Talk:Cathedral Gardens
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Engels's 'The Condition of the Working Class in England' focusses mainly on the area known as 'Little Ireland', not the area around what is now called Cathedral Gardens. 'Little Ireland' was behind Oxford Road train station (not built at the time, the 1840s). If you walk down Hulme Street, off Oxford Road, you will find it: it is the complex of buildings that includes Chorlton Mill and the old Mackinotsh building, running along the Dunlop building, at the back of which is the river Medlock, a source of a lot of the disease that Engels mentions. The area still reatains a somewhat gloomy atmosphere. Psychogeographers would would no doubt account for this as an echo of the squalid conditions that once pertained there. The only street intact in this area from the time of Engels is the small cobbled one in front of the Salisbury pub next to the train station.
mikeyboyproduct
Thanks Mikey, I have made the correction but still think we need a citation on the Marx/Engels connection. Thought he did most of his writing in the British library. Mike33
Engels and Marx worked together extensively in Chet's LIbrary, though which one of their many works was produced there is a subject of some dispute--assumption is The Communist MAnifesto.
