Afflecks occupies a large, multi-story building at the junction of Church, Tib, and Dale Streets, immediately recognizable by the dramatic galvanized steel tree climbing up its outer wall. This indoor market stands as a center for…
Northern Quarter Street Culture
This walk weaves through the creative heart of Manchester's Northern Quarter, introducing you to legendary record shops, independent maker studios, and vibrant street art defining the city's counterculture.
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1. Afflecks
2. Piccadilly Records
Piccadilly Records is a long-standing independent music store on Oldham Street, identifiable by its deep connection to the city's musical output since the late nineteen seventies. It began not as a record store, but as a record department…
3. Manchester Craft and Design Centre
The Manchester Craft and Design Centre is a nineteenth-century building on Oak Street that originally opened as the Smithfield Fish Market in eighteen seventy-five. You can identify it by the ornate cast iron gate and two restored…
4. Andy Rourke Memorial Mural
The Andy Rourke memorial mural is a large, hyper-realistic, black-and-white portrait painted on the side of the Wheatsheaf pub on Oak Street. It shows the late Smiths bassist in his prime, captured with his instrument during a nineteen…
5. Outhouse
The Out House project occupies a series of concrete and brick structures in Stevenson Square that were once brutalist public toilets. These abandoned restrooms sat as eyesores for decades until two local artists, Tasha Whittle and Ben…
6. Fred Aldous Ltd
Fred Aldous Limited is a three-story craft emporium identifiable by the two vintage photobooths tucked inside its entrance, one from nineteen sixty-seven and another from the nineteen eighties. Established in eighteen eighty-six, the shop…