Charter St Mission and Angel Fields Panorama
Introduction
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Charter St Mission and Angel Fields Panorama
Image: © Glyn Baker Taken: 10 Sep 2021
The roots of the Charter St. Mission go back to the Ragged School Union and the Shaftsbury Society. Located adjacent to St Michaels Flags and Image The unbelievable poverty in the area was noted in the nineteenth century by none other than Fredrick Engels. What he saw here helped inform the authorship of his seminal work “The Condition of the Working Class in England”. Thankfully Image and Angel Meadow are now a quiet haven, an urban park just a few moments’ walk from the centre of Manchester’s bustle.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.489637
Longitude
-2.236282