Also digitised by the Library are a series of maps from Manchester City Council - not seen in public for 60 years- showing the extent of bomb damage to the city during WW2. The work, carried out by ...

A set of these reports, luckily, is held in the Manchester Medical Collection in the University Library archives.” The maps provide detail of the city centre area in a key period of change towards the ...

That was the post-war vision of the Manchester city centre of the future. But there was one minor obstacle - it involved tearing down almost everything and starting again from scratch. Under the ...