The utilization of the infirmary site in Picadilly Gardens was under discussion again at a council meeting with the recommendation that any decision should be postponed in the wake of the national treasury decision to defer local at horrifies from carrying out new works.
The meeting heard that the tramways committee were considering using the area to extend their system of tram lines which was described as a waste whilst the general consensus was to use the space for the building of a new Free Library.
The proposal in favour of postponement was carried by 58 votes to 36.
Later that day the council in the face of some opposition sanctioned an expenditure of £39,000 to purchase propertys in Cross St, between St Ann’s Square and the Royal Exchange for the purpose of widening the street.
Displays of fireworks, which had been prohibited in the interests of national safety, were to be in certain circumstances permitted.
Belle Vue gardens had been prevented from its displays since August 1914 but James Jennison announced that the venue would now be applying on an event by event basis to hold displays again.
A forty eight year old man from Gorton was run over and killed by a traction engine crossing Hyde Road near the entrance to the Belle Vue Gardens.
The Bury Bantams, the 18th Battalion Lancashire fusiliers, left the town where they had been training marching to the station headed by the Depot band and the hearty cheers of the crowds.
There were signs that this year could see a record cotton crop with seventeen million bales heading from America for the 1914-15 season
Shudehill licensees were complaining about the new military directives over the selling of alcohol.
The new regulations meant ruin for many with their dependence on the early morning business from the markets for their trade,
Mr Robert Perry who held the licensees for the Wheatsheaf Hotel in Oak Street and whose family had ran it for fifty years said that as his customers came from all the towns surrounding Manchester it was only reasonable that they should expect some sort of refreshment.
He tended to close the hotel after the early morning business had finished except for a Saturday when people shopped in the markets
He claimed business was down nearly 40 per cent since the restrictions came in,
“With regards to shudehill it cannot be a question of excessive drinking in the early morning.I have been here sixty six years and from my experiences I don’t know any place more template than Shudehill market.”
The death was announced of the former Bishop of Manchester Bishop Moorhouse at the age of 90 in Taunton.
He was the third bishop from 1886 to 1903 .Born in Sheffield in 1826 the son of a cutlery manufacturer, he worked for a while in his father business before being ordained in 1853, he served in London for some time before spending nine years in Melbourne where he was responsible for the erection of the City’s first cathedral.
He returned to England and was offered the see of Manchester by the then Prime Minister Lord Salisbury
Manchester was hit by a terrific thunderstorm with hoardings blown down and telephone and telegraph wires snapped.Two houses in Heaton Moor were struck by lightening,
