Street in Manchester

Northern Quarter

The Northern Quarter is Manchester’s creative district, a grid of streets north of Piccadilly Gardens with independent record shops, vintage stores, street art, craft beer bars, and live music venues. Free to walk. Afflecks Palace (a multi-level alternative department store) is the neighborhood anchor. Budget travelers eat and drink here at prices lower than any other major English city outside the north.

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