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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Ethan Davies

The Manchester street with stories and secrets hiding behind every corner

The Oxford Road corridor is home to three great Mancunian universities, the Commonwealth Games’ former aquatics centre, and allegedly Europe’s busiest bus route.

That’s an impressive for any street — but anyone on Oxford Road knows it’s home to far more than that. The latest in fashion and hairstyles. Cyclists whizzing by. Posters and stickers covering every square centimetre of every lamppost and sign going.

Oxford Road is also home to some of Manchester’s — and the world’s — oldest cultural institutions. So, we joined Nic Newberry on his ‘Wonderwalk’ tour, which he runs with Invisible Manchester.

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