank, on the northern outskirts of Manchester city centre, has witnessed huge changes over the years.
It's long been a melting pot of cultures and nationalities and it's played a pivotal role in the development of both Manchester's Jewish and Ukrainian communities.
And now, as plans to create a giant new neighbourhood along the River Irk move forward, the area is once again on the verge of transformation.
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In the mid 19th Century Red Bank became the centre of Jewish working-class life in the city. Hundreds of poor Eastern European Jewish immigrants settled in the cramped, squalid warren of terraced houses at the bottom of Cheetham Hill Road.
It was, according to Bill Williams, a renowned historian of Manchester's Jewish history, a 'classic slum'.
He wrote: "Self-contained and shielded from view by the lie of the land and a facade of shops and public buildings, socially barricaded in by the railway and industries of the polluted valley of the Irk and so neglected and ill-lit as to be in a state of perpetual midnight."
But Red Bank was also a hive of industry. Initially many of its inhabitants scraped a living as hawkers or street peddlers. But as the community grew they became tailors, cap-makers, glaziers and took jobs in the relatively new water-proofing industry.
By the 1850s Red Bank was also home to a tannery, piggery and a brewery, while over the river were several corn mills, and the main railway viaduct of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. The district was also a breeding ground for working class radicalism as its residents joined and established trade unions.
Red Bank's influence reached a global stage when it featured in
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