The Bank. Manchester

Actually "The Portico Library" is still upstairs here"

It was the best of pints; it was the the worst of pints." So begins Charles Dickens's classic drinking novel, An Ale of Two Cities.

An evening walk of Manchester Literal History listening to excerpts from Elizabeth Gaskell, Howard Spring, Louis Golding, Harrison Ainsworth, Thomas de Quincey and Anthony Burgess.

And an occasional beer.