Manchester...what made it?

[scall11]

Now, for a little scheme I planning, I could do with a few ideas on what made Manchester. Basically, if you were to do a visual representation of Manchester, what would it be?

So far, I'm thinking:
- Lumps of coal
- A piece of railway line (first passenger railway went into Manchester, and the Station Building, part of the Museum of Science and Industry is the oldest railway station in THE WORLD! <a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_Road_railway_station_(Manchester" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_ ... Manchester</a>) )
- Cotton
- Music
- Computer
- The three rivers, Medlock, Irwell and the Irk.

Can anyone think of anything else?

Just did a quick search on Google, and found this page:
<a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Manchester" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Manchester</a>

including this great map of Greater Manchester:
<a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hundred_of_Salford.png" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hund ... alford.png</a>
Stopford - Stockport
Houghhall - Hough End!
Chedle - Cheadle
Preswiche - Prestwich

 

[brooklandsblue]

Now, for a little scheme I planning, I could do with a few ideas on what made Manchester. Basically, if you were to do a visual representation of Manchester, what would it be?

So far, I'm thinking:
- Lumps of coal
- A piece of railway line (first passenger railway went into Manchester, and the Station Building, part of the Museum of Science and Industry is the oldest railway station in THE WORLD! <a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_Road_railway_station_(Manchester" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_ ... Manchester</a>) )
- Cotton
- Music
- Computer
- The three rivers, Medlock, Irwell and the Irk.

Can anyone think of anything else?

Just did a quick search on Google, and found this page:
<a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Manchester" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Manchester</a>

including this great map of Greater Manchester:
<a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hundred_of_Salford.png" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hund ... alford.png</a>
Stopford - Stockport
Houghhall - Hough End!
Chedle - Cheadle
Preswiche - Prestwich

Busiest bus route in europe -oxford rd.
Largest student population in UK
Tallest buliding outside London
One of the Wright Brothers born in Chorlton
M.E.N-broke some kind of world wide attendance recird last year

 

[bluealf]

Irish navvies ?

 

[denislawsbackheel]

lowest life expectancy in England.

 

[robspankthemonkey]

Communism was invented there also the atom was first split in Manchester, all good stuff then.. :)

 

[robspankthemonkey]

lowest life expectancy in England.

I read some where once it also has the highest rate of suicide in young males.

 

[laserblue]

One of the Wright Brothers born in Chorlton

wilbur and orville wright were both born in the usa. you're thinking of john alcock, half of alcock and brown who were the first to fly the atlantic in 1919. he was born in seymour grove just over the boundary line between chorlton and ot.

 

[BingoBango]

Cotton mills

 

[barcabloo]

Boddingtons
Hydes Anvil
Cotton
Computer
Rain
Bee Gees
Oasis
Hollies
Hacienda
Fall
Smiths
Quality Street gang
Gravy...Mmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[mostonblue]

The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was founded here by the Mancunian Pankhurst family (Emmeline and Christabel). They were the militant suffragettes! Manchester was important in the women's suffrage movement.