At its junction with New Bridge Street, it turns north-northeast and is straight for 1 km, to the A6010 Queen's Road (east side).

The course of the Roman road has not been determined, though it is likely that there was a path that followed Red Bank up the sandstone river cliff following the gentle gradient that was preferred by draught animals.

Cheetham, with its other spelling Chetham is an interesting name, the first syllable is a Celtic pre-Roman given name, while the suffix ham, meaning settlement has a Mercian or Northumbrian post-Roman name.

Almost all Manchester placename are post-Roman; this implies that Cheetham was of sufficient importance in Roman times for the Celtic name to survive.

At Stocks, the main road into Manchester passed by North Street and Red Bank and over the bridge into Long Millgate.

In the late 1830s, the very wealthy were living in villas in Crumpsall, leaving the a range of relatively cheap and spacious houses along York Street that were ideal for the traders with retail properties in town, and along Deansgate.

Benjamin Hyam, who opened his Pantechnethica at 26 Market Street in April 1841 moved to Higher Broughton.

A classic hawker to shop trader story is that of Joseph and Adelina Davis who left Chodziez in Poland in 1857 and came with their children Nathan, Aaron, Elkan, David and Theresa to Manchester where they started out hawking jewellery around the north.

In July 1933, their Manchester-born sister Frances (Fanny) Levin was brutally attacked with an iron bar taken from the kitchen grate.