This page compiles the resources developed by those who have worked with us at workshops and other events.

Local history walk, 6th April 2025: information booklet (download as PDF below):

This booklet contains very extensive information about the old Roundhouse on Every Street and the former site of Ancoats Hall.

Visual anthropology workshop, March 2025

A group of 20 or more students from the MA Visual Anthropology and PhD in Visual Anthropology from the university visited Pin Mill Brow in mid-March to experiment with various kinds of sensory mapping of the space and its histories. Using a variety of different cameras, macro (close-up) lenses, and small endoscopes attached to their mobile phones the students engaged with the textures and historical resonances of the area. They looked at the remains of the cobbled streets and wooden curbs, but also at the flora, from close-ups of fungi to the kinds of abstract patterns made by the dense undergrowth. Having gathered a really wide range of material including photographs (both analogue and digital), sound recordings, and direct rubbings of textures from natural and man-made surfaces, the students then spent a session back at the university looking at historical and contemporary maps of Pin Mill Brow, archival photographs of the area, and in groups they collaboratively produced a series of collaged ‘maps’. These were designed to be potential starting points for further investigations of the relationships between the man-made and natural histories of the area, alongside vital contemporary issues such as conservation, and gentrification.

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