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Rooftop helipads, moving walkways and an underground railway system – this is how 1950s planners imagined Manchester would look in the future.
Fascinating drawings which reveal how the post-war city would be transformed are revealed in a new exhibition.
Researchers have uncovered blueprints for city-centre helipads which would have allowed commuters to shuttle from Piccadilly Gardens to other cities.
A huge cannabis farm has been discovered just yards away from Manchester’s main police station.
More than 300 plants, valued at up to £100,000, were being grown under the noses of cops at Bootle Street Police Station.
The illicit crop was inside a disused, six-storey office building on Peter Street in the city centre – less than 20 yards from the station.
I'm selling this guide to the Belle Vue Zoo Park on Ebay.
Belle Vue Zoological Gardens was a large zoo, amusement park, exhibition hall complex and speedway stadium in Belle Vue (Gorton), Manchester, England, opened in 1836. The brainchild of John Jennison, the gardens were initially intended to be an entertainment for the genteel middle classes, with formal gardens and dancing on open-air platforms during the summer, but they soon became one of the most popular attractions in Northern England. Before moving to Belle Vue, Jennison, part-time gardener, had run a small aviary at his home: the beginnings of the zoo which over the years grew to become the third-largest in the United Kingdom.
Manchester's Triangle shopping centre could revert to its former name, the Corn and Produce Exchange, under plans being considered by the city council.
The Grade II listed building was badly damaged in an IRA bomb in 1996 and had to undergo significant refurbishment. It reopened as the Triangle in 2000.
But a report to the city council's executive said the new centre "has not been a commercial success".
Happy Halloween from Manchester Archives!
Here are a few spooktacular images from our Local Image Collection which we’ve dug up relating to a few well known Manchester ‘haunts’, along with some other frightening images from the past.
A civic reception is being planned to honour the people who helped get Manchester back on its feet after the riots.
The 1,000 volunteers who cleaned up the morning after the August 9 disturbances are expected to be invited to join magistrates and businesses for a formal ‘thank-you’ to be hosted by the Lord Mayor at Manchester Town Hall.
A gun dealer was trapped after police set up a fake shop selling combat clothing.
Undercover cops posed as shop workers who were looking for lethal weapons in the elaborate sting.
The store was set up after police became concerned at the number of firearms on the streets of Manchester.
Around 30,000 demonstrators took to the streets of Manchester today to protest against the Conservative Party Conference. The demonstration, named ‘Manchester for the Alternative’, was organised by the Trades Union Congress and the Right to Work campaign, drew in unionists and anti-cuts protestors from around the UK, with some coming from as far away as the West Country and Wales.
In 2009, the Tories held their first conference in Manchester for over a century, seen as a clear statement of Cameron’s intent to broaden his appeal beyond the townhouses and cottages of the South East to the trendy regenerated terraces and warehouses of the North West. From Sunday through to Wednesday they will return to the Petersfield conference complex in its centre. There will also be protests, since for the entire history of its maturity as a city Manchester has been for everything the Tories oppose, and opposed to everything the Tories are for.
Have you seen Manchester?" wrote Benjamin Disraeli in 1844. "Manchester is as great a human exploit as Athens."
Artworks showing the Ford Motor Works at Trafford Park, Manchester’s Dunlop Factory and the Avro Lancaster Bombers at Woodford are being displayed for the first time at Manchester Art Gallery.
Bosses of a leisure chain fighting a council for ownership of a historic building claim there has never been a better time to convert it into a hotel.
The former London Road fire station is at the heart of a 25-year row between Manchester council and owner Britannia Hotels.
Council bosses say the firm has repeatedly failed to start transforming the building into a hotel – and they are now trying to force Britannia to sell up.
Student cyclists across Greater Manchester are being urged to saddle up and beat the bike thieves by taking advantage of free bike security schemes, following the theft of more than 5,200 pedal bikes last year.
Between 1 April 2010 and 31 March 2011, 5,265 bikes were stolen from across Greater Manchester – a nine per cent increase compared to the same period in the previous year.
The Manchester Blitz (also known as the Christmas Blitz) was the heavy bombing of the city of Manchester and its surrounding areas in North West England during the Second World War by the Nazi German Luftwaffe. Manchester was an important inland port and industrial city during the war, and Trafford Park in neighbouring Stretford was a major centre of war production.
As part of the Metrolink tram Didsbury extension, the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive (GMPTE) is planning to install a series of steps into the Trans-Pennine Trail instead of using ramp access as previously planned. If this is allowed to happen it will effectively make this part of the 215 mile coast-to-coast walking and cycling route impassable for many people.
Manchester Friends of the Earth support the extension of Metrolink tram system, but believe that it should not be at the expense of existing active travel (walking and cycling) facilities. We are working together with Sustrans and the Trans Pennine Trail user groups to encourage GMPTE and Manchester City Council to come up with a better plan.
“Our brief is to cater to those who may be new to beer providing something to their taste, to cater for those who know what they like and like what they know and to have something available for the most adventurous of beer drinkers.”
A massive cannabis farm worth an estimated £100,000 on the street has been uncovered and seized by police.
A haul of around 1,000 plants was discovered by officers who carried out a raid on a vacant industrial unit in Hillkirk Street, Beswick, at 7am today.
Anticuts campaigners squatted a flat above a branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland on Lapwing Lane last weekend, in protest at government spending cuts and high bankers’ bonuses.
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