Sign up for our What's On newsletter to keep your finger firmly on the pulse of an ever-changing Manchester Down this dark Manchester back street one of Manchester’s most gruesome massacres once took place.
Back Piccadilly, a dimly-lit rat run just off the main Piccadilly parade in Manchester city centre, was once witness to a truly horrific moment in the city’s history.
Exactly 45 years ago, the landlord of Mother Mac’s pub killed his wife and three children, as well as the pub’s cleaner, before setting fire to the building and killing himself in the blaze. READ MORE : The extraordinary history of Alfred E Mutters Northern Quarter jewellers The massacre is commemorated with a plaque outside the pub, while the original newspaper
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