DEEP in the bowels of Strangeways prison, unrest was stirring. It was 1990 and Britain was in turmoil as Thatcher’s government crumbled, with violent crime at a record high and the country’s ageing ...

It was Sunday April 1 1990 and 300 prisoners – just glad to get out of their cramped cells – were attending morning service in the chapel at Strangeways jail. Chaplain Noel Proctor was about to ...

THE riots which destroyed most of Strangeways in 1990 are known as some of the worst in British history. The prison has since been renamed after a major rebuild and reopening. This is what we know ...

One thing was certain: the majority of the noisy, excited crowd gazing up at the roof had not been born the last time a show of this kind came to Bury New Road. But when the Guardian visited the scene ...

Strangeways’ tower has loomed over Bury New Road for 157 years, a stark 71-metre reminder to Mancunians that some of Britain’s worst criminals are right on the city centre’s doorstep. But the ...

An inmate at Strangeways prison took his own life after telling his loved-ones he only allowed out of his cell for 90 minutes every day, a newly-published report has revealed. Lee Gorst was found ...

Next week is the 25th anniversary of the longest, bloodiest riot in British penal history. For it was on April Fools’ Day, 1990, that prisoners at Strangeways prison in Manchester disrupted a service ...

The male-only jail, officially called HM Prison Manchester, is located in the Strangeways district just to the north of Manchester City Centre. The prison is famed for its prominent ventilation tower ...