Ancoats
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Oct 9, 2026
John ThomsonGUEST
And we work- we worked organically backwards, so we'd just go, "Stop.
John ThomsonGUEST
Stop the car." I remember one picture was, it was a burnt out cafe in Ancoats in Man- in Salford, and it was called The Butty Bar Plus.
John ThomsonGUEST
But it was sort of burnt rafters in the top.
John ThomsonGUEST
And we went, Steve, me and Steve stood outside that.
Rory SmithGUEST
They're not doing it because they really wanna see Manchester look great.
Rory SmithGUEST
They're not doing it 'cause they want to have American-style pizza places in Ancoats.
Rory SmithGUEST
They are doing it because it is a way-
Roger BennettHOST
[laughs]
Brian ReadeGUEST
And so, and I, I, I only, only read this this morning.
Brian ReadeGUEST
So I think it's Ancoats that they bought.
Brian ReadeGUEST
One, one of the areas is Ancoats.
Brian ReadeGUEST
That's where the number 10 North's gonna be built.
Neil AtkinsonHOST
Yep.
Tony CascarinoGUEST
Mm
Matt LawtonCORRESPONDENT
... working in an office with Matt Dickinson in, in Ancoats.
Matt LawtonCORRESPONDENT
And, uh, yeah, it was a, it was a pretty deprived area.
Matt LawtonCORRESPONDENT
And, and it, and it has, it has been transformed.
Holly PercivalHOST
Is that in-
Beth MeadGUEST
It's like a hatch, um, in, in Ancoats.
Holly PercivalHOST
Oh, yes.
Beth MeadGUEST
Like a little, just a window, and it's called Layar, L-A-Y-R.
James Gulliver-CameronGUEST
That was with a little wine merchant in Manchester called Hanging Ditch, which some people might remember it down by the cathedral in Manchester.
James Gulliver-CameronGUEST
Sadly, not there anymore, but they've got a new place over in Ancoats now.
James Gulliver-CameronGUEST
Loved it there.
James Gulliver-CameronGUEST
Turns out I found retail maybe a little bit boring.
James Gulliver-CameronGUEST
And yeah, for me, I mean...
James Gulliver-CameronGUEST
Wine is the biggest area of growth for Hammonds at the moment, which is really exciting for us.
James Gulliver-CameronGUEST
I think we're seeing the growth most with kind of younger operators, you know, wet lead venues, you know, that's, it sounds cliche, but the cooler parts of the city centres, you know, if you're familiar with Manchester, your Northern Quarters and Ancoats and places like that, where, you know, the operators, most of them, they're owner operators in their 20s and 30s, a lot of them.
James Gulliver-CameronGUEST
For, you know, people who perhaps, they're not really stuck in their ways.
Jonas Patrick MarvinGUEST
Mm.
Jonas Patrick MarvinGUEST
I was just, like, I was walking in, in Ancoats, which is an area in Manchester.
Annie Ololoku-TeribaGUEST
Mm.
Jonas Patrick MarvinGUEST
Uh, and I, I was on, I was walking down and I realized there's this big, new build, shiny glass building.
Tom CantonHOST
they? Well, did you see Melissa Reddy tweeted earlier? And she pointed to a Guardian article from 2022, which was written by Aditya Chakraborty, who...
Tom CantonHOST
uh effectively wrote about how the title of the piece is how a great english city sold itself to abu dhabi's elite and not even for a good price and within that are quotes that say nine sites were sold to shake man saw a fraction of their value and well below what other plots nearby fetched they were on leases lasting 999 years well beyond the norm and the fund shifted what had been public assets to companies registered in jersey That walk along the water from New Islington into Ancoats now passes blocks of privatized land owned in an offshore tax haven, which yields millions upon millions for a key member of the wealthy elite running a surveillance state halfway across the globe.
Tom CantonHOST
One of the greatest cities in the world has sold itself to a senior figure in the brutal autocracy and not even for a good price.
Tom CantonHOST
And it continues.
Gabriel ClarkGUEST
And I think I'd always been quite body conscious and I'd always been very lanky and skinny.
Gabriel ClarkGUEST
And I think there's a huge thing as well, like in the, particularly with gay men of like body dysmorphia and, you know, being aware of, the sort of gym culture that comes with being gay and doing the show like I didn't become a bodybuilder and I'm still not like absolutely jacked but I developed a really healthy relationship with the gym before then like I'd been trying to go to the gym but probably not doing it right but being gay in a gym and the gym that I used to go to there was a lot of like homophobic offhand comments that I'd hear like in the changing rooms and it was somewhere that i just didn't feel safe yeah and as a result didn't feel like i could ask for help in terms of like how do i use this machine or what weight should i do and then suddenly like i was working with james colebrook who is as well as being an incredible actor is also a personal trainer and it has got like an adonis body And we all started going to the gay gym in Ancoats, which is now my gym around the corner from my flat.
Gabriel ClarkGUEST
But it's like colloquially known as the gay gym because everyone there is gay.
Gabriel ClarkGUEST
And it was again like another life-changing moment of going into a space where, you know, a space where you can focus on your body and focus on your health, which is something that's important to me, but not feel like you have to censor yourself.
Dan PopeHOST
when I was at uni, was a ghost land.
Lee FergusonGUEST
Busy gaff now, Ancoats.
Dan PopeHOST
Well, Ancoats is like the Shoreditch of Manchester, isn't it? A
Ryan RobinsonGUEST
little
Lee FergusonGUEST
bit,
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