It’s been reported that small moves made by the monarchy last year will ensure that Prince Harry and Prince Andrew will not be able to step in to help as the King takes time out for a medical procedure.
31.12.2023 - 06:11 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
While you can choose your friends you don't often have the same luxury when it comes to who moves in to live next door. Many of us will have had the experience of putting up with dodgy neighbours, but now many can say they spent their childhoods living next to some of Britain's most notorious murderers, rapists and gangsters?
One person who can make that claim is 63-year old Sharon Davies. Between the ages of six and 14, she lived with her parents and older brother in a now demolished block of flats right next to Strangeways, Manchester's category A+B men's prison.
The three blocks of flats were called Lancaster, York and Cornwall buildings. Known commonly as the 'dwellings', they were built right at the end of the 19th century and situated around Higgins and Knowsley Street off Cheetham Hill Road.
The buildings' architect was Henry Shelmerdine, who designed office buildings and tenements throughout Greater Manchester and North West, as well as the extensions to Manchester's Victoria Station. They four-storey flats were demolished in 1975, just after Sharon and her family left.
Having lived on the top floor of one of the blocks known as Lancaster buildings between 1966 to 1974, she told the M.E.N: "If it was now I would describe it as a slum. There were no lights on the stairs and there were no lifts. There was no inside toilets; the toilet was on the veranda outside.
"There was a coal fire in the living room. We couldn't afford to have coal in the fires in the bedrooms so when it was cold it was cold.
"We didn't have a bathroom, we just had a tin bath that we had to fill up with pans and kettles. Because we lived on the top floor of the flats it had a flat roof and the rain used to get in so we always had to cover
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