Art forms
A few suggested cultural milestones involving representations of Manchester which might provoke local interest among members to find out more:
Manchester Painters
Adolphe Valette
L S Lowry
Roger Hampson
Manchester Novelists
Elizabeth Gaskell, 'Mary Barton', 'North And South', et al.
Mrs G Linnaeus Banks, 'The Manchester Man'
Manchester Playwrights
Stanley Houghton ('Hindle Wakes', 1912)
Harold Brighouse ('Hobson's Choice', 1916)
Shelagh Delaney ('A Taste of Honey', 1958)
Bill Naughton (active 1957 to 1992)
Popular Music
The Twisted Wheel, The Oasis, The Jungfrau, The Hacienda
Tony Wilson's Factory Records
The Northern Soul scene
The Hollies, Oasis, The Smiths
Classical Music
The Halle Orchestra, Barbirolli and Sergeant
Manchester Camerata
Free Trade Hall and Bridgewater Hall
Manchester Composers Harrison Birtwistle Peter Maxwell Davis David Ellis Alexander Goehr
Royal Manchester College of Music(1893) Royal College of Music(1920)
Cheethams school of music
Brass bands - connections with factories
Film representations of Manchester and environs
'Sing As We Go' (Bolton, 1934); 'A Taste Of Honey' (Salford, 1961); 'A Kind Of Loving' (Manchester, 1962); 'Spring and Port Wine' (Bolton, 1970); 'Looking For Eric' (Manchester, 2009)
Television Constructions of 'northern-ness'
Tony Warren, 'Coronation Street' (ITV, 1960 to date)
Paul Abbott , 'Shameless' (C4, 2004-2013)
Sally Wainwright, 'Scott and Bailey' (ITV, 2011-2016)
Sydney Bernstein's Granada Television – 'From the North'
'The Royle Family' (BBC, 1998-2000)
'Cold Feet' (ITV, 1998-2003); 'Cutting It' (BBC, 2002-2005)
'Clocking Off' (BBC 2000-2003)
Mass Observation and Culture
Bolton as 'Worktown': Mass Observation in the 1930s
Tom Harrisson, Charles Madge, Humphrey Spender and Humphrey Jennings
The first Newspaper The Manchester Weekly Journal published 1791
Leisure Pursuits
Wakes Weeks; Music Hall & Variety Theatre; Sport; Speedway at Belle Vue;
Ballroom Dancing; Pub culture;
Worship, churches, chapel, synagogue, Sunday School, Whit Walks
Stories of Public houses in Manchester inparticular those closed demolished or disappeared.
City Architecture
Statuary and Sculpture in GM public spaces
The warehouses, mills and factories of Manchester used in cotton trade
Manchester Painters
Adolphe Valette
L S Lowry
Roger Hampson
Manchester Novelists
Elizabeth Gaskell, 'Mary Barton', 'North And South', et al.
Mrs G Linnaeus Banks, 'The Manchester Man'
Manchester Playwrights
Stanley Houghton ('Hindle Wakes', 1912)
Harold Brighouse ('Hobson's Choice', 1916)
Shelagh Delaney ('A Taste of Honey', 1958)
Bill Naughton (active 1957 to 1992)
Popular Music
The Twisted Wheel, The Oasis, The Jungfrau, The Hacienda
Tony Wilson's Factory Records
The Northern Soul scene
The Hollies, Oasis, The Smiths
Classical Music
The Halle Orchestra, Barbirolli and Sergeant
Manchester Camerata
Free Trade Hall and Bridgewater Hall
Manchester Composers Harrison Birtwistle Peter Maxwell Davis David Ellis Alexander Goehr
Royal Manchester College of Music(1893) Royal College of Music(1920)
Cheethams school of music
Brass bands - connections with factories
Film representations of Manchester and environs
'Sing As We Go' (Bolton, 1934); 'A Taste Of Honey' (Salford, 1961); 'A Kind Of Loving' (Manchester, 1962); 'Spring and Port Wine' (Bolton, 1970); 'Looking For Eric' (Manchester, 2009)
Television Constructions of 'northern-ness'
Tony Warren, 'Coronation Street' (ITV, 1960 to date)
Paul Abbott , 'Shameless' (C4, 2004-2013)
Sally Wainwright, 'Scott and Bailey' (ITV, 2011-2016)
Sydney Bernstein's Granada Television – 'From the North'
'The Royle Family' (BBC, 1998-2000)
'Cold Feet' (ITV, 1998-2003); 'Cutting It' (BBC, 2002-2005)
'Clocking Off' (BBC 2000-2003)
Mass Observation and Culture
Bolton as 'Worktown': Mass Observation in the 1930s
Tom Harrisson, Charles Madge, Humphrey Spender and Humphrey Jennings
The first Newspaper The Manchester Weekly Journal published 1791
Leisure Pursuits
Wakes Weeks; Music Hall & Variety Theatre; Sport; Speedway at Belle Vue;
Ballroom Dancing; Pub culture;
Worship, churches, chapel, synagogue, Sunday School, Whit Walks
Stories of Public houses in Manchester inparticular those closed demolished or disappeared.
City Architecture
Statuary and Sculpture in GM public spaces
The warehouses, mills and factories of Manchester used in cotton trade