By the time Chaim Weizmann arrived in Manchester in 1904, Massel was living in a small street of the lower end of Cheetham Hill RoadThe Gentleman's Magazine, v.302-303 (1907). January–September (where his Hebrew printing works was based)Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana (1967). Studia Rosenthaliana, Van Gorcum, p. 99. across from Red Bank and not far from the Central Synagogue. He was much part of Manchester's Zionist community and was a vice-president of the Manchester Zionist Association. At that time he was the only person Weizmann knew in Manchester.Weizmann, Chaim (1949). Trial and Error: The Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann, Harper, p. 95.
