Levenshulme
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Levenshulme is an urban area of Manchester, in North West England on the borders of Longsight, Gorton, Burnage and Stockport. It is situated on the main Stockport Road (A6) and has a station on the Manchester to London railway line which is served by local commuter trains. Levenshulme is locally known as 'Levy' (pronounced Le-vee) and also more comically as Lev-un-shum-ee with a french accent in a mocking reference to its recent gentrification.
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[edit] Geography and administration
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The area is represented in Manchester Town Hall by Councillors John Commons, Alec Cowan and Keith Whitmore.
[edit] History
Levenshulme was an independent authority until the early 20th century, when it was merged into the expanded Manchester.
The district of East Levenshulme used to be known as Talleyrand, and it was said the French Statesman Talleyrand once stayed there during his exile from France, presumably during 1792-1794.[citation needed]
The name is supposed to mean "Town on the Watermeadows".[citation needed] Hulme (similar to the German Heim) is a common element in local placenames, meaning Village or Settlement.
The typical older housing of Levenshulme consists of terraced houses with wide back entries. This is supposed to be because of an old bylaw of the Levenshulme local authority that every terraced house had to have access by a horse and cart to the back door, so that rubbish could be removed without taking it through the house.[citation needed]
[edit] Demographics
Levenshulme has an Irish population of approximately 7.0% which is twice the Manchester average,[1] and as a consequence it is sometimes called 'County Levenshulme' in reference to the County structure in Ireland. Irish produce, including soda bread, red lemonade and Irish newspapers, can be bought in Levenshulme's shops, whilst local cafes serve up boiled bacon and cabbage, a traditional Irish dish. The demographics within the district are changing with increasing numbers of (mostly Muslim) people of South Asian origin and a growing amount of Africans, settling in Levenshulme. Over a third of the population belong to an ethnic minority.[1]
The community radio station ALL FM is based in Levenshulme.
[edit] Notable residents
The architect Norman Foster was brought up in Levenshulme.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ a b National Statistics - Neighbourhood Statistics for Levenshulme ward
- ^ Norman Foster - the man behind the 'glass egg'. BBC (2005). Retrieved on July 8, 2006.
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