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Central Manchester Quaker Meeting House
Heritage Open Day: The Society of Friends (Quakers) had been meeting in Manchester for 200 years before they purchased this site on Mount Street and built a Meeting House. One of its claims to fame is the fact that during the Peterloo Massacre, that occured nearby on St Peter's Field, the Friends tended to the injured who were carried there for safety. That Meeting House soon became too small for the growing congregation and in 1828-29 the Friends commissioned a fellow Quaker, Richard Lane
Sun 13 Sep:1300-1600. Free Entry. For more information and last-minute updates, please visit the Heritage Open Days website
6 Mount Street, Manchester M2 5NS
Sun 13 Sep 2015
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