Historical Tour of Manchester Includes tourist attractions and places of interest. From the birthplace of the industrial revolution to the regenerated docks area. Peel House Salford University START Piccadilly Gardens The tour takes about 2 hours and is aprroximately 13 Kilometres ((8 miles). Museum of Science & Industry MANCHESTER CITY CENTRE SALFORD Castle!eld QUAYS Media City Canal Street Lowry Arts Centre Ship Canal Imperial Manchester War Museum Ship Canal Old Tra"ord Stadium (Manchester United Football Club) Historical Tour increasing output in Manchester’s Railway in September 1830. The As well as new name suggests, British Television cotton mills. train station frontage and 1830 residential makers, the BBC and ITV produce The tour starts at the Queen warehouse are both Grade I development, TV programmes from this Victoria Statue in Piccadilly Trom the basin we move to the listed. The museum also offers the area is the location. Salford University also Gardens . It is nearby Castlefield , which was the steam train rides at weekends home to some has premises at MediaCity. near to the Big site of the and on bank holidays. As well as iconic Wheel and Roman era fort A short distance away on the locomotives, the museum also Manchester fountain. The of Mamucium other side of the Ship Canal is has airplanes on display. landmarks. Statue was or Mancunium Old Trafford Stadium , the home erected in 1901 which gave its We now take a short ride to get The Lowry ground of as a memorial name to onto the Manchester Ship Canal . stands at the Manchester to the Queen Manchester. The Manchester Ship Canal is an end of Pier 8, United Football and is by E. Mamucium was inland waterway 36 miles (58 km) largely surrounded by the waters Club. With a Onslow Ford. garrisoned by a long in the North West of of the Manchester Ship Canal. capacity of over cohort of England. Starting at the Mersey Designed by James Stirling and 75,635, it is the We now head auxiliary Estuary near Liverpool, it Michael Wilford, it opened on 28 second-largest for Canal soldiers and guarded the road generally follows the original April 2000. There are cafes, bars football Street and join running from Chester to York. A routes of the rivers Mersey and and a restaurant at the south- stadium in the the Rochdale vicus, or civilian settlement made Irwell through the historic western end of the building. The United Canal . We up of traders and the families of counties of Cheshire and centre is associated with the Kingdom after follow this bit the soldiers, grew outside the fort Lancashire. Several sets of locks artist L. S. Lowry, and houses a Wembley Stadium. The Stadium of canal a short and was an area of industrial lift vessels about 60 feet (18 m) unique collection of his work. has hosted World Cup matches, distance to activity. Excavations have up to Manchester, where the Champions League Finals, Castlefield The Imperial War Museum demonstrated that the fort had canal's terminus was built. European Championship games, Basin and the North , on Trafford Wharf Road in three main phases of Rugby League World Cups and famous Construction Trafford Park, construction: one in 79 AD, the Olympic football matches. Bridgewater began in 1887; overlooks the second in 160 AD, and the third in Canal . The it took six years Manchester We now start to 200 AD. The first phase of the fort canal was and cost £15 Ship Canal on head back to was built from turf and influential in million the opposite Manchester timber.[10] Mamucium was starting the (equivalent to bank to the City centre, but designed to be garrisoned by a industrial about £1.65 Lowry and their is one last cohort, about 500 infantry. revolution billion in MediaCityUK. place to visit, which brought Also nearby is the Museum of 2011[a]). When The area was The Peel prsperity to Science and Industry (MOSI) it is the ship canal heavily bombed Building at the Manchester. It is a large opened in during the University of was built by museum January 1894 it was the largest Manchester Blitz in 1940. The Salford located Francis devoted to the river navigation canal in the museum, designed by architect in their Peel Egerton, 3rd development of world, and enabled the newly Daniel Libeskind, opened in July Park campus. Designed by the Duke of science, created Port of Manchester to 2002. Its structure was designed architect Henry Lord and built in Bridgewater in technology and become Britain's third busiest to be a metaphor for a world 1896, this was originally the 1761, and is industry with port despite the city being about shattered by war with sloping Salford Royal Technical Institute. considered to emphasis on 40 miles (64 km) inland. walls and ceilings. Three areas, We now ride back to Manchester be the first the city's We follow rhe Ship Canal to the Air, Earth and Water Shards city centre . We hope you have canal in achievements Salford Quays at the site of the house exhibition and gallery enjoyed the tour. England. It was in these fields. space, public areas and previous Manchester Docks. It Contact us at: 0752 309 22 85 built to It is situated on the site of the became one of the first and restaurants. transport coal world's first railway station - largest urban regeneration MediaCityUK is a 200-acre (81 ha) www.manchesterbikehire.co.uk from mines in Manchester Liverpool Road - projects in the United Kingdom mixed-use property development Pavol Gajdos (Operations Director) nearby Worsley, to feed the new which opened as part of the following the closure of the site on the banks of the pavol @manchesterbikehire.co.uk steam engines which were Liverpool and Manchester dockyards in 1982. Manchester Ship Canal. As its.