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City of Manchester
Borough & City
Manchester City Centre
Manchester City Centre
Coat of arms of City of Manchester
Coat of arms
Manchester shown within England
Manchester shown within England
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Constituent countryEngland England
RegionNorth West England
Ceremonial countyGreater Manchester
Admin HQManchester City Centre
Founded13th Century
City Status1853
Government
 • TypeMetropolitan borough, City
 • Governing bodyManchester City Council
Area
 • Borough & City115.65 km2 (44.65 sq mi)
Elevation
78 m (256 ft)
Population
 (2005 est / Urban=2006)
 • Borough & City(Ranked )
 • Density3,815/km2 (9,880/sq mi)
 • Urban
3,851,000
 • Ethnicity
(2001 Census)
81% White
9.1% Asian
4.5% Black British
2.17% Chinese
3.23% Mixed race
Time zoneUTC+0 (Greenwich Mean Time )
ISO 3166-2GB-MAN
ONS code00BY
OS grid referenceSJ838980
NUTS 3UKD31
Websitewww.manchester.gov.uk

Manchester (pronounced /ˈmæntʃɛstə/) is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. The borough has a population of 441,200[1] whilst the city has a population of 1,741,961[2][3]. Manchester lies at the centre of the wider Greater Manchester Urban Area which has a population of 2,240,230,[4] the United Kingdom's third largest conurbation. Two opinion polls in recent years have shown that many believe Manchester to be the UK's second city.[5][6][7][8][9] however this claim is also made by the city of Birmingham.[10][11]

Manchester is often described as the "Capital of the North".[12][13] Forming part of the English Core Cities Group, Manchester today is a centre of the arts, the media, higher education and commerce. It is also regarded as the third best place to locate a business in the UK,[14] and is the third most visited city in the United Kingdom by foreign visitors.[15] Manchester is also well known for its sporting connections, with two Premier League football teams, Manchester United and Manchester City,[16] and hosted the XVII Commonwealth Games in 2002.

It is claimed that Manchester was the world's first industrialised city[17][18][19][20][21] and is notable for the central role it played during the Industrial Revolution. It was the dominant international centre of textile manufacture and cotton spinning.[22] During the 19th century it was nicknamed Cottonopolis,[23] denoting that the area was a metropolis of cotton mills. Manchester City Centre is now on a "tentative list" of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, mainly due to its network of canals and mills that facilitated its development during the 19th century.[24]

History

Main article: History of Manchester

Toponymy

The name "Manchester" (pronounced /ˈmæntʃɛstə/) came from the Roman name Mamucium, thought to be a Latinisation of an original Celtic name (possibly meaning "breast-like hill" from mamm- = "breast"), plus Anglo-Saxon ceaster = "town", which is derived from Latin castra = "camp".[25]

Early history

The Peterloo massacre.

There are few signs of prehistoric occupation of the city. The only major Bronze age find is at the far south of the city, where the remains of an extensive farming community overlooking the River Bollin were found during the construction of the second runway of the airport.[26]

Central Manchester has been settled since at least Roman times.[27] The Roman general Gnaeus Julius Agricola constructed a fort in the 70s AD on a defensible hill where the River Medlock meets the River Irwell, at the junction of roads to Chester, York, Buxton, Ribchester, and Melandra.[26] A stabilised fragment of foundations of the final version of the fort is visible in Castlefield. The Romans withdrew in the early fifth century, and by the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066 the focus of settlement had shifted to the confluence of the rivers Irwell and Irk.[26][28] Much of the wider area was laid waste in the subsequent Harrying of the North.[29][30]

In medieval times, this area included a fortified manor house. Thomas De La Warre, a manorial lord who was also a priest, donated the site to the church for use as a College of Priests around 1422, and commenced the construction of the Collegiate Church. The former is now Chetham's School of Music, and the latter Manchester Cathedral.

Around the 13th century, Manchester grew significantly due to an influx of Flemish settlers, the founders of Manchester's cotton industry[31], stimulating the growth of the city to become Lancashire's major industrial centre.

Industrial Revolution

Manchester (or Cottonopolis as it was sometimes referred) during the early 19th century.

In the late 18th century, Manchester may have become the site of England's first entirely artificial canal when James Brindley built the Bridgewater Canal to bring coal from the eponymous Duke of Bridgewater's mines at Worsley. During the 19th century Manchester grew to become the centre of Lancashire's cotton industry and was dubbed "Cottonopolis". During this period the canal system grew, and Manchester became one end of the world's second passenger railway - the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

Manchester quickly grew into an important industrial centre. At that time, it seemed a place in which anything could happen — new industrial processes, new ways of thinking (the so called "Manchester School", promoting free trade and laissez-faire), new classes or groups in society, new religious sects, and new forms of labour organisation. It attracted educated visitors from all parts of Britain and Europe. A saying capturing this sense of innovation survives today: "What Manchester does today, the rest of the world does tomorrow."[32][33][34]

As well as being a centre of capitalism the city saw its fair share of rebellion by the working and non-titled classes, with the most famous being the events on St Peter’s Field on 16 August 1819 which have become known as 'Peterloo'. The first Trades Union Congress was held in Manchester (at the Mechanics' Institute, David Street), from 2 to 6 June 1868. Manchester was the subject of Friedrich Engels' The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, Engels himself spending much of his life in and around Manchester[35]. Manchester was also an important cradle of the Labour Party and the Suffragette Movement.[36] As technology advanced in industry, The Post Office provided its first telephones, in 1878 obtained from Bell's UK agent, on rental terms, to a firm in Manchester [37].

Manchester's golden age was perhaps the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Many of the great public buildings (including the Town Hall) date from then. The city's cosmopolitan atmosphere contributed to a vibrant culture, which included the Hallé Orchestra. In 1889, when county councils were created in England, the municipal borough became a county borough with even greater autonomy. During this period, the Manchester Ship Canal was created by the canalisation of the Rivers Irwell and Mersey for 36 miles from Salford to the Mersey estuary. This enabled ocean going ships to sail right into the Port of Manchester. By 1963 the port was the UK's third largest[38][39] and employed over 3000 men, but the canal was unable to handle the increasingly large container ships. Traffic declined, and the port closed in 1982.[40]

Manchester suffered greatly from the inter-war depression and the underlying structural changes that began to supplant the old industries, including textile manufacture.

World War II

During World War II Manchester was involved in heavy industrial construction. The city was attacked a number of times by the Luftwaffe, particularly in the "Christmas Blitz" of 1941, which destroyed a large part of the historic city centre. In 1940 Manchester Cathedral was partially destroyed by a German air-raid.[41]

The devastation left by the IRA bombing

1996 Manchester bombing

Main article: 1996 Manchester bombing

Manchester has a history of attacks attributed to Irish Republicanists, including arson in 1920, a series of explosions in 1939, and two bombs in 1992. On Saturday 15 June 1996, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated a large bomb adjacent to a department store in the city centre. The largest to be detonated on British soil, the bomb caused over 200 injuries, heavily damaged nearby buildings, and broke windows half a mile away. The cost of the immediate damage was initially estimated at £50 million, but this was quickly revised upwards.[42] The final insurance payout has been estimated at over £400 million, and many affected businesses never recovered from the loss of trade.[43]

Redevelopment

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Manchester City Centre from the Beetham Tower

Spurred by the regeneration after the 1996 IRA bomb and aided by the XVII Commonwealth Games, Manchester's city centre has undergone a continued regeneration. New and renovated complexes such as The Printworks and the Triangle have become popular shopping and entertainment destinations. The completion of the renovated Manchester Arndale in September 2006 allowed the centre to hold the title of the UK's largest city centre shopping mall.[44]

Exchange Square undergoing regeneration.

Large sections of the city dating from the 1960s have been either demolished and re-developed or modernised with the use of glass and steel, including the Manchester Arndale. Old mills have been converted into modern apartments, Hulme has undergone extensive regeneration programmes, and million-pound lofthouse apartments have since been developed. The 169 metre tall, 47-storey Beetham Tower, completed in 2006, is the tallest building in the UK outside London and highest residential accommodation in the Western Europe. The lower 23 floors form the Hilton Hotel, featuring a 'sky bar' on the 23rd floor. Its upper 24 floors are apartments.[45]The redevelopment of recent years[46][47][48] has heightened claims that Manchester is the second city of the United Kingdom.[49][50][51][52]

SuperCasino

In January 2007, the independent Casino Advisory Panel awarded Manchester a licence to build the only supercasino in the UK,[53][54] but in March the House of Lords rejected the decision by three votes rendering previous House of Commons acceptance meaningless. This left the supercasino, and fourteen other smaller concessions, in parliamentary limbo until a final decision was made.[55] On 11 July, a source close to the government declared the entire supercasino project "dead in the water".[56] A member of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce professed himself "amazed and a bit shocked" and that "there has been an awful lot of time and money wasted".[57]

Governance

Main article: Politics in Manchester
Manchester Town Hall, used for the local governance of Manchester, is an example of Victorian era Gothic revival architecture.

Manchester is represented by three tiers of government, Manchester City Council ("local"), UK Parliament ("national"), and European Parliament ("Europe"). Greater Manchester County Council administration was abolished in 1986, and so the city is effectively a unitary authority. Since its inception in 1995, Manchester has been a member of the English Core Cities Group,[58] which, amongst other things, serves to promote the social, cultural and economic status of the city at an international level.

Civic history

The town of Manchester was granted a charter by Thomas Grelley in 1301 but lost borough status by a court case in 1359. Until the 19th century local government was largely provided by manorial courts which were not finally ended until 1846.[59] From a very early time, the township of Manchester lay within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire.[59] It formed its own ecclesiastical parish and Poor Law Union by the name of Manchester.[59] In 1792 commissioners, usually known as police commissioners, were established for the social improvement Manchester. In 1838 Manchester regained borough status, and comprised the townships of Beswick, Cheetham Hill, Chorlton upon Medlock and Hulme.[59] By 1846 the Borough Council had taken over the powers of the police commissioners. In 1853 Manchester was granted city status in the United Kingdom.[59] In 1885 Bradford, Harpurhey, Rusholme and parts of Moss Side and Withington townships became part of the City of Manchester. In 1889 the City became the County Borough of Manchester, which was external to the administrative county of Lancashire, and thus not governed by Lancashire County Council.[59]

Between 1890 and 1933, more areas were added to the City from Lancashire, including some which were former villages to the south of Manchester such as Burnage, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Didsbury, Fallowfield, Levenshulme, Longsight, Withington. In 1931 the Cheshire civil parishes of Baguley, Northenden and Northern Etchells from the south of the River Mersey were also added.[59] In 1974, by way of the Local Government Act 1972, the City of Manchester became a metropolitan district of the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester.[59] In this year, Ringway was also added to the city.

Geography

Further information: [[:Geography of Greater Manchester]]

Topography

Manchester lies in a bowl-shaped land area bordered to the north and east by the Pennine hills, a mountain chain that runs the length of the Northern England and to the south by the Cheshire Plain. The city centre is on the east bank of the River Irwell, near the confluence with the Rivers Medlock and the Irk, and is relatively low-lying, being between 35 and 42 metres (115 to 138 ft) above sea level.[60] The River Mersey flows through the south of Manchester. Much of the inner city, especially in the south, is flat, offering extensive views from many highrise buildings in the city of the foothills and moors of the Pennines, which can often be capped with snow in the winter months. Manchester's geographic features were highly influential in its early development as the world's first industrial city. These features are its climate, its proximity to a seaport at Liverpool, the availability of water power from its rivers, and its nearby coal reserves.[61]

Climate

Manchester has a temperate climate, like the rest of the United Kingdom, but with regular but generally light precipitation throughout the year. Its average annual rainfall is 806.6 mm[62] compared to the UK average of 1125.0 mm[63] and its mean rain days are 140.4 per annum[64] compared to the UK average of 154.4[65]. Manchester also has a relatively high humidity level, which lent itself to the optimised and breakage-free textile manufacturing which took place there. Snowfall is not a common sight in the city, due to the urban warming effect. The Pennines and Rossendale Forest hills that surround the city to its east and north receive much snow in the winter and many roads leading out of the city can be closed due to snow[66], including the A62 road via Oldham and Standedge, the A57 (Snake Pass) towards Sheffield,[67] and the M62 over Saddleworth Moor.

Climate data for Manchester (MAN), 69 m (226 ft) amsl, 1981–2010 normals, extremes 1958–present
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 14.3
(57.7) 		19.0
(66.2) 		21.7
(71.1) 		25.1
(77.2) 		26.7
(80.1) 		31.3
(88.3) 		38.0
(100.4) 		33.7
(92.7) 		28.4
(83.1) 		27.0
(80.6) 		17.7
(63.9) 		15.1
(59.2) 		38.0
(100.4)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 7.3
(45.1) 		7.6
(45.7) 		10.0
(50.0) 		12.6
(54.7) 		16.1
(61.0) 		18.6
(65.5) 		20.6
(69.1) 		20.3
(68.5) 		17.6
(63.7) 		13.9
(57.0) 		10.0
(50.0) 		7.4
(45.3) 		13.5
(56.3)
Daily mean °C (°F) 4.5
(40.1) 		4.6
(40.3) 		6.7
(44.1) 		8.8
(47.8) 		11.9
(53.4) 		14.6
(58.3) 		16.6
(61.9) 		16.4
(61.5) 		14.0
(57.2) 		10.7
(51.3) 		7.1
(44.8) 		4.6
(40.3) 		10.0
(50.0)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) 1.7
(35.1) 		1.6
(34.9) 		3.3
(37.9) 		4.9
(40.8) 		7.7
(45.9) 		10.5
(50.9) 		12.6
(54.7) 		12.4
(54.3) 		10.3
(50.5) 		7.4
(45.3) 		4.2
(39.6) 		1.8
(35.2) 		6.6
(43.9)
Record low °C (°F) −17.6
(0.3) 		−13.1
(8.4) 		−9.7
(14.5) 		−4.9
(23.2) 		−1.7
(28.9) 		0.8
(33.4) 		5.4
(41.7) 		3.6
(38.5) 		0.0
(32.0) 		−4.7
(23.5) 		−10.0
(14.0) 		−14.0
(6.8) 		−15.0
(5.0)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 72.3
(2.85) 		51.4
(2.02) 		61.2
(2.41) 		54.0
(2.13) 		56.8
(2.24) 		66.1
(2.60) 		63.9
(2.52) 		77.0
(3.03) 		71.5
(2.81) 		92.5
(3.64) 		81.5
(3.21) 		80.7
(3.18) 		828.8
(32.63)
Average snowfall mm (inches) 24
(0.9) 		19
(0.7) 		10
(0.4) 		1
(0.0) 		0
(0) 		0
(0) 		0
(0) 		0
(0) 		0
(0) 		0
(0) 		2
(0.1) 		15
(0.6) 		71
(2.7)
Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) 13.1 9.7 12.3 11.2 10.4 11.1 10.9 12.0 11.1 13.6 14.1 13.5 142.9
Average snowy days 6 5 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 20
Average relative humidity (%) 83 81 77 74 72 74 76 77 79 81 83 84 79
Average dew point °C (°F) 2
(36) 		2
(36) 		3
(37) 		4
(39) 		7
(45) 		9
(48) 		11
(52) 		12
(54) 		10
(50) 		8
(46) 		5
(41) 		3
(37) 		6
(43)
Mean monthly sunshine hours 52.5 73.9 99.0 146.9 188.3 172.5 179.7 166.3 131.2 99.3 59.5 47.1 1,416.2
Mean daily sunshine hours 3.4 3.4 5.2 6.8 6.7 6.4 6.6 6.0 5.9 3.8 3.5 3.6 5.1
Average ultraviolet index 0 1 2 4 5 6 6 5 4 2 1 0 3
Source 1: Met Office[68] NOAA (relative humidity and snow days 1961–1990)[69]
Source 2: KNMI[70][71] Current Results - Weather and Science[72] Meteo Climat[73] Time and Date: Average dew point (1985-2015)[74] WeatherAtlas[75]

Demography

Further information: [[:Demography of Greater Manchester]]
Manchester Compared[76][77]
UK Census 2001 Manchester Greater Manchester England
Total population 441,200 2,547,700 49,138,831
Foreign born 15% 7.2% 9.2%
White 81% 91% 91%
Asian 9.1% 5.7% 4.6%
Black 4.5% 1.2% 2.3%
Christian 62% 74% 72%
Muslim 9.1% 5.0% 3.1%
Hindu 0.7% 0.7% 1.1%
No religion 16% 11% 15%
Over 75 years old 6.4% 7.0% 7.5%
Unemployed 5.0% 3.5% 3.3%

The United Kingdom Census 2001 showed a total resident population for Manchester of 392,819, a 9.2% decline from the 1991 census.[78] Approximately 83,000 were aged under 16, 285,000 were aged 16-74, and 25,000 aged 75 and over.[78] 75.9% of Manchester's population claim they have been born in the UK, according to the 2001 UK Census. Inhabitants of Manchester are known as Mancunians or Mancs for short. Manchester reported the second-lowest proportion of the population in employment of any area in the UK. A primary reason cited for Manchester's high unemployment figures is the high proportion of the population who are students.[78]

Religion

Religion Percentage of
population[78]
Christian 62.4%
No religion 16.0%
Not stated 9.7%
Muslim 9.1%
Jewish 1.0%
Hindu 0.7%
Buddhist 0.5%
Sikh 0.4%
Other 0.3%

Ethnicity

In 2001, 80% of people identified themselves as White British, 9% Asian or Asian British, 5% Black or Black British, 3% Mixed Race and 2% Chinese or other ethnic group.[79]. However correct these statistics are for the year 2001, it is now estimated that Manchester's black and minority ethnic population has made a significant growth and white British now make up 75% of the population compared to 80% in 2001. Moss Side, Longsight, Cheetham Hill, Rusholme, and Whalley Range, but to name a few are particularly noted for their ethnically diverse population. It has been estimated that around 35% of Manchester's population has Irish ancestry.[80]

Manchester's Irish Festival, including a St Patrick's Day parade, is one of Europe's largest.[81] Also, Manchester's Palace Hotel hosted the 2007 Lloyds TSB's Northern Jewel Awards, where leaders of the Asian community in the North of the UK were recognized.[82]

Economy

Main article: Economy of Manchester

Manchester's Central Business District is in the centre of the city, adjacent to Piccadilly, focused on Mosley Street, Deansgate, King Street and Piccadilly. Spinningfields is a large new business centre west of Deansgate that will serve as home to several headquarters, squares, and cafes. The first building on the site was the Royal Bank of Scotland's new headquarters[83] on Deansgate. The project is being spear-headed by Sir Norman Foster. Other buildings include a 110 metre tall office building, a new civil justice centre[84] and new Migistrates Court[85], to be built over the next few years.

Landmarks

See also: Places of interest in Manchester
See also: List of streets in Manchester

Architecture

Main article: Architecture of Manchester
Beetham Tower on Deansgate. An example of Manchester's new skyscrapers.

Manchester has a wide variety of buildings, ranging from Victorian architecture to modern. Much of the architecture in the city harks back to its days as a global centre for the cotton trade.[86] Manchester also has a number of skyscrapers mostly built during the 1960s and 1970s, although recently there has been a renewed interest in building more. Beetham Tower, completed in 2006, includes a Hilton hotel, a restaurant, and residences. It is currently the tallest building in the UK outside London. An even taller building, the Piccadilly Tower, is scheduled to commence construction in 2007 behind Manchester Piccadilly station.[87]

Monuments

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Queen Victoria statue in Piccadilly Gardens

Two large squares hold many of Manchester's public monuments. Albert Square, in front of the Town Hall, has monuments to Prince Albert, Bishop James Fraser, Oliver Heywood, William Ewart Gladstone and John Bright. Piccadilly Gardens has monuments dedicated to Queen Victoria, Robert Peel, James Watt and the Duke of Wellington.[88][89]

Other notable monuments include the Alan Turing Memorial (the father of modern computing) in Sackville Park, adjacent to Sackville Street.[89] A monument to Abraham Lincoln was presented to the city by Mr & Mrs Charles Phelps Taft of Cincinnati, Ohio. The statue, located in the eponymous Lincoln Square, is the work of George Gray Barnard[88][89] and marks the part that Lancashire played in the cotton famine and American Civil War of 1861–1865.[90]

The success of the 2002 Commonwealth Games is commemorated by the 56m (184 ft) tall B of the Bang, located near the City of Manchester Stadium in the Eastlands area of the city.[89] As of 2007, the sculpture is the tallest in the UK.[91]

Transport

Main article: Transport in Manchester

Manchester and the surrounding settlements in North West England are served by an international airport as well as a major motorway and rail network. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway was the first passenger railway in the world. Greater Manchester has an extensive countywide railway network, and two mainline stations. A network of bus routes and a modern tram system radiates from Manchester City Centre. A canal network also remains from the Industrial Revolution.

Greater Manchester has a higher percentage of the motorway network than any other county in the country.[92] According to the Guinness Book of World Records, it has the most traffic lanes side by side (17), spread across several parallel carriageways (M61 at Linnyshaw Moss, Greater Manchester, close to the M60 interchange).[93][94][95]

Culture

Main article: Culture of Manchester
See also: Natives of Manchester

Nightlife

There has long been a thriving nightclub culture in Manchester. One of the oldest venues is the Band on the Wall, a live music club in the Northern Quarter. It was built around 1862 as the flagship pub of a local brewery and originally called The George & Dragon. In 1975 it was taken on by jazz musician Steve Morris and Frank Cusick, and renamed The Band on the Wall, a longtime nickname for the club since the late 1920s alluding to its stage high on the back wall.[96]

Along with other areas that are frequented by late night revellers (such as Castlefield, Deansgate Locks, the Printworks and the Northern Quarter), Manchester boasts the famous Canal Street, the centre of the city's gay community. This was made famous by the Channel 4 programme, 'Queer as Folk', and is the centre of the annual Pride celebrations, held on the last weekend in August.

Music

Main articles: Music of Manchester and List of bands from Manchester

Manchester is home to two symphony orchestras, the Hallé Orchestra and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. There is also a chamber orchestra, the Manchester Camerata. In the 1950s the city was home to the so-called ‘Manchester School’ of classical composers, which comprised Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies, David Ellis and Alexander Goehr. Manchester is a centre for musical education, with the Royal Northern College of Music and Chetham’s School of Music. The main classical venue was the Free Trade Hall on Peter Street, until the 1996 debut of the 2,500 seat concert venue Bridgewater Hall.

Manchester’s main pop music venue is the Manchester Evening News Arena, situated next to Manchester Victoria railway station. It seats over 21,000, is the largest arena of its type in Europe, and has been voted International Venue of the Year[97]. Other major venues include the Manchester Apollo and the Manchester Academy. Smaller venues throughout the city are the Bierkeller, the Roadhouse, and Night and Day Cafe.

Bands that have emerged from the Manchester music scene include The Smiths, the Buzzcocks, The Fall, Joy Division and its successor group New Order, Oasis and Doves. . Manchester was credited as the main regional driving force behind indie bands of the 1980's including Happy Mondays, The Charlatans, Inspiral Carpets, James, and The Stone Roses. These groups came from what became known as the "Madchester" scene that also centred around the legendary club Fac 51 Haçienda (also known as simply The Haçienda) developed by founder of factory records Anthony Wilson. Subsequently The Chemical Brothers, although from southern England, formed in Manchester. Ex-Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown and ex-Smiths Morrissey continue successful solo careers. Other Greater Manchester natives include Richard Ashcroft and Jay Kay of Jamiroquai.

Literature

In the 19th century, Manchester figured in novels that discussed the changes that industrialisation had brought to Britain. These included works such as Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (1848) by Elizabeth Gaskell, [3], and The Condition of the English Working Class in 1844, written by Friedrich Engels while living and working in Manchester. Charles Dickens is reputed to have set his novel Hard Times in the city, and while it is partly modelled on Preston, it shows the influence of his friend Elizabeth Gaskell [4].

Theatre

Larger venues include the Manchester Opera House, featuring large scale touring shows and West End shows, the Palace Theatre, the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester’s former cotton exchange, and the Lowry Centre, a touring venue in Salford. Smaller sites include the Library Theatre, a producing theatre in the basement of the central library, the Green Room, the Contact Theatre, and Studio Salford. The Dancehouse is dedicated to dance productions.

Education

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The Old Quadrangle of the University of Manchester

Universities

Manchester is home to two universities, the University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University. The University of Manchester is the largest full-time non-collegiate university in the United Kingdom, and was created in autumn 2004 by the merger of Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST.[98][99] Manchester Business School, which offered the first MBA course in the UK in 1965, is also part of the University of Manchester. Manchester Metropolitan University was formed out of the old polytechnic college in the city[100] and subsequently took over the old Crewe and Alsager College of Higher Education in South Cheshire.[101]

The University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University and the Royal Northern College of Music are grouped together around Oxford Road on the southern side of the city centre, and form the largest city-centre group of higher education institutions in Europe.[102]

Schools

One of Manchester's most notable secondary schools is the Manchester Grammar School. Established in 1515[103][104] as a free grammar school next to what is now the Cathedral, it moved in 1931 to Old Hall Lane in Fallowfield, South Manchester, to accommodate the growing student body. In the post-war period, it was a direct-grant grammar school (i.e. partially state funded), but it reverted to independent status in 1976 after abolition of the direct-grant system.[105] Its previous premises are now used by Chetham's School of Music. There are two schools nearby: Withington Girls' School and Manchester High School for Girls.

Sports

See also: Sports in Manchester
The City of Manchester Stadium during the 2002 Commonwealth Games

Two Premiership football clubs, Manchester United and Manchester City, bear the city’s name. Manchester City's ground is at the City of Manchester Stadium, (48,000 capacity); Manchester United's Old Trafford ground, the largest club football ground in the United Kingdom with 76,000 capacity, and England's only UEFA-rated 5-star stadium, is just outside the city in the borough of Trafford.

First class sporting facilities were built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games, including the Manchester Velodrome, the City of Manchester Stadium, the National Squash Centre and the Manchester Aquatics Centre. Manchester has competed twice to host the Olympic Games, being beaten by Atlanta for 1996 and Sydney for 2000, and various sporting arenas around the city will be used as training facilities prior to the 2012 Olympics in London.

Motorcycle speedway racing has been staged at four venues in Manchester. The first events were staged at the greyhound stadium in Kirkmanshume Lane in 1928 and was knowns as Belle Vue Speedway. Speedway activities continued under the Belle Vue name at the stadium in Hyde Road from 1929 to 1987, without any breaks even during the war years of 1939 - 1945, when the stadium was sold and redeveloped. Speedway racing returned to the greyhound stadium in Kirkmanshume Lane in 1988 and continues to operate there. The speedway team are known as the Belle Vue Aces. Peter Craven, Ove Fundin, Peter Collins, Jason Crump are amongst the riders who have won World Championships when riding for the Aces. The White City stadium was used in the pioneer days from 1928 to 1930 and a training track at Newton Heath operated in the in the early post war period.[106]

Media

Television and radio

See also: List of television shows set in Manchester
The headquarters of Granada Television

ITV franchisee Granada Television has its original headquarters on Quay Street in the Castlefield area of the city. The city is where programmes including World's oldest and most watched television soap opera Coronation Street which is networked 5 times a week on ITV is made. Local News for the Granada Region, local programmes and Networked Children’s ITV presentations are produced in Manchester.

Manchester is one of the three main BBC bases in England, alongside London and Bristol. Programmes including A Question of Sport, Mastermind[107] and Real Story[108] are made at New Broadcasting House on Oxford Road, just south of the city centre. The hit series Cutting It was set in the city's Northern Quarter and ran on BBC1 for 5 series. Life on Mars was set in 1973 Manchester. The first edition of Top of the Pops was broadcast from a converted church in Longsight, on New Years day 1964.[109] Manchester is also the regional base for the BBC One North West Region so programmes like North West Tonight are produced here.[110] The BBC intends to relocate large numbers of staff and facilities from London to Media City at Salford Quays. The Children's (CBBC), Comedy, Sport (BBC Sport) and New Media departments are all scheduled to move before 2010.[111][112]

Manchester has its own television channel, Channel M, owned by the Guardian Media Group and operated since 2000. The station produces almost all content including local news locally and is available nationally on the BSkyB television platform.

The city also has the highest number of local radio stations outside London including BBC Radio Manchester, Key 103, Galaxy, Piccadilly Magic 1152, 105.4 Century FM, 100.4 Smooth FM, Capital Gold 1458, 96.2 The Revolution and Xfm. BBC Radio Manchester, which became BBC GMR in 1988, returned to its former title in 2006.

Construction of Mediacity:uk at Salford Quays in July 2007

Student radio stations include Fuse FM at the University of Manchester and Shock FM at the University of Salford). A community radio network is coordinated by Radio Regen, with stations covering the South Manchester communities of Ardwick, Longsight and Levenshulme (ALL FM 96.9) and Wythenshawe (Wythenshawe FM 97.2).

Defunct radio stations include Sunset (which became) Kiss 102 (now Galaxy), and KFM which became Signal Cheshire (now Signal 1). These stations, as well as pirate radio, played a significant role in the city's House music culture, also known as the Madchester scene, which was based around clubs like the The Haçienda which had its own show on Kiss 102.

Erstwhile producer and radio personality Karl Pilkington, of The Ricky Gervais Show fame, hails from Manchester.

Television characters who hail from Manchester includes Daphne Moon (played by Jane Leeves), of Frasier, Charlie Pace (played by Dominic Monaghan) of Lost, Naomi Dorrit (Lost) and Nessa Holt (Las Vegas), both played by local actress Marsha Thomason.

Filmography

See also: Films set in Manchester

Manchester is featured in films such as My Son, My Son! (1940), directed by Charles Vidor and starring Brian Aherne and Louis Hayward. Also Grand Hotel (1932), in which Wallace Beery often shouts "Manchester!". Others include Velvet Goldmine starring Ewan MacGregor, and Sir Alec Guinness's The Man in the White Suit. More recently, the entire city of Manchester is engulfed in runaway fires in the 2002 film 28 Days Later.

Manchester is also home to the Manchester Film Festival and has held the Commonwealth film festival.

Magazines and newspapers

The Guardian newspaper was founded in Manchester in 1821 as The Manchester Guardian. Its head office is still in Manchester, though many of its management functions were moved to London in 1964. It shares an office on Hardman Street with sister publication Manchester Evening News (biggest-selling daily paper although now free within the city centre), and the Manchester Metro News (free weekly, Greater Manchester's biggest-circulation newspaper). Another free newspaper is the Metro North West, available from Metrolink stops, rail stations and other busy locations.

For many years most of the national newspapers had offices in Manchester: The Daily Telegraph, Daily Express, Daily Mail, The Daily Mirror, The Sun. Only The Daily Sport remain based in Manchester. At its height, 1,500 journalists were employed. But in the 1980s office closures began and today the "second Fleet Street" is no more. A late attempt to launch a Northern daily newspaper, North West Times, floundered in the late 1980s lasting just three months. Another attempt was made with the North West Enquirer, which hoped to provide a true "regional" newspaper for the North West, much in the same vein as the Yorkshire Post does for Yorkshire or The Northern Echo does for the North East. It folded in October 2006.

There are several local lifestyle magazines, including 'YQ Magazine' and 'Moving Manchester'.

Foreign consulates and commissions

Manchester and its conurbation are home to a number of foreign consulates and commissions:

  •  Australia Chatsworth House, Lever Street, Manchester M1 2QL. (Tel: 0161 228 1344)
  •  Bangladesh High Commission,3rd Floor, 28-32 Princess Street, Manchester M1 4LB
  •  China Denison House, Denison Road, Rusholme, Manchester M14.
  •  Denmark Trade Office, 4th Floor, Arkwright House, Parsonage Gardens, Manchester M3.
  •  France Trade Commission, 24th Floor, Sunley Tower, Piccadilly Plaza, Manchester M1.
  •  France Davis Blank Furniss, 90 Deansgate, Manchester M3 2QJ. (Tel. 0161 832 3304)
  •  Ireland Trade Board, 56 Oxford Street, Manchester M1.
  •  Italy Rodwell Tower, 111 Piccadilly, Manchester M1.
  •  Monaco Dene Manor, Dene Park, Manchester M20.
  •  Netherlands 123 Deansgate, Manchester M3.
  •  Pakistan Vice-consulate, 4th Floor Hilton House, 26/28 Hilton Street, Manchester M1.
  •  Spain 1a Brook House, 70 Spring Gardens, Manchester M2 2BQ.
  •   Switzerland 24th Floor, Sunley Tower, Piccadilly Plaza, Manchester M1

In addition, the British Council maintains a metropolitan centre in Manchester.[113]

Twin cities

Although not an official twin city, Tampere, Finland is known as "the Manchester of Finland" - or "Manse" for short.

Main article: Manchester Gallery

Further reading

  • Architecture
    • Manchester. Clare Hartwell. Pevsner Architectural Guides ISBN 0-300-09666-6
    • Manchester: A guide to recent architecture. David Hands and Sarah Parker. Ellipsis. ISBN 1-899858-77-6
    • Manchester — an Architectural History John Parkinson Bailey. Manchester University Press. ISBN 0-7190-5606-3
  • General
    • Hylton, Stuart (2003). A History of Manchester. Phillimore & Company. ISBN 1-86077-240-4.
    • Kidd, Alan J. (1993). Manchester (Town and city histories). Manchester: Ryburn. ISBN 1-85331-016-6.
    • The City Life Guide to Manchester: 6th edition. ISBN 0-9544460-7-0
    • The Mancunian Way Published by Clinamen Press ISBN 1-903083-81-8
    • Manchester — a Celebration. Brian Redhead. André Deutsch Limited, London. ISBN 0-233-98816-5
    • Victorian Manchester & Salford. Published in 1988 by Ryburn Publishing Limited. ISBN 1-85331-006-9
  • Culture
    • Morrissey's Manchester: The Essential Smiths Tour Phil Gatenby ISBN 1-901746-28-3
    • Manchester, England. The story of the pop cult city. Dave Haslam ISBN 1-84115-146-7
    • And God Created Manchester. Sarah Champion. Wordsmith. ISBN 1-873205-01-5
    • The Hacienda Must be Built. Edited by Jon Savage. International Music Publications ISBN 0-86359-857-9
    • Shake, Rattle and Rain — Popular Music in Manchester 1955-1995. CP Lee ISBN 1-84382-049-8
    • Like The Night — Bob Dylan and the road to the Manchester Free Trade Hall. CP Lee ISBN 1-900924-33-1

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