The firm's Manchester office was designed and built for colemans-ctts and completed at the end of 2004. Situated on Talbot Road, the office is directly opposite Lancashire Cricket Ground.
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The City of Manchester has Ancient Origins. The Romans established a fort at Mancunium in the 1st Century AD. The remains of the fort which are listed as an Ancient Monument in Manchester can be visited at Castlefield in Manchester.
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Manchester experienced large growth and development during the Industrial Revolution and emerged as the leading cotton textile-manufacturing city in Great Britain and the world and became known as “ King Cotton “.
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Manchester Cotton workers went on strike to support Abraham Lincoln's Civil War in support of the slaves in the South. A letter from Abraham Lincoln is now inscribed on his statue in Lincoln Square thanking “ the working people of Manchester” for their support. Some of these cotton workers died in the strike. The cotton prices are still on display at the trading board at what is now the Royal Exchange Theatre.
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The mills where Engels wrote “ The Condition of the English Working Classes “ are still there, behind Deansgate Railway Station. The average life expectancy of the people living there at the time was 19. The mills have now been converted to loft apartments.
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John Dalton first formulated his atomic theory here in Manchester.
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100 years later Rutherford worked out how to split the atom.
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The first machine which had all the components to be classified as a “computer” was built in Manchester after the Second World War in a building off Oxford Road by Alan Turing. There is a statue to him in the Manchester Gay Village and there is also a road named after him at Sport City Manchester.
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Manchester became the City of Manchester in the Victorian Era in 1853.
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In 1894 the Manchester Ship Canal was opened. It was affectionately known as " the big ditch”. It brought deep sea shipping all the way to Manchester and lead to the creation of the thriving industrial community of Trafford Park. Today it is still a seaway for 1500 ships annually carrying 6.5 million tonnes of cargo. Trafford Park was the largest Industrial Park in the world.
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The building which housed the famous “Hacienda“ nightclub was linked to the Ship Canal. In the 1970’s, boats were still coming up the Manchester Ship Canal into the centre of Manchester including private yachts. There was one rope and map shop ( Chandlers ) selling to people off the boats near G-Mex, Manchester. The canal went right up to the shop. You could step out of your boat and go right into the shop. They had yachts on display in a large circular front window. It went out of business in the late 1970’s. The building remained empty for several years and then was opened as the Hacienda Nightclub. The large circular space was ideally suited to a nightclub.
Manchester was home to the First Passenger Railway station for the world’s first passenger railway which ran from Manchester to Liverpool which was opened in 1830.
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Chetham’s Library in Manchester is the oldest public library in the English Speaking world. Manchester also has one of the very few private subscription libraries left in the county, the Portico library on Moseley Street.
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The John Rylands library on Deansgate has the oldest fragment of the New Testament. This small fragment of St. John's Gospel, less than nine centimetres high and containing on the one side part of verses 31-33, on the other of verses 37-38 of chapter xviii is one of the collection of Greek papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester. It was originally discovered in Egypt, and may come from the famous site of Oxyrhynchus (Behnesa), the ruined city in Upper Egypt where Grenfel and Hunt carried out some of the most startling and successful excavations in the history of archaeology.
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The First Rolls Royce factory was located in Hulme, Manchester. Royce Road is still there.
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The drink Vimto was invented in Manchester and was sold in a shop where UMIST now stands. There is a memorial sculpture on the site showing a vimto bottle and some of the secret ingredients which went into it.
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Manchester Cathedral has the widest nave of any cathedral in Britain.
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Heaton Park is one of Manchester’s most famous parks. It is reported that the American White House was based on a drawing of Heaton Hall, Bury. The Pope visited Heaton Park in 1984, where one million Mancunians went to see him. It was at Heaton Park on that day that Morrisey and his friends formed the famous Manchester band Tthe Smiths“. Morrisey was living in a bed-sit in Whalley Range which was a title of one of their songs.
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The largest Marks & Spencer store in the world is in Manchester which was redeveloped after the bombing in the 1990’s.
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Manchester hosted the European Football Championships in 1996 and the Commonwealth Games in 2002.
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Sportcity in Manchester was developed for the Commonwealth Games and is home to The City of Manchester Stadium, An indoor and outdoor tennis centre, An indoor and outdoor athletics facility, England’s National Squash Centre and the National Cycling Arena “ The Velodrome”.
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The flagship Concorde is on display at Manchester Airport and is the only Concorde in the UK which you can visit for guided tours.
The Northern Quarter in Manchester is now one of Manchester’s trendiest area for pubs / clubs / restaurants. Tib Street in the Northern Quarter was once affectionately known as pet shop paradise and a place where you could buy anything from a goldfish to a monkey, Manchester's Tib Street has been redeveloped. All the pet stores have now closed down and have been replaced by bars and apartments. Tib Street is home to the famous Afflecks Palace.