What is Manchester to you?

Stoned Rose said:
Yep.
I’m not saying someone can’t be ‘Manc’ just because they don’t live in Mcr or don’t have an M postcode.

I’m just saying Failsworth isn’t in Manchester. Because it isn’t.
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Now M35, Manchester till the yonners took it over to fill their coffers in 1974. Always remember the new Failsworth/Oldham boundary signs at that time being oversprayed with Manchester, especially the one outside The Nelson, Lord Lane.
 
First half of my life I lived variously in the (present) boroughs of Trafford, Manchester, Bolton and Wigan.

Administratively they are all in Greater Manchester. By original county they would be a mixture of Cheshire and Lancs. Always an M post code, always City, so by a looser definition = Manc.

Second half darn Sarf. When asked where I’m from originally, I generally say either Manchester or the Manchester area.

Allegiance? Half Manchester, half Kent.

Although I’m often described as complete Kent, if I hear correctly.
 
bellbuzzer said:
Without even trying I can justufy my opinion that manchester peaked in the aftermath of ww2, by listing the major employers that have disappeared. The biggest of them, Metropolitan-Vickers had nearly 30,000 full time employees, and supported hundreds of smaller suppliers, it's apprentice school turned out highly skilled fitters and engineers.
Down the road, Superheaters, ICI, Ciba-geigy, Rubber-regen, Carborundum Massey-ferguson, Cowburn and Cowper, the infamous Turners Asbestos, Manchester Liners, Crossley Engines,
that were loosely in Trafford Park. The word "park" is the salient point, it doesn't mean it was the biggest industrial area, it would fit about ten times into the Ruhr, but anyway...The east side where the Etihad stands lost thousands of jobs with the demise of the railways, Br, Bayer-Peacock and subsidiaries. Craven Bros, Storeys, Ferrantis, British Steel, Mirrlees, Union Carbide, Linotype, Miele, Dorma, Dunlop, Fairy Aviation, Vickers-Armstrong, English Electric. When Shell closed it's "cat-cracker" at Carrington, it took 100,000 pounds a week out of the local economy, apply that across the industrial waste land that is left, and i stand by my opinion that the future, with zero-hour contracts, robotised everything, the housing that replaced the slums now slums themselves, is grim for the vast majority.
But then, i haven't a clue, I only lived through it, FFS :(
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Manchester is driving tech and digital businesses into the city, with a rising popularity and recognition amongst these businesses, there are now over 52,000 industry professionals within the constraints of Manchester who are accumulating a £2.9 billion digital turnover.

Also;
http://www.neweconomymanchester.com/media/1474/ne-key-facts-dec-15-web.pdf

There are certainly challenges, as shown in that second link, but Manchester is one of the most “on-the-up” cities in Europe.
 
Woolworth's where we used to meet with Grandma. Afternoon tea in the top floor cafe and one of the best department stores in all the land in all the world.

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Bluemanc100 said:
I lived there as a kid.. Parents ran the con club on Ripponden (sp) Road.. went to the school just behind.. a weird shaped building... hexagons I think

Born on Kenyon Lane in Middleton.. does that make me Mancunian??
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Hodge Clough School.
 
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