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1986: Manchester’s second-hand fashion mecca

When clothes designer Jeff Banks reported on the Manchester fashion scene, he had to check out Affleck’s Palace. The indoor emporium of independent traders opened in 1982, fast becoming a regular shopping haunt for generations of students

Clip taken from The Clothes Show, originally broadcast on BBC One, 17 November 1986.

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