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Mills, canals and the free museums
Based in Ancoats, Manchester.
Jonas moved from Utrecht for the music and stayed for the red-brick mills and cotton-era canals of Ancoats and Castlefield. He builds walking routes between the Whitworth, the Science and Industry Museum and the Rochdale Canal, and knows which are free to enter.
The Deansgate reading room is free, open Wednesday to Saturday only, and built for the kind of afternoon October keeps handing out; getting it right takes a little planning.
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