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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.

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 historical significance.

Manchester City FC plays at the Etihad Stadium (also called the City of Manchester Stadium) in east Manchester, England.

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 Street, Clayton. Moston Brook High School subsequently stood on the site until its demolition in 2000 and it is now a Fujitsu office complex where a wall plaque reads: NORTH ROAD FOOTBALL GROUND THE ORIGINAL HOME OF NEWTON HEATH LYR F.C ONCE STOOD HERE (1878 – 1893)

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.

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.

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.

The Radisson Blu Hotel is connected to Manchester Airport’s Skylink covered walkway to all terminals. The 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.

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George Formby is buried in the Roman Catholic section of Warrington Cemetery

From age 5 to 23, John Lennon’s childhood home was his Aunt Mimi’s house, Mendips, on Menlove Avenue, in Woolton, Liverpool. Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono purchased the 1930s semi-detatched property in 2002 and donated it to the National Trust, after which it was restored to its 1950s appearance and opened to the public for tours. A blue plaque on the house reads: JOHN LENNON 1940–1980 Musician and Songwriter lived here 1945–1963

St Margaret’s Church, the Victorian-era Gothic style church in Bodelwyddan, near Saint Asaph, North Wales, is known as the Marble Church because of the lavish use of marble on its interior. Designed by John Gibson and completed in 1860, the eyecatching limestone building with its 62 metre tower and spire is a landmark for traffic passing on the A55 road.

You can bike around Bala Lake (Llyn Tegid) on a route that uses a cycle path and public highway. Follow the A494 from the lake car park to Llanuwchllyn, returning to Bala on the B4403 road that tracks the steam railway line. The 10 mile circuit has some inclines and takes an hour at a moderate pace.

Penrhyn Castle as it stands today was built between 1820 and 1833.

Garth Pier in Bangor is 458 metres (or 1500 feet) in length, making it the second longest pier in Wales.

Mount Snowdon is 1085 metres (or 3650 feet) above sea level.

Menai Bridge was built between 1819 and 1826. The first stone was laid on 10th August 1819 and the completed bridge opened to traffic on 30 January 1826.

In 1914, over 60 refugees from the German-occupied city of Mechelen in Belgium were accommodated in Menai Bridge on Anglesey. In gratitude for the town’s hospitality, a group of them built this 400 metre promenade along the Menai Strait from Ynys Tysilio (Church Island) to Carreg yr Halen, completing it in 1916. It was rebuilt in 1963 and ceremonially reopened in 1965 by surviving refugee Eduard Wilhelms. Accessed from Beach Road, the hill running down from the Anglesey Arms Hotel, the Belgian Promenade follows a route along the water’s edge that emerges in the Coed Cyrnol car park near the Waitrose supermarket.

Britannia Bridge was engulfed by fire on the evening of 23 May 1970 and suffered extensive structural damage. At the time a railway bridge, it was substantially rebuilt over the following ten years to carry both rail and road traffic over the Menai Strait.

A concrete statue of Lord Horatio Nelson stands on the Menai Strait shoreline near Britannia Bridge. It was sculpted by Admiral Lord Clarence Paget and unveiled in 1873. It is not to be confused with the statue of Paget’s father, the 1st Marquess of Anglesey, mounted on a high column half a mile inland.