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A manchester caver is trying to achieve the potholer's ultimate challenge by going deeper underground than anyone has been before.
I know nothing, but it could be that the marketing team behind the brochure for manchester from Casuarina would welcome some new ideas.
The shop sells clothes, toys, books, records and CDs, small furniture items, kitchenware and household items, manchester and plenty of bric-a-brac.
In the 19th century, Manchester featured in works highlighting the changes that industrialisation had brought to Britain.
Liverpool and Manchester grew into its largest cities, dominating global trade and the birth of modern industrial capitalism.
The county palatine boundaries remain the same including the appointment of lords lieutenant in Greater Manchester and Merseyside.
The towns of Manchester, Lancaster, Ribchester, Burrow, Elslack and Castleshaw grew around Roman forts.
The urbanised southern part largely became part of two metropolitan counties, Merseyside and Greater Manchester.
These include the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Lancaster Canal, Bridgewater Canal, Rochdale Canal, Ashton Canal and Manchester Ship Canal.
The Manchester Football Association and Liverpool County Football Association operate in Greater Manchester and Merseyside.
The Royal Manchester College of Music was founded in 1893 to provide a northern counterpart to the London musical colleges.
Ofsted distributes its functions amongst its offices in London, Manchester, Nottingham, and Bristol.
The nearest international airports to south Cumbria are Blackpool, Manchester and Liverpool John Lennon.
This desk is currently on display in the People's History Museum in Manchester.
Cobbett's sons were trained as solicitors and founded a law firm in Manchester, called Cobbetts in his honour.
Its headquarters complex is situated on the north side of Manchester city centre adjacent to the Manchester Victoria railway station.
On 31 January 1936, Orwell set out by public transport and on foot, reaching Manchester via Coventry, Stafford, the Potteries and Macclesfield.
There are copies in the British Library, Manchester University and America.
The Manchester Guardian's music critic, Neville Cardus, met Delius during the festival.
Fuller Maitland of The Times and Samuel Langford of The Manchester Guardian, were strong in their praise.
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As the mod subculture spread across the United Kingdom, other clubs became popular, including Twisted Wheel Club in Manchester.
In 2008 the Royal Opera House and Manchester City Council began planning stages a new development known as Royal Opera House, Manchester.
The role earned him a BAFTA, and the critic for The Manchester Guardian believed it was Sellers's best screen performance to date.
For her performance in the play, she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress by Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards.
Matt Busby resigned as manager in 1969 and was replaced by the reserve team coach, former Manchester United player Wilf McGuinness.
Only one important library in Britain, namely Chetham's Library in Manchester, was fully and freely accessible to the public.
Wembley Stadium hosted the UEFA Champions League Final on 28 May 2011 between FC Barcelona and Manchester United.
The FIFA collection is held by the National Football Museum at Urbis in Manchester, England.
This replica is held at the English National Football Museum in Manchester, where it is on display.
One of the balls from the final is now on display in the National Football Museum in Manchester.
The Football League was formally created and named in Manchester at a further meeting on 17 April at the Royal Hotel.
Ryan Giggs of Manchester United holds the record for scoring goals in consecutive seasons, having scored in the first 21 seasons of the league.
In 1968, under the management of Matt Busby, Manchester United became the first English football club to win the European Cup.
In August 2012, Manchester United made an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange.
The club holds several rivalries, most notably with Liverpool, Manchester City and Leeds United, and more recently with Arsenal.
The Manchester United away strip has often been a white shirt, black shorts and white socks, but there have been several exceptions.
Manchester United has the second highest average attendance of European football clubs only behind Borussia Dortmund.
Manchester United is one of the most popular football clubs in the world, with one of the highest average home attendance in Europe.
A 2014 study showed that Manchester United had the loudest fans in the Premier League.
Manchester United has rivalries with Arsenal, Leeds United, Liverpool, and Manchester City, against whom they contest the Manchester derby.
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In a 2008 poll conducted by the Football Fans Census, Chelsea fans named Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester United as their most disliked clubs.
However, a 2012 survey has shown that Chelsea fans consider Tottenham to be their main rival, above Arsenal and Manchester United.
This qualified them for the 2014 FA Community Shield where they would play Premier League champions Manchester City.
On the flight the flame was carried inside 4 miners lamps supplied by Protector Lamp of Eccles, Greater Manchester.
That year, England drew with New Zealand at Twickenham after being heavily defeated in Manchester the week before.
The RWCL then approached neighbouring Manchester City about leasing their home stadium as a replacement.
They defeated Manchester Rangers in the first match played at Knowsley Road.
Their support is also not restricted to the town, with bases in Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Northamptonshire, the South and North Wales.
In their first match at the new ground, St Helens beat Manchester Rangers, played under rugby football rules.
Hatton is a passionate supporter of Manchester City, with strong links to the club via his father and grandfather, who are both former players.
Hatton is also good friends with another footballer, Joey Barton, a former Manchester City player.
He was caught on camera apparently snorting class A drugs, lines of cocaine, in a Manchester hotel room.
The fight was at the Manchester Evening News Arena on Khan's Sky Box Office debut.
On 14 March 2009, at the MEN Arena in Manchester, England, Khan defeated Barrera, by a technical decision.
It was confirmed on 7 September 2010 that Haye would fight Audley Harrison on 13 November 2010 at the Manchester Arena.
The Games were considered a success for the host city, providing an event to display how Manchester has changed following the 1996 bombing.
The relay culminated in the arrival of the baton at the City of Manchester Stadium, opening the Games.
The Manchester Arena built in 1994, at the time was the largest arena in Europe and hosted netball and boxing.
Around 40,000 balloons were released into the rainy Manchester sky as the ceremony concluded with a spectacular fireworks display.
Sporting legacy included the City of Manchester Stadium which was turned over to Manchester City Football Club, to replace the ageing Maine Road.
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The Manchester Velodrome was built in 1994 in preparation for an Olympic bid, but subsequently hosted the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
Similar events were held in London, Bristol, Leeds, Cardiff, Manchester and Belfast on the day before the referendum.
One of the first footballing celebrities was former Manchester United and Northern Ireland footballer George Best.
National Express and Megabus provides direct services to major cities such as Swansea, London, Newcastle upon Tyne and Manchester.
At Manchester about 250 Episcopalians formed a regiment, and a number of other Englishmen had joined the Prince, mainly from rural Lancashire.
The Manchester Regiment was left behind to defend Carlisle and after a siege by Cumberland had to surrender, to face hanging or transportation.
They advanced through Carlisle and Manchester to Derby and a position where they appeared to threaten London.
Possibly the first such union was the General Union of Trades, also known as the Philanthropic Society, founded in 1818 in Manchester.
On Gorst's advice, Disraeli gave a speech to a mass meeting in Manchester that year.
The north west, a centre of the textile industries, was also hard hit, with places such as Manchester and Lancashire suffering a slump.
Previous winners from the UK are Liverpool, Manchester United, Nottingham Forest, Celtic, Chelsea and Aston Villa.
Steam ferries started in 1841, and in 1848 were purchased by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway.
Although marginally behind the UK average, Glasgow still has a higher employment rate than Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester.
Areas close to the border with Cheshire can have Scouse accents of English, and along the coast Manchester accents are common.
From here, it is also possible to see the mountains of the Peak District and South Pennines that surround Manchester.
Gibraltar maintains regular flight connections to London, Birmingham and Manchester.
Monarch Airlines operates a daily scheduled service between Gibraltar and Luton, London Gatwick Airport, Birmingham and Manchester.
The number of Lords Spiritual was further restricted by the Bishopric of Manchester Act 1847, and by later acts.
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway opened a year later making exclusive use of steam power for passenger and goods trains.
Phase 1 is from London to the West Midlands and phase 2 from the West Midlands to Leeds and Manchester.
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Phase 2b will extend the project from Crewe to Manchester, and the West Midlands to Leeds.
There is a northern route and a southern route in addition to the existing lines that go between Manchester and Liverpool.
The Manchester airport station is to be separately funded by the airport and the wider region.
Manchester Airport is the busiest airport outside the London region and offers more destinations than any other British airport.
The average journey from London Euston to Manchester Airport would be 59 minutes.
Three approaches were considered, one via the M62, one via the River Mersey and the other through south Manchester.
The timetable included the additional work of preparing the routes to Leeds and Manchester, for approval by Parliament in the hybrid bill.
The report concluded that there was no net carbon benefit in the foreseeable future taking only the route to Manchester.
Since the announcement of Phase 1 the government has had plans to create an overall 'Y shaped' line with termini in Manchester and Leeds.
It also suggests linking HS1a to HS3 to continue west to Manchester and Liverpool and northwards to Scotland from Leeds.
There are also high numbers in High Wycombe, Slough, Leicester, Derby, Manchester, Leeds and the mill towns of Northern England.
Harrison Birtwistle was born in Accrington, a mill town in Lancashire some 20 miles north of Manchester.
In 1952 he entered the Royal Manchester College of Music in Manchester on a clarinet scholarship.
Oasis played their first ever live gig on 18 August 1991 at the Boardwalk club in Manchester.
One month later, Adams gave birth to son Brooklyn, whose father was then Manchester United footballer David Beckham.
In 1905, he secured a place at the Manchester School of Art, where he studied under the French Impressionist, Pierre Adolphe Valette.
Taylor of the Manchester Guardian took an interest in his work and encouraged him to move away from the sombre palette he was using.
Although seen as a mostly solitary and private person, Lowry enjoyed attending football matches and was an ardent supporter of Manchester City.
The Firm itself was expanding, opening up a store in Manchester in 1883 and holding a stand at that year's Foreign Fair in Boston.
Pius X High School for Boys, and then at Xaverian College in Victoria Park, Manchester.
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Numerous BBC facilities have been sold off, including New Broadcasting House on Oxford Road in Manchester.
He became friends with Oliver Cromwell, who was second in command, supporting him in his disputes with Manchester.
Marx used the trip as an opportunity to examine the economic resources available for study in various libraries in London and Manchester.
The associations of the four Home Nations met in Manchester on 6 December 1882 to set down a set of worldwide rules.
Sir Richard Assheton raised one such company from Middleton, near Manchester.
Conservative leader and former Prime Minister, Arthur Balfour, lost his seat, Manchester East, on a swing of over 20 percent.
All parties suspended campaigning for a time in the wake of the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing on 22 May.
The 2017 Manchester Arena bombing led to interviews with Nuttall, Farron, Sturgeon and Corbyn to be rescheduled.
The View toured in early March 2010, visiting Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester and Edinburgh.
The locations included Nottingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham and London.
McNeill moved on to manage Manchester City, stating that to remain at Celtic would have been humiliating.
In 2008, up to 200,000 Rangers supporters, many without match tickets, travelled to Manchester for the UEFA Cup Final.
Notable examples were Birmingham New Street, Manchester Piccadilly, Stafford, Coventry and London Euston.
Signal control will move to the Manchester Rail Operating Centre removing five local signal boxes.
The North Wales Coast Line between Crewe and Holyhead and the line between Manchester and Preston are not electrified.
It is the southern terminus of the West Coast Main Line to Liverpool Lime Street, Manchester Piccadilly, Edinburgh Waverley and Glasgow Central.
Scott of the Manchester Guardian that Britain would keep out of the impending war.
The coming of the railways later aided artists from Liverpool and Manchester in transporting their art materials to Wales.
Intercity services call at Ruabon railway station en route to destinations including Cardiff, Birmingham, Chester, Manchester and Holyhead.
Roy Paul, also from Ton Pentre, led Manchester City to two successive FA Cup finals in 1955 and 1956 and gained 33 Welsh caps.
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The recruits were to be drawn from Wales as well as Monmouthshire and from Welshmen living in Liverpool, London and Manchester.
The Liberal candidate in Manchester East had been helped by a pact with the local Labour Party.
It is the terminus, and from here, trains depart every two hours to Manchester Piccadilly via Carmarthen, Swansea, and Cardiff Central.
Once an elegant Victorian resort, there was an influx from Liverpool and Manchester after the Second World War that changed the face of the town.
The city is a hub for major roads, including the M53 motorway towards the Wirral Peninsula and Liverpool and the M56 motorway towards Manchester.
In October 2016, a new regular bus service began from Chester to Manchester Airport.
From December 2017, there will also be an hourly train to Leeds stopping at Warrington Bank Quay, Manchester and Bradford Interchange.
Arriva Trains Wales operate services to West Wales, Holyhead, Crewe and Manchester, as well as the South Wales Valley Lines.
Typically, there is an hourly service from Manchester Piccadilly to Cardiff Central, Carmarthen, Milford Haven, calling at principal stations.
There is a rivalry between Cork and Dublin, similar to the rivalry between Manchester and London, Melbourne and Sydney or Barcelona and Madrid.
He was also well known as a regular book reviewer for the Manchester Guardian newspaper.
They defeated Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City, the eventual champions, at home during the season.
Despite a revenge victory over Newcastle United, defeats to Birmingham City, Luton Town and Manchester City sealed their fate.
The record attendance at the ground was set in 1957, when Wrexham hosted a match against Manchester United in front of 36,445 spectators.
Exiled supporters clubs can be found in South Wales, Manchester and London.
Surprisingly, this was the first time he had scored against Manchester United.
His long association with the Reds ended with a substitute appearance in the 1996 FA Cup Final against Manchester United.
He made his professional debut for the club in 1991 and spent the next 23 years in the Manchester United first team.
After moving to Salford, Giggs appeared for the local team, Deans FC, who were coached by Manchester City scout Dennis Schofield.
Schofield recommended Giggs to Manchester City, and he was signed up to their School of Excellence.
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On 31 December 2009, Giggs was named the Manchester United Player of the Decade.
On 6 March 2011, Giggs surpassed the Manchester United league appearance record of Bobby Charlton by playing his 607th game against Liverpool.
He later clarified his position to BBC Radio Manchester, saying that he would only return to Wales duty in an emergency.
They have two children, both born in Salford and live in Worsley, Greater Manchester, close to where the player grew up.
Growing up, his football hero was fellow Welshman and Manchester United player Ryan Giggs.
He made his competitive debut for Tottenham Hotspur on 26 August away against Manchester United.
On his return from injury, Bale scored a goal and assisted Clint Dempsey as Tottenham beat Manchester City at White Hart Lane.
Arena in Manchester, on the undercard of the Amir Khan vs Marco Antonio Barrera bout.
In 1997 the band performed a special gig at the Manchester Arena for more than 20,000 people.
Llandudno services run every hour to Manchester Piccadilly via Chester and Warrington Bank Quay.
There is also one service per day from Fishguard Harbour to Manchester Piccadilly, but not in the other direction.
The nearest passenger airports are Liverpool John Lennon Airport and Manchester Airport.
Six's headquarters were to be in London, with regional task forces in Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Edinburgh.
Bristol was surpassed by the rapid rise of Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool in the Industrial Revolution.
Arsenal have lost just one of 20 home Premier League matches against Manchester City.
The BT UK service uses a combination of private peerings and bilateral peerings at the UK exchange points in London, Manchester and Edinburgh.
Other clubs include Real Madrid, Manchester United, River Plate, Milan and Juventus.
David inherited his parents' love of Manchester United, and his main sporting passion was football.
The breakthrough came through Torres who, pilloried for his miss against Manchester United a week earlier, scored his second goal of the season.
Substitute Charlie Austin scored seven minutes into his Southampton debut as a lacklustre Manchester United were booed off at Old Trafford.
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However, that same season, Manchester United won the FA Cup for a 12th time.
I've left my key in my office in Manchester, my family are at Bournemouth, and the old woman who does for me goes home at nine o'clock.
Manchester United needed to draw on all their resources as they came from behind to beat Southampton and progress to the last 16 of the FA Cup.
Manchester City crashed out of Europe on Tuesday as Borussia Dortmund ended their hopes of qualifying for the Europa League.
Hargreaves, who left Manchester United on a free during the summer, drilled a 22-yard beauty to open the scoring.
Other large airports include Manchester Airport, London Stansted Airport, Luton Airport and Birmingham Airport.
Other major urban areas in the United Kingdom include the regions of Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester.
Manchester acquired the nickname Cottonopolis during the early 19th century owing to its sprawl of textile factories.
A mix of rural and urban landscape, two large conurbations, centred on Liverpool and Manchester, occupy much of the south of the region.
North West England is a very diverse region, with Manchester and Liverpool amongst the most diverse cities in Europe.
Manchester, Liverpool, Lancaster, Blackburn and Preston are among the region's many English place names.
In some studies, part of Wigan in Greater Manchester is considered part of the Liverpool metropolitan area.
John Dalton, from Cumbria and moved to Manchester, developed atomic theory.
Graphene was discovered at the University of Manchester in 2004 under Prof Sir Andre Geim and Sir Konstantin Novoselov.
John Gilbert had the innovative idea to use water pumped out of his coal mines to fill a canal from the Duke's Worsley mines to Manchester.
The first commercially available computer, the Ferranti Mark 1, was made in Manchester and sold in February 1951 to the University of Manchester.
The University of Manchester has collected 25 Nobel prizes, though recent years have been less notable.
The first Trades Union Congress was held in 1868 at the Mechanics' Institute, Manchester.
Ann Lee from Manchester started the USA Shakers movement, founded out of the Quakers, which itself has strong links to Pendle Hill in Lancashire.
It connects such towns and cities as Penrith, Kendal, Lancaster, Preston, Warrington, Liverpool and Manchester.
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The Greater Manchester and Merseyside areas are home to almost 4 million people, and over half the region's population.
Other important lines are the Liverpool to Manchester Lines and the North TransPennine which connects Liverpool to Manchester through Warrington.
Eagle Ottawa makes leather upholstery for cars off the A50 at Westy Park in east Warrington next to the Manchester Ship Canal.
In Greater Manchester, Manchester performs the worst, closely followed by Salford.
Bobby joined Manchester United and Jackie Leeds United both contributing much to the success and history of their respective clubs.
Local services along these and most other local routes in the North East are provided by Northern, based in Manchester.
The M62 motorway crosses the county from east to west from Hull towards Greater Manchester and Merseyside.
Under cover of a hooroosh by the Manchester, the Gurkhas have rushed a bluff 600 yards ahead of our line and are sticking to their winnings.
Perhaps the most dispiriting part for Manchester City came from that unmistakable feeling that, if anything, the gulf has widened.
This sentiment brought with it people such as the Earl of Manchester and Oliver Cromwell, each a notable wartime adversary of the King.
This forced members of the House of Commons and the Lords, such as Manchester, to choose between civil office and military command.
In 1875 a statue of Cromwell by Matthew Noble was erected in Manchester outside the cathedral, a gift to the city by Mrs.
The Bridgewater Canal connects Runcorn, Manchester and Leigh, in North West England.
It was commissioned by Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, to transport coal from his mines in Worsley to Manchester.
It was opened in 1761 from Worsley to Manchester, and later extended from Manchester to Runcorn, and then from Worsley to Leigh.
It later faced intense competition from the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and the Macclesfield Canal.
From there it continued southeast along the edge of Trafford Park, and then east into Manchester.
The connection to Manchester was delayed by Sir Richard Brooke of Norton Priory.
The new extension enabled the supply to Manchester of coal from Leigh and the surrounding districts.
Access to the canal brought about a rapid development in coal mining on the Manchester Coalfield west of Worsley.
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This was spent mainly on a second line of locks at Runcorn, which were completed in 1828, plus new warehouses at Manchester and Liverpool.
Further competition came with the opening of the Macclesfield Canal in 1831 which gave separate access to Manchester from the Midlands.
This led to a price war between the two canal companies and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, who had previously cooperated on rates.
In 1851 the Earl of Ellesmere hosted a visit to Manchester by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
In 1994 the Manchester Ship Canal Company became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Peel Holdings group.
In 2004 ownership of the Manchester Ship Canal Company was transferred to the Peel Ports group.
The Hulme Locks Branch Canal in Manchester is now disused, and on 26 May 1995 was replaced by the nearby Pomona Lock.
The 19th century saw some major new canals such as the Caledonian Canal and the Manchester Ship Canal.
Manchester had a canal connection to the nearby port of Liverpool via the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
The Rochdale and Huddersfield Broad and Narrow canals connected to Manchester.
In 2012, plans were approved to introduce a water taxi service between Manchester city centre and MediaCityUK at Salford Quays.
Around the 14th century, Manchester received an influx of Flemish weavers, sometimes credited as the foundation of the region's textile industry.
During the English Civil War Manchester strongly favoured the Parliamentary interest.
The Irwell and Mersey were made navigable by 1736, opening a route from Manchester to the sea docks on the Mersey.
The Bridgewater Canal, Britain's first wholly artificial waterway, was opened in 1761, bringing coal from mines at Worsley to central Manchester.
Manchester became the dominant marketplace for textiles produced in the surrounding towns.
In the early 1800s, John Dalton formulated his atomic theory in Manchester.
The industrial revolution brought about huge change in Manchester and was key to the increase in Manchester's population.
Manchester was an important cradle of the Labour Party and the Suffragette Movement.
Cotton processing in other parts of the world increased, often on machines produced in Manchester.
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Like most of the UK, the Manchester area was mobilised extensively during the Second World War.
Manchester and Birmingham have traditionally competed as frontrunners for this unofficial title.
The earlier Greater Manchester County Council was abolished in 1986 so it is effectively a unitary authority.
From a very early time, the township of Manchester lay within the historic or ceremonial county boundaries of Lancashire.
It was this separation that resulted in Salford becoming the judicial seat of Salfordshire, which included the ancient parish of Manchester.
Manchester regained its borough status in 1838, and comprised the townships of Beswick, Cheetham Hill, Chorlton upon Medlock and Hulme.
In 1885, Bradford, Harpurhey, Rusholme and parts of Moss Side and Withington townships became part of the City of Manchester.
That year, Ringway, the town where the Manchester Airport is located, was added to the City.
In November 2014 it was announced that Greater Manchester would receive a new directly elected Mayor.
Manchester is contiguous on all sides with several large settlements, except for a small section along its southern boundary with Cheshire.
The M60 and M56 motorways pass through the south of Manchester, through Northenden and Wythenshawe respectively.
Heavy rail lines enter the city from all directions, the principal destination being Manchester Piccadilly station.
Manchester experiences a temperate Oceanic climate, like much of the British Isles, with mild summers and cool winters.
In addition to Manchester itself, the LUZ includes the remainder of the county of Greater Manchester.
The Manchester LUZ is the second largest within the United Kingdom, behind that of London.
Manchester is a city of contrast, where some of the country's most deprived and most affluent neighbourhoods can be found.
According to the 2010 Indices of Multiple Deprivation Manchester is the 4th most deprived local council in the England.
In 2013 Manchester was ranked 6th in the UK for quality of life, according to a rating of the UK's 12 largest cities.
Women fare better in Manchester than the rest of the country in terms of equal pay to men.
Stagecoach Manchester is the Stagecoach Group's largest subsidiary and operates around 690 buses.
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Manchester, Northern England and North Wales are served by Manchester Airport.
Although from southern England, The Chemical Brothers subsequently formed in Manchester.
Another notable contemporary band from Manchester is The Courteeners consisting of Liam Fray and four close friends.
Other major venues include the Manchester Apollo, Albert Hall and the Manchester Academy.
The Manchester Museum opened to the public in the 1880s, has notable Egyptology and natural history collections.
Also closely associated with the city is Victorian poet and novelist Isabella Banks, most famed for her 1876 novel The Manchester Man.
In 1988, Manchester was often referred to as Madchester for its rave scene.
The University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University and Royal Northern College of Music.
One of Manchester's most notable secondary schools is the Manchester Grammar School.
The Manchester Velodrome was built as a part of the bid for the 2000 games and has become a catalyst for British success in cycling.
Manchester Cricket Club evolved into Lancashire County Cricket Club and play at Old Trafford Cricket Ground.
Recent sporting events hosted by Manchester include the 2013 Ashes series, 2013 Rugby League World Cup and the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
The Cutting It series set in the city's Northern Quarter and The Street were set in Manchester as was Life on Mars.
Manchester was the regional base for BBC One North West Region programmes before it relocated to MediaCityUK in nearby Salford Quays.
Student radio stations include Fuse FM at the University of Manchester and MMU Radio at the Manchester Metropolitan University.
Its sister publication, the Manchester Evening News, has the largest circulation of a UK regional evening newspaper.
In addition, the British Council maintains a metropolitan centre in Manchester.
Manchester is home to the largest group of consuls in the UK outside London.
During this time, Wellesley was greeted by a hostile reaction from the crowds at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
Following his deselection in the seat of Oldham, Churchill was invited to stand for Manchester North West.
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It has not done well in London and in university towns and urban areas with younger populations like Oxford, Cambridge, Manchester, and Brighton.
There are day and night direct rail connections from the region to Manchester Airport.
CrossCountry operates services to Manchester Piccadilly and the Scottish Lowlands.
The metropolitan counties are Greater Manchester, Merseyside, South Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear, West Midlands and West Yorkshire.
In 1830, Liverpool and Manchester became the first cities to have an intercity rail link, through the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
Liverpool and Manchester are sometimes considered as one large polynuclear metropolitan area, or megalopolis.
A 2011 TripAdvisor poll voted Liverpool as having the best nightlife of any UK city, ahead of Manchester, Leeds and even London.
The modern accepted start of the Mersey is at the confluence of the Tame and Goyt, in central Stockport, Greater Manchester.
The Manchester Ship Canal passes through the gap to the south of the river.
East of Warrington, the M6 motorway crosses the river and the Manchester Ship Canal on the Thelwall Viaduct.
Marple Bridge was transferred to the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport in Greater Manchester.
It is mostly in northern Derbyshire, but also includes parts of Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Staffordshire and Yorkshire.
In 2008, an original panoramic photograph of the entire machine was discovered at the University of Manchester.
There are large Chinatowns in Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle, and communities from the Indian subcontinent in all major towns.
Today, Greater Manchester has the only eruv in the United Kingdom outside London.
A visit by Queen Victoria in 1851 prompted Manchester to petition Parliament for recognition of its status.
The next diocese formed was Manchester and its Borough Council began informally to use the title city.
When Queen Victoria visited Manchester in 1851, widespread doubts surrounding its status were raised.
Two other cities in particular showed great business development, Liverpool and Manchester.
Consequently, in 1836 both the Manchester and Liverpool Stock Exchanges were opened.
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The museum closed in 2011 in preparation for its move to Manchester due to funding issues.
The city is on National Express' London to Manchester and Yorkshire to the South West routes.
Joseph John Thomson was born 18 December 1856 in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, Lancashire, England.
In 1895, his parents moved to Manchester, leaving him in the care of his maternal grandparents.
Instead he attended the Central Grammar School for Boys in Manchester, rejoining his parents there.
In 1948 Turing was appointed Reader in the Mathematics Department at the Victoria University of Manchester.
Turing has been honoured in various ways in Manchester, the city where he worked towards the end of his life.
The dismissal of a player who left Arsenal for Manchester City before joining Tottenham gave the home players and fans a noticeable lift.
Operating agreements with other companies also allowed GWR trains to run to Manchester.
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway was the first public transport system on land which did not use animal traction power.
It was established by Henry Booth, who became its secretary and treasurer, along with other merchants from Liverpool and Manchester.
The Manchester station was thus fixed at Liverpool Road in the heart of Castlefield.
On 30 July 1842 work started to extend the line from Ordsall Lane to the new Manchester Victoria station.
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway was the first railway to have a system of signalling.
Northern Rail also operates an hourly service calling at all stations from Liverpool Lime Street to Manchester Victoria.
After this project is completed, it will no longer be possible to run trains into or out of Manchester Liverpool Road station.
There is a statue of James Watt in Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester and City Square, Leeds.
After numerous advances, these machines were sold by the Stott Fertilizer and Insecticide Company of Manchester and Sumner.
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway opened in 1830 making exclusive use of steam power for both passenger and freight trains.
It also passes through the Manchester Metropolitan University, just South of the John Dalton building, and north of the Union building.

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