Manchester...what made it?

[BlueSniffer]

Is/Wasn't Wythenshaw the biggest Coucil Estate in Europe. I'm sure Manchester Uni is the biggest Uni campus in Europe too.

 

[BlueSniffer]

Peterloo Massacre and the Ship Canal.

 

[tueartsboots]

Is/Wasn't Wythenshaw the biggest Coucil Estate in Europe. I'm sure Manchester Uni is the biggest Uni campus in Europe too.

Wythenshaw was the biggest social housing estate outside the communist block, still is I think over 330,000 people

 

[tony coleman]

330,000 in Wythenshawe ......dont think so.
Manchester proper population is approx 452.000.

Wythenshawe is appox 70.000. And half of them are on the social.

In fact it should be renamed Socialshawe.!!

 

[tueartsboots]

330,000 in Wythenshawe ......dont think so.
Manchester proper population is approx 452.000.

Wythenshawe is appox 70.000. And half of them are on the social.

In fact it should be renamed Socialshawe.!!

So I made in incorrect assessment of populus, still biggest out of the old communist block and all my family from Wythy !!

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

First canals. First railway station.

The invention of things like the Spinning Jenny made Manchester the cradle of the Industrial Revolution and the world's first industrial city.

The city has always been noted for progressive political thought. The "Manchester School" pioneered Free Trade while at the other end of the political spectrum, Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto while he worked here. The Pankhursts founded the WPSU here. The first Trades Union Congress was held here.

Those quaint flats above the shops towards the Manchester end of Oldham Road were the first social housing in the UK.

John Dalton pioneered atomic theory in the early 1800's and Rutherford split the atom 100 years later.

Alan Turing's Manchester Mark 1 was one of the first, if not the first, programmable computer as we know them today.

The first phone lines were apparently provided in Manchester.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

First canals.

must tell the French that.
Canal du Midi built 1681
Briare canal built 1642.
In fact the Duke of Bridgewater got the idea from a visit to the canal du Midi.

 

[scall11]

Aye, some top stuff there. Will look into the canal thing, and the telephone thing too! Ta

EDIT:

The first 'relay' automatic exchange for the public telephone service in this country was provided for the Post Office at Fleetwood, Lancashire by the Relay Automatic Company (originally set up as the Betulander Automatic Telephone Company by Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co Ltd in 1913). It was opened for service on 15 July.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.btplc.com/Thegroup/BTsHistory/1912to1968/1922.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.btplc.com/Thegroup/BTsHistor ... 8/1922.htm</a>

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

First canals.

must tell the French that.
Canal du Midi built 1681
Briare canal built 1642.
In fact the Duke of Bridgewater got the idea from a visit to the canal du Midi.

The French don't count.

 

[barcabloo]

First canals.

must tell the French that.
Canal du Midi built 1681
Briare canal built 1642.
In fact the Duke of Bridgewater got the idea from a visit to the canal du Midi.

The French don't count.

PMSL!