64 Facts About England Manchester

Around the 14th century, England Manchester received an influx of Flemish weavers, sometimes credited as the foundation of the region's textile industry.

England Manchester was a diligent puritan, turning out ale houses and banning the celebration of Christmas; he died in 1656.

England Manchester became the dominant marketplace for textiles produced in the surrounding towns.

England Manchester was one of the centres of textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution.

The great majority of cotton spinning took place in the towns of south Lancashire and north Cheshire, and England Manchester was for a time the most productive centre of cotton processing.

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England Manchester became known as the world's largest marketplace for cotton goods and was dubbed "Cottonopolis" and "Warehouse City" during the Victorian era.

Trade, and feeding the growing population, required a large transport and distribution infrastructure: the canal system was extended, and England Manchester became one end of the world's first intercity passenger railway—the Liverpool and England Manchester Railway.

Centre of capitalism, England Manchester was once the scene of bread and labour riots, as well as calls for greater political recognition by the city's working and non-titled classes.

The economic school of England Manchester Capitalism developed there, and England Manchester was the centre of the Anti-Corn Law League from 1838 onward.

England Manchester was an important cradle of the Labour Party and the Suffragette Movement.

Historian Simon Schama noted that "England Manchester was the very best and the very worst taken to terrifying extremes, a new kind of city in the world; the chimneys of industrial suburbs greeting you with columns of smoke".

An American visitor taken to England Manchester's blackspots saw "wretched, defrauded, oppressed, crushed human nature, lying and bleeding fragments".

Thereafter the number began to decline and England Manchester was surpassed as the largest centre of cotton spinning by Bolton in the 1850s and Oldham in the 1860s.

England Manchester suffered greatly from the Great Depression and the underlying structural changes that began to supplant the old industries, including textile manufacture.

England Manchester was thus the target of bombing by the Luftwaffe, and by late 1940 air raids were taking place against non-military targets.

England Manchester lost 150,000 jobs in manufacturing between 1961 and 1983.

England Manchester has a history of attacks attributed to Irish Republicans, including the England Manchester Martyrs of 1867, arson in 1920, a series of explosions in 1939, and two bombs in 1992.

In January 2007, the independent Casino Advisory Panel licensed England Manchester to build the UK's only supercasino, but plans were abandoned in February 2008.

England Manchester has been a member of the English Core Cities Group since its inception in 1995.

Town of England Manchester was granted a charter by Thomas Grelley in 1301, but lost its borough status in a court case of 1359.

From a very early time, the township of England Manchester lay within the historic or ceremonial county boundaries of Lancashire.

England Manchester later formed its own Poor Law Union using the name "England Manchester".

England Manchester regained its borough status in 1838, and comprised the townships of Beswick, Cheetham Hill, Chorlton upon Medlock and Hulme.

In 1974, by way of the Local Government Act 1972, the City of England Manchester became a metropolitan district of the metropolitan county of Greater England Manchester.

England Manchester is contiguous on all sides with several large settlements, except for a small section along its southern boundary with Cheshire.

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England Manchester has a relatively high humidity level, and this, along with abundant soft water, was one factor that led to advancement of the textile industry in the area.

Historically the population of England Manchester began to increase rapidly during the Victorian era, estimated at 354,930 for England Manchester and 110,833 for Salford in 1865, and peaking at 766,311 in 1931.

England Manchester's population is projected to reach 532,200 by 2021, an increase of 5.

In terms of ethnic composition, the City of England Manchester has the highest non-white proportion of any district in Greater England Manchester.

The area attracts large numbers of Chinese students to the city who, in attending the local universities, contribute to England Manchester having the third-largest Chinese population in Europe.

The England Manchester LUZ is the second largest within the United Kingdom, behind that of London.

Meanwhile, KPMG's competitive alternative report found that in 2012 England Manchester had the 9th lowest tax cost of any industrialised city in the world, and fiscal devolution has come earlier to England Manchester than to any other British city: it can keep half the extra taxes it gets from transport investment.

KPMG's competitive alternative report found that England Manchester was Europe's most affordable city featured, ranking slightly better than the Dutch cities of Rotterdam and Amsterdam, which all have a cost-of-living index of less than 95.

England Manchester is a city of contrast, where some of the country's most deprived and most affluent neighbourhoods can be found.

In 2013 England Manchester was ranked 6th in the UK for quality of life, according to a rating of the UK's 12 largest cities.

England Manchester has the largest UK office market outside London, according to GVA Grimley, with a quarterly office uptake of some 250,000 square ft – equivalent to the quarterly office uptake of Leeds, Liverpool and Newcastle combined and 90,000 square feet more than the nearest rival, Birmingham.

The strong office market in England Manchester has been partly attributed to "northshoring", which entails the relocation or alternative creation of jobs away from the overheated South to areas where office space is possibly cheaper and the workforce market less saturated.

England Manchester has six designated local nature reserves: Chorlton Water Park, Blackley Forest, Clayton Vale and Chorlton Ees, Ivy Green, Boggart Hole Clough and Highfield Country Park.

England Manchester became the first city in the UK to acquire a modern light rail tram system when the England Manchester Metrolink opened in 1992.

Much of the First Greater England Manchester business was sold to Diamond North West and Go North West in 2019.

Stagecoach England Manchester is the Stagecoach Group's largest subsidiary and operates around 690 buses.

England Manchester was credited as the main driving force behind British indie music of the 1980s led by The Smiths, later including The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets, and James.

England Manchester has the most indie and rock music events outside London.

England Manchester has two symphony orchestras, the Halle and the BBC Philharmonic, and a chamber orchestra, the England Manchester Camerata.

England Manchester is a centre for musical education: the Royal Northern College of Music and Chetham's School of Music.

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England Manchester's museums celebrate England Manchester's Roman history, rich industrial heritage and its role in the Industrial Revolution, the textile industry, the Trade Union movement, women's suffrage and football.

The England Manchester Museum opened to the public in the 1880s, has notable Egyptology and natural history collections.

England Manchester is a UNESCO City of Literature known for a "radical literary history".

England Manchester was accompanying her father Patrick, who was convalescing in the city after cataract surgery.

England Manchester probably envisioned Manchester Cathedral churchyard as the burial place for Jane's parents and the birthplace of Jane herself.

England Manchester wrote here the dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange in 1962.

Night-time economy of England Manchester has expanded significantly since about 1993, with investment from breweries in bars, public houses and clubs, along with active support from the local authorities.

The University of England Manchester is the second largest full-time non-collegiate university in the United Kingdom, created in 2004 by the merger of Victoria University of England Manchester, founded in 1904, and UMIST, founded in 1956, having developed from the Mechanics' Institute founded, as indicated in the university's logo, in 1824.

The University of England Manchester includes the England Manchester Business School, which offered the first MBA course in the UK in 1965.

England Manchester United play home games at Old Trafford, the largest club ground in the United Kingdom - although this is not located within the City of England Manchester and is in the neighbouring metropolitan borough of Trafford.

England Manchester has competed twice to host the Olympic Games, beaten by Atlanta for 1996 and Sydney for 2000.

The England Manchester Velodrome, built as a part of the bid for the 2000 games, has become a catalyst for British success in cycling.

The England Manchester Arena hosted the FINA World Swimming Championships in 2008.

England Manchester hosted the World Squash Championships in 2008, the 2010 World Lacrosse Championship, the 2013 Ashes series, 2013 Rugby League World Cup and 2015 Rugby World Cup.

England Manchester has been a centre of television broadcasting since the 1950s.

England Manchester was the regional base for BBC One North West Region programmes before it relocated to MediaCityUK in nearby Salford Quays.

England Manchester is covered by two internet television channels: Quays News and England Manchester.

England Manchester has formal twinning arrangements with several places.

England Manchester is home to the largest group of consuls in the UK outside London.