Sign up to the MySalford newsletter and don't miss a thing happening in and around the city The funeral of Castlefield visionary Jim Ramsbottom will be held on Thursday with a procession leaving from the historic area he rebuilt.
The funeral cortege will begin at Castlefield at 11.30am to honour the father of five and grandfather of 16. Mr Ramsbottom saw potential in the area which had become desolate after being at the heart of Manchester's Industrial Revolution.
He bought what is now the Dukes 92 bar and restaurant, a former car garage which used to be a stable block for horses pulling boats along the Rochdale Canal to serve the office workers in the area.
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