The Manchester ManBanks, G. Linnaeus (George Linnaeus), Mrs.
General
The Manchester Man
Banks, G. Linnaeus (George Linnaeus), Mrs.
Manchester (England) -- Fiction
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It is only honest to add that I am indebted to a correspondent of the
_Manchester City News_ “Notes and Queries” for the above.
I. B.
_London_, April, 1881.
APPENDIX No. III.
When in Manchester last Autumn, at the house of a friend at Heaton
Moor, I was introduced to a lady whose father had occupied premises
as a tea-merchant at the New Cross end of Oldham Street, at the time
of the Peterloo disturbance, and from her obtained the following
particulars, which I have her sanction to put on record, and give in
her own words:—
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