12/21/2023 0 Comments Ordsall hall flickr galleryNot a ticket to the Manchester Academy you may be thinking of if you’ve been to gigs at the University of Manchester in the last few decades. We’re returning to this Scrapbook series for 2021, and hope this will beguile a few minutes of lockdown for you. So that you’ll see the newly added images first, we’ll follow Hollywood practice and announce things in reverse order please go to the foot of the page and scroll up if you’d prefer to start at number one. We’ll just give the captions as posted at present, and hope to add detail and more interpretation in the future. Please do contact us, however, with any questions (better still, answers) and we’ll try to answer them or incorporate them as circumstances permit. We’ll make the images a permanent part of the website as soon as time permits, and bring out some of the many stories they tell. Apologies to those with a stronger level of interest that we’re not always able to give you chapter and verse on some of these – we can’t get at the usual lists and research materials just now. As posts like that tend to get buried, and because people seem to have been enjoying the images, we’ll add the items here as they appear on social media. There’s a little more on some of the Library’s scrapbooks here. The Manchester Scrapbook A guided browse through a slice of Manchester historyįor #MuseumFromHome in May 2020, and as a way of being in while we’re out, we decided to Tweet and Instagram an image every weekday from the Manchester Scrapbook, given to the Library in 1838 by its compiler, Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (good Wikipedia bio here). The North Western Museum of Science and Industry: Some Reminiscences by Richard Hills.Manchester Association for Constitutional Order.
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