Manchester FACTS

[nelsons willie]

my great gran lived in the flats near or on every street.

That would be near to St Annes ancoats

ok..its just one of them very early childhood memories.i just remember going in the flat and her budgie sqwaking.

 

[BlakeTheBlue]

I'm sure the first ever trains were invented in Manchester also. I remember there being a series of bilboards running down Oxford road stating all of Manchesters greatest inventions. Of course the PC and the Atom Spliting where among them. But i'm sure the train was there too.

Anyway i know for definate that the first ever proper toothbrushes where invented in Manchester.

 

[kiam06]

The Midland Hotel in Manchester was Adolf Hitler's personal choice for Nazi headquarters in Britain.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I'm sure the first ever trains were invented in Manchester also. I remember there being a series of bilboards running down Oxford road stating all of Manchesters greatest inventions. Of course the PC and the Atom Spliting where among them. But i'm sure the train was there too.

Not the train but Manchester was home to the world's first railway station (which begs the question of where people actually went to until the second was built).

Manchester was also instrumental in shaping the world's two great politico-economic systems, Free Trade & Socialism. The Anti-Corn Law League, formed in King Street then later moving to the Free Trade Hall, forced the government to abandon protectionism and saw the rise of the global trading system we now have. As someone has already pointed out, Engels lived here and wrote his seminal work on the condition of the working classes, which shaped socialist theory. He also supported his friend Karl Marx financially and Marx spent much time in Manchester, working with Engels on what was to become the Communist Manifesto.

 

[BluePurgatory]

RESIDENTS in Manchester will become the first people in Britain to be able to apply for ID cards (sic).

 

[nijinsky's fetlocks]

The ASBO was invented in (North) Manchester.
The Arndale Centre has a Dale Winton museum.
The United Nations Security Council holds its meetings in the back room of the Crown & Kettle on Great Ancoats Street.
There is a large pool of vomit outside Oxford Road station.
Deansgate is named in honour of referee Mike Dean.
Liverpool Street does not actually go to Liverpool.
Mussolini stayed at Ma Maison,but did not take breakfast.
The Guinness in the Town Hall Tavern is far too expensive.

 

[stony]

The ASBO was invented in (North) Manchester.
The Arndale Centre has a Dale Winton museum.
The United Nations Security Council holds its meetings in the back room of the Crown & Kettle on Great Ancoats Street.
There is a large pool of vomit outside Oxford Road station.
Deansgate is named in honour of referee Mike Dean.
Liverpool Street does not actually go to Liverpool.
Mussolini stayed at Mal Maison,but did not take breakfast.
The Guinness in the Town Hall Tavern is far too expensive.

I have a story involving the Mal Maison, A £25 full English breakfast and frozen dog shit.

I'm saving it for a rainy day.

 

[Dirty Harry]

Think Manchester was pretty instrumental with regards the Anti-Slavery movement too.

 

[inchy14]

The ASBO was invented in (North) Manchester.
The Arndale Centre has a Dale Winton museum.
The United Nations Security Council holds its meetings in the back room of the Crown & Kettle on Great Ancoats Street.
There is a large pool of vomit outside Oxford Road station.
Deansgate is named in honour of referee Mike Dean.
Liverpool Street does not actually go to Liverpool.
Mussolini stayed at Mal Maison,but did not take breakfast.
The Guinness in the Town Hall Tavern is far too expensive.

I have a story involving the Mal Maison, A £25 full English breakfast and frozen dog shit.

I'm saving it for a rainy day.

As it is already wet and windy would you care to elaborate :0)

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

The ASBO was invented in (North) Manchester.
The Arndale Centre has a Dale Winton museum.
The United Nations Security Council holds its meetings in the back room of the Crown & Kettle on Great Ancoats Street.
There is a large pool of vomit outside Oxford Road station.
Deansgate is named in honour of referee Mike Dean.
Liverpool Street does not actually go to Liverpool.
Mussolini stayed at Ma Maison,but did not take breakfast.
The Guinness in the Town Hall Tavern is far too expensive.

Just to back bb2.0 up, Rutherford split the atom in 1917 while a professor at Manchester University. He moved to Cambridge in 1919.

And the UN Security Council DOES NOT meet in the back room at the Crown & Kettle. It's too small so they meet upstairs in the Star & Garter.