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Interesting places in Manchester:Manchester is a major city within Greater Manchester in North West England.^ The City of Manchester is a metropolitan borough with City status and although only has a population of 441,200, it lies at the centre of a large conurbation - the wider Greater Manchester Urban Area is home to 2,240,230 people, making it England's third largest conurbation after Greater London and the West Midlands.
Piccadilly Gardens
- The Manchester Wheel, in Exchange Square in the is a good way of seeing Manchester from an elevated height!
Cosmopolitan Manchester
The Imperial Chinese Archway in Manchester's Chinatown
- Manchester's around George Street and Faulkner Street has been a feature of Manchester since the late 1970s. It's a genuine experience - you'll find people on the streets of Chinatown speaking Chinese to each other and most of the signs are bilingual. It's home to the bulk of Manchester's east-Asian restaurants as well as many traders in Chinese food and goods.
- , also known as the Gay Village, has built up around Canal Street out of the many cotton warehouses in the area. It is home to one of the oldest and most-established gay communities in Europe and is known for its tolerance toward all kinds of people. Many of Manchester's most famous bars and clubs are to be found here, most of which are as popular with heterosexual party-animals as they are with the gay crowd. The Village hosts a major Pride festival every year (around the end of August), when the whole region of town is closed to the public for an expensive and exclusive weekend for gay and gay-friendly people from all over the UK.
- Check out the Curry Mile, a mile long stretch of curry restaurants, sari shops and jewellery store in .
Historical Manchester
- is the site of the original Roman settlement Mamucium and has been known as Castlefield since Medieval times, the walls still standing to over 2 metres as late as the 16thC. It is the centre of Manchester's canal network and a transport nexuss of unique historical importance. The Castlefield Basin, joins the Rochdale and Bridgewater canals, the latter being the first cut canal in Britain and the nearby Museum of Science and Industry contains Liverpool Road station, the first passenger railway station in the world. Very important in industrial times, it became run down in post-war times until it was completely regenerated in the 1990s and designated Britain's first Urban Heritage site. These days the area is like a small country oasis in the heart of the city, with regular events and a handful of great pubs around the canals and the neighbouring streets. It is also the only place to see wildlife in Manchester's centre.
- The University of Manchester, on , where amongst other things, the atom was first probed by Rutherford, the first computer was built and where radio astronomy was pioneered. It was here too that the element Vanadium was first isolated.
- St Mary's The Hidden Gem, near . The oldest post-Reformation Catholic church in the counry, dating from 1794. Contains one of the greatest pieces of art in Manchester.
- Manchester Cathedral, near . The widest cathedral in England with important carved choir stalls (school of Lincoln) and pulpitum.
Manchester Cathedral
- Manchester Town Hall, near . This imposing and beautiful neo-Gothic masterpiece by Alfred Waterhouse is a symbol of the wealth and power of Manchester during the Industrial Revolution. Tours can be arranged and the state rooms are generally open to visitors (and free) when not otherwise in use. The Great Hall contains a series of pre-Raphaelite wall paintings by Ford Maddox Brown depicting historical scenes (some rather fanciful) from Manchester's past. The corridors are often seen on television dramas standing in for the Palace of Westminster, although the Commons chamber itself is usually depicted in a permanent set at Granada TV studios.
- John Rylands Library, on . The bequest to the people of Manchester by the world's richest widow, Henriquetta Rylands, in memory of her husband John, but now administered by the University of Manchester. It Contains the 'Manchester Fragment' the earliest known fragment of the New Testament, part of St. John's gospel found near Alexandria and dating from the first part of the second century, shortly after the gospel itself was first written. Tours can be booked around lunchtime. The library was designed by Basil Champneys and is the last building built in the perpendicular gothic style.
Cultural Manchester
There are many museums and art galleries in Manchester, these are the pick of the bunch.
- Central Library & Theatre, near .
- The Cornerhouse on .
- Imperial War Museum North, at Great museum, even better architecture! The museum focuses on the people involved in war, whether it's the people who worked in the factories in WW2, or the soldiers who suffered in the battlefield.
The award winning architecture of the Imperial War Museum North at
- The Lowry, at Home to the City of Salford's collection of the paintings of L.S. Lowry. The centre also contains two theatres.
- Manchester Art Gallery, near . Designed by Sir Chrles Barry architect of the Houses of Parliament. The city has a particulalry fine collection of pre-Raphaelite paintings.
- Manchester Museum, on . Highlights include a fossil skeleton of Tyrannosaurus Rex and Egyptology including painted mummy masks of the Roman era.
- Gallery of English Costume, in .
- The Museum of Science and Industry, in .
- People's History Museum, on .
- Portico Library and Gallery, near . Home of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical society. Speakers here have included Dalton,the father of Atomic theory and describer of his own colour blindness, the Salford physicist Joule for whom the S.I. unit of energy is named and Roget (who compiled his celebrated Thesaurus here. The Austrian Philosopher Wittgenstein here claimed to have attempted to repeat Franklin's celebrated kite and lightning experiment in the Peak District while employed at Manchester University.
- Urbis, in . A "museum of the modern city" in its unmistakable all-glass building. Exhibitions change regularly, so check ahead to see what's on.
- The Whitworth Art Gallery on .
- Bridgewater Hall, near . Completed 1996 is the home of the Halle Orchestra world's first municipal symphony orchestra. The centrepiece of the hall is the 5500 pipe organ by Rasmussen. An elegant bistro and restaurant are open at normal meal times to the general public.
- Manchester Jewish Museum, 190 Cheetham Hill Road, Manchester. Open Mon-Thurs 10.30 - 4, Sun 11-5. Closed on Jewish holidays. Tells the story of the large Jewish population in Manchester. Adults £3.95, concessions £2.95.
Sporting Manchester
- Lancashire County Cricket Club, located in .
- Manchester City FC, located in .
The B of the Bang - the tallest sculpture in the UK.
- Manchester United FC, located in .
- is located to the east of the city centre, about 45 minutes' walk from Piccadilly Station. It was built to host most of the events for the 2002 Commonwealth Games and is home to the National Cycling Centre, Manchester City FC and other important sporting venues, as well as tallest sculpture in the UK.
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Salford 1974
Made by Neil101
This is an old Polaroid, thats why the image is slightly faded and the colour is a bit iffy. View from the top of the Salford Precinct tower block 1974. Pendleton Church is just visable on the right hand side of the photo and to the top left you can see the huge chimneys at Agecroft Power Station (these where demolished in 1991). The main road from left to right across the photo is Broad Street and the building in construction is St James's House on Pendleton Way. My dad took this photo in 1974, just thought i'd post it to coinside with the new series of the BBC's Life on Mars which is set in Manchester around the same time this photo was taken. Best viewed large
The Manchester Eye, England
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East Manchester Miniplanet
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