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Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum

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Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum
Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum
Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum
Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum
Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum
Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum
Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum
Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum
Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum
Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum
Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum
Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum
Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum
Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum
Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum
Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum
Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum
Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum
Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum
Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum
Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum
Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum
Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum
Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum
Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum
Phone:
+44 1706 341219

Hours:
SundayClosed
MondayClosed
TuesdayClosed
WednesdayClosed
ThursdayClosed
Friday10am - 4pm
SaturdayClosed


Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2,798,800. It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, and the cities of Manchester and Salford. Greater Manchester was created on 1 April 1974 as a result of the Local Government Act 1972; and designated a city region on 1 April 2011. Greater Manchester spans 493 square miles , which roughly covers the territory of the Greater Manchester Built-up Area, the second most populous urban area in the UK. It is landlocked and borders Cheshire , Derbyshire , West Yorkshire , Lancashire and Merseyside . There is a mix of high-density urban areas, suburbs, semi-rural and rural locations in Greater Manchester, but land use is mostly urban—the product of concentric urbanisation and industrialisation which occurred mostly during the 19th century when the region flourished as the global centre of the cotton industry. It has a focused central business district, formed by Manchester city centre and the adjoining parts of Salford and Trafford, but Greater Manchester is also a polycentric county with ten metropolitan districts, each of which has at least one major town centre and outlying suburbs. Greater Manchester is governed by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority , which consists of the leaders of the ten metropolitan borough councils, plus a directly elected mayor, with responsibility for economic development, regeneration and transport. Andy Burnham is the inaugural Mayor of Greater Manchester, having been elected in 2017. Prior to the establishment of the combined authority in 2011, the county had various governance arrangements. For the 12 years following 1974 the county had a two-tier system of local government; district councils shared power with the Greater Manchester County Council. The county council was abolished in 1986, and so its districts effectively became unitary authority areas. However, the metropolitan county continued to exist in law and as a geographic frame of reference, and as a ceremonial county, with a Lord Lieutenant and a High Sheriff. Several county-wide services were co-ordinated through the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities until the formation of the GMCA in April 2011. Before the creation of the metropolitan county, the name SELNEC was used for the area, from the initials of South East Lancashire North East Cheshire. Greater Manchester is an amalgamation of 70 former local government districts from the former administrative counties of Lancashire, Cheshire, the West Riding of Yorkshire and eight independent county boroughs. Since deindustrialisation in the mid-20th century, Greater Manchester has become known as an exporter of media and digital content, for its guitar and dance music and football clubs.
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