In so-called Australia, ‘Manchester’ is woven into the commercial fabric of department stores, and in these signs ‘Manchester’ is reflected all at once as a location to house consumer goods, a city, a time, a birth place of industry, and a so-called centre of innovative scientific and entrepreneurial imagination. We travel (in person, digitally) from the University of Manchester to the IAG on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja. We hope in time to travel further still (on invitation) to the unceded lands and waters of the sovereign Kombumberri people and the Yugambeh nation (Nerang River, Gold Coast, Queensland). Drawing from archival research from our recent project ‘Cottonopolis: The hidden histories of environmental science’ we will trace: ‘Australian’ cotton samples in Manchester Museum; how Manchester’s cotton industry became linked to South East Queensland as a new agricultural frontier; how the Australian colony was imagined as a new consumer market for Manchester goods; and the direct links between Manchester and the frontier agricultural expansion around the Nerang River through the ‘Manchester Cotton Company Estate’. We overview our arts-science collaborations including a spin off project with Manchester-based textile artist Nat Linney to dye and weave the environmental pollution legacies of Manchester together with the global environmental/ social legacies of Cottonopolis (such as these links to highly urbanised 'Gold Coast'). At the very heart of this presentation is an invitation to build connections and collaboration with the University of Manchester for a reparative geography spanning institutions and cities. Please also join at the Cultural Geographies ‘Reflections on a shared patchwork journey’. I will bring cotton cloth woven at Quarry Bank Mill (Cheshire) that we have treated with natural dying techniques that reflect Manchester’s pollutant legacies. Together we can sew, quilt and patchwork together some next steps in developing transnational, relational, reparative, urban and institutional geographies.