Eight Awesome Manchester Facts
Eight Awesome Manchester Facts
We’re celebrating Manchester Day on Sunday, here’s a few things you might not know about our city:
- The first programmable computer was invented in Manchester with help from Alan Turing, it was nicknamed The Baby
- Manchester was the world’s first industrial city brought on by a boom in textile mills
- In 1906 Mr Rolls met Mr Royce The Midland Hotel in Manchester, the rest is history
- Manchester had the world’s first public lending library at Campfield (1852), Charles Dickens spoke at the opening
- In 1888 the world’s first professional football league was set up at the Royal Hotel, Piccadilly
- Despite its reputation, rainfall is much lower than the UK yearly average (1125mm) – 806mm in Manchester
- 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
- Coronation Street was originally to be titled Florizel Street and was only commissioned for 13 episodes
Join Key 103 for Manchester day Sunday 14 June in the city centre 12 to 6pm, click here for more information