Manchester Was Voted a Must-Visit City in 2023 (Manchester Walking Tour)
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- Опубліковано 16 тра 2023
- Lonely Planet just voted Manchester as a top travel destination in 2023. But before Manchester was known for its world-famous football, renowned art galleries and thriving nightlife scene, it was a bustling city leading the industrial revolution in England. From humble beginnings, Manchester turned into a textile, education and engineering powerhouse and quickly became one of Europe's wealthiest cities.
Join me today for this walking tour of Manchester as we discover all sorts of fascinating places, people, architecture and history of this word famous city. In this tour of Manchester, we visit the famous Manchester warehouses used to store cotton, the Vimto monument, Victoria University of Manchester, explore the John Rylands library, and make a final stop at the Manchester Science and Industry Museum.
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I live in Manchester, we started the industrial Revolution, not just in the UK but the WHOLE WORLD!
Nope - that was Birmingham. Manchester was a late arrival.
I miss Manchester City, its great vibrant city
A lot of fascinating history, and a great bar scene. 👌
It was interesting to walk with you in Manchester's streets 😊
Thanks for joining me. Appreciate the support! 🙂
It was one of the Roman cities in Britain too Mancunium we learned that in school in the 40s
Also when I lived in Britain the library had one of the three copies of the Gutenberg bibles
@@floswason8776 Fascinating! Yes, I read that cities ending in Chester are originally Roman settlements. How fascinating history is.
The US President Abraham Lincoln sent a letter to the worker's in Manchester and Lancashire thanking them for refusing to use Confederate States Cotton even at a great cost to themselves
Fascinating, thanks for sharing!
should've asked about the underground tunnels..just saying
Interesting. What's the history with them?
@@travelmvmt from WW2 Churchill had fast train to London to the north ..some tunnels still not allowed to see
Lifelong Mancunian here. We are a hard working city. We started the Industrial Revolution & the Legal process of stopping slavery & Votes & independence for women.. Tourism is fine but "are we worth it"?? Strangers opinions are pretty irrelevant, we are too busy changing things.
Manchester is the city most associated with the industrial revolution but it ain't where it started. Derby was where it began. Other bigger cities took up the mantle after.
You are dishing out information, but your knowledge is seriously lacking. Your biggest blunder, was not mentioning the fact, that the atom was first split, at the university, about 10 yards from where you were standing.
Thanks for your expert advice!
They're NOT warehouses they're offices. You wouldn't put big windows all over a warehouse and have it in the middle of a city centre !
Interesting point. Here in my home city of Brisbane, we have similar buildings which were once warehouses storing wool. Today they are apartments and offices that people pay top dollar for given their inner city location.
Nottingham has a ton of similar red brick buildings in the city centre and most of them were very much warehouses and factories. I bet the Manc ones were mainly warehouses.
@@travelmvmt Some were, some weren’t. Two of the buildings featured in the first part of your video were educational buildings. Also, warehouses could be very elaborate buildings as they were frequently a precursor to the modern department store. The best surviving is the Watts Warehouse (now the Britannia Hotel) on Portland Street (and it’s not brick!).
we created the world ...end off lol
Oh yeah - I recommend you visit Manchester before you go to Liverpool. Because if you go to Manchester after Liverpool you are going to be very disappointed by the non-experience.
Interesting! I'm really keen to visit Liverpool. Besides, I like the accent.
Most Liverpudlians I know think Manchester is far outpacing Liverpool. And they’d be right; it is. There is no comparison. Manchester is in the major league now with Liverpool nowhere to be seen
@@rinkydinkmcruk 'outpacing' in WHAT EXACTLY? It is wealthier but it is a DUMP.
I've visited both and Manchester is superior. Far more investment in Manchester than Liverpool, which seems to live on a frankly tiresome diet of Beatlemania, mop tops and faux Irish bars. A backward looking city, whereas Manchester is far more progressive.
@@jasongray4517 Manchester has always been wealthier, nobody denies that. It is not worth visiting. There is nothing there and its attempts to be 'cultured' fall flat on its face. Like the 'Chinatown' they promoted which has NO Chinese businesses. It is better than Birmingham, which does not say much.
I don't know what Beatlemania is, there is a promotional business by various people related to the connection, but it does not figure much in the economy, unlike the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, in music and the football clubs. I have never bought a Beatles record and I am 70; nor have I ever been to a Liverpool or Everton game. There are faux Irish pubs everywhere, indeed also in Manchester.
you were stood where Stephens rocket set off from.
Interesting, just reading about it now!
WRONG - it was FROM Liverpool to Manchester. The company was the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. All the major investors were Liverpool merchants, Gladstone Snr and Booth.
@@uingaeoc3905 and return since your being picky
@@daveflick12 Go and read the history. the Mancs were opposed to it.
@@uingaeoc3905 I wasn't giving a history lesson