Manchester regained its borough status in 1838, and comprised the townships of Beswick, Cheetham Hill, Chorlton upon Medlock and Hulme. Manchester is a centre for musical education: the Royal Northern College of Music and Chetham's School of Music. [174][175], In the south of the city, the Whitworth Art Gallery displays modern art, sculpture and textiles and was voted Museum of the Year in 2015. Low near 25F. She tells the story of how her transfer was a secret until the deal was done. Now based at MediaCityUK, the company's former headquarters at Granada Studios on Quay Street with its distinctive illuminated sign were a prominent landmark on the Manchester skyline for several decades. [182] Manchester was the meeting place of Engels and Karl Marx. Winds NNW at 5 to 10 mph.. Cloudy. [33][34][35] It developed a wide range of industries, so that by 1835 "Manchester was without challenge the first and greatest industrial city in the world. Piccadilly Gardens has monuments dedicated to Queen Victoria, Robert Peel, James Watt and the Duke of Wellington. The expansion of international trade links during the Industrial Revolution led to the introduction of the first consuls in the 1820s and since then over 800, from all parts of the world, have been based in Manchester. The proportion of those with no religious affiliation rose by 58.1 per cent from 16 per cent to 25.3 per cent, whilst the proportion of Muslims increased by 73.6 per cent from 9.1 per cent to 15.8 per cent. The generally accepted etymology of this name is that it comes from Brittonic *mamm- ("breast", in reference to a "breast-like hill"). 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[21], During the English Civil War Manchester strongly favoured the Parliamentary interest. [190] Dame Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate from 2009 to 2019, moved to the city in 1996 and lives in West Didsbury. 101, state police say, Hassan to Biden: Return the POW/MIA flag to White House. It hasn't gone as planned, Nashua woman escorted out of Nashua City Hall by police, Pair airlifted off Mt. The first to be included, Wythenshawe, was added to the city in 1931. [117], According to 2019 property investment research, Manchester is rated as No. Housing two theatre spaces, five cinemas and an art exhibition space, it replaced the Cornerhouse and The Library Theatre. Letitia Landon's poem Manchester in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835, records the rapid growth of the city and its cultural importance. [220], An attempt to launch a Northern daily newspaper, the North West Times, employing journalists made redundant by other titles, closed in 1988. In 1853, Manchester was granted "city status" in the United Kingdom.[62]. Contract Memo 58349 - Manchester, NH - Union Leader utilizing old Central Paper siding, Jan. 7, 1977. [236][237] Student radio stations include Fuse FM at the University of Manchester and MMU Radio at the Manchester Metropolitan University. The Manchester Ship Canal was built between 1888 and 1894, in some sections by canalisation of the Rivers Irwell and Mersey, running 36 miles (58 km)[37] from Salford to Eastham Locks on the tidal Mersey. The economics books Marx was reading at the time can be seen in the library, as can the window seat where Marx and Engels would meet. [104] The city had a relatively sharp increase in the number of business deaths, the largest increase in all the core cities, but this was offset by strong growth in new businesses, resulting in strong net growth. [28] A stroke of a baron's pen is said to have divorced Manchester and Salford, though it was not Salford that became separated from Manchester, it was Manchester, with its humbler line of lords, that was separated from Salford. [142], Manchester Airport serves Manchester, Northern England and North Wales. [62] That year, Ringway, the village where the Manchester Airport is located, was added to the city. Ice fisherman Scott Leslie froze in his tracks when he saw his bobhouse sinking last weekend on Burns Pond in Whitefield. “We hard yard-long photos that dated back to the turn of the century. One such gathering ended with the Peterloo massacre of 16 August 1819. The largest open space in the city, at around 260 hectares (642 acres),[67] is Heaton Park. The Alan Turing Memorial in Sackville Park commemorates his role as the father of modern computing. partially state funded), but it reverted to independent status in 1976 after abolition of the direct-grant system. [93], Kidd identifies Moss Side, Longsight, Cheetham Hill, Rusholme, as centres of population for ethnic minorities. The Women's Team goalkeeper traces back over her steps that let her to Manchester United. Hulme has undergone extensive regeneration, with million-pound loft-house apartments being developed. Lafayette after one loses sneakers, runs barefoot in deep snow, Two killed in separate crashes in Epping, Portsmouth, Teacher unions fume: They don't like COVID-19 facts, Kingston pizza restaurant issues warning over online ordering, South Willow Street justice: Jail the Black guy, Manchester teen clocked going 95 mph on Rte. Heavy rail lines enter the city from all directions, the principal destination being Manchester Piccadilly station. The Greater Manchester Combined Authority, with a directly elected mayor, has responsibilities for economic strategy and transport, amongst other areas, on a Greater Manchester-wide basis. 2 location for "Best Places To Invest in Property in the UK". In 1885, Bradford, Harpurhey, Rusholme and parts of Moss Side and Withington townships became part of the City of Manchester. For purposes of the Office for National Statistics, Manchester forms the most populous settlement within the Greater Manchester Urban Area, the United Kingdom's third-largest conurbation. An 6,547,000 people were estimated in 2012 to live within 30 miles (50 km) of Manchester and 11,694,000 within 50 miles (80 km). [207][208] Of the schools in the LEA with 30 or more pupils, four had 90 per cent or more pupils achieving at least five A*–C grades at GCSE including maths and English: Manchester High School for Girls, St Bede's College, Manchester Islamic High School for Girls, and The King David High School. In the 1980s the titles closed their northern offices and centred their operations in London. [90], Of all households in Manchester, 0.23 per cent were Same-Sex Civil Partnership households, compared with an English national average of 0.16 per cent in 2011. Manchester suffered greatly from the Great Depression and the underlying structural changes that began to supplant the old industries, including textile manufacture. It also has a flight school,[148] and both the Greater Manchester Police Air Support Unit and the North West Air Ambulance have helicopters based there. It was Manchester's first municipal airport and became the site of the first air traffic control tower in the UK, and the first municipal airfield in the UK to be licensed by the Air Ministry. [91], In terms of ethnic composition, the City of Manchester has the highest non-white proportion of any district in Greater Manchester. [173], The municipally owned Manchester Art Gallery in Mosley Street houses a permanent collection of European painting and one of Britain's main collections of Pre-Raphaelite paintings. The later groups came from what became known as the "Madchester" scene that also centred on The Haçienda nightclub developed by the founder of Factory Records, Tony Wilson. The latter exemplifies a new surge in high-rise building. [192], Public houses in the Canal Street area have had an LGBTQ+ clientele since at least 1940,[192] and now form the centre of Manchester's LGBTQ+ community. She was accompanying her father Patrick, who was convalescing in the city after cataract surgery. Cotton processing in other parts of the world increased, often on machines produced in Manchester. ZZ Top's Concert History. [149] In 2012, plans were approved to introduce a water taxi service between Manchester city centre and MediaCityUK at Salford Quays. The economy grew relatively strongly between 2002 and 2012, when growth was 2.3 per cent above the national average. The combination of competition and improved efficiency halved the cost of coal and halved the transport cost of raw cotton. Bayer Leverkusen has signed Dutch defender Timothy Fosu-Mensah from Manchester United. [218], The main regional newspaper in the city is the Manchester Evening News, which was for over 80 years the sister publication of The Manchester Guardian. [9] It is fringed by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and an arc of towns with which it forms a continuous conurbation. [192] The velodrome hosted the UCI Track Cycling World Championships for a record third time in 2008. [168] The £110 million venue was confirmed in July 2016. The Mayor would have fiscal control over health, transport, housing and police in the area. [88] The city experienced the greatest percentage population growth outside London, with an increase of 19 per cent to over 500,000. In more recent years, temperatures have occasionally reached over 30 Celsius. The ITV franchise Granada Television has been based in Manchester since 1954. [65] The River Mersey flows through the south of Manchester. [192] The more than 500 licensed premises[193] in the city centre have a capacity to deal with more than 250,000 visitors,[194] with 110,000–130,000 people visiting on a typical weekend night,[193] making Manchester the most popular city for events at 79 per thousand people. A government statement in 2014 announced a £78 million grant for a new "large-scale, ultra-flexible arts space" for the city. Contract Memo 59352-A - Manchester, NH - Work on crossings through the millyard, July 28, 1976. Manchester Town Hall, in Albert Square, was built in the Gothic revival style and is seen as one of the most important Victorian buildings in England. At that time, it seemed a place in which anything could happen—new industrial processes, new ways of thinking (the Manchester School, promoting free trade and laissez-faire), new classes or groups in society, new religious sects, and new forms of labour organisation. Smaller venues include the Contact Theatre and Z-arts in Hulme. Smaller venues include the Band on the Wall, the Night and Day Café,[158] the Ruby Lounge,[159] and The Deaf Institute. A centre of capitalism, 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. A number of television studios have been in operation around the city, and have since relocated to MediaCityUK in neighbouring Salford. Alexander, Christine, and Sara L. Pearson. [89] Manchester's population is projected to reach 532,200 by 2021, an increase of 5.8 per cent from 2011. The city is notable for its architecture, culture, musical exports, media links, scientific and engineering output, social impact, sports clubs and transport connections. [134] A new line to the Trafford Centre opened in 2020. The city has a population of 547,627 (as of 2018)[7] and lies within the United Kingdom's second-most populous urban area, with a population of 2.7 million[8] and second-most populous metropolitan area, with a population of 3.3 million. The association had planned to include many of the items in its centennial celebration in 2023, he said. [188] Also associated with the city is the Victorian poet and novelist Isabella Banks, famed for her 1876 novel The Manchester Man. [197] Following a series of drug-related violent incidents, The Haçienda closed in 1997. Migration (internal and international) and other changes accounted for a net increase of 3,100 people between July 2011 and June 2012. It gained university status in 1992, and in the same year absorbed Crewe and Alsager College of Higher Education in South Cheshire. This reduces urban sprawl, prevents towns in the conurbation from further convergence, protects the identity of outlying communities, and preserves nearby countryside. It is achieved by restricting inappropriate development within the designated areas and imposing stricter conditions on permitted building. [214] Manchester Cricket Club evolved into Lancashire County Cricket Club and play at Old Trafford Cricket Ground, as do Manchester Originals, a new city-based cricket team founded in 2019 which will play in the new cricket competition The Hundred, representing Lancashire and Manchester. You have permission to edit this article. These features are its climate, its proximity to a seaport at Liverpool, the availability of water power from its rivers, and its nearby coal reserves.[66]. It includes a Hilton hotel, a restaurant and apartments. Guide Leader: Ongoing / Long term : Children, Education, Teaching, Training and Coaching, Youth Work and Young People : 1st Didsbury Guides are looking for a new Leader to volunteer with their units. [176] Other exhibition spaces and museums in Manchester include Islington Mill in Salford, the National Football Museum at Urbis, Castlefield Gallery, the Manchester Costume Gallery at Platt Fields Park, the People's History Museum and the Manchester Jewish Museum. Normally thrumming with activity, the association offices had slowed down during the coronavirus pandemic “but I’d be in there several times a day,” said St. Clair. [27] Around the 14th century, Manchester received an influx of Flemish weavers, sometimes credited as the foundation of the region's textile industry. Although its influence has waned, Granada had been described as "the best commercial television company in the world". Leader, John Daniel (d 1899) Newspaper Proprietor and Antiquary ; Leader, Robert (1809-1885) Sheffield Journalist and Politician; Leader, Robert Eadon (d 1922) Newspaper Proprietor and Antiquary; Leechman, William (1706-1785) Principal of Glasgow University; Leighton, Hb (d 1977) Architect; Leland, Thomas (1722-1785) Historian [46] Heavy industry suffered a downturn from the 1960s and was greatly reduced under the economic policies followed by Margaret Thatcher's government after 1979. Manchester's history is concerned with textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution. [114] 37 per cent of the working-age population in Manchester have degree-level qualifications, as opposed to an average of 33 per cent across other core cities,[114] although its schools under-perform slightly compared with the national average. The Manchester Arena hosted the FINA World Swimming Championships in 2008. [162] Forerunners of the RNCM were the Northern School of Music (founded 1920) and the Royal Manchester College of Music (founded 1893), which merged in 1973. Manchester has hosted domestic, continental and international football competitions at Fallowfield Stadium, Maine Road, Old Trafford and the City of Manchester Stadium. The city's cosmopolitan atmosphere contributed to a vibrant culture, which included the Hallé Orchestra. [165] In 2014, HOME, a new custom-built arts complex opened. A firefighter suffered a minor knee injury and was treated at the scene, said Beattie. Manchester (/ˈmæntʃɪstər, -tʃɛs-/)[5][6] is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. Often her house played host to influential authors: Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Charles Eliot Norton, for example. The Gallos first owned Elm House of Pizza at 866 Elm St. before selling it to open Second Street House of Pizza (which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1993, according to the Union Leader archives). The chief said because “there was a lot of storage and a lot of merchandise” on the first floor, the conditions made “for a very hot, very smoky fire.”. [135][136] [119], Manchester also has a number of skyscrapers built in the 1960s and 1970s, the tallest being the CIS Tower near Manchester Victoria station until the Beetham Tower was completed in 2006. These stations and pirate radio played a significant role in the city's house music culture, the Madchester scene. [20] By 1963 the port of Manchester was the UK's third largest,[45] and employed over 3,000 men, but the canal was unable to handle the increasingly large container ships. “We lost all of our historical archives, memorabilia — of which we had an awful lot — all of our inventory, all of our stock, all of our office equipment and computers — pretty much everything, and most tragically, we lost our office cat, Ashland,” Charlie St. Clair, the association’s executive director since 1991, said Monday. Manchester experiences a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen: Cfb), like much of the British Isles, with warm summers and cool winters. Manchester became known as the world's largest marketplace for cotton goods[20][31] and was dubbed "Cottonopolis" and "Warehouse City" during the Victorian era. [30] Thereafter the number began to decline and Manchester was surpassed as the largest centre of cotton spinning by Bolton in the 1850s and Oldham in the 1860s. [116] The strong office market in Manchester has been partly attributed to "northshoring", (from offshoring) 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. [213] Manchester has competed twice to host the Olympic Games, beaten by Atlanta for 1996 and Sydney for 2000. [12] Manchester achieved city status in 1853. At its height, 1,500 journalists were employed, earning the city the nickname "second Fleet Street". [21][25] In the early 1800s, John Dalton formulated his atomic theory in Manchester. The name Manchester originates from the Latin name Mamucium or its variant Mancunio and the citizens are still referred to as Mancunians (/mænˈkjuːniən/). [144] A second runway was opened in 2001 and there have been continued terminal improvements. “He was just a really beautiful cat. [139][141] Stagecoach Manchester is the Stagecoach Group's largest subsidiary and operates around 690 buses. [20] The First World War interrupted access to the export markets. [115], Manchester has the largest UK office market outside London, according to GVA Grimley, with a quarterly office uptake (averaged over 2010–2014) 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. [172] The Manchester Museum opened to the public in the 1880s, has notable Egyptology and natural history collections. Manchester Liverpool Road railway station was the world's first inter-city passenger railway station. [48] New and renovated complexes such as The Printworks and Corn Exchange have become popular shopping, eating and entertainment areas. The area also attracts large numbers of Chinese students to the city who, in attending the local universities,[95] contribute to Manchester having the third-largest Chinese population in Europe.[96][97]. Later these were taken over by First Greater Manchester and Stagecoach Manchester. Should you add Discovery Plus as a streaming service? [139] After deregulation in 1986, the bus system was taken over by GM Buses, which after privatisation was split into GM Buses North and GM Buses South. [151], Cycling for transportation and leisure enjoys popularity in Manchester and the city also plays a major role in British cycle racing.[152][153]. Historian Simon Schama noted that "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". Charlotte Brontë began writing her novel Jane Eyre in 1846, while staying at lodgings in Hulme. [18] A stabilised fragment of foundations of the final version of the Roman fort is visible in Castlefield. [166], Since 2007 the city has hosted the Manchester International Festival, a biennial international arts festival with a focus on original work, which has included major new commissions by artists, including Bjork. The Roman habitation of Manchester probably ended around the 3rd century; its civilian settlement appears to have been abandoned by the mid-3rd century, although the fort may have supported a small garrison until the late 3rd or early 4th century. [43] Manchester Cathedral, Royal Exchange and Free Trade Hall were among the buildings seriously damaged; restoration of the cathedral took 20 years. [112] In 2013 Manchester was ranked 6th in the UK for quality of life, according to a rating of the UK's 12 largest cities. There is a mix of high-density urban and suburban locations. They meet on a Monday evening 7:30 - 9pm, in Didsbury. Today, the city is well served by its rail network although it is now working to capacity,[127] and is at the centre of an extensive county-wide railway network, including the West Coast Main Line, with two mainline stations: Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Victoria. [167] It is due to open at the end of 2019. Register for online access, Christmas Day fire claims Laconia Motorcycle Week Association archives, No injuries reported as small plane goes off runway at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport, Tesla Model S erupted 'like a flamethrower' renewing old safety concerns, New Hampshire ranks No. [101] The wider metropolitan economy is the second largest in the United Kingdom. The band has, since 1970, consisted of bassist/vocalist Dusty Hill, vocalist/guitarist Billy Gibbons (the band's leader, main lyricist and musical arranger), and drummer Frank Beard. [32] The industrial revolution brought about huge change in Manchester and was key to the increase in Manchester's population. It is still extant and its buildings form part of the Museum of Science and Industry. [51], Large city sections from the 1960s have been demolished, re-developed or modernised with the use of glass and steel. Manchester began expanding "at an astonishing rate" around the turn of the 19th century as people flocked to the city for work from Scotland, Wales, Ireland and other areas of England as part of a process of unplanned urbanisation brought on by the Industrial Revolution. The size of the Jewish population in Greater Manchester is the largest in Britain outside London. Many of the great public buildings (including Manchester Town Hall) date from then. Manchester has a thriving theatre, opera and dance scene, with a number of large performance venues, including Manchester Opera House, which feature large-scale touring shows and West End productions; the Palace Theatre; and the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester's former cotton exchange, which is the largest theatre in the round in the UK. The University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University and Royal Northern College of Music. 2 in command under Chief Owens.” Chief Owens said Blanchard was promoted to corporal in 2012 and sergeant in 2014. Previously, notable Manchester acts of the 1960s include The Hollies, Herman's Hermits, and Davy Jones of the Monkees (famed in the mid-1960s for their albums and their American TV show), and the earlier Bee Gees, who grew up in Chorlton. In the 1950s, the city was home to a so-called "Manchester School" of classical composers, which was composed of Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies, David Ellis and Alexander Goehr. [160] Manchester also has the most indie and rock music events outside London. [63] It was this separation that resulted in Salford becoming the judicial seat of Salfordshire, which included the ancient parish of Manchester. He loved everybody,” St. Clair said. Both usages are preserved in Insular Celtic languages, such as mam meaning "breast" in Irish and "mother" in Welsh. [222][223][224] Granada produces Coronation Street,[225] local news and programmes for North West England. The recorded history of Manchester began with the civilian settlement associated with the Roman fort of Mamucium or Mancunium, which was established in about AD 79 on a sandstone bluff near the confluence of the rivers Medlock and Irwell. Debris lies outside the Laconia Motorcycle Week Association headquarters on Union Avenue in Laconia on Monday after it was struck by fire. At 53°28′0″N 2°14′0″W / 53.46667°N 2.23333°W / 53.46667; -2.23333, 160 miles (260 km) northwest of London, Manchester lies in a bowl-shaped land area bordered to the north and east by the Pennines, an upland chain that runs the length of northern England, and to the south by the Cheshire Plain. [20] Manchester's Irish Festival, including a St Patrick's Day parade, is one of Europe's largest. [154] Former Smiths frontman Morrissey, whose lyrics often refer to Manchester locations and culture, later found international success as a solo artist. [52] In January 2007, the independent Casino Advisory Panel licensed Manchester to build the UK's only supercasino,[53] but plans were abandoned in February 2008. [147] Today, private charter flights and general aviation use City. Columbus Weekly Union (2 scattered issues, 1867-1869) also published as Indiana Dollar Weekly ... North Manchester. [226][227], With the growth in regional television in the 1950s, Manchester became one of the BBC's three main centres in England. 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