The Full Collection
Table of Contents
Every legend, landmark, moment, melody, memory and borough in one place.
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Legend
→Alan TuringCodebreaker, father of computing, and the man Manchester failed
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Legend
→Beatrice ShillingThe engineer who fixed the Spitfire's engine and saved lives in the Battle of Britain
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Legend
→Benedict WongSalford actor, from Kick-Ass to Wong in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
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Legend
→Anthony BurgessHarpurhey. Author of A Clockwork Orange. Novelist, composer, linguist
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Legend
→BuzzcocksBolton. Organised the gig that started Manchester punk. Invented indie. Wrote the love songs
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Legend
→Brian CoxOldham lad, particle physicist, and the most famous scientist on television
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Legend
→Christopher EcclestonSalford. The first Doctor to sound northern. Refused to hide his accent
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Legend
→ElbowBury. Mercury Prize. BBC Olympic anthem. Greater Manchester's unofficial national song
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Legend
→Emmeline PankhurstFounder of the suffragette movement, born in Moss Side
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Legend
→Ernest RutherfordThe man who split the atom, working at the University of Manchester
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Legend
→Geim & NovoselovThe Manchester scientists who isolated graphene with Scotch tape and won the Nobel Prize
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Legend
→Henry MoseleyThe physicist who defined atomic number and was killed at Gallipoli aged 27
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Legend
→Holliday GraingerDidsbury actress, from Strike to The Borgias
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Legend
→James Prescott JouleThe Salford brewer who discovered the mechanical equivalent of heat
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Legend
→J.J. ThomsonBorn in Cheetham Hill. Discovered the electron. Nobel Prize
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Legend
→John DaltonThe chemist who gave us atomic theory, and spent most of his life in Manchester
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Legend
→Lisa StansfieldRochdale's voice. All around the world and proudly Lancashire
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Legend
→L.S. LowryThe man who painted the soul of industrial Salford
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Legend
→Michelle KeeganStockport. Coronation Street to Netflix. Nation's sweetheart
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Legend
→Rolls & RoyceThey met at the Midland Hotel. The rest is engineering history
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Legend
→Roy ChadwickDesigned the Lancaster bomber that changed the course of the war
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Legend
→Sarah LancashireUrmston. Happy Valley swept everything. Unmistakably northern
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Legend
→Sir Ben KingsleyRaised in Pendlebury. Manchester Grammar, De La Salle Salford, and an Oscar
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Legend
→Sir Ian McKellenRaised in Wigan. Gandalf, Magneto, and a tireless advocate for equality
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Legend
→Tony WilsonFactory Records. The Hacienda. Mr Manchester
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Legend
→Karl PilkingtonSale. Round head, flat voice, reluctant world traveller. The funniest man on television
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Legend
→Keely HodgkinsonAtherton. Olympic 800m champion. The fastest British woman ever over two laps, and she's only 24
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Legend
→Suranne JonesChadderton. Karen McDonald. Doctor Foster. Gentleman Jack. Commanding every screen she's on
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Landmark
→AfflecksThe Northern Quarter's indoor market and counter-culture institution since 1982
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Landmark
→MulligansSouthgate, off Deansgate. Live music every night, the best Guinness outside Ireland
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Landmark
→Mr Thomas's Chop HouseCross Street. Green-tiled arches, cast iron frame, corned beef hash. Feeding Manchester since 1867
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Landmark
→The Britons ProtectionNapoleonic recruiting legend. Peterloo witness. Hundreds of whiskies. The BP
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Landmark
→Castlefield ViaductThe Victorian railway viaduct turned elevated public park
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Landmark
→Chetham's LibraryThe oldest free public library in the English-speaking world, where Marx and Engels wrote
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Landmark
→ChinatownOne of the largest Chinese communities outside London, centred on the Imperial Arch
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Landmark
→FC United of ManchesterFans so angry about billionaires buying their club, they built their own from scratch
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Landmark
→Hanging BridgeThe medieval bridge beneath Manchester Cathedral, still intact underground
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Landmark
→The Hidden GemSt Mary's on Mulberry Street, Manchester's hidden gem Catholic church since 1794
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Landmark
→Church of the Holy NameThe Victorian Gothic church on Oxford Road, one of Manchester's grandest
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Landmark
→Imperial War Museum NorthDaniel Libeskind's fractured building on the Quays
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Landmark
→The John Rylands LibraryThe neo-Gothic library on Deansgate, built as a memorial to a cotton magnate
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Landmark
→Lincoln SquareThe Cotton Famine story: Lancashire workers starved to support abolition
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Landmark
→Manchester Art GalleryFrom Victorian oil paintings to the Pre-Raphaelites, in the heart of the city
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Landmark
→Manchester CityFrom Maine Road to the Etihad. From relegation to the treble. The noisy neighbours won
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Landmark
→Manchester MuseumThe University of Manchester's collection of natural history, Egyptology and ancient worlds
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Landmark
→Manchester UnitedThe Busby Babes, Munich, the Treble. From Newton Heath to the biggest club in the world
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Landmark
→The Marble Arch InnThe Edwardian pub on Rochdale Road with its original mosaic floor and marble bar
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Landmark
→Museum of Science & IndustryThe railway station turned museum of Manchester's industrial and scientific legacy
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Landmark
→National Football MuseumEngland's national collection of football history, in the Urbis building
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Landmark
→The Northern QuarterManchester's creative quarter: indie shops, music venues, street art and cafe culture
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Landmark
→The Old WellingtonManchester's oldest surviving building, moved brick by brick to save it from demolition
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Landmark
→Peveril of the PeakThe wedge-shaped Victorian pub on Great Bridgewater Street, a Manchester institution
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Landmark
→The Picc-Vic TunnelsManchester's abandoned underground railway, partially built in the 1970s, never completed
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→Piccadilly StationManchester's main railway terminus, and the gateway that shaped the city's east side
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Landmark
→The Royal ExchangeThe world's largest trading room, now a theatre with a UFO-shaped auditorium inside it
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Landmark
→Sinclair's Oyster BarOne of Manchester's oldest pubs, moved alongside the Wellington to make way for the Arndale
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Landmark
→Stockport Air Raid SheltersNearly a mile of WWII tunnels carved into the sandstone beneath Stockport town centre
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Landmark
→Manchester Tennis & Racquet ClubThe oldest tennis club in the world, founded in Manchester in 1880
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Landmark
→Manchester Town HallAlfred Waterhouse's Gothic masterpiece, one of the finest Victorian buildings in England
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Landmark
→Victoria ArchesThe Victorian brick arches beneath Manchester's streets, recently opened to the public
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Landmark
→Victoria BathsThe Edwardian "water palace" in Chorlton-on-Medlock, rescued after years of dereliction
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Landmark
→Victoria StationThe station beneath the Arena, rebuilt after the bombing
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Landmark
→The Giant VimtoThe 12-foot wooden sculpture on Granby Row marking the birthplace of Manchester's famous soft drink
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Moment
→The Manchester Arena BombingThe 2017 attack that killed 22 people at the Ariana Grande concert
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Moment
→The IRA BombThe 1996 bomb that devastated the city centre and triggered Manchester's reinvention
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Moment
→The Peterloo MassacreThe 1819 cavalry charge on 60,000 peaceful protesters that changed British politics forever
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Moment
→The Manchester RiotsThe 2011 riots that swept through Salford and Manchester over three nights
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Moment
→The Birth of the NHSTrafford General Hospital, where Aneurin Bevan launched free healthcare for all on 5 July 1948
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Moment
→The Woolworths FireThe 1979 fire that killed 10 people and changed UK furniture fire-safety law forever
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Memory
→Growing Up in ManchesterKennet House, Cheetham Hill. Council flats, Star Wars in early '78, and walking into town in twenty minutes
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Music
→Bee GeesBorn on the Isle of Man, raised in Chorlton. Started as The Rattlesnakes
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Music
→Happy MondaysShaun Ryder and the Madchester crew who soundtracked the acid house explosion
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Music
→Inspiral CarpetsOldham's finest. Their roadie went on to do alright for himself
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Music
→Joy Division / New OrderFrom Salford tragedy to global electronic pioneers. Two bands, one story
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Music
→OasisBurnage council estate to the biggest band in the world. Definitely maybe
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Music
→Simply RedMick Hucknall, raised in Denton. From punk in The Frantic Elevators to 50 million records sold
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Music
→The Stone RosesSpike Island, the Hacienda, and the moment Madchester peaked
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Music
→Take ThatManufactured on Canal Street. Split on 13 February 1996. A date etched into memory
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Music
→The SmithsMorrissey and Marr. The soundtrack to miserable northern adolescence
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Music
→The VerveRichard Ashcroft and the Wigan band who wrote Bitter Sweet Symphony
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Exploring
→The Half Mile That Changed the WorldSeven stops through 200 years of world-changing moments, all within half a mile
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Exploring
→The Music TrailFrom the Lesser Free Trade Hall to Band on the Wall, via the Hacienda and Afflecks
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Borough
→BoltonSamuel Crompton's spinning mule. Fred Dibnah. Peter Kay
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Borough
→BuryBury Market. The East Lancashire Railway. Elbow. Black pudding capital of the north
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Borough
→ManchesterThe one in the middle. Where Peterloo happened, where punk was born, where the atom was split
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Borough
→OldhamOnce the cotton-spinning capital of the world. More spindles than any other town on earth
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Borough
→RochdaleThe birthplace of the cooperative movement. Lisa Stansfield's hometown
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Borough
→SalfordLowry's city. The docks that became MediaCityUK. The most misunderstood borough in Greater Manchester
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Borough
→StockportThe viaduct. The hat museum. The air raid shelters carved into sandstone
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Borough
→TamesideNine towns, one borough, and more textile history than anywhere in England
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Borough
→TraffordOld Trafford. The Lowry theatre. The Imperial War Museum North
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Borough
→WiganThe Pier. Rugby league heartland. Ian McKellen's hometown. More to it than the jokes suggest
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