Manchester Peace Garden. Okay so it was a bit daggy, just a few scrubby bushes outside the town hall extension, but also included a statue called the Messenger of Peace. (Mancunians also called it the Pigeon Feeder.) All removed to make way for the redevelopment of St Peter's Square.
This group is campaigning to get the Peace Gardens and the Messenger reinstated in the medieval quarter
— the space between the cathedral and Chet's. (Manchester must have more quarters than a 4-dimensional hypercube now.)
I don't call myself a pacifist, but I think it's a shame when quirky green spaces and public art disappear from our cities, so I hope this group succeeds.
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