When was the m62 motorway built

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Top Content. England Scotland Wales Northern Ireland. Explore Wikis Community Central. The resulting explosion devastated the building, and it would take a further two years, and a lot of fundraising to repair the damage. However, despite being repaired, its history with the blitz and the IRA has lingered and, over the years, there have been countless reports of sinister and ghostly happenings throughout the building. A group of builders tasked with repairing the damage caused by the IRA bomb reported being able to hear a piano being played in the distance, but when they went to find the mysterious pianist the music stopped when they entered an eerie room with an empty, decrepit piano.

This kept happening until one of the builders finally had enough and smashed the piano up before throwing it in a skip. Surprisingly it actually worked, and they stopped hearing the chilling music. Manchester has an undeniably grizzly past, what with the industrial revolution and all that.

Yep, Manchester had its very own Burke and Hare, only up here he was known as the notorious John Massey. In the dead of the night, the men all worked hastily together to dig up one of the freshly buried bodies — the body was later identified to be that of a lady named Mary Howcroft. Massey was later apprehended, arrested and sentenced to three months in prison for his crime. According to Michala Hulme, a member of the Manchester Centre for Public History and Heritage at Manchester Metropolitan University, Johnson and Harrison would actually rebury the coffin after removing the corpse in an attempt to cover up their heinous crime.

And this tactic worked… Until they were ratted out to the police by a prying neighbour, who just so happened to witness them packing up cases throughout the night and believed them to be thieves. The neighbour called the police and Constable Lavender brought down his beagles to search the office, eventually going on to make the grim discovery of several bodies that had been stuffed into cases, all ready for shipment to London.

After being unable to identify the corpses as you can imagine, equipment and technology were severely lacking in those days , the constable took an advertisement out in the local newspaper stating that the bodies would be on public display the following day, and viewing would require a ticket — yes, in the s it was common practice to showcase unidentified corpses in an attempt to locate their families and next-of-kin.

Just imagine it. Anyway, after a fairly lengthy process, all the bodies were claimed and re-interred. Johnson and Harrison were later found guilty of stealing bodies and sentenced to fifteen months at Lancaster Castle — the same place the Pendle Witches were executed for alleged witchcraft. If you think a walk down Market Street on a Saturday afternoon is the scariest thing Manchester has to offer, you are gravely mistaken….

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It's running well. In pictures: Constructing the M Revamp work starts on part of M M62 congestion plan 'to go ahead'. Work on the trans-Pennine stretch of the M62 took seven years to complete. Forty years on from its opening, the M62 is still a vital link across the Pennines.