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Landmark Attractions In Manchester

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Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 545,500 as of 2017. It lies within the United Kingdom's third-most populous metropolitan area, with a population of 3.2 million. Manchester is fringed by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and an arc of towns with which it forms a continuous conurbation. The local authority is Manchester City Council. The recorded history of Manchester began with the civilian settlement associated with the Roman fort of Mamucium or Mancunium, which was established in about AD 79 on a sandstone bluff near the confluence of the rivers Medlo...
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  • 1. Manchester Central Library Manchester
    Manchester Central Library is the headquarters of the city's library and information service in Manchester, England. Facing St Peter's Square, it was designed by E. Vincent Harris and constructed between 1930 and 1934. The form of the building, a columned portico attached to a rotunda domed structure, is loosely derived from the Pantheon, Rome. At its opening, one critic wrote, This is the sort of thing which persuades one to believe in the perennial applicability of the Classical canon.The library building is grade II* listed. A four-year project to renovate and refurbish the library commenced in 2010. Central Library re-opened on 22 March 2014.
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  • 2. Albert Square Manchester
    Albert Square is a public square in the centre of Manchester, England. It is dominated by its largest building, the Grade I listed Manchester Town Hall, a Victorian Gothic building by Alfred Waterhouse. Other smaller buildings from the same period surround it, many of which are listed . The square contains a number of monuments and statues, the largest of which is the Albert Memorial, a monument to Prince Albert, Prince consort of Queen Victoria. The square, named after the Prince, was laid out to provide a space for the memorial in 1863–67. Work on the town hall began in 1868 and was completed in 1877.
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  • 4. Elizabeth Gaskell's House Manchester
    84 Plymouth Grove, now known as Elizabeth Gaskell's House, is a writer's house museum in Manchester. The Grade II* listed neoclassical villa was the residence of William and Elizabeth Gaskell from 1850 till their deaths in 1884 and 1865 respectively. The Gaskell household continued to occupy the villa after the deaths of Elizabeth and William. The death of Elizabeth Gaskell's daughter, Margaret Emily Meta Gaskell, in 1913, brought to an end the Gaskells' residence there. The house's architecture style is unusual in Manchester. The house itself was granted listed building status in 1952, partly due to its association with the Gaskells. This granted it protection from demolition, however, 84 Plymouth Grove slowly descended into a state of disrepair due to neglect. The Manchester Historic Bui...
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  • 5. Manchester Piccadilly Station Manchester
    Manchester Piccadilly is the principal railway station in Manchester, England. Opened as Store Street in 1842, it was renamed Manchester London Road in 1847 and Manchester Piccadilly in 1960. Located to the south-eastern side of Manchester city centre, it hosts long-distance intercity and cross-country services to national destinations including London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Bristol and Southampton; regional services to destinations in Northern England including Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Newcastle and York; and local commuter services around Greater Manchester. It is one of 19 major stations managed by national railway infrastructure company Network Rail. The station was built by the Manchester and Birmingham Railway company, having been designed by their chief engine...
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  • 7. Corn Exchange Manchester
    A corn exchange is a building where merchants traded corns. Such trade was common in towns and cities across England until the 19th century, but as the trade became centralised in the 20th century many such buildings were used for other purposes. Several have since become historical landmarks. For the history of corn exchanges, see: Corn Exchanges in England grain trade Commodity market and Commodities exchange
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  • 8. The Hive Manchester
    As of August 2018 there are 74 habitable buildings in the United Kingdom at least 100 metres tall, 60 of them in London, six in Manchester, two in Birmingham, two in Leeds and one each in Brighton and Hove, Liverpool, Portsmouth, Sheffield and Swansea . The Shard in Southwark, London, is currently the tallest completed building in both the UK and the European Union; it was topped out at a height of 310 metres in March 2012, inaugurated in July 2012 and opened to the public in February 2013. The UK has not been noted historically for its abundance of skyscrapers, with the taller structures throughout the country tending to be cathedrals, church spires and industrial chimneys. Despite this, since the mid-20th century the number of high-rise apartment buildings and office blocks in most large...
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