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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.

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 with links to Manchester United Football Club. As a young boy, Rashford played for Fletcher Rangers FC in nearby Didsbury and joined the Manchester United academy system at the age of seven.

A person who is a long-time resident or native of Stockport is called a Stopfordian. It is the commonly used demonym for someone from Stockport, Greater Manchester.

On 4th June 1967, a British Midland Airways airplane, carrying 84 people, crashed into a green space and buildings near the junction of Hopes Carr and Waterloo Road in Stockport, Greater Manchester. The Canadair C-4 Argonaut plane, registered G-ALHG, left Palma de Mallorca airport at 5 am, bound for Manchester Airport. While attempting a second approach into Manchester, the aircraft crashed at 10:09 am local time, some 5 miles short of the airport. Investigators concluded both starboard engines lost power, causing control problems and difficulty in maintaining altitude. The first engine lost power due to fuel starvation from the inadvertent transfer of fuel between tanks in flight. The second engine lost power either for the same reason, or due to the pilot incorrectly identifying the problematic engine and shutting off its fuel supply in error. The aircraft caught fire after the crash and only 12 people survived, including the pilot, but there were no ground fatalities. A memorial nearby comprises two large boulders with plaques, one in memory of the passengers and crew who lost their lives, and the other dedicated those involved in the rescue efforts and who helped the injured.

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.

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 near the barrier where Isherwood Road turns into Birch Road. Sometimes players will stop for photographs and autographs, but to discourage profiteering, signs make it clear that merchandise will not be signed. Some players arrive through the second entrance off Sinderland Lane, but the club has prohibited any stopping there to avoid road safety issues.

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.

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 T1 Aer Lingus T1 Air Arabia Maroc T1 Air Canada T2 Air France T3 Air Malta T2 American Airlines T3 Aurigny T1 Austrian Airlines T1 Biman Bangladesh T2 British Airways T3 Brussels Airlines T2 Cathay Pacific T2 Delta T2 easyJet T1 El Al T1 Emirates T1 Ethiopian Airways T2 Etihad T1 Eurowings T2 Finnair T1 Flybe T3 Iberia T3 Icelandair T1 Jet2 T1 and T2 KLM T3 Loganair T3 Lufthansa T1 Norwegian T1 Oman Air T2 Pakistan International T2 Pegasus Airlines T1 Qatar Airways T2 Ryanair T3 SAS Scandinavian T1 Saudia T2 Singapore Airlines T1 SWISS T1 TAP Air Portugal T1 TUI T2 Turkish Airlines T1 United Airlines T2 Virgin Atlantic T2 Vueling T3

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

Joy Division lead singer died at his home on Barton Street in Macclesfield, Cheshire on 18th May 1980, aged 23 years old. Curtis committed suicide in the early hours of the morning by hanging himself using a washing line in the kitchen of the house. Joy Division had been due to leave the UK that day for the band’s tour of the United States.

The Piece Hall in Halifax, West Yorkshire, opened in 1779 as a cloth hall, where pieces of woollen fabric woven on handlooms would be traded by the area’s clothiers. The 19th-century industrial revolution brought automation and scale to the area’s weaving industry, and the fall in the number of small-scale producers precipitated a decline in the Piece Hall’s fortunes to such an extent that it was acquired by Halifax Corporation in 1868. It was operated as a wholesale market until 1971 before being renovated as a tourist attraction with shops, a museum and gallery. In 2014, it underwent a £17 million restoration project, reopening in 2017 as a leisure, arts and entertainment venue with independent shops, restaurants, bars, and cafes, a gallery, and live music facilities. The magnificent Grade I-listed building is recognised as an important example of Georgian architecture and the only surviving intact cloth hall in Britain.

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-detached 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

The nearest hotel to Cheshire Oaks Outlet Village is the Travelodge Cheshire Oaks situated on the Coliseum Leisure Park next to the retail park.

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 eye-catching limestone building with its 62 metre tower and spire is a landmark for traffic passing on the A55 road.

The longest seaside pier in Wales is Llandudno Pier, which has a total length of 2,295 feet (or 700 metres), of which the original main pier is 1,234 feet (or 376 metres). Located on the North Wales coast and stretching out into the Irish Sea, Llandudno Pier was constructed over two years from 1876 and later extended landwards to the Promenade.