Greenheys, Manchester

Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, Mary Barton, published in 1848, opens with a description of Greenheys, then still a rural area on the outskirts of the city.

[1][2] The writer Thomas De Quincey and pioneer socialist Robert Owen both lived at Greenheys House, overlooking the now culverted Cornbrook river.

Eventually the ban was overturned and Johnson, who was teetotal, was invited inside the pub to share a drink with the publican.

[6] Their protest fuelled the momentum to end the colour bar policies of the era in the United Kingdom.

[7] The Race Relations Act 1965 eventually made racial discrimination in public places unlawful in a direct response to the colour bar.