HMP Manchester

From Mosley in the 1930s to the National Front in the 1970s, Bury New Road has always figured in the fight against racism and fascism...

Strangeways Prison warders were members of the National Front, so 10,000 people showed up to protest at the start of the Northern Carnival Against Nazis...

Mary Monson, who defended striking miners and Strangeways Prison rioters, and who supported many community causes, including the Salford Unemployed Centre and Mary Burns Community Group, has sadly passed away...

The famous album by The Smiths partly inspired the 2018 comedy film by Chris Green, starring Michelle Keegan...

Who were they? How important are they? What were they doing on Bury New Road?