Manchester FACTS

karl marx spent a bit of time in manchester and wrote a bit of his book there.

my great great grandad moved from a lovely bit of cambridgeshire to help build the factories and houses for the workers..bloody idiot.
 
Manchester had the longest platform in the world at Exchange Station

Almost nothing remains of Exchange Station except for a bit of a platform, most of the rest of it is buried under various car parks. Exchange station used to stand at the south end of Victoria station and even used to share one platform. This was the longest railway platform in the world.


The T.U.C. was also born in Manchester on Oxford road.
 
harry pollitt born in droylsden had his pic on a russian banknote and became recognised by hundreds of millions of people..so there

<a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Pollitt" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Pollitt</a>
 
RoqueSantaBoozeCruz said:
It's a bit of a dump (in places) but it's ours.
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As are all world cities, it's what makes them great!!
 
There have, (arguably) been 2 Manchesters. The first, the Roman fort at Castlefield, and the second, around the Cathedral and Chetham's Music School, which formed the medieval town of Manchester. By the time of the Norman Conquest of Britain in 1066, the region was clearly Anglo-Saxon, and their name for the town was "Mameceaster". (It was not to be until the 17th century that the name "Manchester" would come into popular usage).

http://www.urbanexpression.org.uk/files/The City of Manchester History.doc
 
The Midland was going to be Hitlers base if they defeated us in the war..........i think?
 
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