Author: John McCrory

Front cover of The Manchester Guardian’s Civic Week Number 1926 with image of ships travelling up the canal to Manchester

by John McCrory June 19, 2021 2

“The world has a right to know what we are doing and how we are doing it.” -Manchester Civic Week

The Manchester Guardian’s Civic Week Number, 1926 “If it be asked why Manchester is holding a Civic Week, the answerContinue Reading

Plan of Chorlton Union Hospital, from Transactions of the Manchester Statistical Society, 1867.

by John McCrory April 16, 2020 2

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Florence Nightingale, Thomas Worthington, and the Chorlton Union Hospital

“If you succeed in completing the buildings for anything like the money with due regard to the simple sanitary arrangements of so great a building, you will have inaugurated a new era in building..”