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Aug 12, 2020 · Manchester is full of things to see and do, but it’s also the birthplace of some world-changing technological advances and the home of many historic firsts. Here’s a whistle-stop tour of the city that demonstrates why Manchester is one of the most impressive – and important – cities in the world.
5 days ago · Manchester occupies a featureless plain made up of river gravels and the glacially transported debris known as drift. It lies at a height of 133 feet (40 metres) above sea level , enclosed by the slopes of the Pennine range on the east and the upland spur of Rossendale on the north.
- It has the most intriguing art gallery. The Whitworth Gallery recently re-opened to the public following a £15m redevelopment. The new building features a glass-promenade gallery overlooking the new Art Garden in Whitworth Park.
- It's about to get the country's top arts centre. HOME, the city’s new multi-artform centre opens on the 21st May with a funfair theme for the opening weekend.
- It hosts the most dynamic festival. The bi-annual Manchester International Festival (MIF) kicks off in July with 18 days of premieres, performances and events.
- It's home to some of the best libraries. Manchester always had a rich literacy legacy – from Karl Marx observing working life in the mid nineteenth century to the UK's current Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy via the punk poetry of John Cooper Clarke.
Today, with a 12.8 mile tidal shore line, Manchester-by-the-Sea is probably best known for its beautiful beaches, a renowned yachting harbor, and commercial lobstering. Coastal Byway Miles: 4.5 Agassiz Rock
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A spirit of rebellious creativity infuses the northern city, with old factories turned into artists’ studios and a unique sense of style on display throughout.
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“It’s fantastically therapeutic,” says Bhaggie Patel, ceramic artist and co-founder of Manchester’s Imprints of Earth ceramics studio. “Sometimes I’ll be sitting at the wheel and I’m so engrossed in what I’m doing, I don’t realise it’s turned dark outside.” Bhaggie is leading me in a one-to-one throwing class, teaching me how to turn an amorphous lump of clay into something useful, maybe even beautiful: a pot, perhaps, or a mug or bowl.
As I look down, though — at my hands caked in clay, my shoe twitching unassuredly on the foot pedal, and the gloopy grey mess spinning sadly before me on the wheel — ‘therapeutic’ is not the word that immediately comes to mind. Bhaggie is patient with me, however, and I soon begin to understand what she means. I stop overthinking, and the minutes melt away along with the worries of the day, replaced by a state of flow: complete immersion in an act at once wholesome, practical and creative.
“Any creative hobby can have huge physical and mental health benefits,” Bhaggie says. “It reduces stress and anxiety, increases positive emotions, and helps with problem solving. It gives you a sense of control and pride in whatever it is you’re making.”
Bhaggie understands more than most the healing power of arts and crafts. A former social worker, she set up Imprints of Earth with her daughter Shakti after the sudden death of her husband, Nitin, in 2018. The shelves around us are stacked with her creations: smoke-fired vases, mottled in red, black and grey; Japanese-style raku teapots, their surfaces swirled with horsehair and feathers which create unique, ethereal patterns during the firing process. “Making ceramics is an amazing metaphor for life: learning when to let go, knowing what you can and can’t control, and celebrating the beauty of imperfection,” she says.
The creativity and craftsmanship of Manchester’s designers and makers infuse all parts of the city’s life. Leaving the Craft and Design Centre behind, I explore the surrounding Northern Quarter, long known as Manchester’s most alternative neighbourhood. Vibrant murals light up every square and street corner. The outer walls of Affleck’s, a legendary indoor fashion and music market, are adorned with mosaics by artist Mark Kennedy depicting local icons as diverse as Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures album cover, footballer Eric Cantona and Warburtons Toastie bread.
Even the street signs are unique: blue and white and in a stylised typeface. The font is called Cypher, and was designed especially for the Northern Quarter by local artist Tim Rushton. One such sign announces Tib Street, where, on cast iron tablets beneath my feet, set into the pavement, the same font spells out a poem by Lemn Sissay entitled ‘Flags’. “Pavement cracks are the places where poets pack warrior words,” reads one line. Up above, terracotta parrots roost on the second-storey window sills of the redbrick Victorian buildings — a nod to the street’s former life as a hub for pet shops.
As I wander, I see evidence everywhere for Nicole’s claim that Mancunians have a distinctive sense of style, too — there are as many mod haircuts, paisley scarves and neon bucket hats to be seen today as in the city’s ‘Madchester’ heyday of the 1980s and 1990s. But more than anything, it’s about the attitude; anything looks great when worn with cast-iron confidence. Consider Liam Gallagher, who has attained fashion-icon status by dressing like a Norwegian trawler fisherman for the last 30 years. The prevalence of Gallagher’s beloved parka in Mancunian fashion has a practical element, of course — Manchester is famously rainy — but it has been elevated to a fashion form by brands like Private White VC, which still uses traditional manufacturing techniques and local materials in its original 19th-century factory on the banks of the River Irwell. Visits to the factory to meet the highly trained makers can be arranged on request.
Mancunian craftspeople are also making their mark on the city’s blooming culinary scene. My walking tour has made me hungry, so I head south of the Northern Quarter to bistro Higher Ground for a bite to eat. The interior is typical Manchester — modern and stylish but with nods to the industrial past including polished concrete floors and bare light bulbs hanging from the ceiling. I order a burnt honey tart — the honey courtesy of beekeepers in the Manchester suburb of Chorlton — and it arrives on a beautiful plate created by Frida Cooper, a ceramicist working in Pollard Yard, a hub of converted shipping containers in Ancoats. Even the table I’m sitting at was made by local artisans — Easy Peel, who carved it from a London plane tree salvaged from the entrance of a Stockport shopping centre.
By the time I emerge from the restaurant, the sun’s going down but Manchester’s art and design scene shows no sign of winding down with it. In the Northern Quarter, poetry and philosophy bookshop Anywhere Out of the World holds evening life drawing classes, while nearby bar Foundry Project hosts art evenings where you can learn to paint while enjoying a drink under the tutelage of a professional artist. Meanwhile, Islington Mill, a six-storey Georgian redbrick building close to the River Irwell in Salford, is a collection of makers’ studios by day and a venue for music, theatre and performance by night.
This new role given to Manchester’s historic mill buildings, relics of a time when this was the first industrial city in the world, is a neat symbol of the city’s modern character. Neglected for decades, these former furnaces of industry now house artisan workshops and designers’ studios — erstwhile cathedrals of mass production repurposed as homes for the boutique and one-of-a-kind. George Orwell once described Manchester as “the belly and guts of the nation”. That visceral quality still abides, but modern Manchester demands a more delicate analogy: the painter’s eye, perhaps, the potter’s wheel, or the jeweller’s hands.
Sep 19, 2020 · September 19, 2020. Manchester is famous for being the music capital of the UK, home to some of the biggest and coolest British bands. Manchester is also famous for its rich sporting culture, tight-knit community, strong identity, and working class history.
Aug 16, 2024 · Cruising the Northern Isles of Scotland. Despite lying nearly 40 miles from the Irish Sea, Manchester was once a bustling seaport. The population of the city grew six-fold during the 19th century, becoming so wealthy from the textile trade that it was known as Cottonopolis.
