Place identity of Ancoats
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- Created on: 26-05-23 13:41
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- Place identity Ancoats
- Demographic
- Population: 15,000
- Mean Age: 32.8
- Many Irish and Italians migrated there for work
- Socio-economic
- Young professionals are now in Ancoats
- Apart from that not a large impact
- Young professionals are now in Ancoats
- Cultural
- 54% Christian
- 1851 Census: almost half of the men were born in Ireland
- In the 19th century Italians migrated due to a civil war
- Formed Little Italy
- Little Italy hosts a festival each year
- Formed Little Italy
- The Halle runs a community choir
- Through the mill festival celebrates Ancoats and its past
- Political
- Pretty irrelevant
- Has duties towards regeneration, housing, sustainability etc.
- Built and natural environment
- Natural environment
- The Rochdale Canal was surveyed in 1765
- It made transport of raw materials and finished goods more convenient
- Because of it cotton mills were built in Ancoats
- Opened in 1804
- The Rochdale Canal was surveyed in 1765
- Built environment
- First mill built in 1790, Murray's Mills built in the 1790s
- Red brick, 2 storey, pitched slate roofs and vertical windows
- Old buildings now named after its factory, apartments in Murray's Mills
- Green Quarter
- Kept the old industrial image to the area whilst making it more eco-friendly so people view it as a "clean" place
- Street names are named by their factories, soap street
- Many of the bars, clubs etc. use the old interior and some reuse the name too
- Natural environment
- Past connections
- Rochdale Canal allowed for factories there to be successful
- In 1861 the population was 56,000
- Ancoats lacked public buildings and spaces, only a few churches and a dispensary
- During the 19th century many Italians left Italy for a more secure life, they came to Ancoats
- They formed Little Italy
- With the slump of the cotton industry it wasn't looking good for Ancoats
- Mills declined but newspaper printing started in 1939
- Daily Express newspaper
- Mills declined but newspaper printing started in 1939
- 1960s had further decline
- Mills fell into despair
- Newspaper printing stopped in 1989
- Present day connections
- Flats and Offices are now in the old factories matching the change in demographic, now young proffesionals
- Job sector has changed from secondary to tertiary/quaternary
- The use of the buildings has changed to match this, the physical building has remained the same though
- Shifting flows of people, resources, money and investment
- Flows of Irish and Italians in the 19th century
- Italians began to work in tile laying, ice cream and other street trades
- The acquisition of large areas of Ancoats gave Manchester City Council the confidence to designate part of Ancoats as an area of conservation
- Investment funds came in and encouraged new buildings but they have to relate to the existing context in form
- Flows of Irish and Italians in the 19th century
- Demographic
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