Manchester

Manchester

Manchester, Starbucks, tower blocks, Medlock Mill

What to see
You’ll find accounts of Manchester’s tourist attractions and events with additional information on shopping, eating out etc at Time Out Manchester, Visit Manchester or Manchester Wire.
Other places to look at in Manchester:
Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art
Manchester Art Gallery
Manchester Cathedral
Museum of Science & Industry
National Football Museum
People’s History Museum
Whitworth Art Gallery

National Museum of Football, George Best, Hall of Fame, Pukka Pies
The National Museum of Football: ‘How can the café attached to such a place not offer Pukka Pies?’

Towns of Two Halves extracts:
“In February 2018 the Manchester Evening News reported plans to redevelop the old Medlock Mill building. One-below-the line correspondent commented: ‘Bulldoze it and build something attractive. The way people carry on on here, you would think it was Durham Cathedral.'”
“The curves of railway arches intersect with the vertical straight lines of Victorian buildings all over the city. And grafted on to this are the modern blocks that dominate the skyline.”
“Across the road is the Museum of Science & Industry. It’s surprising they didn’t add ‘& Space’, because this must have the largest floor area of any museum outside London. (Also Major Tim Peake’s spacesuit was on display, like some sort of hunch-shouldered inflatable.)”
These are taken from the Manchester chapter of Towns of Two Halves, published in 2018. To buy a copy, email info@townsof2halves.co.uk.