St. Godric's R.C. Church from the top of Neville Street, Durham City. Messy sky. by Michael Mcmanus
Watercolour. Baptised there, confirmed there, married there but I won't be buried there. Neville Street is 'n' steep. 8 hour shift on foot in the police - you walk down it but you avoid walking up it. 1950s view. The red building at the bottom was the forerunner of Northumbrian Water. It's now Wetherspoons.
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Michael Mcmanus
I was born in 1946. In the 1960s and part of the 70s I was an airman in the Royal Navy, Fleet Air Arm. I joined Durham Constabulary in 1971. In 1999 I retired from policing and began teaching sociology and criminology at Durham University with emphasis on policing and researching crime. I am drawn…
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