Two of Manchester’s buildings make English Heritage’s head top ten
The head of English Heritage has picked Liverpool Road Railway station and Ancoat's Murray Mill as two of the ten buildings that have changed...
It was fifty years ago today
Fifty years ago from a converted church on Dickenson Road, a new music show was aired for the first time from Manchester.
Top of the...
Manchester comes together for Strauss Anniversary
2014 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great German composer Richard Strauss and Manchester's three orchestras are joining forces to mark...
Historic Leigh Spinners Mill to be given makeover
Large amounts of vacant space in the iconic Leigh Spinners mill could be transformed into a major enterprise and community centre including sports facilities,...
Scheme planned to turn Cornbrook into Gateway
Plans are afoot for a major residential regeneration scheme around the Cornbrook area off Chester Road in the area near the old Pomona Docks.
The...
Millions of historic images are shared by the British Library
This site is dedicated to history and not just concerning Manchester, so we are delighted to see that the British Library has given everyone...
Tolkien WW1 gun goes on display at IWM North
The revolver issued to JRR Tolkien as a soldier on the Somme during the First World War has gone on display at the Imperial...
Coral-something Rich and Strange
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that...
Modernists select fifty twentieth century icons in Manchester
Fifty of Manchester's finest examples of twentieth century are being celebrated by the Manchester Modernist society in a map which can be explored on...
John Kay a misunderstood legacy
The wonderfully simple invention of a the man who with a bit of string and two pickers actuating a fly shuttle, quadrupled the power...