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Darcy is fast asleep in her pram, without a care in the world, in the heart of the city centre ‘brimming with confidence’.
The two-year-old is growing up in town with her dad Lucas Dawson. As Darcy snoozes, Lucas catches up with old pal Jack Iddon over a latte on Stevenson Square.
Conversation has turned to the city centre.
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“There’s an advert on Oldham Road that says ‘we were here when Ancoats was known for Sankeys and not sourdough’. I think a lot of people see that as a change for the negative, and the advert is for them, but I like it,” Lucas says.
Sankeys was a legendary nightclub in Ancoats’ Beehive Mill, founded by Sacha Lord in 2000. 16 years later, it closed and was converted into offices and a c