blue skies and beaches:P
by alpikalpik
night life is good!
As part of my family lives there I feel good in manchester. Gotto go there.
It s nice most people live out of the city center and they meet at the weekends all together in the city center.
go to Fab club I liked it.
Rock world was good I guess would be great there in 80's during The Smiths' era
there are some nice parks but gotto drive,
I forgot the name of a huge park, nearby where footballera villas are located. It was good there!
If you're looking to get...
by donjuan
If you're looking to get online whilst in town, Easyeverything have recently opened an internet cafe located in St Annes Square.
There's also the Cyberia Internet cafe opposite the Odeon cinema on Oxford Street.
Periodic but essential - prepare for rain
by susiederkins
It does rain in Manchester, though not as much as some people in other parts of England would have you believe. It's not likely to chuck it down all day, but it's a good idea to prepare for those times when it does. If you don't want to carry a small umbrella (which can be annoying to forget in pubs), just wear a jacket with a hood, like many Mancunians do.
Glossy painted and tiled pubs.......
by leics
......wonderful things these.
Victorian/Edwardian, the tiles probably made in the 'Potteries' (the five towns around and including Stoke-on-trent).
Fewer and fewer survive in England......keep your eyes open.
I spotted these as I wandered the city centre.
Chetham's Library and School...
by SusanneBeck
Chetham's Library and School of Music, Long Millgate.
Open weekdays from 9.30 am - 4.30pm. Closed between 12.30 and 1.30pm. Free. Tel: 0161 834 9644.
Behind the Cathedral, is the best kept secret of the city. Chetham's Library is the oldest free public library in the UK. The buildings which were once religious quarters date from 1421, the library was inserted in 1655 and has hardly changed. The bay window of the Reading Room in the 1840s once housed Frederick Engels and Karl Marx debating how to change the world. If you walk further down the corridor from the library you come to a door on the right which leads to the tiny collection of old religious buildings - now the Fox Courtyard. Look down one of the holes in the well cover in the centre and see a fox, which once fell down there, glaring back. The school is a school of music and on Wednesdays in term time you can get a free tour of all the buildings with a concert thrown in.