Gentrification continues its march along Fitzhugh pushing eastward and leaving Red Fork Tavern and now Strangeways in its wake. The new bar, dubbed a “pub without the Irish theme to it” in a recent ...

THE riots which destroyed most of Strangeways in 1990 are known as some of the worst in British history. The prison has since been renamed after a major rebuild and reopening. This is what we know ...

Strangeways’ tower has loomed over Bury New Road for 157 years, a stark 71-metre reminder to Mancunians that some of Britain’s worst criminals are right on the city centre’s doorstep. But the ...

It was Sunday April 1 1990 and 300 prisoners – just glad to get out of their cramped cells – were attending morning service in the chapel at Strangeways jail. Chaplain Noel Proctor was about to ...

The Strangeways riot was the longest in British penal history and changed the way prisons were run in the UK. Twenty-five years on, we look back on the 25-day unrest through the stories of the people ...

The male-only jail, officially called HM Prison Manchester, is located in the Strangeways district just to the north of Manchester City Centre. The prison is famed for its prominent ventilation tower ...