Manchester, the mother of all new industries and the workshop of the world

Manchester, the mother of all new industries and the workshop of the world that has set the path for our present comfort and the Mancunians, are  the world leaders  and pioneers in so many walks of life that affected humanity and change the world and here is a  list of some  of the achievements, facts and figures

• Manchester is the fastest expanding city centre in Europe.

• Political activist and the leader and one of the founders of the women movement Suffragettes, who helped women win the right to vote born in Manchester on July 15, 1858.

• Greater Manchester is a county in the North West of England and comprises of ten districts: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, and the cities of Manchester and Salford. Greater Manchester was created on 1 April 1974.  Greater Manchester estimated population beginning in 2017 around 2,790,000.

• Manchester and the nine other boroughs were the first group of councils to form combined authorities, Greater Manchester, in 2011. Since then other groups have followed suit and built connected bodies in some areas of England. The new combined authorities receive additional powers and funding from central government.

• Manchester is a city part of Greater Manchester, achieved city status in 1853 and it has estimated a population of 550,000 people In 1700 Manchester was a market town with a population of fewer than 10,000 people
• Manchester is one of the youngest places in Britain - with a quarter of the people in their 20s
• The distance from Mark and Spencer on Market Street to Salford city boundary is less than 5 minutes walk, and the distance between Manchester Town Hall and Salford City Town Hall is 15 minutes walk.
• Greater Manchester has the   Media city in Salford city. It holds studios for local, national and internal broadcasting companies including BBC among others.

• Manchester has a local newspaper called Manchester Evening News  MEN if you intend to visit Manchester you can browse MEN site if interested in having a look and seeing what's on in Manchester.   Click The link                 http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ 

• Manchester is home to the world’s oldest railway station, Liverpool Road station and the world’s first railway line that ran between Manchester and Liverpool. It opened on 15th September 1830. The station is now part of the Science and Industry museum.

•  M&S’s first store opened on Stretford Road, in Hulme, Manchester in May 1894.

• The Rolls-Royce 10hp was the first car produced under the name Rolls-Royce in 1904. The car was built in a factory in Hume, Manchester 

•  The world’s first computer was built at the University of Manchester and ran its first program on 21st June 1948. 

•   A car fuelled only by used coffee grounds made the trip from London to Manchester in 2010. Called the ‘car-Cupccino’, it refuelled every 60 miles and used the equivalent of 11,000 espressos.

•   It has been voted ‘The best city to live in the UK’ in 2013.

•  Manchester has the largest student population of any city in Europe, home to over 100,000 students.

•  25 Nobel Prize winners have worked or studied at The University of Manchester, one of the most prominent universities in the UK.

•  It is the football capital of the world. Manchester is home to four premiership football teams including Manchester United and Manchester City.

• Joanne K. Rowling has conceived her first most worldwide famous books, Harry Potter, in a journey on a train from Manchester to London.
  
• Sir Arthur James Balfour, Manchester MP, who signed the Balfour declaration that changed the map of the Middle East.