St. Michael's Flags & Angel Meadow Park

United Kingdom

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In this tour by historian and writer Dean Kirby, the author of the bestselling book Angel Meadow: Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum, you will walk alongside the River Irk, through the tree-lined Angel Meadow park and down streets where new apartments stand alongside former ragged schools and hear the hidden story of how the district and its people shaped one of the world’s greatest cities.

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1Orientation

Welcome to St. Michael’s Flags and Angel Meadow Park, a place where the tranquil green of a modern urban park masks a history of unimaginable horror and human degradation. …
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2Victoria Station and the River Irk — The Industrial Onslaught

We begin our exploration near Victoria Station, the arrival of which in the mid-19th century exacerbated the already desperate housing congestion in Angel Meadow. To build this upmarket station and its subsequent extensions,…
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3The Charter Street Ragged School — Education for the Destitute

We stand before the Charter Street Ragged School, one of two such 'industrial free schools' that operated in the heart of Angel Meadow. These institutions were established by charities and volunteers to provide basic discipline…
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4St. Michael's Flags — The Flagged Graveyard

We are now at the center of the park, the area historically known as St. Michael’s Flags. …
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5The Path of Engels and Marx — A Radical Legacy

As we walk toward the fringes of the park, we are tracing the steps of Friedrich Engels, the son of a German textile mill owner who was so shocked by what he saw in Manchester that he decided to document it. Engels spent…
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6Closing

As we conclude our tour of St. Michael’s Flags and Angel Meadow Park, I hope you have been moved by the profound history that lies beneath this green landscape. …
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