Manchester’s Eighth Day worker co-operative marks its 55th anniversary in September, with a number of new collaborations and an exhibition charting its history.
It was founded in 1970 by “a group of hippies who were looking for an alternative to what they saw as capitalist consumer culture,” says the organisation. The group set up a craft exchange on New Brown Street – where the Arndale Centre now sits – selling homemade crafts and candles.
“The idea for the name was, ‘on the seventh day God rested, on the eighth day He (She or It) created something better.’”
In 1971, the original building burnt down, and The Eighth Day moved to 111 Oxford Road where it has remained, apart from a few years in the late 1990s when the building was demolished and rebuilt.
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