What is the significance of "Whalley Range" as mentioned in "Miserable Lie"?

[Doctor Robert]

...besides being a rough area of Manchester? any?

 

[Little Miss Curious]

> ...besides being a rough area of Manchester? any?

His good friend Linder once lived there, I recall. The dirtee bugger.

LMC x

 

[Vampirio Lesbo]

> His good friend Linder once lived there, I recall. The dirtee bugger.

> LMC x

It's the red-light district of Manchester.

 

[Customer]

Re: Was Linder a hooker?

 

[The Safety of the Town]

Whalley Range represents bedsit territory.

Like much of that part of Manchester now, it is becoming a bit more gentrified.

Shame.

 

[Vampirio Lesbo]

Re: Was Linder a hooker?

Now that's a provocative question! When Linder finally tells all, I for one will be savoring her every word! As a feminist who used sexual imagery in her work, Linder no doubt had some relationship to what people unhappily call "the sex industry" nowadays. I suppose like a lot people she had a relationship to it "in theory". There is no way to know for sure. Sorry, I didn't answer your question. I'm just ranting because the question had never even occurred to me...