A set of images unearthed from the Mirrorpix archives offers a glimpse of Manchester many of us have never seen.
The photographs show what appears to be an incredibly popular eating contest taking place on Canal Street long before it established itself as Manchester's Gay Village. The food in question is a now largely shunned delicacy from Manchester's past, namely tripe.
Tripe, not to beat around the bush, is the edible stomach lining of farm animals – mostly cattle, sheep and pigs with beef tripe being the most common. If that doesn't get you salivating, you were probably just born in a later generations where its popularity has dwindled.
