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He wrote under a pen name to wage war on hate, racism, and poverty - now his legacy will live on

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"What is the good of building magnificent schools in which children can spend five hours a day for five days a week if the rest of their time when awake has to be spent in the street because their houses are holes to sleep in not homes to live in."The words appeared in a regular column published in the Manchester Guardian.

The author used the pen-name 'Artifex'.But they were actually the beliefs of Canon Peter Green, the Rector of St Philips Church in Salford, and were written in 1944.

Canon Green was born in 1871 and served as the Rector at St Philips Church from 1911 – 1951, serving through two world wars in what was then a tough, deprived, dockyard community.

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