Trafford General Hospital

Generally considered to be the UK’s first National Health Service hospital, and the first in the world to offer free healthcare to all.

Annie Kenney

English working-class suffragette, the poster girl of the Women’s Social and Political Union.

Rag pudding

Savoury dish once popular in the mill towns of northwest England.

A Little Bit of Cucumber

Comedic music hall-song first performed by Harry Champion in 1915, about the types of food preferred by the cockney working classes.

Sweet Fanny Adams

English phrase that means “nothing at all”, but Fanny was a real person, brutally murdered in 1867.

Salade niçoise

Salad that originated in the French city of Nice, traditionally made of tomatoes, hard-boiled eggs, Niçoise olives and anchovies, dressed with olive oil.

Caphouse Colliery

Ex-colliery in Overton, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, now the National Coal Mining Museum for England.

Moors murders

Murders carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around what is now Greater Manchester, England. The victims were five children aged between 10 and 17 – Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans – at least four of whom were sexually assaulted.

Emma Lister-Kaye

Colliery owner in Overton near Wakefield in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1871 until 1905.