1986: Manchester's second-hand fashion mecca

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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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