I ought to have found this interesting but I didn't! By 1861, 4 sets of my 2 x GGPs were living in Manchester (not in Angel Meadows though, admittedly) in working class areas.
The photos attached to the article showed remarkably clean streets and housing, which wasn't luxurious but did not look in the least bit slummy for the time. The lodging house looked positively palatial, with mounds of bedding and a WINDOW
The article didn't really give any sense of the time and place. A disappointing piece of journalism in my opinion.
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