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Quote: Selfridges is a swanky department store that has it's flagship store in London but has slowely expanded to some other locations around the country and the one in Manchester has become a mecca for shopping lovers… Read More
Quote: Kendals is owned and operated by House of Fraser and is the largest department store in Manchester and is very centrally located. It offers a good range of items and always has some great buys in sale season… Read More
Quote: By 1887, when the Town Hall was completed, Manchester's first industrial period was over. Whereas much textile production was now more focused in surrounding towns, Manchester had developed considerably in… Read More
Quote: The Manchester Museum is a very large place filled with bones and bugs, rocks and mummies and more. The museum is part of the Manchester University campus on Oxford Road and is free to visit.I finally got there… Read More
Quote: Around 3 miles out of Manchester is the large parkland area called Heaton Hall. This estate was established in 1772 when James Wyatt designed Heaton Hall and its neighbouring Orangery for Sir Thomas Egerton.… Read More
Quote: At the end of the 20th Century, the Free Trade Hall, long the principal venue for classical music in the city, was replaced by the newly built Bridgewater Hall. It is a first class buiding for the purpose in all… Read More
Quote: Waterstones is a large independent UK bookseller, and their store in Manchester is located on the shopping street of Deansgate opposite the department store Kendals. Waterstones does not offer huge discounts… Read More
Quote: I sometimes wonder who goes here. I taught for 20 years in Manchester and I met innumerable people who had never heard of it. I left in 1984 but I guess the situation is very much the same now. yet Ordsall… Read More
Quote: The oldest canal in the area and the first in the industrial revolution period [Exeter Ship Canal is much earlier] was the Bridgewater, named after the Duke [not the place in Somerset]. The canal was constructed… Read More
Quote: It was a bit after eight in the evening, and English Robbie had poured me into the top deck of the 201 bus. The last whirl of lights and signs signaling my departure from the city centre, I sank back in the seat,… Read More