In the city archives are two images apparently from the 1930s, showing the since demolished buildings on Lord Mayor’s Walk. One displays a very fine example of these old painted signs.

In October 2021, Xploro announced that it was working with World Child Cancer to offer free of charge access to its award winning app to children in Ghana. Dom Raban, CEO and co-founder at Xploro, said: “We’re so excited to welcome Rawad,Kelvin, Bryony and Joe to Xploro. They have already played a key role in supporting our international growth strategy, and we look forward to them taking us to the next level as we expand into new markets. The support that we’ve received from GC Business Finance and the Greater Manchester Export fund has been second to none, and we’re incredibly grateful to Andy and the team for helping us to scale up globally.” Andy Nichols, senior loan manager at GC Business Finance, said: “Supporting Xploro on its international growth journey has been a pleasure. The technology is already having a positive impact on young patients in the UK, US, Africa and beyond, and has the potential to expand into more markets. We’re looking forward to supporting Xploro and creating more success stories with businesses in Greater Manchester that have rich export potential but can’t necessarily access export finance from traditional lenders in the near future.” Uncle Joes Winter Nips Herbal Pips Traditional retro sweets are Made by William Santus / Uncle Joes original Sweet Factory in Wigan. Morrow who is co-founder of OpenMoney, encouraged Manchester’s businesses to look beyond traditional thinking, to adapt and keep pace with the change which is upon us. He urged business to rethink the way we work and how we engage young people into the workforce saying: “Our ability to attract and retain talent from the universities which now comes from around the country is incredibly important, but so is making sure those from the city itself have the ability to access those fantastic services and opportunities, too, and that is unfortunately not always the case right now. Electrical, heating and plumbing services provider Ash Integrated Services has created eight jobs after being appointed by Lancashire County Council to provide planned and emergency heating and plumbing maintenance for hundreds of premises in the region.The Poster Sessions will take place Monday through Wednesday evenings, December 8 – 10, 2008, during the Conference. The sessions offer high-quality posters and an opportunity for researchers to share their work and exchange ideas in a collegial setting. The majority of contributions accepted at NIPS are presented as posters. You are invited to participate in the Twenty-Second Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, which is the premier scientific meeting on Neural Computation.

The 1852 plan shows houses crammed into this end of Lord Mayor’s Walk. Groves Lane has only three properties after it now, before the Bile Beans wall. In 1852, from Groves Lane to the corner of Lord Mayor’s Walk and Monkgate there were about eighteen properties facing the street. The land behind had been infilled with cramped-looking terraced housing, in St Maurice’s Court, St Maurice’s Place and Wheatley’s Place. A one-day Tutorial Program will take place on Monday, December 8, 2008 prior to the opening of the Conference. The program will offer a choice of six two-hour tutorials by leading scientists. The topics span a wide range of subjects including Neuroscience, Learning Algorithms and Theory, Bioinformatics, Image Processing, and Data Mining.

Our city is brimming with talented young people, the provision of apprenticeships, paid internships and other learning opportunities beyond university is crucial and upon us as a business community to provide.”