Eight Awesome Manchester Facts

Eight Awesome Manchester Facts

Published 9th Jun 2015

We’re celebrating Manchester Day on Sunday, here’s a few things you might not know about our city:

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  1. The first programmable computer was invented in Manchester with help from Alan Turing, it was nicknamed The Baby

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  1. Manchester was the world’s first industrial city brought on by a boom in textile mills

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  1. In 1906 Mr Rolls met Mr Royce The Midland Hotel in Manchester, the rest is history

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  1. Manchester had the world’s first public lending library at Campfield (1852), Charles Dickens spoke at the opening

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  1. In 1888 the world’s first professional football league was set up at the Royal Hotel, Piccadilly

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  1. Despite its reputation, rainfall is much lower than the UK yearly average (1125mm) – 806mm in Manchester

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  1. The Manchester Viaduct uses 11 million bricks. If you laid them all out, end to end, the line of bricks would stretch from Manchester to Madrid and back

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  1. Coronation Street was originally to be titled Florizel Street and was only commissioned for 13 episodes

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Join Key 103 for Manchester day Sunday 14 June in the city centre 12 to 6pm, click here for more information