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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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The River Mersey starts in the Portwood area of Stockport, Greater Manchester, where the River Tame and River Goyt meet. The River Goyt originates some 14 miles (or 22.5 kilometres) to the southeast on Axe Edge Moor in the Peak District, and the River Tame starts 14.5 miles (or 23.3 kilometres) to the northeast at the Readycon Dean Reservoir on 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...