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Who were they? What did they achieve and what were they doing in the Railway and Naturalist pub?

Alan Wise was well connected to everyone in the Manchester music scene...

Here Fizzy Benfield pieces together the mad life and times of Alan Wise...

Who is he? What did he change? And just how important is one of the key architects of the very best Manchester music?

Two new banners depicting Bugzy Malone and Mark E Smith have been unveiled in Prestwich Village

Four rare items saved for the Bury Archives...

The Fall co-founder, Una Baines, worked at Prestwich Hospital and Mark E Smith made lots of references to it in his work...

A load of rare Mark E Smith/The Fall items are being auctioned on 13th September and there is an attempt to save the archive for the people of Bury

From Cavendish Road to international fame...

Loves, records, The Beatles and The Rialto...