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06.03.2022 - 10:55 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Just off Chester Road, overlooked by the tower cranes and skyscrapers of Manchester's never-ending building boom, there's a little corner of the city that's steeped in history.
St George's in Hulme is home to the remains of an army barracks with a tragic link to Peterloo and a row of terraced houses that must rank among the prettiest in Manchester.
Pooley's Buildings, an elegant but neglected Georgian townhouse, is the only surviving part of the barracks.
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It's thought to have been built - as a pair of properties - around 1820 by wealthy mill owner John Pooley, when Hulme was still a fairly rural area on the outskirts of the rapidly growing city centre.
Initially split into six dwellings, the houses were set in two large gardens which ran down to the Corn Brook, with Corn Brook Park directly behind.
Opposite stood Hulme Barracks, the base at various times of the 15th Hussars, the 11th Hussars and the 2nd Heavy Dragoons among others, and at some point Pooley's Buildings was incorporated into the complex and used as the officers' mess and quartermaster's house.
The year before Pooley's Buildings was constructed the 15th Hussars were involved in one of the darkest days in Manchester's history.
On August 16, 1819 the cavalrymen charged reform campaigners in St Peter's Field, in what became known as the Peterloo Massacre.
Eighteen people were killed and around 700 injured in an atrocity that, eventually, paved the way for democratic reform in parliament.
Historian and author Andrew Simpson has written extensively about Pooley's Buildings in his blog Chorlton History.
He said: "It's a very intriguing building and a
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