Editing Moss Side

{{Short description|Inner-city area of Manchester, England}}
{{About|the area of Manchester}}
{{Use British English|date=September 2017}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2017}}
{{Infobox UK place
| country                   = England
| official_name             = Moss Side
| coordinates               = {{coord|53.456|-2.240|display=inline,title}}
| population                = 20,745
| population_ref            = (2021)
| metropolitan_borough      = [[Manchester]]
| metropolitan_county       = [[Greater Manchester]]
| region                    = North West England
| constituency_westminster  = [[Manchester Rusholme (UK Parliament constituency)|Manchester Rusholme]]
| councillor1               = Mahadi Hussein Sharif Mahamed
| party1                    = Labour
| councillor2               = Emily Rowles
| party2                    = Labour
| councillor3               = Erinma Bell
| party3                    = Labour
| post_town                 = MANCHESTER
| postcode_area             = M
| postcode_district         = M14, M16
| dial_code                 = 0161
| os_grid_reference         = SJ835955
| static_image_name         = Brentwood Street in Moss Side - Manchester.jpg
| static_image_caption      = Alexandra Park Estate in Moss Side, looking towards the [[Beetham Tower, Manchester|Beetham Tower]]
| london_distance           = {{convert|162|mi|km|0|abbr=on}} [[Boxing the compass|SE]]
}}
'''Moss Side''' is an [[Inner city|inner-city]] area of [[Manchester]], England, {{convert|1.9|mi|km|1}} south of the [[Manchester city centre|city centre]]. It had a population of 20,745 at the [[United Kingdom Census 2021|2021 census]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=13689217&c=Moss+Side&d=14&e=62&g=6342717&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1451995422090&enc=1|title=City of Manchester Ward population 2011|access-date=5 January 2016}}</ref> Moss Side is bounded by [[Hulme]] to the north, [[Chorlton-on-Medlock]], [[Rusholme]] and [[Fallowfield]] to the east, [[Whalley Range, Manchester|Whalley Range]] to the south, and [[Old Trafford (area)|Old Trafford]] to the west.

As well as [[Whitworth Park]] and [[Alexandra Park, Manchester|Alexandra Park]], Moss Side is close to [[Manchester University|Manchester]] and [[Manchester Metropolitan University|Manchester Metropolitan]] universities.<ref name="smrt2007p52">"Moss Side and Rusholme District Centre Local Plan". Manchester City Council. 2007. p. 52.</ref> [[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]] played at [[Maine Road]] in Moss Side between 1923 and 2003.

==History==
{{main|History of Manchester}}

[[Historic counties of England|Historically]] part of [[Lancashire]], Moss Side was a rural [[Township (England)|township]] and [[chapelry]] within the parish of [[Manchester (ancient parish)|Manchester]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1251|title=History of Moss Side, in Manchester and Lancashire|publisher=[[A Vision of Britain through Time]]|accessdate=7 November 2024}}</ref> and hundred of [[Salford (hundred)|Salford]]. Thought to be named after a great [[Raised bog|moss]] which stretched from Rusholme to [[Chorlton-cum-Hardy]], the earliest mention of the area is in 1533 when it contained part of the estates of [[Trafford]].<ref name="1904gdnart">{{cite news|date=11 November 1904|title=Pepperhill Farm|last=W.E.E.A.|work=[[Manchester Guardian]]}}</ref> Moss Side is described in the opening chapter of [[Elizabeth Gaskell]]'s ''[[Mary Barton]]'' as a rural idyll with a 'deep clear pool' and an old black and white timber-framed farmhouse, later identified as Pepperhill Farm.<ref name="1904gdnart"/> Following the [[Industrial Revolution]] there was a process of unplanned urbanisation and a rapid increase in population size. In 1866 Moss Side became a separate [[civil parish]], from 1894 to 1904 Moss Side was an [[Urban district (England and Wales)|urban district]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10109140|title=Relationships and changes Moss Side UD through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=7 November 2024}}</ref> on 1 October 1910 the parish was abolished and merged with [[South Manchester]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10373463|title=Relationships and changes Moss Side CP/Tn through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=7 November 2024}}</ref> The population in 1801 was 151 but by 1901 he parish population had increased to 26,677.<ref name="1904gdnart"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10373463/cube/TOT_POP|title=Population statistics Moss Side CP/Tn through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=7 November 2024}}</ref> The industrial growth of the area resulted in a densely populated area, so much so, that a part of the township of Moss Side was amalgamated into the expanding city of Manchester in 1885, with the rest joining in 1904.<ref name="GM Gazetteer">{{Cite journal |url=http://www.gmcro.co.uk/Guides/Gazeteer/gazzm2n.htm |title=Moss Side |publisher=Greater Manchester County Record Office |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110211203737/http://www.gmcro.co.uk/Guides/Gazeteer/gazzm2n.htm |archive-date=11 February 2011}}</ref>

Mass development in Moss Side occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when large numbers of red brick terraced houses were built, and soon attracted numerous Irish immigrants and other working people.

[[Manchester City F.C.]] moved to a new stadium on Maine Road on 25 August 1923, having moved from [[Hyde Road Football Stadium|Hyde Road]], [[Ardwick]]; on its opening it was one of the most capacious sports stadiums in the United Kingdom, capable of holding up to 85,000 spectators. The club would play there for the next 80 years.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://maineroadartworks.co.uk/history |title=Maine Road Site History |publisher=Maine Road Art Programme |access-date=23 June 2013}}</ref>
[[File:Bell tower of former Greenheys School in Moss Side, Manchester.jpg|thumb|155px|right|Bell tower of former Greenheys School in Moss Side]]
During the [[Manchester Blitz]] in the [[Second World War]] many of the terraced houses were damaged by German bombing on the night of 22/23 December 1940. Migrants from the [[Indian subcontinent]] and [[Caribbean]] settled in the locality during the 1950s and 1960s, and by the 1980s Moss Side was the hub of Manchester's [[British African-Caribbean community|Afro-Caribbean community]].<ref name="surprises">{{cite news|date=11 September 2006|title=Killing surprises few in Moss Side|first=Nick|last=Ravenscroft|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/5334510.stm|work=BBC News}}</ref> During the 1960s and early 1970s, Manchester City Council demolished many of the [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] and terraced houses to the west of Moss Side and replaced these with new council houses and flats. Most of the newer properties, built around the turn of the 20th century, were refurbished instead of demolished during the final two decades of the century.

In 1981, the Moss Side area was one of England's [[inner city]] areas affected by [[1981 England riots|a series of riots]]. Analysts trace the 1970s origins of Manchester's gang crime to social deprivation in the south-central part of the city – [[Hulme]], [[Longsight]] and Moss Side – where the activity of the [[Black market|underground economy]] encouraged a trade in illegal narcotics and firearms contributing to Manchester's later nickname of "Gunchester".<ref name="gches">{{cite news|date=15 September 2006|title=North West: Trying to banish 'Gunchester'|first=Tom|last=Randell|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/politics_show/5335114.stm|work=BBC News}}</ref> "Turf wars" between rival drugs 'gangs', resulted in a high number of fatal shootings.<ref name="surprises"/> During what has been termed the [[Madchester]] phase of the [[history of Manchester]], narcotic trade in the city became "extremely lucrative" and in the early 1990s a gang war started between two groups vying for control of the market in [[Manchester city centre]] – the '[[Cheetham Hill Gang]]' and '[[The Gooch Close Gang]]', in [[Cheetham Hill]] and Moss Side, respectively.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/have_your_say/2003/01/06/gangs.shtml|title=A street guide to gangs in Manchester|publisher=BBC Manchester|date=6 January 2003}}</ref> There were several high-profile shootings associated with gangs and drugs in this area during the 1990s and into the 21st century.<ref name="gches"/><ref name="menggs">{{cite news|date=7 April 2009|title=Gooch Gang Smashed|first=Chris|last=Osuh|url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1107017_gooch_gang_smashed|work=[[Manchester Evening News]]}}</ref> Aided by the work of Xcalibre, the [[Greater Manchester Police]]'s task force, founded in 2004, and the multiagency Integrated Gang Management Unit, gang related shootings in the area have fallen by about 90% in recent years.<ref name="bbcfundboost">{{cite news|date=4 June 2008|title=Funding boost for gun crime unit|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7435191.stm|work=BBC News}}</ref><ref name="menuscops">{{cite news|date=16 August 2011|title='US police could learn how to tackle gang crime from us', claims senior GMP officer|url=http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1455776_us-police-could-learn-how-to-tackle-gang-crime-from-us-claims-senior-gmp-officer|work=[[Manchester Evening News]]}}</ref><ref name="mengrsd">{{cite news|date=2 March 2012|title=Gangsters squeezed out of Moss Side and Hulme move into Wythenshawe to recruit drug dealers|first=Steve|last=Robson|url=http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1487192_gangsters-squeezed-out-of-moss-side-and-hulme-move-into-wythenshawe-to-recruit-drug-dealers|work=[[Manchester Evening News]]}}</ref>

Many of the flats in neighbouring [[Hulme]] were demolished in the early 1990s to make way for new low rise homes. Housing on the Alexandra Park Estate in the west of Moss Side has been renovated and the streets redesigned to reduce the [[fear of crime]].<ref name="smrt2007p35">"Moss Side and Rusholme District Centre Local Plan". Manchester City Council. 2007. p. 35.</ref>

==Governance==
[[File:Moss Side (Manchester City Council ward) 2018.png|thumb|right|Moss Side electoral ward within [[Manchester City Council]].]]
{{Further|Manchester City Council}}

The majority of Moss Side is part of the [[Manchester Central (UK Parliament constituency)|Manchester Central]] constituency, represented by the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] [[Member of Parliament|MP]] [[Lucy Powell]]. Following boundary changes in 2018 a portion of the ward is a part of the [[Manchester Gorton (UK Parliament constituency)|Manchester Gorton]] constituency, represented by the Labour Party MP [[Afzal Khan (British politician)|Afzal Khan]].

;Councillors 
Moss Side is a [[Wards of the United Kingdom|ward]] within the local authority of [[Manchester City Council]]. The ward is represented by Labour [[Councillor]]s: Mahadi Hussein Sharif Mahamed (Lab),<ref>{{cite web | title=Mahadi Hussein Sharif Mahamed | publisher= Manchester City Council | url= https://democracy.manchester.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=236 | access-date=28 September 2023 }}</ref> Emily Rowles (Lab),<ref>{{cite web | title=Emily Rowles | date= 28 September 2023 | publisher= Manchester City Council | url= https://democracy.manchester.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=230 | access-date=28 September 2023 }}</ref> and Erinma Bell (Lab).<ref>{{cite web | title=Erinma Bell | publisher= Manchester City Council | url= https://democracy.manchester.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=4734 | access-date=28 September 2023 }}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|-
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| [[2004 Manchester City Council election#Moss Side|2004]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| bgcolor="#99CCFF"| Roy Walters ([[Labour Party (UK)|Lab]])
| style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| bgcolor="#99CCFF"| Locita Brandy ([[Labour Party (UK)|Lab]])
| style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| bgcolor="#99CCFF"| Alistair Cox ([[Labour Party (UK)|Lab]])
|-
| [[2006 Manchester City Council election#Moss Side|2006]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| bgcolor="#99CCFF"| Roy Walters ([[Labour Party (UK)|Lab]])
| style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| Locita Brandy ([[Labour Party (UK)|Lab]])
| style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| Alistair Cox ([[Labour Party (UK)|Lab]])
|-
| [[2007 Manchester City Council election#Moss Side|2007]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| Roy Walters ([[Labour Party (UK)|Lab]])
| style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| bgcolor="#99CCFF"| Sameem Ali ([[Labour Party (UK)|Lab]])
| style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| Alistair Cox ([[Labour Party (UK)|Lab]])
|-
| [[2008 Manchester City Council election#Moss Side|2008]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| Roy Walters ([[Labour Party (UK)|Lab]])
| style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| Sameem Ali ([[Labour Party (UK)|Lab]])
| style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| bgcolor="#99CCFF"| Alistair Cox ([[Labour Party (UK)|Lab]])
|-
| [[2010 Manchester City Council election#Moss Side|2010]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| bgcolor="#99CCFF"| Roy Walters ([[Labour Party (UK)|Lab]])
| style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| Sameem Ali ([[Labour Party (UK)|Lab]])
| style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| Alistair Cox ([[Labour Party (UK)|Lab]])
|-
| [[2011 Manchester City Council election#Moss Side|2011]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| Roy Walters ([[Labour Party (UK)|Lab]])
| style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| bgcolor="#99CCFF"| Sameem Ali ([[Labour Party (UK)|Lab]])
| style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| Alistair Cox ([[Labour Party (UK)|Lab]])
|-
| [[2012 Manchester City Council election#Moss Side|2012]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| Roy Walters ([[Labour Party (UK)|Lab]])
| style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| Sameem Ali ([[Labour Party (UK)|Lab]])
| style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| bgcolor="#99CCFF"| Alistair Cox ([[Labour Party (UK)|Lab]])
|-
| [[2014 Manchester City Council election#Moss Side|2014]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| bgcolor="#99CCFF"| Emily Rowles ([[Labour Party (UK)|Lab]])
| style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| Sameem Ali ([[Labour Party (UK)|Lab]])
| style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| Alistair Cox ([[Labour Party (UK)|Lab]])
|-
| [[2015 Manchester City Council election#Moss Side|2015]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| Emily Rowles ([[Labour Party (UK)|Lab]])
| style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| bgcolor="#99CCFF"| Sameem Ali ([[Labour Party (UK)|Lab]])
| style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| Alistair Cox ([[Labour Party (UK)|Lab]])
|-
| [[2016 Manchester City Council election#Moss Side|2016]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| Emily Rowles ([[Labour Party (UK)|Lab]])
| style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| Sameem Ali ([[Labour Party (UK)|Lab]])
| style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| bgcolor="#99CCFF"| Mahadi Hussein Sharif Mahamed ([[Labour Party (UK)|Lab]])
|-
| [[2018 Manchester City Council election#Moss Side|2018]]
| style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| bgcolor="#99CCFF"| Emily Rowles ([[Labour Party (UK)|Lab]])
| style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| bgcolor="#99CCFF"| Sameem Ali ([[Labour Party (UK)|Lab]])
| style="background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| bgcolor="#99CCFF"| Mahadi Hussein Sharif Mahamed ([[Labour Party (UK)|Lab]])
|-
| [[2019 Manchester City Council election#Moss Side|2019]]
{{Elected official with party link||party=Labour Party (UK)|name=Emily Rowles }}
{{Elected official with party link||party=Labour Party (UK)|name=Sameem Ali }}
{{Elected official with party link||party=Labour Party (UK)|name=Mahadi Hussein Sharif Mahamed |bgcolor=#99CCFF}}
|-
| [[2021 Manchester City Council election#Moss Side|2021]]
{{Elected official with party link||party=Labour Party (UK)|name=Emily Rowles |bgcolor=#99CCFF }}
{{Elected official with party link||party=Labour Party (UK)|name=Sameem Ali }}
{{Elected official with party link||party=Labour Party (UK)|name=Mahadi Hussein Sharif Mahamed }}
|-
| [[2022 Manchester City Council election#Moss Side|2022]]
{{Elected official with party link||party=Labour Party (UK)|name=Emily Rowles  }}
{{Elected official with party link||party=Labour Party (UK)|name=Erinma Bell |bgcolor=#99CCFF }}
{{Elected official with party link||party=Labour Party (UK)|name=Mahadi Hussein Sharif Mahamed }}
|-
| [[2023 Manchester City Council election#Moss Side|2023]]
{{Elected official with party link||party=Labour Party (UK)|name=Emily Rowles }}
{{Elected official with party link||party=Labour Party (UK)|name=Erinma Bell }}
{{Elected official with party link||party=Labour Party (UK)|name=Mahadi Hussein Sharif Mahamed |bgcolor=#99CCFF }}
|}
{{Color box|#99CCFF|border=darkgray}} indicates seat up for re-election.

==Geography==
[[File:Moss Side, Royal Brewery - geograph.org.uk - 1472482.jpg|thumb|The Royal Brewery]]
Moss Side lies either side of the [[A5103 road|A5103 (Princess Road)]], the main road out of Manchester towards [[Northenden]], [[Manchester Airport]], the [[M56 motorway]] and [[Chester]]. Parallel to this is Alexandra Road, which continues as Alexandra Road South past Alexandra Park (Alexandra Road was formerly one of two main shopping streets in Moss Side). Landmarks on Princess Road are the Royal Brewery and the Princess Road Bus Depot, built originally for the [[Manchester Corporation Tramways|tramways]] in 1909 and used by [[Stagecoach Manchester]] until 2010.<ref>''Celebrating 100 Years of Princess Road''. Manchester: Stagecoach. April 2010.</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/transport/s/1314444_bus_firm_stagecoach_travels_to_new_stop_as_centuryold_depot_shuts |title=Bus firm Stagecoach travels to new stop as century-old depot shuts |newspaper=Manchester Evening News |date=19 August 2010}}</ref>

The western border of the Moss Side Ward is bounded in part by Withington Road. Parts of the eastern border are bounded by [[Wilmslow Road]], where it meets Whitworth Park, and Parkfield Street. To the south, the border includes Alexandra Park, Horton Road and part of Platt Lane. To the north, the ward border mainly runs along Moss Lane East.<ref name="wardmap">{{cite web| title= Map of Moss Side Ward| publisher= Manchester City Council| url= http://www.manchester.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/14598/moss_side| access-date= 23 June 2013| url-status= dead| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130921174534/http://www.manchester.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/14598/moss_side| archive-date= 21 September 2013| df= dmy-all}}</ref>

The [[built environment]] of Moss Side is broadly characterised as a high-density residential area. This includes mainly Victorian and Edwardian terraces to the east and centre, with more recent developments, primarily the Alexandra Park Estate, built in the 1970s to the west of Princess Road.

The Moss Side Sports and Leisure Complex (north of Moss Lane West) was upgraded for the [[2002 Commonwealth Games]] and has a gym and a variety of other sporting facilities.
{{Geographic location
|title     = '''Neighbouring districts and places.'''
|Northwest = [[Old Trafford (district)|Old Trafford]]
|North     = [[Hulme]]
|Northeast = [[Chorlton-on-Medlock]]
|West      = [[Old Trafford (district)|Old Trafford]]<br />[[Whalley Range, Greater Manchester|Whalley Range]]
|Centre    = Moss Side
|East      = [[Rusholme]]
|Southwest = [[Whalley Range, Greater Manchester|Whalley Range]]
|South     = [[Whalley Range, Greater Manchester|Whalley Range]]<br />[[Fallowfield]]
|Southeast = [[Fallowfield]]
}}
{{wide image|Princess_Road_in_Moss_Side%2C_Manchester.jpg|1024px|alt=Princess Road in Moss Side|Princess Road and Princess Park in Moss Side.}}

==Redevelopment and regeneration==
[[File:Great Western Street - October 2009.jpg|thumb|Great Western Street runs through the centre of Moss Side.]]
[[File:Wykeham Street with Maine Place in background.jpg|thumb|right|Wykeham Street with the Maine Place development in the background]]
Moss Side has benefited from very substantial [[redevelopment]] and [[urban regeneration|regeneration]] since the mid-1990s including improvement of the existing housing and residential environment along with several major housing projects currently in process or nearing completion. There has been considerable renovation of existing housing stock, such as local terrace housing and the Alexandra Park Estate.<ref name="smrt2007p35"/>

A large site on Great Western Street has been developed by Moss Care Housing Ltd. to provide a mix of 2, 3 and 4-bedroom properties, with different tenures, some rental and others offered as [[shared ownership]] or [[Freehold (English law)|for sale]].<ref name="mosscaredev">
{{cite news |last1=Ali |first1=S. |last2=Cox |first2=A. |last3=Walters |first3=R. |title=New Houses for Moss Side |newspaper=New Labour Rose |date=Autumn–Winter 2010}}</ref>

The former [[Maine Road|Manchester City F.C. Maine Road]] site is in the process of redevelopment, marketed as Maine Place, primarily as 2, 3 and 4-bedroom houses but including a limited number of flats, for sale or shared ownership, with many homes completed and occupied, along with a primary school, now open, and a health centre planned.<ref name = "maineplace"/>

The Bowes Street area, adjoining Princess Road, has been redeveloped, at the cost of £17&nbsp;million, including the renovation or transformation, with some new build, of 155 properties in five streets.<ref name="bilsb"/><ref name="mossciderbbc">{{cite news |date=27 September 2010 |title=Moss Cider brews community spirit in Manchester |work=[[BBC News]] |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/manchester/hi/people_and_places/nature/newsid_9036000/9036862.stm}}</ref><ref name="bowesstdev">{{cite book |title=Final Proposals for the Regeneration of Bowes Street, Moss Side |publisher=Manchester City Council |date=24 March 2010 |url=http://www.manchester.gov.uk/egov_downloads/5FinalProposalsForBowesStreet.pdf}}</ref><ref name="easierpropart">{{cite web |title=Infusion of enthusiasm in Moss Side, Manchester|publisher= Easier Property | url=http://www.easier.com/81937-infusion-enthusiasm-moss-side-manchester.html |date=15 December 2010}}</ref><ref name="placenwartdec10">{{cite web |last=Hunt |first=Michael |date=13 December 2010|title= Moss Side housing project to be unveiled
|publisher= Place North West | url=http://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/news/archive/7879-moss-side-housing-project-to-be-unveiled.html}}</ref> Reported as being 'built or converted to a very high standard of [[Eco-friendly|eco-friendliness]], with [[solar panels]], [[water butts]], [[thermal break|thermal]] "skin" insulation and [[light tube|sun pipes]] being used' and aiming to offer 2, 3 and 4-bedroom homes with 'low running costs', the development plan states its aim, along with that at Maine Road, as being to provide mixed type "higher specification" housing, "diversify tenure" and promote the area as a "neighbourhood of choice".<ref name="bowesstdev"/><ref name="easierpropart"/>

Marketed as "Infusion Homes", the properties were launched on the market on 26 February 2011. On 9 May, sales demand was reported as strong, with 60% of the properties having been sold.<ref name="easier090511">{{cite web |date=9 May 2011 |title=Buyers flock to Moss Side £17m regeneration scheme |publisher=Easier Property |url=http://www.easier.com/88694-buyers-moss-side-regeneration-scheme.html}}</ref> On 11 May the development was awarded the UK's ''Best Affordable Housing Scheme'' at the national Housing Excellence Awards 2011<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.housingexcellence.co.uk/events/winners-housing-excellence-awards-2011 |title=Winners of the Housing Excellence Awards – 2011 |publisher=Housing Excellence |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313181045/http://www.housingexcellence.co.uk/events/winners-housing-excellence-awards-2011 |archive-date=13 March 2012}}</ref><ref name="easier210511">{{cite web |date=20 May 2011 |title=Housing Excellence Awards win for 'Infusion' |publisher=Easier Property |url=http://www.easier.com/89506-housing-excellence-awards-win-infusion.html}}</ref>

Land adjacent to the development, formerly occupied by Bilsborrow primary school and the [[Stagecoach Group|Stagecoach]] [[bus garage|bus depot]], both demolished as part of regeneration, remains vacant with no clear future use at present, though local community groups have short term plans to use the space for a gardening/food growing project.<ref name="msbdlfp0312">{{cite web|publisher=Cranswick Square Residents Group |title=Consultation on Moss Side Bus Depot site tomorrow |date=14 March 2012 |url=http://cranswicksquare.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/consultation-on-moss-side-bus-depot-site-tomorrow/}}</ref>

The impact of regeneration and redevelopment in changing perceptions of the area was demonstrated in ''[[The Guardian]]'' Saturday magazine, dated 8 September 2012, when Moss Side appeared in the long running ''Let's Move To'' series.<ref name = "letsmoveto">{{cite news |last=Dyckhoff |first=Tom |title=Let's move to Moss Side |url=https://www.theguardian.com/money/2012/sep/07/moss-side-manchester-property-roundup/ |newspaper=The Guardian |date=7 September 2012}}</ref>

==Industry==

===Brewing===
Moss Side has a long history of brewing, dating from the 19th century.

[[File:Royal Brewery in Moss Side, Manchester.jpg|thumb|right|Royal Brewery, Moss Lane East]]
The Royal Brewery has had several owners, previously brewing brands such as Kestrel, McEwan's and [[Harp Lager]] and is now owned by [[Heineken]] for the production of [[Foster's Lager]]. There has been a brewery on this site since 1875.<ref name="mosssidemap1915">{{cite book| last = Makepeace | first = Chris E | title = Moss Side 1915: Lancashire Sheet 104.1 | publisher = Alan Godfrey Maps | series = Old Ordnance Survey Maps | location = Consett | year = 2011| isbn = 978-1-84784-521-4}}</ref> Originally built as the Albert Brewery, by 1915 it had become known as the Moss Side Brewery. A report in the 1880s commented:

"The water at the brewery is of exceptionally good quality, containing all the necessary elements for producing the finest ales, which cannot be surpassed in the district for their brightness, purity and flavour".<ref name="mosssidemap1915"/>

The brewery was later acquired by Walker and Homfrays and merged into Wilsons in 1949.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pubs-of-manchester.blogspot.com/2011/07/walker-homfrays-salford.html|title=Pubs of Manchester: Walker & Homfrays, Salford|date=10 July 2011}}</ref> The brewery again merged with [[Webster's Brewery|Websters]] brewery in 1985, was sold to [[Scottish & Newcastle|Courage]] in 1990, before takeover by Heineken in 2008.<ref>[[Webster's Brewery]]</ref> Prior to its expansion, part of the site of the Royal Brewery, where Moss Lane East meets Princess Road, was occupied by a library, fire station and police station.<ref name="mosssidemap1915"/>

'''[[Hydes Brewery]]''' on Moss Lane West was built in 1861, established by the Graetorix Brothers and originally known as the Queen's Brewery. It was sold to [[Hydes Brewery|Hydes]] in 1898 and became known as Hydes Anvil Brewery.<ref name="mosssidemap1915"/> Beer was brewed at the site until 2012, when Hydes moved production to a new building in [[City of Salford|Salford]].<ref name="hydesmovenotice">{{cite press release |publisher=Hydes Brewery |title=Hydes Plans to Relocate Brewery  | date =6 January 2012| url = http://www.hydesbrewery.co.uk/images/stories/pressreleases/hydes%20brewery%20relocation.pdf}}</ref><ref name="menhydesmove012">{{cite news|date=20 March 2012|title=Hydes in £2m move to Salford – 18 jobs to go |url=http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/business/s/1488823_hydes-in-2m-move-to-salford---18-jobs-to-go |work=[[Manchester Evening News]]}}</ref> The brewery building itself is [[Grade II#England and Wales|grade II listed]] and is awaiting redevelopment.<ref>{{Citation| title = British Listed Buildings : Hydes Anvil Brewery, Manchester| url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-388335-hydes-anvil-brewery-| access-date = 29 June 2013}}</ref><ref name="hydesredevopment">{{cite news|date=9 November 2012|title=Sale of Hydes Brewery in Moss Side scuppers £1m 'green' power station plan|first=Amy|last=Glendinning|url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/sale-of-hydes-brewery-in-moss-side-696722|work=[[Manchester Evening News]]}}</ref>

Established in 2010, the Moss Cider Project is a local community enterprise which takes donations of apples from trees in Moss Side and the surrounding area and makes them into cider and apple juice. Those who donate the apples get a share of what is produced.<ref name ="mossciderproject">http://themossciderproject.org/ The Moss Cider Project</ref>

===Other industry===

The northern England office of Aquatech Pressmain, which specialises in the 'supply of fluid pumping equipment to the Building Services, Process and Water Industries',<ref name="aqgm">{{cite web | title = About Us| publisher = AquaTech Pressmain| url = http://www.aquatechpressmain.co.uk/about-aquatech-pressmain/ | access-date = 23 June 2013}}</ref> is located in Moss Side.

Bridgewater Hospital, on Princess Road, is a private hospital that provides a range of healthcare treatments.

==Demography==
{{Further|Demographics of Greater Manchester}}
In 2007, the Moss Side ward was estimated to have a total population of 17,537, of which 8,785 were male and 8,752 were female.<ref name="mswp">{{cite web|title=Moss Side ward profile: Version 2010/1 |publisher=Manchester City Council |url=http://www.manchester.gov.uk/downloads/download/364/corporate_research_and_intelligence_population_publications |access-date=16 October 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100922155300/http://www.manchester.gov.uk/downloads/download/364/corporate_research_and_intelligence_population_publications |archive-date=22 September 2010 }}</ref> Moss Side is noted as an area with a greater population density and a faster population growth than other areas of the city of Manchester, with an increase of 17.4% between 2001 and 2007.<ref name="mswp"/> The "Moss Side ward profile: Version 2010/1", produced by [[Manchester City Council]], points to a significant shift in the demography of Moss Side, in terms of age structure, from the middle of the last decade and projected into the middle of this decade, with more in the under 10 and 25–35 age groups, suggesting an increase in families with younger children.<ref name="mswp"/> Other sources indicate an accompanying change in Moss Side's ethnic population, with an estimated marked percentage increase in the Afro-Caribbean, Indian, Somali, Chinese and Eastern European communities between 2007 and 2015.<ref name="pes2007">{{cite web |title=Derived 2006-Based SNPP for 2011 StatWard&nbsp;– percentages |publisher=Manchester City Council |url=http://www.manchester.gov.uk/site/scripts/download_info.php?downloadID=364&fileID=10552 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101130223749/http://www.manchester.gov.uk/site/scripts/download_info.php?downloadID=364&fileID=10552 |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 November 2010 |access-date=16 October 2010 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref name="pes2015">{{cite web |title=Derived 2006-Based SNPP for 2015 StatWard&nbsp;– percentages |publisher=Manchester City Council |url=http://www.manchester.gov.uk/site/scripts/download_info.php?downloadID=364&fileID=10565 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101201004135/http://www.manchester.gov.uk/site/scripts/download_info.php?downloadID=364&fileID=10565 |url-status=dead |archive-date=1 December 2010 |access-date=16 October 2010 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref name="Msarlp">{{cite web|title=Moss Side and Rusholme Local Plan – Manchester City Council|url=http://www.manchester.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/10184/moss_side_and_rusholme_local_plan|publisher=Manchester City Council|access-date=30 June 2013}}</ref>

===Changing age structure of the population===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! colspan=7 | Estimated change in age groups for 2011 and 2015
|-
! rowspan="2" style="width:150px; text-align:left;"|Moss Side
! colspan=2|All persons
! colspan=2|Change 2007–11:
! colspan=2|Change 2011–15:
|-
!width="80"|2011
!width="80"|2015
!width="80"|Number
!width="80"|% change
!width="80"|Number
!width="80"|% change
|-
!style="text-align: left;"|'''All Ages'''
| style="text-align:center;"|18,745
| style="text-align:center;"|19,794
| style="text-align:center;"|1208
| style="text-align:center;"|6.9%
| style="text-align:center;"|1048
| style="text-align:center;"|5.6%
|-
!style="text-align: left;"|0–4
| style="text-align:center;"|1,841
| style="text-align:center;"|1,995
| style="text-align:center;"|317
| style="text-align:center;"|20.8%
| style="text-align:center;"|154
| style="text-align:center;"|8.4%
|-
!style="text-align: left;"|5–9
| style="text-align:center;"|1,317
| style="text-align:center;"|1,551
| style="text-align:center;"|116
| style="text-align:center;"|9.6%
| style="text-align:center;"|234
| style="text-align:center;"|17.8%
|-
!style="text-align: left;"|10–14
| style="text-align:center;"|902
| style="text-align:center;"|959
| style="text-align:center;"|-133
| style="text-align:center;"|-12.8%
| style="text-align:center;"|56
| style="text-align:center;"|6.2%
|-
!style="text-align: left;"|15–19
| style="text-align:center;"|1,445
| style="text-align:center;"|1,332
| style="text-align:center;"|-149
| style="text-align:center;"|-9.3%
| style="text-align:center;"|-113
| style="text-align:center;"|-7.8%
|-
!style="text-align: left;"|20–24
| style="text-align:center;"|2,898
| style="text-align:center;"|2,770
| style="text-align:center;"|146
| style="text-align:center;"|5.3%
| style="text-align:center;"|-128
| style="text-align:center;"|-4.4%
|-
!style="text-align: left;"|25–29
| style="text-align:center;"|2,483
| style="text-align:center;"|2,643
| style="text-align:center;"|414
| style="text-align:center;"|20.0%
| style="text-align:center;"|160
| style="text-align:center;"|6.4%
|-
!style="text-align: left;"|30–34
| style="text-align:center;"|1,759
| style="text-align:center;"|2,103
| style="text-align:center;"|394
| style="text-align:center;"|28.9%
| style="text-align:center;"|344
| style="text-align:center;"|19.5%
|-
!style="text-align: left;"|35–39
| style="text-align:center;"|1,098
| style="text-align:center;"|1,244
| style="text-align:center;"|6
| style="text-align:center;"|0.5%
| style="text-align:center;"|147
| style="text-align:center;"|13.4%
|-
!style="text-align: left;"|40–44
| style="text-align:center;"|1,052
| style="text-align:center;"|1,057
| style="text-align:center;"|46
| style="text-align:center;"|4.6%
| style="text-align:center;"|5
| style="text-align:center;"|0.5%
|-
!style="text-align: left;"|45–49
| style="text-align:center;"|863
| style="text-align:center;"|899
| style="text-align:center;"|67
| style="text-align:center;"|8.4%
| style="text-align:center;"|36
| style="text-align:center;"|4.2%
|-
!style="text-align: left;"|50–54
| style="text-align:center;"|668
| style="text-align:center;"|724
| style="text-align:center;"|31
| style="text-align:center;"|4.9%
| style="text-align:center;"|56
| style="text-align:center;"|8.4%
|-
!style="text-align: left;"|55–59
| style="text-align:center;"|476
| style="text-align:center;"|528
| style="text-align:center;"|-36
| style="text-align:center;"|-7.1%
| style="text-align:center;"|52
| style="text-align:center;"|10.9%
|-
!style="text-align: left;"|60–64
| style="text-align:center;"|524
| style="text-align:center;"|493
| style="text-align:center;"|90
| style="text-align:center;"|20.8%
| style="text-align:center;"|-31
| style="text-align:center;"|-5.9%
|-
!style="text-align: left;"|65–69
| style="text-align:center;"|460
| style="text-align:center;"|537
| style="text-align:center;"|-23
| style="text-align:center;"|-4.8%
| style="text-align:center;"|77
| style="text-align:center;"|16.7%
|-
!style="text-align: left;"|70–74
| style="text-align:center;"|383
| style="text-align:center;"|368
| style="text-align:center;"|-27
| style="text-align:center;"|-6.6%
| style="text-align:center;"|-15
| style="text-align:center;"|-3.8%
|-
!style="text-align: left;"|75–79
| style="text-align:center;"|284
| style="text-align:center;"|294
| style="text-align:center;"|-22
| style="text-align:center;"|-7.1%
| style="text-align:center;"|10
| style="text-align:center;"|3.6%
|-
!style="text-align: left;"|80–84
| style="text-align:center;"|177
| style="text-align:center;"|174
| style="text-align:center;"|-28
| style="text-align:center;"|-13.4%
| style="text-align:center;"|-3
| style="text-align:center;"|-2.0%
|-
!style="text-align: left;"|85+
| style="text-align:center;"|115
| style="text-align:center;"|122
| style="text-align:center;"|-1
| style="text-align:center;"|-1.0%
| style="text-align:center;"|8
| style="text-align:center;"|6.6%
|-
! colspan=7 |
|-
!style="text-align: left;"|Manchester
| style="text-align:center;"|492,800
| style="text-align:center;"|520,500
| style="text-align:center;"|34,664
| style="text-align:center;"|7.6%
| style="text-align:center;"|27,700
| style="text-align:center;"|5.6%
|}
''Source:'' [[Manchester City Council]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Moss Side ward profile 2010/1 |publisher=Manchester City Council |url=http://www.manchester.gov.uk/downloads/download/364/corporate_research_and_intelligence_population_publications |access-date=16 October 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100922155300/http://www.manchester.gov.uk/downloads/download/364/corporate_research_and_intelligence_population_publications |archive-date=22 September 2010 }}</ref>

== Crime ==
Moss Side has a high crime rate. In April 1994, ''[[The Independent]]'' newspaper highlighted Moss Side as one of the most deprived areas in Britain, and as having some of the highest crime rates. Drug abuse was described as one of the area's biggest problems, with gun crime rates being so high that there had recently been 400 armed incidents reported within a 12-month period. Ambulance crews had resorted to wearing body armour after having to deal with a string of mostly drug-related shootings. Several doctors had been robbed of medical bags at knife point after being called out to local patients. A number of police vehicles had been fire-bombed and there had been reports of attempted ambushes on police patrols. Unemployment stood at nearly 30% – up to three times the national average in the early 1990s.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/no-go-britain-where-what-why-1370749.html|title=No-Go Britain: Where, what, why|website=[[Independent.co.uk]] |date=22 October 2011}}</ref>

The following stabbings and shootings happened in the area:
* [[2018 Moss Side mass shooting]]
* [[2020 Moss Side shooting]]
* [[2020 Moss Side stabbing]]

==Community==
[[File:Moss Side Community Allotment.jpg|thumb|Moss Side Community Allotment]]
Moss Side has longstanding Afro-Caribbean and South Asian populations. There has also been a recent increase in residents from other communities, including those from Somalia and Eastern Europe.<ref name="mosssidelocalplan2007p63">{{cite web|title=Moss Side and Rusholme Local Plan – Manchester City Council|url=http://www.manchester.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/10184/moss_side_and_rusholme_local_plan|publisher=Manchester City Council| year = 2007|page =63|access-date=7 July 2013}}</ref>

A number of local community and voluntary groups provide social support, as well as cultural and leisure opportunities to each of these communities.<ref name="mosssidelocalplan2007p62126">{{cite web|title=Moss Side and Rusholme Local Plan – Manchester City Council |url=http://www.manchester.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/10184/moss_side_and_rusholme_local_plan|publisher=Manchester City Council| year = 2007|pages =62, 126|access-date=7 July 2013}}</ref> These organisations and institutions include The West Indian Sports and Social Club, the African and Caribbean Mental Health Service, and the African-Caribbean Care Group, which serve the Afro-Caribbean community.<ref name="mosssidelocalplan2007p120121">{{cite web|title=Moss Side and Rusholme Local Plan – Manchester City Council|url=http://www.manchester.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/10184/moss_side_and_rusholme_local_plan|publisher=Manchester City Council| year = 2007|pages =120–121|access-date=7 July 2013}}</ref><ref name="acmhs">African and Caribbean Mental Health Service http://www.acmhs.co.uk/</ref> The Caribbean Carnival of Manchester is also held in the area every August, usually in Alexandra Park.<ref name="carnivalarticle">{{cite news |date=24 April 2013 |title=Manchester Caribbean Carnival 2013 |first=Leah |last=Knight |url=http://manchestergazette.co.uk/manchester-caribbean-carnival-2013/ |work=The Manchester Gazette |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130707113500/http://manchestergazette.co.uk/manchester-caribbean-carnival-2013/ |archive-date=7 July 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> The Indian Senior Citizens group provides support for the elderly within the Indian community.<ref name="mosssidelocalplan2007p120121"/> Additionally, the Somali Bravanese Sisters and the Polish School Manchester cater to the Somali and Polish communities, respectively.<ref name="Cansbs">{{cite web|title=Somali Bravanese Sisters|url=http://can.uk.com/archive/participatory-arts-programmes/somali-bravanese-sisters/|publisher=CAN|access-date=7 July 2013}}</ref><ref name="Mccpsm">{{cite web|title=Polish School Manchester|url=http://manchester.fsd.org.uk/kb5/manchester/fsd/organisation.page?record=vwa0sR0wssE|publisher=Manchester City Council|access-date=7 July 2013}}</ref>

[[The Reno, Manchester|The Reno]] was a late night club at the junction of Princess Road and Moss Lane East in Moss Side. The Reno and the Nile (upstairs from the Reno) were Manchester's most famous drinking clubs for the city's West Indian community and played a key role in the development of black culture in the city.<ref name="Glinert2008">{{cite book|author=Ed Glinert|title=The Manchester Compendium: A Street-by-Street History of England's Greatest Industrial City|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JXbjc3p9I84C&pg=PT333|date=24 April 2008|publisher=Penguin Books Limited|isbn=978-0-14-102930-6|pages=333–}}</ref>

Moss Side is also home to a population with a keen interest in [[green politics]] and [[sustainable living]], with initiatives such as the Moss Cider Project and Carbon Co-op. Moss Side Community Allotment states its aim as involving volunteers in growing and making available locally produced organic food.<ref>{{Citation| title = Moss Side Community Allotment| url = http://mosssidecommunityallotment.wordpress.com//| access-date = 29 June 2013| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130723053107/http://mosssidecommunityallotment.wordpress.com/| archive-date = 23 July 2013| url-status = dead}}</ref> A local disused space, known as 'The Triangle', involved a community group in regenerating wasteground into a communal garden.<ref name="csrgtonylloyd">{{cite web |date= 3 June 2011|title= Moss Side Residents build a garden and a community
|publisher= Tony Lloyd MP | url=http://www.tonylloydmp.co.uk/archives/599|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725035017/http://www.tonylloydmp.co.uk/archives/599 |archive-date=25 July 2011}}</ref> Other groups, such as Bowes Street Residents Association have sought to 'green' the area through the use of 'alley gating' and planting in contained alleys.<ref>{{Citation| title = Bowes Street Residents Association| url=http://www.bowesstreet.blogspot.co.uk/| access-date = 29 June 2013}}</ref> The 'meanwhile garden' on the site of the former bus depot is currently being turned into an apple orchard.<ref name = "meanwhilemcc">{{cite news|date=26 April 2013|title=Time is ripe for urban orchard on former Stagecoach depot site |url=http://www.manchester.gov.uk/news/article/6577/time_is_ripe_for_urban_orchard_on_former_stagecoach_depot_site |work=[[Manchester City Council]]}}</ref> With the aim of changing perceptions of the area, a group of local residents acting as 'community ambassadors' was also formed in January 2012.<ref name = "mosssideambassadors">{{cite news|date=29 June 2013 |title=Ambassadors' Moss Side mission underway|first=Melanie |last=Hughes |url=http://mancunianmatters.co.uk/content/18012127-ambassadors-moss-side-mission-underway|work=Mancunian Matters}}</ref>

The Millennium Powerhouse [[youth club|youth service]] caters for 8- to 25-year-olds and includes a music studio, fitness studio, dance studio, sports hall and offers information and advice to young people, including a library, along with recreational and sport groups. Windrush Millennium Centre, which provides adult education and other community facilities, is situated on Alexandra Road. Additionally, the area features a number of Polish and Indian restaurants and eateries.<ref name="Gprprims">{{cite web|title=Polish Restaurants in Moss Side|url=http://www.getpolishrestaurant.co.uk/manchester/moss-side-polish-restaurants.html|publisher=Getpolishrestaurant|access-date=7 July 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130708061204/http://www.getpolishrestaurant.co.uk/manchester/moss-side-polish-restaurants.html|archive-date=8 July 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name="Yirnme">{{cite web|title=Indian Restaurants near Moss Side, Egremont|url=http://www.yell.com/s/indian+restaurants-moss+side-egremont.html|publisher=Yell|access-date=7 July 2013}}</ref> It has also in recent years seen the opening of several Somali cafes.<ref name = "letsmoveto"/>

==Education==
[[File:Manchester Academy in Moss Side - June 2009.jpg|thumb|right|Manchester Academy school in Moss Side]]
In 2003, Ducie Central High School was replaced by the independently run [[Manchester Academy (Moss Side)|Manchester Academy]], with the aim of overcoming barriers to education and achievement faced by young people in the community. In April 2009, the ''[[Manchester Evening News]]'' reported the [[Academy (English school)|Academy]] has met with success in raising educational standards in the area and, by 2010, 81% of pupils achieved A*–C grades at [[GCSE]], compared with 13% at the former Ducie High School.<ref name = "academyart">{{cite news|date=28 April 2009|title=Reborn school a class act|first=Yakub |last=Qureshi|url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/education/s/1112168_reborn_school_a_class_act|work=[[Manchester Evening News]]}}</ref><ref name = "macexampage">{{cite web| title = Exam Results 2010 | work = Manchester Academy| url = http://www.manchester-academy.org/the-academy/view/309/Exam-Results-2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727062738/http://www.manchester-academy.org/the-academy/view/309/Exam-Results-2010 |archive-date=27 July 2011}}</ref> In November 2009, it won the Academy Partnership Award,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebawards.co.uk/award-categories/3-awards-category-one/114-academy-partnership-award|title=Academy Partnership Award 2009 |publisher=Education Business Awards |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100914021844/http://www.ebawards.co.uk/award-categories/3-awards-category-one/114-academy-partnership-award |archive-date=14 September 2010 }}</ref> at the UK Education Business Awards, whilst, in July 2010, Academy pupils were named as national [[debating]] finalists at the Debate Mate competition at the [[House of Lords]].  In December 2010, it was reported that this 'once failing school' was 'now named as one of [the] UK's best'.<ref name = "men20101206">{{cite news|date=6 December 2010|title=Once-failing school now named as one of UK's best |first=Epstein |last=Angela |url=http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1388204_oncefailing_school_now_named_as_one_of_uks_best |work=[[Manchester Evening News]]}}</ref>

The area has five primary schools: Claremont Primary School, Devine Mercy RC Primary School, Holy Name RC Primary School, St Mary's CE Junior and Infant School and Webster Primary School.<ref name = "bilsb">{{cite news|date=18 April 2010|title=Bus site to become estate|first=Chris |last=Osuh|url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1033737_bus_site_to_become_estate|work=[[Manchester Evening News]]}}</ref> In July 2014, St Mary's CE Junior and Infant School won the [[Times Educational Supplement]] national ''Primary School of the Year'' award.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.tes.co.uk/b/news/2014/07/03/teachers-honoured-in-tes-schools-awards.aspx|title=Teachers honoured in TES Schools Awards|publisher= tesconnect – Times Educational Supplement |date=6 July 2014 }}</ref>

The Windrush Millennium Centre on Alexandra Road provides facilities for courses of college and adult education, including some run by the [[City College Manchester]] and [[Manchester College of Arts and Technology]]. Manchester City Council runs the Greenheys Adult Learning Centre on Upper Lloyd Street.

There are nearest secondary schools, including [[St Peter's Roman Catholic High School, Manchester|St Peter's RC High School]].

==Religion==

The original St James's Church (Church of England), Princess Road, was built in 1887–88 (architect John Lowe): of red brick in the [[Perpendicular Period#Perpendicular Gothic|Perpendicular revival]] style. This has now been replaced by a modern brick building which also contains offices used by local community groups.

[[Christ Church, Moss Side, Manchester|Christ Church]], Lloyd Street North, is an [[Anglican]] church of 1899–1904 by W. Cecil Hardisty and is a [[Grade II*]] listed building as of 24 April 1987.<ref name="BB">{{cite web |url=http://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-388287-christ-church-manchester |title=Christ Church, Manchester |publisher=British Listed Buildings |access-date=23 June 2013}}</ref>

Several evangelical churches congregate in Moss Side, including Revelation Church Manchester, which meets in the Moss Side Millennium Power House,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Revelation Church Manchester |url=https://www.revelationchurchmanchester.co.uk/ |access-date=2024-06-25 |website=Revelation Church Manchester |language=en-GB}}</ref> Grace Church Manchester, which meets in the Manchester Academy building,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Home |url=https://www.gracechurchmanchester.net/ |access-date=2024-06-25 |website=Grace Church Manchester |language=en-GB}}</ref> Church of God of Prophecy on Raby Street and South Manchester Family Church,<ref>{{Cite web |title=SMFC - About Us |url=http://www.southmanchester.org.uk/about-us/ |access-date=2024-06-25 |website=www.southmanchester.org.uk |language=en}}</ref> which meets at Manchester High School for Girls.

There are two Roman Catholic churches, the Church of Divine Mercy, a Polish church founded in 1961, which is on Moss Lane East;<ref>Clergy: Fr Andrzej Zuziak [[Society of Christ Fathers|SChr]] (''Provincial and Parish Priest''); Fr Artur Stelmach Schr; Fr Pawel Urbanek SChr</ref><ref name="Almanac"/> and the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour (founded 1949). The Polish church occupies a former Methodist chapel built about 1875 in the [[Neo-Gothic]] style and contains stained glass windows commemorating victims of the [[Holocaust]]. It is a few yards south of Christ Church.<ref name="Almanac">''Salford Diocesan Almanac''; 2000, p. 55</ref><ref>Hartwell, Clare, et al. (2004). ''Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East''. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 481. {{ISBN|0-300-10583-5}}.</ref>

The former [[Swedenborgian]] Church also dates from 1888 and is Neo-Gothic in style.<ref>Pevsner, N. (1969). ''Lancashire: 1''. Penguin Books. pp.&nbsp;333–334.</ref> It was built to replace the previous Swedenborgian church in Peter Street, Manchester. On an adjacent site was the Church of the New Age (founded 1923) and there was also in Raby Street the Wesleyan Methodist Church.<ref>Makespeace, C. (1995) ''Looking Back at Hulme, Moss Side, Chorlton on Medlock & Ardwick''. Altrincham: Willow; p. 69</ref><ref>[https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/MossSide/MossLaneEastChurchoftheNewAge Church of the New Age]; GenUKI; accessed 24 May 2019</ref>
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File:Christ Church - Moss Side - from Upper Lloyd Street.jpg|Christ Church
File:Moss Side - Moss Lane East - geograph.org.uk - 1231210.jpg|The Church of Divine Mercy
File:Moss Side Good Friday Walk Crossing Princess Road. - geograph.org.uk - 418970.jpg|[[Good Friday]] walk crossing Princess Road
File:Our Lady's Church exterior.jpg|Our Lady's Church
File:Our Lady's Church interior.jpg|Our Lady's Church interior
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==Sports==
From 1923, Moss Side was the location of [[Manchester City F.C.]]'s stadium at [[Maine Road]] which on several occasions in its early years drew crowds of more than 80,000. However its capacity was gradually reduced over the years and by the mid-1990s it held just under 35,000&nbsp;spectators all seated. Plans to rebuild the stadium to seat 45,000 were abandoned in favour of moving to the [[City of Manchester Stadium]]. Maine Road has since been demolished and a mixed development of two-, three-, and four-bedroom houses, flats, and a primary school has been built on the site.<ref name = "maineplace">{{cite news|date=2 May 2007|title=Transfer to Maine Road|first=Chris |last=Osuh|url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1000/1000798_transfer_to_maine_road.html|work=[[Manchester Evening News]]}}</ref>

==Notable people==
{{See also|List of people from Manchester}}

* The political activist and women's suffrage leader [[Emmeline Pankhurst]] was born in Moss Side.<ref>The birth indexes for the December Quarter of 1858 for the Chorlton [[registration district]] (vol. 8c, p. 529) record her name as Emiline Goulden, but she never seems to have used that spelling.</ref> 
* The author [[Anthony Burgess]], although born in [[Harpurhey]], lived in Moss Side as a child,<ref>Ratcliffe, Michael (2007). "Anthony Burgess". In: ''The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. Oxford University Press.</ref> as did the historian [[Michael Wood (historian)|Michael Wood]].<ref>[https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/peoples-historian-becomes-manchester-professor/ People’s historian becomes Manchester Professor]; University of Manchester</ref> 
* [[Frederick Engels]] lived in Moss Side for part of his time in Manchester (1842-1844) where he wrote [[The Condition of the Working Class in England]]
* The clergyman and submarine inventor [[George Garrett (inventor)|George Garrett]] was a [[Church of England]] vicar in Moss Side.{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}} 
* [[Bertha Jane Grundy]] the novelist was born at Moss Side in 1837.{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}}  
* Community activist [[Kath Locke]] was a co-founder of the Abasindi Co-operative in 1980,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bankes|first=George|date=2001|title=Exploring Africa in Manchester|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/40793664|journal=Journal of Museum Ethnography|volume=13|issue=13 |pages=24|jstor=40793664}}</ref> and the Kath Locke Centre in Moss Side is named after her.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Ahmed|first=Nazneen|title=The Oxford Companion to Black British History|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2007|isbn=9780192804396|chapter=Locke, Kath (1928–1992)}}</ref>
* [[Philomena Lynott]], the Irish mother of [[Thin Lizzy]] frontman [[Phil Lynott]], lived in Moss Side with him from approximately 1949-1953, having found it as "a place where the single mother of a mixed-race baby would be accepted".<ref name = PT>{{Cite web|last=Taylor|first=Paul|date=2011-02-28|title=Phil Lynott's mother recalls exciting days in Manchester |url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/phil-lynotts-mother-recalls-exciting-855110|access-date=2023-07-31|website=[[Manchester Evening News]]|language=en}}</ref>
* The DJ "[[A Guy Called Gerald]]", real name Gerald Simpson, grew up in Moss Side.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Guy Called Gerald |url=https://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/a-guy-called-gerald-ring-gerald |access-date=2023-03-08 |website=www.redbullmusicacademy.com |language=en}}</ref>
* British rock musician and composer [[Barry Adamson]] was born in Moss Side. His debut solo album ''[[Moss Side Story]]'' is an imaginary soundtrack to a thriller set in Moss Side.<ref>Marconie, S. ''[[NME]]'', 11 March 1989 pp33</ref>
*[[Raine Allen-Miller]], spent her early childhood in Moss Side. Her first feature film was ''[[Rye Lane]]''.
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==Notes==
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==References==
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*{{Cite journal |last=Crofton |first=H. T.|year=1903 |title=Old Moss Side, Manchester}}
*{{Cite journal |last=Porter |first=J. |year=1904 |title=In and Around Moss Side}}
*{{Cite journal |last=South Manchester Regeneration Team |year=2007 |title=Moss Side and Rusholme District Centre Local Plan}}
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Moss Side, Manchester|Moss Side}}
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/manchesterarchiveplus/sets/72157625775263768/ Moss Side Manchester Archives+]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061024090143/http://www.actsofachievement.org.uk/blackhistorytrail/mossprint.php Black History trail]

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