Sign up for our What's On newsletter to keep your finger firmly on the pulse of an ever-changing Manchester When Neil Mutter locks his Northern Quarter jewellery store up for the final time next week, it will bring to a close an extraordinary 140 year chapter in his family - and the city’s - history.
As the fourth generation to take on the Alfred E Mutter jewellery business, he has witnessed the huge cultural changes of both the Northern Quarter and the wider city in the last 50 years.
And the building itself, which has now been sold and is set to become a restaurant, is of huge historical significance in Manchester - thanks to a “secret” basement that once housed the Cellar Dwellers of the city, the homeless workers from the cotton
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