A new project centered on Manchester’s Oxford Road Corridor aims to tell the stories of people who live, work and travel along Oxford Road. 

Stories from the Road is a collaboration between cities@manchester and UrbanWords collated by local writer Sarah Butler and will offer an alternative map of The Corridor and celebrate the individual stories which inform, create and question our cities.

Oxford Road is at the epicentre of Manchester’s vibrant knowledge economy with its dense concentration of higher education institutions, medical and science research facilities and world-class cultural attractions. 

Stories From The Road narrates this part of the city from multiple perspectives, through the hopes, memories, fears and aspirations of the different people who use it every day.

The project and to use the situated stories to build a layered picture of this rapidly changing part of the city and what it means to the people who experience it.
Oxford Road is today lined with a number of important cultural, educational and medical institutions including the University of Manchester, the home of Manchester’s medical institutions and the Manchester Museum, but was once associated with all that was wrong with the industrial revolution. The district of Little Ireland situated where Oxford Road Station now stands achieved “worldwide notoriety” for its destitution and squalor in its description by Engels in the middle of the nineteenth century.

Today the area is the focus for a knowledge-driven, innovation-orientated post industrial economic growth.

You can read some of the stories that have been collected HERE

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