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2 unusual facts about The Peterloo Group


The Peterloo Group

The first meeting was held in May 1957 in a hired room above the Town Hall Hotel, a Victorian gothic public house in Tib Lane adjacent to Albert Square, - and close to St Peter's Square where in 1819 the infamous Peterloo Massacre had taken place, and from which the group took its name.

The Peterloo Group was a group of poets, artists and writers in Manchester during the latter part of the 1950s.



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