I visit Manchester few times a year.Flying over from Cologne,visit museums,watch Man United at Old Trafford,go to u pub,stay overnight in a hotel and than fly back home the next day. I just love the city,it has a special feeling to it. Greetings from Germany.
Manchester’s influence on the textile industry was so great that, here in Australia, sheets and towels are known as manchester and the manchester shop/department is where you’d go you buy those things.
@Smear Campaign when I lived there I was told it was because of ships coming from Manchester bringing in linen supplies. Then local dialect happened as in " The Manchester is coming".
I'm a Brit but lived in Australia for a while and went to the department store to buy some plates and some sheets. For the plates (of a particular design) I was told I would have to wait a few months for the next shipment to come in, then when I asked where I would find the sheets they said "Well, you'll have to go to Manchester" I was completely befuddled!
There's a Lincoln Square (just off Deansgate) with a statue of Abraham Lincoln. During the American Civil War the cotton workers of Manchester refused to work on cotton from the southern states to help starve the South of funds for their war effort. The Manchester workers collective wrote to Lincoln in support of his actions. When Lincoln heard that many men were made redundant because of this he sent several ships with goods to be distributed amongst the redundant workers. There is a letter somewhere from Lincoln thanking them for their actions.
Hi Ryan, that's my home city. It's more than the sum of 2 football clubs. It's historic, it's vibrant, it encompasses all creeds. The libraries, museums, a powerhouse of knowledge before Google (which is ironic when you think about it) The second renaissance came about after the bombing in 1996 when a 1500 kg bomb devastated the city centre and created the newer infrastructure of today sitting side by side with Gothic Victorian Manchester. The Town Hall, amongst other suitable buildings, are regularly used by TV and film companies for locations. The clip you saw only scratches the surface of what Manchester is. BTW I don't work for the Tourist board 😂 just enthusiastic about my home city. Cheers DougT in Mancs
You’re so right. The tragic 1996 bombing ironically kickstarted Manchesters development both physically and culturally. Isn’t it interesting that bombed out cities like Manchester, London, Belfast, Swansea, Portsmouth, Clyde and others have recovered stronger than ever. Good will always win.
EU grants to replace the high-rise slums really helped to kick-start Manchester, into a forward-looking, ambitious city, with civic pride. The high number of national and international students, supply Manchester with fresh artists and innovators. 20% of out of town students stay, after their studies have finished.
I’m a Londoner and I absolutely love Manchester, Liverpool too. There are so many other great cities in the North of England. Hope you get to visit soon!
Yep Ryan. The atom was not first split in the US or London, but at the University of Manchester. This city is quite literally where the modern world was invented. This is where it all began. Come visit and have your mind blown. Manchester just happens to be one of the friendliest in the world too.
Manchester is the city where Turing laid the foundations for much of computer science. But even more importantly it is the city where the Industrial Revolution was centered.
I moved up from London to Manchester almost 20 years ago, because it was much cheaper and the people were so friendly. It’s great to see the city continually evolving, and it’s a fantastic place for any creatives to base themselves.
@@unusedsub3003 Agreed. I moved there for a job several years ago, within a year, I'd found and secured another job back in London and quit the Manchester job and moved back down. Manchester is a small, grey, permanently wet and cold, grimy and quite an ugly city. It was a miserable and small and dull. I moved back to London and was instantly happier with life again.
@@AndoCommando1000 I'm from the outskirts of Manchester, but I'm not stupid. Growing up in Manchester and not being stupid is like being one of those Orcas that is forced to exist in a swimming pool in America. I now live in Seville and I am infinitely happier than I ever was in Manchester. I went to uni in London in the 90s, absolutely loved it. A lovely walk round Hampstead Heath and then a few pints in Kilburn, the perfect Sunday 😊. I also adored those summer swimming ponds. London is amazing. Manchester is soul crushing.
@@unusedsub3003 I'm glad. I have about a half-dozen friends from Manchester (friends who I met in London, not Manchester). They are sort of at the mid-point of your opinion of their home city. They enjoy going back for visits every few months, as well as to visit extended family. But find the smallness of Manchester to be crushing and a bit of a closed loop. They still enjoy having a weekend back 'oop nawth' every now and then, but admit they couldn't live there full time again. I have to be careful saying aloud just how much I loathed my time in Manchester whenever I hang out with them. Because they will be insulted if I were to ever just be brutally honest about how much I didn't enjoy living there. The thing is, individually, pretty much everyone I met in Manchester is lovely, at an individual level. Everyone I know who is Mancunian makes great company. So I can't even work out exactly what it is about Manchester that made me absolutely hate living there. The people were nice enough, and yet I couldn't wait to leave the moment I moved there.
@@AndoCommando1000 I'm guessing you're educated. Thus I'm guessing your Manc friends are also educated, so they'll care about things like refugees, climate change and animal welfare etc. The mancs I knew were raised on a diet of processed food, happy hardcore, Zoo magazine and casual racism. Assuming your friends are mancs, and not from Bolton or Wigan and just say Manchester because they think it's cooler. There are some nice places up North, but Manchester isn't one of them. If you're a history lover, I'd definitely recommend a trip to York or Durham. For you, I think a lot of cities will seem small. Compared to London, places like Madrid and Barcelona will seem small and provincial. There aren't many places like London, I spent 3 blissful years living in Willesden Green. My neighbour on one side was an insomniac WW2 veteran who had been a p.o.w and on the other side were a family of Jamaicans. The old WW2 veteran was lovely and always chatted to the Jamaicans and made a fuss of their kids. In Manchester it would be "look at them taking over". London people I knew were lovely and open.
England is very special as a cultural cradle. They are so sophisticated and civilized and for me as a Finn easily understood why they are oldest community in (northern) Europe. All religions and ethnic backrounds living there mostly peacefully, even football the worlds greatest sport invented there.
Im from Manchester and I can tell you this film did not show the run down poverty stricken neighbourhoods that this city had and has always had. There is very high levels of poverty in Manchester thst havnt been addressed as the downtown city centre has just become wealthier and gentrified. Its a great city but still struggles with a lot of social problems.
@@PeachBeach it's the reality in 99% of countries and cities on the planet so hardly note worthy and hardly negates the nice things said in the original comment. Even ignoring the developing world, the poverty and homelessness I've seen in parts of Europe and America are on a completely different scale to anywhere in the UK. Perhaps people should travel more for a better sense of perspective.
Manchester is a fantastic city. Still growing and modernising. Many new skyscrapers have been built since this was made. Old mill buildings converted into modern accommodations. Great nightlife, a city for all. It has Media city at Salford Quays bordering the Manchester ship canal. A large international airport and yes it does have an indoor ski slope venue.
Both Salford and Trafford are part of today Manchester, stop fooling yourself, ask the residents there and they will tell you they're living in Manchester
I'm a Brit, but from the South and I had a vision of the "Dark Satanic Mills" from my childhood when we used to drive quickly past the black smoky Midlands to go to Scotland. A few years ago I had to go to the Museum of Science and Technology for work for the weekend and was bowled over by the city. Beautiful buildings, great transport, hugely interesting history. Well worth a visit.
Manchester is my birth town and the place I grew up. Knowledge is still housed in libraries and archives. A massive amount of information and knowledge is not available via a computer. I'm just about to spend a month in Sydney going through archive materials. Libraries and archives are my happy places! And Manchester is a beautiful, amazing, and underrated city.
It’s a wonderful city to live - despite its size there’s still a sense of community. Many people (myself included) identify as being Mancunian first British second. We are friendly and even say “good morning” to people we don’t know - is it any wonder Time Out Magazine named Manchester in the top 3 cities in the world in which to live
My g.g. grandmother, Margaret Farrall was living at 91 Great Dulcie Street, Strangeways, Manchester around the same time that Friedrich Engels, was living at number 70. Engels and Marx co-wrote The Communist Manifesto together, and Engels' horror at witnessing the cruelty of child labour, low wages and high death rates for the working poor in Manchester and other industrial areas led to his writing The Condition of the Working Class in England. I have no evidence my relatives ever met Engels but I like to imagine that they did.
Great video, I'm from Manchester and worked there for 13 years, I love the mix of architecture old and new and the vibrancy of this city, hope you get to visit one day
One of the things not mentioned is the number of theatres & art galleries that Manchester has. It was second only to London for theatre productions in the UK!
Actresses from the North West have won three quarters of all TV BAFTAs since the 70s. Granada TV has won more awards than any other TV service on the planet.
On the point of splitting atoms the 'manhatten project' as it later became, was based initially on scientific work done in the UK. The British government approached the United States in order to host the work in a safe location (falling bombs tend to destract people from hard scientific tasks) and help it progress with the understanding that the two powers would then share the results. The US recanted at the end refusing to allow this knowledge to go to the UK who then had to go back to its theoretical knowledge with a new batch of scientists which is why the UK didn't become a nuclear power until 1952.
Yes, you refer to Tubes Alloy. Britain did send a contingent of scientists to work on the MP (a joint enterprise between the UK, US and Canada) also. By this point (1940s), however, Britain's nuclear programme was centred in Birmingham (Rutherford and Co first split the atom in Manchester in the 1920s, I believe?)
I'm from Newcastle but of all the places I've been in the UK it's 2nd only to York imo. Its so culturally diverse and so much to do and see. I get why tourists are attracted to the South and London in particular but we have so much in the north.. you guys sadly miss
Without the North, Britain would now have an economy about the same size as Portugal. Southerners forget this when they walk around in daft hats at Ascot. We had all the resources, all the industry, all the ingenuity. They just took all our money. They did the same in the 80s with the money from North Sea oil. They have the Treasury and the capital so they have always pillaged our wealth.
I have lived 10 miles from this city my whole 65 yrs and didn't know half of what you've just shown. Thank you for showing me what I've missed. I'm off to visit ASAP 🇬🇧
I Lived there for a number of Years it is a good city to be in. What was looked over here is the Multicultural aspects of the city like China Town and further out from the centre the Indian community with its varied Cuisine. We saw a little here but there is also the Metro Tram/ Light Rail system which is really extensive and modern connecting many other places. Maybe you should do a video on the Metrolink System or manchesters food culture.
Hi Ryan, I love the look on your face, and in your eyes. So wide eyed just drinking in new knowledge. You are so into it and that is what makes watching your videos so much fun. I have watched so many videos with you, so to speak, that, while it isn't so, it feels like we are two best friends exploring the world together, learning and laughing. I expect it is so for virtually everyone who watches along with you. Thank you for the joy you are bringing into or lives. Peace
There is no such argument of which City is the Second City and Second largest City in the UK, it is taken on both size in area of the City and it's population size and Birmingham due to it's size in are of 150sq miles in area and a population of 1.5 million citizens makes the City of Birmingham the UK's official second City and second largest City after London and was recently mentiones as thus on BBC's Gardeners World while reporting on the Birmingham Botanical Gardens. The City of Manchester with it's area of 58sq mile and a populaion of only 580,000 citizens is officialy the UK's 6th largest City and Liverpool is the 3rd largest City. Try googling it.
Manchester Town Hall is good. The architect later built the Town Hall in Bradford, here in Yorkshire It is also stunning and used for films, TV etc. It is bigger than the Manchester one. I had expected the other way round. The guide who showed us round didn't seem to know where Bradford or Yorkshire was. It's only the county next door.
At 5:50, not to flex, but that pub was built in 1552. We measure history a little differently in Europe, compared to the USA...our local pubs and churches are older than your country.
@@Aloh-od3ef Same in Vancouver , homeless, drug addicts , public shootings , it rains 10 months per year people get beaten on the street and 50 % of population asians ( chinese , Indiens ) living like in their original countries ..nothing canadian
This video missed out 1 Massive point in history Manchester was the home of the suffragette movement (a petition of government to give women the right to vote) and was launched by Emmeline pankhurst and you can still to this day visit the home of Emmeline where the suffragette movement was mobilized in its original form as it was back then it's called the pankhurst museum
I was born in Greater Manchester, in the small town of Hyde. Probably the biggest thing about Manchester is the tremendous character of its inhabitants.
@@paulwild3676 Too true! When we left Hyde the Hattersley estate was just being built, which is where Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were. And that terrible doctor - my mother knew one of his victims.
For the Americans....there is also a statue of Abraham Lincoln, during the civil war the cotton mills of Manchester refused to take cotton from the Confederate States this is the face of risking starvation and destitution. AL wrote a letter thanking the people of Manchester
Hello from Manchester ! That's a brilliant video , and there's so much more to it than that plus the drink Vimto was invented in Manchester ! Some of the streets from the movie Captain America was filmed in the northern quarter and so was the first Sherlock Holmes movie with Robert Downey junior which was filmed on the narrow back streets of Piccadilly
I’m a scouser who lives part time in Manchester, my home is still in Liverpool but I spend most of my time in Manchester because it’s where my partner lives, it’s a great city with great people, the nightlife is awesome, my only complaint is the football, it’s terrible 😬
Manchester is such a great city. Always something exciting happening with some incredible architecture and history. They do new against old particularly well. The city always feels alive. The only negatives is the litter and the violent crime. Its such a shame that for such a proud city that so many just treat it like a dump. You should see the state of the city early on a Sunday morning.
I'm not that old or so I kid myself lol but when I went to school and university, we had to spend hours in the library. Computers were a new thing and only a small fraction of students took computing as a subject. Isn't it amazing how much has changed in just 40 odd years!
I think what comes across in these videos is the feeling that Americans think they have invented and discovered everything whereas the shock that it has been mainly we Brits seem to overwhelm not only yourself but others.
I might be biased, but I'm pretty sure in saying that if you'll see Edinburgh, you would have a heart attack.😁 Greetings from Scotland 🏴 P.s. of course Manchester is stunning.
Im from Newton Heath just a mile from the city, ive worked and lived in different places in the city all my life and never really liked or appreciated my city. But as ive got older ive learnt to love it and its amazing history. I took my children only last week to the museum and saw stan the T rex which was pretty cool. Thanks for the video. From a "Manc" oh and i regularly get to Old Trafford for a game with my sons which i love.
My home town - but this Mancunian now lives in Germany. Don't miss it much tbh at the moment but many of my friends are still there. There are some nice institutions there though not as extensive as those in London.
The city centre isn’t completely free of cars? Anyone can drive through the majority of it (probably still get yourself a ticket for going down the wrong street however! 😂). Market Street (shopping district) is pedestrianised, but just like most UK towns and cities. The public transport isn’t great, especially compared to London’s!
I lived there for many years and go back to visit whenever I can. Since that video was made, a lot more tall buildings have appeared - with many more on the way. It also omitted the great dining and nightlife.
Why do Americans always assume they did everything first? Also Manchester has never been referenced in a Dickens novel once. Coketown in Hard Times, was Preston before anyone comments.
I once got into trouble at school for eating a black pudding from Bury market while waiting for a bus to Rochdale. A couple of days later the headmaster stepped up to the lecturn for morning assembley and then growled "It's come to my attention that a boy was seen eating a black pudding in the street WHILE WEARING THE SCHOOL UNIFORM!!!" He went on to threaten the most dire consequences that would result if it ever happened again 😳
@@machoward6443 LOL Sounds as though he needed help for mental health problems. Black pudding is far better for kids than most junk that was served in schools.
I'm from and live in Manchester,I'm 53 and visited most of the places you shown , we was the birth place of the industrial revolution,music , fashion and lots of the most famous people are mancunians .
I was born there in 1962. We moved to Blackpool in 1963 for health reasons. The doctor told my mum that if she wanted my sister to live, to get out of Manchester and go to the seaside. So we moved from one sh@# hole to another ,😂 What I remember of Manchester from frequent visits to family in the 60's and 70's is a dark, dirty city the old 2 up 2 down houses were basically slums. So they knocked them down and moved people into 15 storey blocks of flats which were even worse. Nice to see Manchestah (said in a Manc accent 😁) back on its feet
Check out the video of the Man made Manchester Ship Canal. RU-vid channel, Tony P. Video title, The People’s Canal. The Story of the Manchester Ship Canal. This canal was hand dug by 1,500 men. Work started in the year 1887 and finished in 1894. It was opened by Queen Victoria, 1894.
I'm I grew up in Leeds but only visited Manchester for the first time this year. I have to say the city is a feast for the eyes. Definitely the jewel of the North
I have lived Manchester since I was born and I really do love this city so much. It’s never been better than it is now, I’m lucky to be near enough to the city centre to get there within minutes and it’s my favourite place in the world. I buzz off being in London but there’s no place like home ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Well, Manchester is certainly a lot different to how I remember the city when I was a kid in the 70‘s. My son moved to Manchester recently and I am visiting him in September. I am really looking forward to seeing my son, and Manchester.
I think you should have a look at the history of the workers of Manchester and their effect on the slave trade. Manchester's working classes have fought for human rights for a long time. Peterloo Massacre is result of our people standing up to the establishment.. We have a statue of Abraham Lincoln with the letter he penned to the workers of Manchester.
There is an Abraham Lincoln statue gifted to Manchester as the textile factories went on strike rather than use slave picked cottage during you civil war.
Good response, Ryan. I wrote my Master's thesis on literary responses to Manchester in the 1840s-50s. Most visitors didn't really know what they were seeing (the future) and came away shocked, puzzled and often disturbed at the world's first industrial city . Surprisingly, the workers tended to love life in the city (at least when work was plentiful) as many poems and ballads attest.
I’ve read Mary Barton, N+S and Hard Times. Trying to think what else would fall into that category. Kingsley and Disraeli didn’t set anything in Manc did they?
