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The landmark tower at HM Prison Manchester, also known as Strangeways Prison, is a heating and ventilation extraction tower dating to the opening of the prison in 1868. The 234-foot (or 71-meter) minaret-style octagonal tower is built of red brick with sandstone dressings, with an arched recess in each side, a perimeter gallery with brick balustraded parapet on stone corbels, Read more...
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Gorton Monastery is owned by The Monastery of St Francis & Gorton Trust Limited, a Building Preservation Trust and registered charity established in 1996 to acquire, restore and maintain the once-derelict former Church and Friary of St Francis in the Gorton district of east Manchester. The church, known locally as Gorton Monastery, was designed in the Gothic Revival style by Read more...
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Bank Street football ground, also known as Bank Lane, was located in the Clayton area of east Manchester on the site where the National Indoor BMX Arena now stands, next to the Manchester Velodrome. Between 1893 and 1910, Bank Street was the home ground of Manchester United Football Club (which was known as Newton Heath Football Club until 1902), before Read more...
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Former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher was born on 21 September 1972 at Saint Mary’s Hospital on Hathersage Road in Manchester. Born William John Paul Gallagher to Irish parents, Peggy and Thomas Gallagher, he is the youngest of their three sons. St Mary’s Hospital was demolished in 2010 to make way for new buildings, including a new Ronald McDonald House providing Read more...
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Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford lived with his mother and siblings in the Manchester suburbs of Withington and Fallowfield before the family moved to a home on Button Lane on the Northern Moor estate in Wythenshawe when he was 9 years old. He attended Button Lane Primary School and later, Ashton on Mersey School, a specialist sports college in Sale Read more...
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Access to Manchester United’s Aon Training Complex at Carrington, Manchester, is restricted to players, staff and authorised visitors only. Training sessions cannot be viewed by the general public. Birch Road leading to the complex is a private road, but fans wanting to catch a glimpse of Manchester United’s players arriving in their cars for training, stand at the entrance or Read more...
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The nearest Manchester Metrolink tram stop to Wythenshawe Hospital is Roundthorn, an 8 to 10-minute walk away from the hospital. The Roundthorn stop is served by Metrolink’s Navy Line which runs between Manchester city centre and Manchester Airport. Read more...
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Manchester International Airport departure terminals are shown below. In case of terminal changes, contacting the airline to confirm before travel is advisable. Airline Terminal Aegean Airlines T2 Aer Lingus T1 & T2 Air Arabia Maroc T1 Air Canada T2 Air France T2 Air Malta T1 Air Transat T1 airBaltic T2 American Airlines T1 Aurigny T3 Austrian Airlines T1 Balkan Holidays Read more...
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Oasis brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher grew up in the Manchester suburb of Burnage, spending their early years living on Ashburn Avenue. When their parents separated, they moved with their mother and older brother Paul in the early 1980s to a house on Cranwell Drive. Read more...
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Bee Gees members Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb lived at 51 Keppel Road in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, a suburb of Manchester, for about three years until 1958, before the family emigrated to Australia. During their time in Manchester, the young brothers formed a skiffle group called The Rattlesnakes and performed at local venues, including the Gaumont Cinema near their home. Read more...
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Manchester United was originally established in 1878 as Newton Heath LYR Football Club by the Carriage and Wagon department of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (LYR) depot at Newton Heath, Manchester. It became Manchester United F.C. in 1902. The team played at the North Road ground in Newton Heath until 1893, when it moved to a new ground at Bank Read more...
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Former British Prime Minister David Lloyd George was born on 17 January 1863 at 5 New York Place in Manchester and lived there with his parents for a few months after his birth. The house has since been demolished but the house at 34 Wadeson Road in Ardwick stands on the approximate site and a wall plaque notes the location’s Read more...
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Manchester City FC plays at the Etihad Stadium (also called the City of Manchester Stadium) in east Manchester, England. The stadium has been the home of Manchester City since the end of the 2002–03 season, when the club moved from Maine Road in the Moss Side area of Manchester, its previous home ground since 1923. The City of Manchester Stadium Read more...
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The Radisson Blu Hotel is connected to Manchester Airport’s Skylink covered walkway to all terminals. The DoubleTree by Hilton, Clayton Hotel, and Crowne Plaza are also on-airport hotels but, without a direct link to the terminals, they have a free 24 hour shuttle instead. Read more...
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Manchester adopted the worker bee symbol to represent the city’s busy, productive workforce, particularly in the area’s many cotton mills during the 19th century. Read more...