The same day, same city but much, much later on finds me searching St. Peter's Square for the monument to the Peterloo Massacre that is meant to be there, according to a letter in the Guardian newspaper. Most of my history knowledge from school obviously consists of WWI and WWII, see, so I have been trying to learn more about other periods. Well there were lots of things to look at, including a large War Memorial, a Peace Garden ("Manchester - a nuclear free city"), an enormous statue of a Lady Feeding Some Pigeons and the Central Library (pictured) but the Peterloo monument is very well hidden, if it does, indeed, exist at all. I abandoned the search and went to the Oyster Bar instead.
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