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April 25, 1941.
By Walt Disney
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Scene after a rald on a Midland-
town: youngsters salvaging what they can of their belongings.
from their wrecked home. Note the smiles of courage.
They Came to Manchester
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By Stuart B. Jackman
Manchester man is a second Blon- din.
YOU REMEMBER MAN- CHESTER7 The rain, the soot, the business men with their bowler hats and their neatly roiled Hold on to your memories, then, úmbrellas, and the trams? Do you
If you treasure the Manchester remember those
that wus. little
Hold fast to the old narrow alley-ways, paved with rough cob- sights and the old ways, the smoke and the rain and the strong tide bles and perpetually running with
water, which
of commercial life. On the night of Sunday, December 22, 1940, "they" came to Manchester.
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streets? And the heavy wagons with great wooden wheels and thick curved shafis, and the patient might of the huge shire horses that pulled them so willingly and so tirelessly through the endless maze of smoke-stained buildings round Shudehill? Do you remem- ber the grim majesty, of the office blocks and the ponderous activity of the warehouses, the dark beauty of the Cathedral and the darker gleam of the river?
Or
Remember Manchester? course you do. Dear, dirty old Manchester, sitting stolidly in its smoke and its rain, with an ex- pression of grim determination and a heart as warm as the taprooms of the little taverns which nestle down together in the Shambles. Monchester, the curse of the Minis- try of Health, the despair of the architect, the salvation of the unbrella trade.
Those" Umbrellas!
Every self-respecting Manchester man carries an umbrella. In the Midlands and the South ពត umbrella is a cumbersome neces- rity, something to be carried fur- tively under the arm and deposited with joy at the merest suspicion of sunshine. In Yorkshire it is o luxury, in Oxford an affection, in Edinburgh an Impossibility. Not so in Manchester.
The Maneliester man carries his umbrella with the pride and the courtliness of a dandy. When he has just sold his quota of cotton he goes marching down Plecadilly with the air of д drum major,
When they came to Manchester it was dark and very still. The city was sleeping, somewhat ẞtful- ly, in the pence of the early evening. In the churches the benedictioris had been pronounced and the people sent on their way.
A City On Fire
The drone was very distant and very quiet, but menacing. The watchers got ready and waited in a tense slience. Looking down. from their roof-tops, they could sce the dim
of outlines
the Cathedral, the hotels, the great stations, and on up the quiet lengths of Deansgate and Market.
ket. Street, where the shops lay shroud- ed in dust-sheets and the le taverns dreamed their dreams in dark pools of shadow. This was the Manchester we knew. This was our elty, and we loved it,
The first crash brought the city to its feet with a start, only to fall back again blinded by the glare of fire and deafened by the roar of guns. Flying high against the hard stars, they looked down and
HOW Manchester choking and sprawling in the smoke and furiously fight- ing back the terror of the fires. They looked and saw the river gleaming dully in the glare, and, swooping down, they dropped their cargo of destruction into the heart of the blaze. They looked and. saw the Cathedral standing on the river bank, and racing towards It they saw nothing but smoke and the flerce hunger of the fire.
where were pain and imisery and wanton destruction.
All day Monday the city licked Ila wounds and fought its fres. All day the people stood on the outer rim of the city and stared with grey eyes at the horror of the day, at the scorched walls and and shattered windows, at the broken masonry and blasted brick- work. And with the night again they came.
The Changes
Manchester is slowly getting on to its bruised and battered feet again. But there are a lot of changes. There is much of Mon- chester that will never be the same that has been destroyed for all time, that will never be re- surrected. Perhaps it is as well, -for-it-really-was-a-terribly-incon- venient city and out of date in its planning. But we, the people of Manchester, can get sentimentol over a few hundred smoke- blackened bricks and a score or so of very dirty windows. We are à hard-headed lot in the main, Thank God for that now!, But our hearts are as warm as the next man's,' and we loved the grim ugliness which was our city.
Against the sky rise the gaunt walls and broken gables of the city's oldest firms. In the hollow by the river the broken Cathedral raises black Gothle arma to heaven in a gesture of mute suffering. Some of the streets have been cleared and reopened, and down these flows the busy life of the city, going grimly on its way, and mending, assessing and
dong, but round the corner
is a dead street, with piles of rubble and crumbling walls, where gaping hole calla mutely to gaping hole and the water from the hoses drips in desolation down the shot- tered front of the Royal Exchange.
New Hopes
in-
But the trams are still running and the Manchester folk are still and there.
Umbrellas are out standing stoutly up to rough usage. Business men are hopping about nmong the
rubble, poking with their ferrules and tapping quialiively with their handles. No- seems to be swinging them, ugh. Still, here is the essence of Manchester, the trams and the pale,
determined men and women.
cloak, many The grey sky con ifts and the sun slips through that it becomes terribly obvious that one can see the sky through roofs that are
no more and daylight the walls that were once
swinging his umbrella and whistl. Everywhere Destruction! things. It is only when the pall
ing. When he is in a tight corner he stands at his bus stop with It planted firmly between his feet and his hands crossed decisively over the handle. One can almost sec the words "They shall not pass" picked out on the building behind him.
But when it is raining the umbrella really reaches its finest hour, or rather day, for Manchester ralu is notoriously persistent. The streets become a black, shining mass of umbrellas, and your bual- ness man hurries through the struggling crowd on his way to the bus with incredible speed and agility,
The Londoner in a crowd with an open umbrella is like a pora- chutût who lands in the sea; the.
through
so dark.
And so they came to Manchester und robbed us and loft us. Left us our Manchester courage and our doggednake and soot. Manchester
left us our umbrella and our
a little people,
Manchester was a city of flame And thunder.
great fres Tho burnt like torches and the old places went roaring up to the sky in a torment of heat and smoke. Steet and brick, stone and timber crashed down to the very founda- tions of the city. The streets word like
rivers of the fire, the buildings were lighter than they had been for months. A great light
paler, perhape and fled hand in over the city hand with Death through the little alley-ways and by-ways, up stono staircases and over, binck-alated roofs, Into church and theatre alike, into hotels and warehouses, into shops and into homes.
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· noise · such as Manchester had nover ́heard. before."" And every-
Left us, Manchittle more deter-
mined, but still casentially the same. To-day we go into the city with our new problems and our now hopes; to-night we will come home on our usual tram, with our umbrella neatly folded, our paper, and our cheery challer with the conductor. We still have these. things. "We are still Manchester. From the
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