Andras Kalman has had a pretty exciting life: he left his native Hungary in 1939 in order to learn new techniques for tanning leather at Leeds University. He was also a very talented tennis player who qualified for Wimbledon in 1949, the same year that he opened a gallery in Manchester with money from the people he met playing tennis. In 1956, he relocated to London: he is now 84 and his gallery is still going strong.

Crane Galman prides itself upon what it terms 'traditional modernist values': Kalman championed the likes of LS Lowry when nobody else was interested, and today the gallery displays works by such major names as Graham Sutherland, James Fitton, Roualt, Henry Moore, Frank Auerbach, and Ben Nicholson.