Cruising Areas - North West
Toilets open 24 hours. A pretty good place for lorry drivers (before 23.00). The toilets are one of a dying breed where the insides of the cubicles are not tiled floor to ceiling. Beware after midnight: the security guard will be on duty and will be patrolling the area

Burtonwood Couples
The G.I. Bride Couple - a UK wide phenomenon. Over 6,500 local women became G.I. Brides after marrying personnel from the Burtonwood Base. But there were many, many children who were G.I. babies who never met their fathers. Many couples met and formed relationships in very short spaces of time as they didn't know when the G.I. would be moved on - especially when the G.I.'s were in the Personnel Dispersel Centre.

Dr Helen Hills was a member of a small team working on neglected aspects of urbanism in relation to developments in present-day Manchester. The team, funded by the AHRB, were undertaking a project entitled "Urban Memory:
Manchester and the fabrication of the postindustrial". Helen's particular work there focused on the interstitial spaces and forgetting in the city.

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Strangers in the night
Tuesday 25th May, 6pm

Join us as we travel to the M62 Services to meet Dr Helen Hills, Lecturer in Art History at the University of Manchester. The discussion will touch on cruising culture, the character of interstitial spaces and the rhetoric of forgetting.