59 Facts About Manchester England

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

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

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

Manchester England 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 Manchester England was for a time the most productive centre of cotton processing.

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Manchester England 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 Manchester England became one end of the world's first intercity passenger railway—the Liverpool and Manchester England Railway.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Manchester England has a history of attacks attributed to Irish Republicans, including the Manchester England 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 Manchester England to build the UK's only supercasino, but plans were abandoned in February 2008.

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

Town of Manchester England 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 Manchester England lay within the historic or ceremonial county boundaries of Lancashire.

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

Manchester England 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 Manchester England became a metropolitan district of the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester England.

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

Manchester England 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.

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

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

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

Meanwhile, KPMG's competitive alternative report found that in 2012 Manchester England had the 9th lowest tax cost of any industrialised city in the world, and fiscal devolution has come earlier to Manchester England 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 Manchester England 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.

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

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

The strong office market in Manchester England 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.

Manchester England 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.

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

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

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

Manchester England 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Night-time economy of Manchester England 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 Manchester England is the second largest full-time non-collegiate university in the United Kingdom, created in 2004 by the merger of Victoria University of Manchester England, 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 Manchester England includes the Manchester England Business School, which offered the first MBA course in the UK in 1965.

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

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

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

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

Manchester England 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.

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

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

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

Manchester England has formal twinning arrangements with several places.

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