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  • Chapter 1: An Eventful Century
    • Introduction
    • To 1820
    • On Swan Street
    • The Drinking Classes
    • Pub Entertainments
    • More Seriously
    • 1820s-1850s
    • Smithfield Market
    • The Beer Act
    • Temperance
    • Sounds of the City
    • Broadsides
    • Marx & Engels
    • 1860s - Early 20th C.
    • Pubs with Music
    • New Owners, New Era
    • Positive Trading Outlook?
    • Italians
    • Scuttlers
    • Pickpockets
    • Pianos
    • Music Halls
    • Musicians Union
    • Brass Bands
    • Classical Music
    • Ancoats Brotherhood
    • The McKennas Sell Out
  • Chapter 2: The Publicans 1803-1856
    • Landlady & Landlords
  • Chapter 3: The McKennas
    • The McKennas Were Here
    • A Pub Dynasty
    • Music on Oldham Road
    • 2nd & 3rd Generations
    • Irish Culture
    • 3rd Generation Takeover
    • Big Brewery Buyout
    • Irish Influence Remains?
    • The First McKenna Pub
  • Chapter 4: The Building(s)
    • The Buildings: Introduction
    • 18th Century Origins
    • Into the 19th Century
    • First Expansion: 1820s
    • Second Extension: 1850s
    • The Picturehouse Building
    • Further Expansion
    • Cocozza Wood Building
  • Appendices
    • Appendix 1
    • Appendix 2
    • Appendix 3
• 20th Century History
  • The 1970s
  • 70s Programme: Steve’s Jazzy Selection
  • 70s Programme: Jazz Centre Society
  • 70s Programme: New Manchester Review
  • 70s Programme: Manchester Musicians Collective
  • 70s Programme: Lunchtime Theatre and Comedy
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1820s-1850s

Six sections that introduce the Smithfield Market, the proliferation of beerhouses, the temperance movement, the sounds and songs of the city and two famous visiting revolutionaries, Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx.