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  Longsight - Districts & Suburbs of Manchester England
Longsight - Districts & Suburbs of Manchester England
Longsight really grew out of the Industrial Revolution and its recent history is indelibly tied to canals and railways, particularly the railway maintenance yards which cover much of the districts area.
Another important chapel was the Longsight Free Christian Church on the corner of Plymouth Grove and Birch Lane.
www.manchester2002-uk.com /districts/longsight.html   (496 words)

  
  Longsight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The district is bordered by Ardwick to the north, Rusholme and Victoria Park to the west, Levenshulme to the south, and Gorton to the east.
Longsight is served in Westminster by the MP for Gorton, currently the Rt Hon Sir Gerald Kaufman.
Longsight is the birthplace of brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Longsight   (572 words)

  
 The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The district is bordered by Ardwick to the north, Rusholme and Victoria Park to the west, Levenshulme to the south, and Gorton to the east.
Longsight is served in Westminster by the MP for Gorton, currently the Rt Hon Sir Gerald Kaufman.
Longsight was immortalised in song by local singer Ian Brown formerly of The Stone Roses on his album 'Solarized'.
www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Longsight   (642 words)

  
 Kent laser vision correction - Mr. Chris Jenkins
Longsight, or hyperopia, occurs when the cornea is not sufficiently curved or the eye is too short.
Shortsight is corrected by flattening the surface of the cornea (most tissue is removed from the centre of the cornea), whereas longsight is corrected by steepening the cornea (most tissue is removed from the periphery of the cornea).
Astigmatism is treated by flattening the steepest axis of the cornea or by steepening the flattest axis of the cornea.
www.kentlasik.co.uk /surgery-pages/refractive.html   (792 words)

  
 Kent laser vision correction - Mr. Chris Jenkins
Longsight, or hyperopia, occurs when the cornea is not sufficiently curved or the eye is too short.
If their degree of longsight is marked, they would also need glasses or contacts for distance vision.
Shortsight is corrected by flattening the surface of the cornea (most tissue is removed from the centre of the cornea), whereas longsight is corrected by steepening the cornea (most tissue is removed from the periphery of the cornea).
www.kenteyesurgery.co.uk /surgery-pages/refractive.html   (792 words)

  
 Aziz Ibrahim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Guitarist Aziz Ibrahim was born in Longsight, Manchester to Pakistani parents.
He is best known for his work with Simply Red, The Stone Roses mark II and their former vocalist Ian Brown.
He is also a member of the H Band with Marillion's Steve Hogarth and is involved in the writing of the second H Band album.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aziz_Ibrahim   (119 words)

  
 Early History of Longsight
The problem with this story is that there are records of the name Longsight being used prior to the Scottish rebels coming over the border.
Gay Sussex, author of "Longsight Past and Present", thinks that a more plausible explanation is that over time the field name "Long-shut", (meaning a shallow depression) became corrupted into the name Longsight.
Longsight was both defined and bisected by the railway and the roads.
www.manchesterhistory.net /LONGSIGHT/HISTORY/history.html   (625 words)

  
 Manchester Homefinder - area guide of Longsight   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Longsight is on Stockport Road, less than three miles south of the city centre.
Stockport Road (the A6) is a major route from the city centre to south Manchester, Stockport and Cheshire.
Longsight market (open four days a week) on Dickenson Road is a busy traditional market with a wide range of quality products.
www.manchesterhomefinder.org /longsight/longsight.html   (697 words)

  
 Body   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
August 1967 saw her transferred to Longsight depot, where she remained until June 1968, when she was allocated to D09 Manchester Division.
As the convoy approached the depot the staff could not believe their eyes, only a few weeks ago the loco was still in undercoat when they visited the MRC to help refit the locos air tanks.
On the Saturday morning 25th, Longsight staff fitted the two nameplates back onto the loco which had been kindly donated to the group by Dave Belshaw along with the four works plates.
www.trainweb.org /cfa/aureol/aureol.html   (1542 words)

  
 Privacy Policy | The Longsight Group LLC
Longsight may store clients' electronic mail and other communications as a necessary incident to the transmission and delivery of those communications.
Longsight will protect the confidentiality of its clients' information, account information and personal communications to the fullest extent possible and consistent with the law and the legitimate interests of Longsight, its partners, its employees and other clients of Longsight's services.
Longsight disclaims any intention to censor, edit or engage in ongoing review or surveillance of communications stored on or transmitted through its facilities by clients or others.
www.longsight.com /privacy-policy   (425 words)

  
 Fourth Dimension: Tetraspace :: View topic - Science Requires Mathematics
longsight v refers to a geometry where the point approach is E2.
longsight vi refers to the approaches to a horizon-sphere.
longsight vii is of such vast negative curvature i can not begin to understand it.
tetraspace.alkaline.org /forum/viewtopic.php?p=5290   (535 words)

  
 The Longsight Group LLC | Supporting Open Source Educational Software
The Appalachian College Association has selected The Longsight Group to provide Sakai hosting and support services as part of a new consortial initiative.
Longsight has used a stack of open source software to handle our internal mail and clients' mail for the past several years.
Longsight built the Academic Commons using the Drupal content management system.
www.longsight.com   (821 words)

  
 Manchester Friends of the Earth
The research so far reveals that residents are unhappy with the quality of the bus services in Longsight, the volume of traffic in the area, and the lack of safety measures in place on the buses and on the streets.
"Longsight residents have not been shy in telling us what needs to change - from buses not turning up on time and taxis charging too much, to lack of lighting and safe places to cross the road.
Research into the Longsight community began in September 2002 by Manchester friends of the Earth, FoE UK and the Hamilton Road Area Community Association and a final report on the findings is due to be published in August 2003.
www.manchesterfoe.org.uk /press/longsight_27may03.htm   (674 words)

  
 Then and Now: Longsight
IN its canals and railway maintenance yards, the district of Longsight in the south of the city harbours the ghosts of a glorious past.
Longsight, which was formerly known as Grindlow Marsh, was not incorporated into the city of Manchester until 1890.
It is the Longsight Free Christian Church, known locally as the Unitarian Chapel.
www.manchesteronline.co.uk /mancunian/expats/s/139/139126_then_and_now_longsight.html   (422 words)

  
 ESPN.com Soccernet England: News - Wes is the Longsight libero
ESPN.com Soccernet England: News - Wes is the Longsight libero
The tough streets of Longsight were Brown's playground as a kid, and St Chrysostom's Church of England Primary School was where he first showed the skills that have made him a United star.
Brown once asked legendary sweeper Franco Baresi for his autograph when he was on tour of Italy as a 17-year-old and still treasures it.
www.soccernet.com /england/news/2001/0225/20010225engbrowncapt.html   (375 words)

  
 Welcome to Longsight Memories   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Situated a short distance from the centre of the city, Longsight has undergone enormous changes over the last 150 years.
Longsight Memories attempts to tell the story of Longsight through the words and pictures of those people who lived there and some who still do.
Any contravention of the copyright of others is unintentional and will be corrected immediately when brought to the attention of the webmaster.
manchesterhistory.net /longsight.html   (112 words)

  
 Manchester LD councillor given asylum returns for an 18-day break in Pakistan - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Twenty years ago Longsight was a rough inner city area, but largely white, the second largest ethnic group was fls.
The Muslims of Longsight are quite peaceful compared to the Muslims of Oldham or Keightly, but women are in constant danger of sexual attack by them.
To summarise - Longsight should be a lesson to all, it is amazing how quickly a rough working class area can deteriate into a vision of a southern Asian hellhole.
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=153197   (1102 words)

  
 News - Sure Start Longsight Bury Time Capsule To Celebrate National Sure Start Month
The Sure Start Longsight team are to bury a time capsule on the site of their new centre as part of celebrations for National Sure Start month, which runs throughout June.
These included a Play Party in Longsight Library and a teddy bears picnic in Lyme park, which was attended by around 200 children and their parents.
Sure Start Longsight is managed by The Big Life Company, a collection of businesses, services and charities which provides support and opportunities to excluded people, to help them move on in their lives.
www.parents.org.uk /news_longsight-capsule.htm   (376 words)

  
 Manchester Homefinder - area guide of Ardwick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The homes are mostly between Hyde Road and Stockport Road (up to Kirkmanshulme Lane in Longsight), with a few others between Plymouth Grove and Upper Brook Street.
Longsight market (open four days a week) is close by too - it's a busy traditional market with a wide range of quality products.
The nearest library is at the Longsight centre.
www.manchesterhomefinder.org /ardwick/ardwick.html   (573 words)

  
 Networking Newsletter (Issue 47): Longsight Votes on Transport   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In May, Manchester Friends of the Earth rounded off nine months of community-based research with an interactive exhibition in Longsight Library.
They have been working since last September with Longsight residents to find out what problems there are with transport and traffic in their local area and to hear their suggestions for improvement.
Graeme Sherriff, coordinator of Manchester Friends of the Earth, said, "Longsight residents have not been shy in telling us what needs to change - from buses not turning up on time and taxis charging too much, to lack of lighting and safe places to cross the road.
www.networkingnewsletter.org.uk /47/longsight.html   (343 words)

  
 South Manchester gun deaths 14,000 times UK average - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Based partly on intelligence and records compiled by Greater Manchester Police and partly on interviews with former and active gang members, the report says rival cliques have created a battlefield in a small area in the south of the city.
All four gangs are in the Longsight and Greenheys police divisions, close to the Moss Side district.
People in Longsight and Greenheys were, per head of population, 140 times more likely to be shot than other residents of Greater Manchester.
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=120425   (1716 words)

  
 ChavTowns - Longsight
they then return to longsight to live on the stockport road, sometimes dribbling down into ardwick where they sit in the park and yell in grown up voices the words they can still remember from their youth, "oi, slag, wotchoo fooking lookin at eh?"
The 192 remains their form of transport, but its necessary now cos of all the doobies they put away when they were pushchair trainess have sucked the lungs out of their bodies.
lived on the edge of longsight in uni halls, was trully scared by a gang of chavs while waiting for a taxi from ASDA on a sunday.
www.chavtowns.co.uk /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1309   (463 words)

  
 Streetgangs.com :: View topic - Gangs In The UK
But i gotta tell ya Longsight Crew are under a lot of pressure with the Crime Family in there hood.
The Longsight Crew are trying to take over everything, they're the youngest most violent gangsters trying to make a name for themselves.
Longsight Crew numbers are now even eclipsing the original gangs of Doddington and Gooch.
www.streetgangs.com /billboard/viewtopic.php?t=7028   (1743 words)

  
 Networking Newsletter (Issue 50): Longsight Launch for Better Buses and Safer Streets
On 17th, 18th and 20th October 2003, Manchester Friends of the Earth (FoE) [2] and Hamilton Road Area Residents' Association (HRACA) [3] are inviting Longsight residents and community leaders and policy makers in Manchester to Longsight Library to an exhibition to present the findings of their award-winning community [4] project about transport in Longsight.
The exhibition is open from 10am until 5pm on the 17th and 18th, and from 10am until 7:30pm on the 20th.
Graeme Sherriff, Co-ordinator of the project, is optimistic that local people will get involved: "People in Longsight are clear about their transport problems and what they want to see done.
networkingnewsletter.org.uk /50/longsight.html   (665 words)

  
 Friends of the Earth: Press Releases: : Classes Start on Time After School Boys Win New Bus Service
The Longsight Transport Group took up the students' case at a meeting with Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive (GMPTE), who agreed to fund a new school bus service.
The Longsight Transport Group was set up earlier this year by Friends of the Earth and ALL, a local community network [2], following a ground-breaking research project into local transport problems in Longsight [3] which showed that the community's main concerns were for better buses and reducing the danger from traffic.
[2] ALL is a network for voluntary and community groups in Ardwick, Levenshulme and Longsight, aiming to enable and encourage such groups to support each other and share information to provide a stronger voice for the local voluntary sector..
www.foe.org.uk /resource/press_releases/classes_start_on_time_afte_19042004.html   (631 words)

  
 ippr - Institute for Public Policy Research
The Longsight Transport Group was set up last year by Friends of the Earth and ALL, a network for voluntary and community groups in Alrdwick, Levenshulme and Longsight, following a research project into local transportation problems in the Longsight area.
The project found that people’s priorities were better bus services and cheaper Megarider weekly travel cards, reducing the danger from traffic, including traffic slowing measures, more pedestrian crossings and safe routes to schools, and reducing danger from crime, including more CCTV and police on the beat.
The Longsight Transport Project brings together local residents and aims to influence decisions being made about transport and safety in the area, and achieved its first success when the Greater Manchester Passenger Executive agreed to fund a school bus service from Longsight to the Manchester Academy in Moss Side following a campaign involving pupils.
www.ippr.org.uk /ipprnorth/articles/index.asp?id=1751   (941 words)

  
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Longsight walks over to Rodimus, "How are things on the western front?" Strafe emerges from the underground passage.
Longsight says, "And Pakky here can run that scanner doo hiky thing while I'm talking to him, see what's going on in that brain of his....That sound cool Paky?"" Firestar is whisked away north on a people-mover into the Main Commissary.
Longsight then folds his arms and pouts, "I still say it wasn't exactly my fault..." Whiz turns around, tests the sedative, and then says, "Lower the field enough for me to approach him." Double-Take says, "You sure that's a good idea?" Moonracer blinks a bit.
www.dnaco.net /~rodimus/rdtp11.txt   (11716 words)

  
 Rose Cottage, Longsight Road (a59), Clayton Le Dale, Blackburn presented by A1 Tourism
Rose Cottage, Longsight Road (a59), Clayton Le Dale, Blackburn presented by A1 Tourism
Rose Cottage is a two hundred year old cottage situated on the A59 at the gateway to the picturesque Ribble Valley.
Please park in such a way to allow other guests to be able to drive in and out with ease.
www.a1tourism.com /uk/rosecott.html   (338 words)

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