RE: Orange Dunce13 Apr 2025 09:08
Thanks to "Google Lens" I can now quickly copy the text from an old newspaper article.
MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS
Article dated Friday 31 January 1986:
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FREE TRADERS ALL
"THE FREE trade principles that led to Manchester becoming the cradle of the industrial revolution have been revived and brought up to date by a newly formed group.
The Manchester Society intend providing the city with a distinctive non-political voice.
One of the founders, Mr Stephen Lundy, aged 29, and a Tory Party member said that so far about 60 people had joined the society from across the political divides.
The basic tenets of the society are free trade, freedom of contract, individual libery and peace.
Mr Lundy, of Victoria Park, Rus-holme, Manchester, said these prin-ciples changed the face of Britain between the 1830s and 1870s and gave birth to the anti-Corn Law league.
Mr Lundy, an insurance consultant, said he believed talent was being stif-led by too much interference in their lives from local and national government.
The group, which will stage its first public event tomorrow with a confer-ence on inner city problems at Man-chester Town Hall, plan to stage a rally at the Free Trade Hall on June 6."