By the time the group's fourth album Strangeways, Here We Come was released in September, the band had split up.

Strangeways, Here We Come peaked at number two in the UK and was their most successful album in the US, reaching number 55 on the Billboard 200.

A couple of further singles from Strangeways were released with earlier live, session and demo tracks as B-sides, and the following year the live recording Rank ( recorded in 1986 while Gannon was in the band ) repeated the UK chart success of previous albums.

In late 1931, Lionel Mann, an assistant of five years ' experience, resigned when his employers informed him that his sideline was affecting his promotion prospects, and Pierrepoint received an official envelope inviting him to an interview at Manchester's Strangeways Prison ; his mother Mary, having seen many such envelopes in Henry's time as an executioner, was not happy at her son's career choice.

In January 1956, he had gone to Strangeways Prison, Manchester, to officiate at the execution of Thomas Bancroft, who was reprieved less than 12 hours before his scheduled execution, when Pierrepoint was already present making his preparations – the first time in his career that this had happened in England.

Allen had been convicted of the murder of John Alan West ; Allen's accomplice, Gwynne Owen Evans, was hanged at Strangeways Prison in Manchester, at the same time by Harry Allen.

Gwynne Owen Evans was hanged by the executioner Harry Allen at Manchester's Strangeways Prison at 8: 00 am on 13 August 1964.

In 1990, when prisoners at Strangeways ( see 1990 Strangeways Prison riot ) took over the prison in protest at conditions, the RCG was active together with other groups supporting them on the outside, and later published a book, ' Strangeways: A Serious Disturbance ', largely written by prisoners and former prisoners.

Lord Justice Woolf was appointed to hold a five-month public inquiry with Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons, Judge Stephen Tumim, into the prison disturbances at Strangeways prison, Manchester and other prisons between 11 June on 31 October 1990.

The Woolf Report, quoting many of the 1700 replies, was published on 25 February 1991, and blamed the loss of control of the Strangeways prison on the prison officers abandoning the gates outside the chapel, which " effectively handed the prison to the prisoners ".

Quicksilver, like the rest of Fortitude South, was devised by Colonel David Strangeways, Montgomery's deception officer, and carried out under his supervision.

Strangeways was very adept at deceiving the Germans.

Boddingtons Brewery (" Boddies ") was a regional brewing company that owned public houses throughout the North West of England based at Strangeways Brewery in Manchester, England.

Strangeways Brewery closed in 2004 and production of pasteurised Boddingtons was moved to Samlesbury in Lancashire.

Strangeways Brewery was founded in 1778 by two grain merchants, Thomas Caister and Thomas Fry, just north of what is currently Manchester city centre.

In 1940 Strangeways Brewery was closed for several months after it was hit by a bomb in the Manchester Blitz, and production was moved temporarily to the nearby Hydes Brewery.

In 1998 production of the Flowers ale brands was moved to Strangeways.

The brand was once a leading part of the old Whitbread Beer Company, but its fortunes had dwindled since the closure in 2005 of the Strangeways Brewery.

Girlfriend in a Coma was the lead single off the band's fourth album, Strangeways, Here We Come, and reached # 13 in the British charts.

It was built on the grounds of Strangeways Park and Gardens, which gave the prison its original name.

** Strangeways Prison riot: The longest prison riot in Britain's history begins at Strangeways Prison in Manchester, and continues for 3 weeks and 3 days, until April 25.

More fundamentally, however, Sir Harry blamed the " intolerable " conditions inside Strangeways in the months leading up to the riots and a " combination of errors " by the prison staff and Prison Service management as a central contributing factor.

HM Prison Manchester ( often referred to as Strangeways ) is a high-security male prison situated in Manchester, England operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service.

Over £ 80 million was used to repair and modernise Strangeways prison after the riot, with rebuilding completed in 1994.

From 1993 to 2003, Strangeways prison had the highest number of suicides among inmates than any other prison in the United Kingdom and 2004, Strangeways had the highest number of suicides in the country.

* In the comic Hellblazer, issue 34 ( October 1990 ), the main character John Constantine refers to Strangeways prison " exploding with and blood ," and describes its holding cells as " Victorian pressure cookers " into which government officials who turn a blind eye should be squeezed to " see what pops out of pimple.

While in Strangeways Prison, Brown wrote the lyrics for " Free My Way ", " So Many Soldiers ", and " Set My Baby Free ".

* Iain Stewart-additional keyboards on " I Tried ", " Barcode Bypass ", " Strangeways Inside ", " Mull Historical Society "

*" Strangeways ", a track on the 1987 rock album The House of Blue Light by Deep Purple

* The song " Fallowfield Hillbilly ", from the album St. Jude by Manchester band The Courteeners, refers to Strangeways and the type of people that " indie snobs " perceive to be its inmates.

*" Strangeways Hotel ", a song by Mike Harding.

The second single off Strangeways, Here We Come was scheduled to be " Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before ", an up-tempo pop-rock song.

England and in the United Kingdom: on 13 August 1964, Peter Anthony Allen, at Walton Prison in Liverpool, and Gwynne Owen Evans, at Strangeways Prison in Manchester, were executed for the murder of John Alan West on 7 April that year.

* 1964, 13 August: Peter Anthony Allen, at Walton Prison in Liverpool, and Gwynne Owen Evans, at Strangeways Prison in Manchester for the murder of John Alan West, the last people executed in Britain.

In 1831 his son, also John Boddington, became a clerk at Strangeways Brewery in Manchester.

* The Strangeways Prison in Manchester, England is completed.

In September 2004 the owners ( now known as InBev ) announced plans to close the Strangeways Brewery and move most production from Manchester to Magor in South Wales and Samlesbury, Lancashire, with the loss of 60 jobs.

Manchester, and neighbouring Salford, were also areas of heavy Jewish settlement, particularly the Strangeways, Cheetham and Broughton districts.

The Manchester Assize Courts were law courts once located on Great Ducie Street in Strangeways, Manchester in England.

HM Prison Manchester was known as Strangeways, after the area of Manchester in which it is located, until it was rebuilt following a major riot in 1990.

Overlooking MEN Arena | Manchester Arena to Strangeways

* Capital Punishments Executed at Strangeways, Manchester in the 20th Century