Just off Chester Road, overlooked by the tower cranes and skyscrapers of Manchester's never-ending building boom, there's a little corner of the city that's steeped in history.
St George's in Hulme is home to the remains of an army barracks with a tragic link to Peterloo and a row of terraced houses that must rank among the prettiest in Manchester.
Pooley's Buildings, an elegant but neglected Georgian townhouse, is the only surviving part of the barracks. READ MORE:The promising boxer who represented his country - who threw it all away to become a drug trafficker It's thought to have been built - as a pair of properties - around 1820 by wealthy mill owner John Pooley, when Hulme was still a fairly rural area on the outskirts of the rapidly growing city centre.
Initially split into six dwellings, the houses were set in two large gardens which ran down to the Corn Brook, with Corn Brook Park directly behind.
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