Travel
Although best known for its successful Premier League football clubs and as the birthplace of chart-topping rock bands, Oasis and The Stone Roses, there’s much, much more to Manchester than sport and music. The world’s first industrial city was once home to Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, Alan Turing and LS Lowry. It was also the birthplace of the revolutionary steampowered cotton loom, the first passenger railway, the earliest canal navigation system, the women’s suffrage movement and trade unionism. Manchester is now writing a new chapter in its history, with the transformation of the Northern Quarter, where the newly renovated redbricks are buzzing with bohemian bars and independent boutiques.
Meanwhile, just seven miles to the south, Stockport is stepping out of the shadow ofhistoric Underbanks area. Young creatives are busy restoring the iconic Victorian shopping streets to their former glory. Don’t miss the magnificent market hall, built in 1860 using an innovative canopy of cast iron and glass.
