Bridget Doherty is remembering the days when sweat shops and packing firms lined Oldham Road. "It was all factories," she says. "You could get sacked from one job and walk right next door and get another straight away.
"It was the same with pubs - you came out of one, walked a couple steps and you were in another."
Now the inner-city district of Manchester traditionally known as New Cross has changed dramatically. Most of the pubs are long gone and the factories have been replaced by hotels and tower blocks.
