History of Manchester

The history of Manchester encompasses its change from a minor Lancastrian township into the pre-eminent industrial metropolis of the United Kingdom and the world. Manchester began expanding "at an astonishing rate" around the turn of the 19th century as part of a process of unplanned urbanisation brought on by a boom in textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution. The transformation took little more than a century.
Having evolved from a Roman castrum in Celtic Britain, in the Victorian era Manchester was a major locus of the Industrial Revolution, and was the site of one of the world's first passenger railway stations as well as many scientific achievements of great importance. Manchester also led the political and economic reform of 19th century Britain as the vanguard of free trade. The mid-20th century saw a decline in Manchester's industrial importance, prompting a depression in social and economic conditions. Subsequent investment, gentrification and rebranding from the 1990s onwards changed its fortunes and reinvigorated Manchester as a post-industrial city with multiple sporting, broadcasting and educational institutions.
Manchester has been on a provisional list for UNESCO World Heritage City on numerous occasions. However, since the 1996 bombing, local authorities have persisted on a course of economic evolution rather than prioritising the past. This economic evolution is perhaps best illustrated with the 558 foot Beetham Tower which instantly "torpedoed" any possibility of World Heritage City status according to one author. Despite this, areas perceived as internationally important in the Industrial Revolution, such as Castlefield and Ancoats, have been sympathetically redeveloped.

[@WDI2008]

Manchester also bid to host the 1996 and 200 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. And also successfully hosted the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

[@sirtarquin928]

Manchester City started life at my old school St Marks C of E
Long before the 1950s when I was there. lol

[@TheLucreziia]

Interesting although your American pronunciation of many of the areas of Manchester is quite amusing to this Mancunian. 🙂

[@sirtarquin928]

I forgive him. I was born in Ardwick, moved to west Gorton, then to Droylsden.
I have lived in Ashton under lyne for over 35 years.

[@DeKat-84]

It's not read by a human. It's a computer program reading pre-written text.

[@LottaNoise]

An American teaching us our own history? 😂

[@colinmcgregor123]

A bit like an English man teaching their thinking of the history of Scotland 🤔

[@888ssss]

it began as a homosexual brothel on the banks of the irwel, near a roman establishment called man hill. near a settlement at castlefield.

[@tworealms]

Really? Lol

[@funster73mcr2]

Shame it sounds like a computer reading a script.

[@garystewart2263]

Yeah, first railway, Rolls Royce, first computer, you clowns never built any ships an your car industry died 40 years ago, just saying

[@RD2564]

Pre-eminent industrial metropolis is too much. Have you ever heard of Birmingham? Other cities made ships, cars and machines, these clowns put thread on bobbins.

[@MrTSK27]

Bitter comment from where was once Second City ?

[@RD2564]

@@MrTSK27 Twisted thread on bobbins! lol.