The Knowhere Guide

Best and Worst in Levenshulme, Greater Manchester*

Levenshulme, Greater Manchester Triumphs and Tragedies

Favourite Building

• there are some nice houses down Albert rd way.
• The old Town Hall. The old Railway Station is quite nice, but falling down as the letting agents are blatently charging too much.

Demolish It Now Building

• Most of the district needs the plug pulling on it, to be honest
• Almost all of it. To be perfectly honest, 85% of Levenshulme is a hell hole. The problem is that when they do knock something down (like the old Police Station), no-one wants to buy the land so it just becomes a fly tip. Which I can assure you, is a HUGE problem in Levensulme.

The Best Things

• Very friendly place with good community spirit.
• cheap booze from the off-licenses, good variety of food (indian, greek,turkish) close to city centre Extremely easy to get to from city centre, the legendary 192 bus runs all day and night for a quid, so you can stay out as long as you want without having to worry bout expensive taxi fare home.
• It's cheap. £70 a week for a three bedroomed house. That's it. If you can put up with the area, the gangs of kids, the endless stream of poverty that engulfs the area, then you're sorted.
• Close to the centre

The Worst Things

• everything else The kids are all vile, loudmouthed thugs but I blame the parents
• It's really poor. It's not the worst area of Manchester (like Beswick, Bradford, Collyhurst or all of North Manchester), but no-one has any money here. Kids get kicked out of their houses after breakfast and told not to come back until bedtime. There's rubbish everywhere. There's one decent pub. The 192 bus into town is incredibly erratic - the archetypal 'five come at once then none for an hour' thing.
• Drunken yoofs Hardcore raging drug/gang/innocent taxi driver gang war.

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Last updated: 2006-10-27