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Who is he? What has he changed? And just how important is he?

There was Karl Marx...There was Friedrich Engels...And there was Mary Burns...Mary Burns?

With spies trying to track every move of Friedrich Engels while he was in Manchester and Salford, he had official addresses and unofficial secret addresses. No-one knew where all these were until Roy Whitfield uncovered the web...

While all the places Engels lived are completely demolished, here's some commemorative sites....

Friedrich Engels in his own words...

Friedrich Engels - From Germany to Salford and Manchester, and the world...

A Prestwich walking tour in the footsteps of The Fall...

John Cooper Clarke On Life In Higher Broughton...

John Cooper Clarke speaks out on everything...

John Cooper Clarke - Who is he? What did he change? And just how important is the greatest British spoken word poet and the Bard of Salford?