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Manchester
Manchester (pronounced /ˈmæntʃɛstər/ ( listen)) is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. In 2008, the population of the city was estimated to be 464,200. Manchester lies within one of the United Kingdom's largest metropolitan areas; the metropolitan county of Greater...
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Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester Metropolitan University is a university based in the city of Manchester, England and Cheshire, United Kingdom. It is the fifth largest university in the United Kingdom in terms of student numbers.
On 1 January 1970 Manchester Polytechnic...
Victoria University of Manchester
The Victoria University of Manchester (commonly known as the University of Manchester) was a university in Manchester, England. On 1 October 2004 it merged with the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) to form a new...
University of Manchester
The University of Manchester is a "red brick" civic university located in Manchester, England. It is a member of the Russell Group of large research-intensive universities and the N8 Group for research collaboration. The university was formed in...
Wythenshawe Hall
Wythenshawe Hall is a 16th century medieval timber-framed historic house and a former stately home in Wythenshawe, Manchester, England. It is located east of Altrincham and south of Stretford, five miles (8 km) south of Manchester city centre, in...
Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester
The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester (MOSI), located in Manchester, England, is a large museum devoted to the development of science, technology, and industry and particularly the city's considerable contributions to these. It is an...
Manchester Piccadilly station
Manchester Piccadilly station is the principal railway station of Manchester in England. It serves intercity routes to London Euston, Birmingham New Street, South Wales, the south coast of England and Cornwall, Edinburgh and Glasgow Central in...
Manchester Victoria station
Manchester Victoria station is the second of Manchester's mainline railway stations. It is also a Metrolink station, one of eight that are within the City Zone. It is located to the north of the city centre on Hunts Bank, close to Manchester...
Manchester Oxford Road railway station
Manchester Oxford Road Railway Station is a railway station in the city of Manchester, England.
The station is at the junction of Whitworth Street West and Oxford Street, on an elevated track between Deansgate and Piccadilly stations.
It serves the...
Guardian Exchange
Guardian Exchange was an underground telephone exchange built in Manchester in the 1950s. It was built together with the Anchor Exchange in Birmingham and the Kingsway exchange in London to provide hardened communications in the event of nuclear war...
Free Trade Hall
The Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England, was for many years a focal point for public debate and cultural activity in the city. Built in 1853–56 to the designs of Edward Walters, near the site of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre, on what is today Peter...
John Rylands Library
The John Rylands Library, since July 1972 part of the John Rylands University Library, was founded by Mrs Enriqueta Augustina Rylands in memory of her late husband, John Rylands. The library has since July 1972 served as the Special Collections...
Chetham's School of Music
Chetham's School of Music, familiarly known as "Chet's", is a specialist independent co-educational music school in Manchester city centre, in North West England. It was established in 1969 at Chetham's Hospital, an orphanage founded by Humphrey...
Manchester Town Hall
Manchester Town Hall is a building in Manchester, England, that houses Manchester City Council. Completed by architect Alfred Waterhouse in 1877, it is a fine example of Victorian Gothic revival, featuring imposing murals by Ford Madox Brown.
As...
Manchester Evening News Arena
The Manchester Evening News Arena or M.E.N. Arena (commonly referred to as just The M.E.N. or simply Manchester Arena) is a large indoor arena in Manchester, England. It is currently sponsored by the Manchester Evening News and has a capacity of 3...
City of Manchester Stadium
The City of Manchester Stadium, also known as COMS or Eastlands, is a stadium in Manchester, England. Originally designed as part of Manchester's failed bid for the 2000 Summer Olympics, the stadium was built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games at a...
Maine Road
Maine Road was a large football stadium in Moss Side, Manchester, England. It was home to Manchester City F.C. from its construction in 1923 until 2003. It takes its name from the street it was built on which, in itself, had a remarkable history....
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
The Bridgewater Hall is an international concert venue in Manchester, England. It cost around £42 million to build and currently hosts over 250 performances a year. It is located in Lower Mosley Street in the city centre.
Since its opening on 11...
Royal Northern College of Music
The Royal Northern College of Music or RNCM is a conservatoire in Manchester, England. It is located on Oxford Road in Chorlton on Medlock, and is at the western edge of the campus of the University of Manchester. In addition to being a centre of...
Urbis
Urbis is an exhibition centre located in central Manchester, England. The centre features changing exhibitions on the subject of city life, alongside talks, gigs and other events.
Urbis's programme of changing exhibitions focuses on the culture of...
Cornerhouse
Cornerhouse is a centre for cinema and the contemporary visual arts located very close to Oxford Road Station, on Oxford Street in Manchester, England. It has three floors of art galleries, three cinemas, a bookshop, a bar and a café bar.
The centre...
Manchester Grammar School
The Manchester Grammar School (MGS) is the largest independent day school for boys in the UK (ages 9–18). It is based in Manchester, England. Founded in the 16th century as a free grammar school, it was housed on a site adjacent to Manchester parish...
Whitworth Art Gallery
The Whitworth Art Gallery is an art gallery in Manchester, England, containing about 55,000 items in its collection. The museum is located south of the Manchester University campus, in Whitworth Park.
It was founded by Robert Darbishire with a...
Contact Theatre
Contact is a multi-disciplinary arts venue in Manchester. Originally a traditional theatre Contact was rebranded in 1999 as a space specialising in producing work and providing opportunities for young people.
Contact was founded in 1972 as...
Manchester Velodrome
Manchester Velodrome is an indoor cycle-racing track (or velodrome) in Manchester, in the north west of England. It opened in September 1994 and is the United Kingdom's leading indoor Olympic-standard track. Today it is home to the National Cycling...
Manchester Museum
The Manchester Museum is owned by the University of Manchester. It is one of the top university museums in the United Kingdom. Sited on Oxford Road (A34) at the heart of the university's group of neo-Gothic buildings, it provides access to about six...
Manchester Jewish Museum
Manchester Jewish Museum tells the story of the Jewish community in Manchester, England over the last 200 years. It occupies the former Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue on Cheetham Hill Road and is a grade II* listed building
The Synagogue was...
People's History Museum
A brand new iconic building housing national collections of international appeal. The People’s History Museum tells the dramatic story of the British working class’s struggle for democracy and social justice told in Manchester, the historically...
Pankhurst Centre
The Pankhurst Centre in Manchester provides a women only space that creates a unique environment in which women can learn together, work on projects and socialise.
The centre is of historical significance as it was the home of Emmeline Pankhurst and...
Chetham's Library
Chetham's Library in Manchester, England is the oldest free public reference library in the United Kingdom. Chetham's Hospital, which contains both the library and Chetham's School of Music, was established in 1653 under the will of Humphrey Chetham...
Manchester Aquatics Centre
The Manchester Aquatics Centre is a public aquatics sports facility south of the centre of Manchester, England, north of the main buildings of the University of Manchester, and near the Manchester Metropolitan University. It was purpose–built for...
G-Mex
Manchester Central (Formerly known as the GMEX centre and Manchester International Conference Centre (MICC)) is an exhibition and conference centre built in and around the former Manchester Central railway station in Manchester, North West England....
Midland Hotel
The Midland is a 312 bedroom grand hotel situated in Manchester city centre, in North West England. Opened in September 1903, it was built by the Midland Railway to serve the adjacent Manchester Central railway station. The planned covered walkway...
Boardwalk
The Boardwalk nightclub was located on Little Peter Street in Manchester, England. This medium sized club and rehearsal studios, owned by Colin Sinclair, was a popular live music venue in the late 1980s and early 1990s where bands such as Oasis made...
Royal Exchange, Manchester
The Royal Exchange is a grade II listed Victorian building in Manchester, England. It is located in the city centre on the land bounded by St Ann’s Square, Market Street and Cross Street. The complex includes the Royal Exchange Theatre, and the...
A57 motorway
The A57(M), also known as the Mancunian Way, is a 2-mile (3.2-kilometre) long motorway in Manchester, England. It is part of the A57, which runs east-west through Greater Manchester, and links the M602 and M67 motorways.
The road forms a major part...
B of the Bang
B of the Bang was a sculpture in Manchester, England, located next to the City of Manchester Stadium at Sportcity; the work was designed by Thomas Heatherwick. It has now been dismantled due to structural problems.
Commissioned to mark the 2002...
Midland Bank building, King Street, Manchester
The Midland Bank building on King Street, Manchester, was designed by Edwin Lutyens in 1928. Built 1933-5.
A castle-like Art Deco building, surrounded moat-like by roads on all four sides, is the work of Sir Edwin Lutyens. Built with the help of...
Corn Exchange, Manchester
The Triangle is a grade II listed building in Manchester, England. The building was originally used as a corn exchange and was previously named the Corn & Produce Exchange. Following the IRA bomb in 1996 it was renovated and is now a modern shopping...
Xaverian College
Xaverian College is a Roman Catholic sixth form college in the city of Manchester. It lies in the inner city suburb of Rusholme close to Wilmslow Road and Oxford Road. The College's location means that its intake is extremely diverse with many...
Manchester Central Library
Manchester Central Library is a circular library next to the extended Town Hall in Manchester, England. It acts as the headquarters of the Manchester Library & Information Service, which also consists of 22 other community libraries.
The design was...
London Road Fire Station
London Road Fire Station is a former fire station, police station and coroner's court, in Manchester, England. Designed and built between 1904 - 1906 by Woodhouse, Willoughby & Langham at a cost of £142 000. Until 1974 and the formation of the...
Victoria Park Mosque
Manchester Central Mosque & Islamic Cultural Centre (also known as “Victoria Park Mosque”) is one of the oldest and possibly the largest mosque of Manchester, England. Sometimes referred to as Jamia Mosque, it is situated in the middle of Victoria...
Granada Studios Tour
Granada Studios Tour was an entertainment complex in Castlefield, Manchester, England operating from 1988 to 1999. It was situated on Water Street, adjacent to Granada Television's Quay Street complex.
The exterior of the complex was a New York...
Palace Theatre, Manchester
The Palace Theatre Manchester, Oxford Street, is one of the main theatres in Manchester, England. It, and its 'sister' theatre the Manchester Opera House on Quay Street, are operated by the same parent company, Live Nation. The original capacity of...
Tabley House
Tabley House is an 18th-century Palladian mansion at Tabley Inferior in the Borough of Cheshire East, England. It is a Grade I listed building.
It was designed by John Carr as the country house of Sir Peter Byrne Leicester and was completed in 1767....
Manchester Apollo
The Manchester Apollo is a concert venue in Manchester, England.
Locally known as 'The Apollo', it is a listed building with a capacity of 3,500 (2514 standing, 986 seats).
The Manchester Apollo was originally built as a cinema in 1930, which later...
HM Prison Manchester
HM Prison Manchester is a Category A men's prison, located in the city of Manchester, England. The prison is also known (now unofficially, since it was renamed in the 1990s) as Strangeways Prison. Manchester prison is operated by Her Majesty's...
Portico Library
The Portico Library is a subscription library in central Manchester, north-west England.
It was established following a meeting of Manchester business people in 1803 which resolved to found an "institute uniting the advantages of a newsroom and a...
Sunlight House
Sunlight House is a fine art deco office building on Quay Street, Manchester, England.
Built in 1932 by Joseph Sunlight, at 14-stories and 135 feet, it was reputed to be Northern England's first skyscraper and was for many years the city's tallest...
South Manchester Synagogue
The name South Manchester Synagogue refers to both an Orthodox Jewish community in south Manchester, England and to the buildings that it occupies. In 2002, the community relocated from synagogue buildings in the Fallowfield district of Manchester...
Heaton Park
Heaton Park, covering an area variously reported as 600 acres (242.8 ha), 247 hectares, 640 acres (259.0 ha), over 640 acres (259.01 hectares) and 650 acres (263.0 ha) is the biggest park in Greater Manchester, England and one of the biggest...
St Mary's Hospital, Manchester
St Mary's Hospital for Women and Children is a hospital in Manchester, England. It was founded in 1790. St Mary's provides a unique range of inter-related services specifically for women and children. Out-patient and in-patient facilities exist to...
Manchester Academy
Manchester Academy is a brand name used by the University of Manchester Students' Union for its four concert venues in Manchester, England, which reside on Oxford Road both within and adjacent to the main Students' Union. building. 'Manchester...
Star Hall
Star Hall was a Mission Hall in Ancoats, Manchester, founded by Francis Crossley (of Crossley Engines, later Crossley Motors) to meet the spiritual needs of his factory workers. It included the Crossley Hospital, a Maternity hospital. The building...
Affleck's Palace
Afflecks (formerly Affleck's Palace) is a building housing an indoor market located at the junction of Church Street/Tib Street and Dale Street with Oldham Street in the Northern Quarter of Manchester in England. Dozens of independent stalls, small...
No. 1 Deansgate
No. 1 Deansgate is the name and location of a medium-rise apartment building in central Manchester, England. It is the tallest all-steel residential building in the United Kingdom and one of the most expensive addresses in Manchester. The building...
Slade Hall
Slade Hall (anciently Milkwall Slade) is Grade II* listed mansion located on Slade Lane in Longsight, Manchester. Parts of the structure date back to around 1160, though much rebuilding took place in 1585 under the instruction of the Siddall family...
Deansgate railway station
Deansgate (or Manchester Deansgate) is a railway station in Manchester city centre, England. It is 1 km (¾ of a mile) west of Manchester Piccadilly in the Castlefield area, at the junction of Deansgate and Whitworth Street West.
It is linked to G...
Manchester Airport railway station
Manchester Airport railway station is the railway station that serves Manchester Airport and is built into the airport's terminal buildings. The station was opened together with the second airport terminal in 1993.
The station is situated 9¾ miles ...
Nazarene Theological College, Manchester
The Nazarene Theological College, one of several institutions of higher education affiliated with the Church of the Nazarene, is a seminary in Didsbury, a leafy suburb in the south of Manchester, England. The seminary supports degree courses in...
