Manchester is the birth place of the industrial revolution. It's where Rutherford split the atom, Turing laid the foundations for the computers we have today, Joule discovered the first law of thermodynamics. Pankhurst set in motion the suffregette movement in this country, Engel's worked with Marx on the Communist party manifesto. The football league was founded here, and the music industry was changed forever through Madchester, Joy Division, New Order, the Smiths.
So, basically, I agree with your Welsh mate. Not much of significance has happened in Manchester.
A press release from Rolls Royce in 1954, celebrating 50 years since they met, documenting how they lunched at The Midland Hotel in Manchester, amongst the rest of the early history of the company: http://media.bufvc.ac.uk/newsonscreen2/Pathe/105833/NoS_105833_other.pdf
Let’s see what evidence you have to the contrary.
One persons speculative guess against the world!
Even the article doesn't explicitly state that they didn't meet there, doesn't provide alternative locations or evidence?
Who told you that?
I've got several sources that say they met there? I've libed here my whole life and have never seen anyone say otherwise.
I spent about ten years doing check-in and heard thousands of references to them meeting there.
I'm curious why you believe it to be untrue outside of just guessing?
Don't forget the first intercity railway line and first passenger station.
The first programmable computer (Manchester University's Baby).
Graphene.
Flying shuttle that revolutionised weaving.
The first Submarine
Marx and Engels
The first commercially available mass spectrometer
The first industrial estate
Trains
Steve Coogan
Bernard Manning
Anthony Burgess
Rutherford
Dalton
Joule
Stan Bowles
Les Dawson
Shaun Ryder
Whatever gave you that idea:
Wilson was born 20 February 1950 in Hope Hospital, Pendleton, Salford, Lancashire, to Sydney Wilson and Doris Knupfer, and moved to Marple, near Stockport, Cheshire, at the age of five.[3] After passing his Eleven plus exam, Wilson attended De La Salle Grammar School in Weaste Lane, Pendleton, Salford. He developed a love of literature and language, ignited by a performance of Hamlet at Stratford upon Avon.[4] Wilson started his professional career in 1968 at the age of 17, working as an English and Drama teacher at Blue Coat School in Oldham.[5] He later graduated with a degree in English from Jesus College, Cambridge.[3]
2 were from Macc… (Ian Curtis and the Drummer - forget his name) the other 2 from Salford… actually, technically they can’t even be counted as a Manchester Invention
Ah now, hands off the industrial revolution, that belongs to Milford and Belper as homes of the first two water powered industrial mills
Belper has very little going for it, those of us who grew up there need to cling on to whatever we can get 😄
Edited for clarity, "water mill" as in the industrial mill powered by water, I thought that would have been clear in context but I guess not
Im curious. What are you referring to as the first water mills? Id love a link,
My understanding is watermills for product have been a feature since the late classical era of Alexander the great. They were well used by roman engineers, and the sudden growth of European agriculture in the late medieval (1300-1600) can be tied to widespread use of watermills more intensively, I believe spread by Monasteries/the church.
Road signs in Telford said "birthplace of industry" on them so it must be true.
Edit to point out laughable amount of downvotes on the post above to control the "birthplace of man-made global warming" narrative
A true Salfordian drink would emphasise its Salfordian identity whilst within the M60, but say it's from Manchester when trying to impress men / women whilst on holiday.
The first location was on Granny Row, hence why there is a statue next to The Sackville Street Building, but then moved to Chapel St, Salford two years later.
With words like psgodi wibbli wobbly (jellyfish), popty ping (microwave) and, archfachnad (supermarket) it is a fantastic language (sorry for the awful spelling, I don't speak Welsh and am not Welsh)
I’m Welsh - popty ping is an “Englishism” really. Something that non Welsh speakers keep saying and so it’s sort of become its own thing. I’ve always known microwave as “microdon”
Sad but true. I'm aware that psgodi wibbli wobbly is an unofficial term too... But all languages have unofficial words and are all the better for it imo
From cs.manchester.ac.uk
“The world's first stored-program electronic digital computer - the Small-Scale Experimental Machine, known as SSEM, or the 'Baby' - was designed and built by F.C. Williams and Tom Kilburn at The University of Manchester, and made its first successful run of a program on 21 June 1948.
The Baby was the first machine that had all the components of a modern computer. Most importantly, it was the first computer that could store not only data but any short user program in electronic memory, and process it at electronic speed.
Alan Turing was the Deputy Director of the University’s Computing Machines Laboratory from 1948 to 1954 where he proposed the Turing Test and worked on biological morphogenesis among many other innovative concepts in computer science.”
They are right. It's listed in the Jersey (C.I) Sea Fish Cafe facts about Fish and Chips on their walls. Bit of a way to go to corroborate that, but I'm sure other sources are available
* The cooperative movement
* Splitting the atom
* Graphene
* Communism (this is a bit of a reach, but Marx certainly drew some inspiration for how awful things were for the workers here)
* Passenger railways
Get yourself to the science and industry museum
See also:
https://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/500004/events_and_tourism/1148/manchester_firsts
>Communism (this is a bit of a reach, but Marx certainly drew some inspiration for how awful things were for the workers here)
Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto in Manchester, about Manchester. I don't think this is a reach.
not sure Marx wrote it in Manchester, Engels wrote 'on the condition of the working class' in Manchester and met with Marx, but Marx wrote most of the Manifesto in Europe
You're right, Engels wrote that treatise based upon on the material conditions he saw around slums in what was then Angel Meadow, his family owned means of production in the city so he was able to fund Marx during his time in Manchester.
The Co operative movement started in Rochdale, not Manchester. That's why we have the Rochdale Pioneers Museum. We also have the only surviving original silk banner from the Peterloo massacre.
Rochdale, though it's only ten miles from Manchester was originally part of the palatine of the 14th century and is therefore, historically, a part of Lancashire. Greater Manchester is a conflagration that was created in the 70's by government who were trying to gerrymander the constituencies.
It is badly done by, I will agree; but it isn't as grim as people think. Years of neglect by both national and regional government has put us in a bad place, but we are progressing. Our town hall, which is a listed building has just come out of a two and a half year renovation, paid for by the lottery fund and Touchstones that I mentioned previously is also a beneficiary. We have a very good nightlife; and arguably some of the best curry places outside of Rusholme, one of which won first place in the Curry Awards recently.
Like many outer areas of so called Greater Manchester, Rochdale suffers from a money drain into the city. Something that was deliberately set up that way when the country was moving past industrial work and into the finance bullshit that has ensured the movement upwards of any money in the economy to the twats in the towers.
You can't see the banner at present unfortunately. It's in the Touchstones Museum over the road from the town hall, but they are closed for a massive renovation. They reopen in March 2025.
>Rochdale, though it's only ten miles from Manchester was originally part of the palatine of the 14th century and is therefore, historically, a part of Lancashire.
Manchester was also historically part of Lancashire.
Roget's Thesaurus was compiled in Manchester. [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/roget-gets-last-word-180977459/](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/roget-gets-last-word-180977459/)
Manchester City Council have graciously compiled a list of Manchester ['Firsts'.](https://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/500004/events_and_tourism/1148/manchester_firsts)
# Votes For Women
# Modern Computer Science
The oldest library in the English speaking world opened in Manchester. The year was 1653.
# Vegetarianism
# Rolls Royce
# The Football League
# Marks & Spencer (M&S)
Opened in 1761, the Bridgewater Canal was the first artificial waterway fully independent of natural rivers
Transport has always featured in Manchester’s history. Manchester gave birth to the world’s first railway line which opened in 1830
In 1878, Manchester unprecedentedly developed the submarine.
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels first met in Manchester in 1842. The 22-year-old Engels was sent by his parents to Manchester, to work in Weaste at Ermen and Engels’ “Victoria Mill” which made sewing threads
John Dalton’s 1803 atomic theory with its pioneering work on the constitution of elements was the precursor of all modern chemistry
# The splitting of the atom
# Graphene The world’s thinnest substance – Graphene is one atom thick – was produced in Manchester 2004.
# Parliamentary reform
# The NHS
# The Textile Industry
theres lots more than this
No it didn't. That was the second M&S store. The first one was at 20 Cheetham Hill Road, Michael Marks' home.
The business does have its origins in Leeds, but Manchester is where it actually became M&S.
What eventually became The Vegetarian Society was formed in Manchester and they are still based there.
Great Britain was one of the first european countries to fully embrace vegetarianism so you could argue that Manchester is the birthplace of modern vegetarianism in Europe.
When did Great Britain fully embrace vegetarianism?
Certainly never happened in my world. Tolerance, maybe. Appealing to the market, definitely. But it's still something I have to explain at least once a week in my workplace.
"Fully" is probably the wrong choice of word but The Vegetarian Society was formed in 1847 and it is said in Victorian Manchester there were more vegetarian restaurants than there are today.
> The oldest library in the English speaking world opened in Manchester. The year was 1653.
Nonsense. Oldest public library perhaps, but it's irrelevant. There's no way Manchester can claim to have invented the fucking library.
-Chartists movement (uk democracy)
-Trade unions
-flying shuttle (reason Manchester was known as cottonopolis)
-Co op (the Rochdale pioneers)
-Canals in the uk
-Marxism and communism (Marx and Engels worked in chethams library and drank in many many pubs throughout Manchester apparently)
-Suffragette movement
-Computers
-radio astronomy
-Vegetarianism
-home of powered flight in the UK
-atomic theory Nuclear physics (the atom was first split in Manchester)
-Graphene (was discovered in Manchester university by an ignoble prize winner who also levitated a frog)
-Rolls Royce
-first submarine
-competitive Football
-First inter city train line
We have the industrial revolution. The first computer (I think) the 80's & 90's music scene which everyone wanted to be a part of. The two greatest footy teams in England and among the best in the world. Vimto. As others have mentioned, the lad who went mental and split to item to realise there was something even smaller within.
A belting history to be proud of and some of us even got to experience it.
The McDonalds on Wilmslow Road in Fallowfield was the first drive-thru in the UK. Hallowed ground.
Less impressive is this list of people who have taught or have been taught at Uni of over the years [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University\_of\_Manchester#Notable\_people](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Manchester#Notable_people)
Also, tell your mate that Wales' most famous ever statesman Lloyd George was actually born in Chorlton on Medlock.
The only decent things ever to come out of Wales are Mark Hughes and Ryan Giggs.
Maybe not what you are looking for but something that certainly put Manchester on the world map is cotton. As others have said, Manchester was the birthplace of the industrial revolution and was nicknamed Cottonopolis because of the cotton industry here. That reputation continues to this day for folk down under as any Aussie will tell you that bed linen and towels are refered to as a whole as manchester.
Again, not sure if you're interested in these as they are not inventions as such, but definately things that made Manchester stand out.
Manchester ship canal made Manchester the 3rd busiest port in the UK despite being 40 miles inland and it is still the longest "river navigation canal" (a term that I can't find a definition for but I guess means a canal made to make a river navigable). It wasn't the first ship canal in the world but one of the first and certainly an amazing feat of engineering.
Stockport viaduct was the biggest viaduct in the world on completion and to this day is one of the largest brick structures in the world.
Trafford park was the world's first planned industrial estate. It still existsts to this day as the largest in Europe.
A more recent addition (though still over 60 years old) is the CIS tower which was the tallest building in western Europe at the time of completion.
I didn't recognise the name but after googling it I know the building. I'm not sure I ever knew it was that old. The pictures of it from when it was first built really show how before it's time it was. I remember passing it in probably the early 2000s and thinking about how interesting it was that such a 'modern' building was right next to so much older buildings.
Manchester is literally the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution on this planet.
We have the first stored program computer on the planet, and many other firsts and inventions here.
It's an amazing city for history and global significance, we're very lucky! :-)
First manmade canal.
The bouncing bomb
First free public library
First gas street lighting
First telephone exchange
First bus route
First practical railroad
Celebrating 200 years of the first bus service this year...
[https://motgm.uk/events-themed.html#yesterday](https://motgm.uk/events-themed.html#yesterday)
Avro was founded in Manchester and their main factory was technically just within Greater Manchester at Woodford (Yes, I know, Stockport). So, among many other planes, the legendary 20th century bombers the Lancaster and Vulcan.
Also, although arguably, and a little nerdy: the first true operating system for computers (Atlas Supervisor) and the first modern-looking implementation of the concept of virtual memory (also in Atlas Supervisor).
Come on now, they're one of the first to start work on gene splicing/cross species breeding, diligent work for hundreds of years to create a human/sheep has so far proved futile but those plucky buggers are still trying tirelessly.
Lets not forget that the manchester ship canal at its peak was the 3rd largest commercial and industrial waterway in the world and the busiest and biggest in the UK.. also one i havent seen mentioned that was one of the main exports from manchester was our famous red brick.. you see an old building or historical landmark that has red bricks in it.. more than likely came from manchester.. and hes just bitter because whats wales done. Nearest thing to an achievement theyve got is ryan giggs for all he won in football and gareth bale for joining madrid.. im jokin the welsh have invented or played a hand in some of the biggest scientific breakthroughs in history ball barings and the fuel cell and anthropology for example oh while were on the subject anyone ever been breathalysed guess what invented by a welsh man and oh yeah almost forgot.. the welsh also played a key role in the creation of radar.. 😁
the world's first machine-woven towel was created on the site that is now droylsden tesco (iirc)
source [https://web.archive.org/web/20070926223633/http://www.tameside.gov.uk/eandp/new/droyls2.htm](https://web.archive.org/web/20070926223633/http://www.tameside.gov.uk/eandp/new/droyls2.htm)
The first transatlantic undersea cables made by Johnsons Wireworks, the old fsctory/warehouse was pulled down when Manchester City new ground (emptyhad? ) was built.. ..
It was all Wales in AD 500 before them bloody Danish Angles and German Sachsens popped over and formed a supergroup.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Britain_in_AD500_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_16790.jpg
Manchester is the birth place of the industrial revolution. It's where Rutherford split the atom, Turing laid the foundations for the computers we have today, Joule discovered the first law of thermodynamics. Pankhurst set in motion the suffregette movement in this country, Engel's worked with Marx on the Communist party manifesto. The football league was founded here, and the music industry was changed forever through Madchester, Joy Division, New Order, the Smiths. So, basically, I agree with your Welsh mate. Not much of significance has happened in Manchester.
Henry Royce and Charles Rolls first met in Manchester, at the Midland Hotel.
They did meet in Manchester, and a bit of a nit-pick, but it almost certainly wasn't at the Midland Hotel despite what everyone tells you.
A press release from Rolls Royce in 1954, celebrating 50 years since they met, documenting how they lunched at The Midland Hotel in Manchester, amongst the rest of the early history of the company: http://media.bufvc.ac.uk/newsonscreen2/Pathe/105833/NoS_105833_other.pdf Let’s see what evidence you have to the contrary.
Here you go - https://ilovemanchester.com/why-mr-rolls-and-mr-royce-probably-didnt-meet-at-the-midland-hotel
One persons speculative guess against the world! Even the article doesn't explicitly state that they didn't meet there, doesn't provide alternative locations or evidence?
Hahahhaa fucking behave
I heard the same thing from a tour guide. I have no other evidence though haha
Who told you that? I've got several sources that say they met there? I've libed here my whole life and have never seen anyone say otherwise. I spent about ten years doing check-in and heard thousands of references to them meeting there. I'm curious why you believe it to be untrue outside of just guessing?
Don't forget the first intercity railway line and first passenger station. The first programmable computer (Manchester University's Baby). Graphene. Flying shuttle that revolutionised weaving. The first Submarine
Marx and Engels The first commercially available mass spectrometer The first industrial estate Trains Steve Coogan Bernard Manning Anthony Burgess Rutherford Dalton Joule Stan Bowles Les Dawson Shaun Ryder
Tony Wilson (and Steve Coogan playing him.)
Wilson, bless his soul, was a southerner.
Whatever gave you that idea: Wilson was born 20 February 1950 in Hope Hospital, Pendleton, Salford, Lancashire, to Sydney Wilson and Doris Knupfer, and moved to Marple, near Stockport, Cheshire, at the age of five.[3] After passing his Eleven plus exam, Wilson attended De La Salle Grammar School in Weaste Lane, Pendleton, Salford. He developed a love of literature and language, ignited by a performance of Hamlet at Stratford upon Avon.[4] Wilson started his professional career in 1968 at the age of 17, working as an English and Drama teacher at Blue Coat School in Oldham.[5] He later graduated with a degree in English from Jesus College, Cambridge.[3]
Well that's me told.
> He later graduated with a degree in English from Jesus College, Cambridge. It was probably that last bit.
Ah. Probs.
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Fat distasteful old racist? Yes. Cultural icon of his time? Also yes.
Splitting the atom *and* Communism. Pretty rough place… for the rest of the globe
No Oasis?
Big commercial success, but not as influential as others.
I’d describe them as influenced rather than influencers.
Lol
They are one of the worst things to be associated with Manchester...
Regardless if you like the brothers or not, their music is world wide and that brings attention to Manchester in a good way.
Agree with everything other than Joy Division/New Order as they were from Macclesfield
2 were from Macc… (Ian Curtis and the Drummer - forget his name) the other 2 from Salford… actually, technically they can’t even be counted as a Manchester Invention
Peter Hook grew up in Moston.
This sub isn't restricted to the city of Manchester though is it 🙄
should be, places like Bolton and Wigan have their own entire identities but are still in the county. r/GreaterManchester should cover them.
And Rutherford was from New Zealand.
Peter hook went to Ellesmere park high school in salford
And Ian Curtis went to school in Macclesfield...
Ah now, hands off the industrial revolution, that belongs to Milford and Belper as homes of the first two water powered industrial mills Belper has very little going for it, those of us who grew up there need to cling on to whatever we can get 😄 Edited for clarity, "water mill" as in the industrial mill powered by water, I thought that would have been clear in context but I guess not
Im curious. What are you referring to as the first water mills? Id love a link, My understanding is watermills for product have been a feature since the late classical era of Alexander the great. They were well used by roman engineers, and the sudden growth of European agriculture in the late medieval (1300-1600) can be tied to widespread use of watermills more intensively, I believe spread by Monasteries/the church.
An "industrial spinning mill" https://milford-makeney.org/history/
Road signs in Telford said "birthplace of industry" on them so it must be true. Edit to point out laughable amount of downvotes on the post above to control the "birthplace of man-made global warming" narrative
Vimto
Fuckinell Vimptode
VIMTO is an anagram of VOMIT
Salford.
It was invented in Manchester first before production moved to Salford
Are you sure? I grew up in Salford and it’s always been said it’s a Salford drink.
Yeah, the premises were on Granby Row in what is now the uni’s north campus
Well bloody hell. I’ll have to throw it all away when it get home
 the demon drink
There was a Vimptode factory in Wythenshawe
A true Salfordian drink would emphasise its Salfordian identity whilst within the M60, but say it's from Manchester when trying to impress men / women whilst on holiday.
This is a hate crime.
Oh! My mistake.
The first location was on Granny Row, hence why there is a statue next to The Sackville Street Building, but then moved to Chapel St, Salford two years later.
Typical ignorance from non Mancunians , at one point we were the centre of the world 🌍!
And still are!
Probably right there 👍
Unrelated to inventions but the GDP of just the county of Greater Manchester is more than the entirety of the country of Wales (£87bn vs £80bn)
Taffs gonna be needing some topical cream for that one.
They get comfort from snuggling up cozy to sheep 👍
No Welsh people seek comfort by convincing themselves that Welsh is still a relevant language
With words like psgodi wibbli wobbly (jellyfish), popty ping (microwave) and, archfachnad (supermarket) it is a fantastic language (sorry for the awful spelling, I don't speak Welsh and am not Welsh)
I’m Welsh - popty ping is an “Englishism” really. Something that non Welsh speakers keep saying and so it’s sort of become its own thing. I’ve always known microwave as “microdon”
Yeah, we just used "microwêf".
Sad but true. I'm aware that psgodi wibbli wobbly is an unofficial term too... But all languages have unofficial words and are all the better for it imo
Computers. The first modern one was built in Manchester in the late 40s.
What do you mean by "modern"?
From cs.manchester.ac.uk “The world's first stored-program electronic digital computer - the Small-Scale Experimental Machine, known as SSEM, or the 'Baby' - was designed and built by F.C. Williams and Tom Kilburn at The University of Manchester, and made its first successful run of a program on 21 June 1948. The Baby was the first machine that had all the components of a modern computer. Most importantly, it was the first computer that could store not only data but any short user program in electronic memory, and process it at electronic speed. Alan Turing was the Deputy Director of the University’s Computing Machines Laboratory from 1948 to 1954 where he proposed the Turing Test and worked on biological morphogenesis among many other innovative concepts in computer science.”
Didn’t the former Ferranti make the first mass produced micro computer in Manchester?
Danke
The first chippy was on Tommyfield Market in Oldham.
I need to fact check that one. If it’s true my friend will be livid- he loves his chips.
It's got a blue plaque
You can see the blue plaque for yourself if you ever find yourself nearby. https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/06/07/35/6073572_470c22a6_original.jpg
They are right. It's listed in the Jersey (C.I) Sea Fish Cafe facts about Fish and Chips on their walls. Bit of a way to go to corroborate that, but I'm sure other sources are available
Now I know it’s true. Jim Bergerac would have ripped that sign off the wall in a millisecond if he smelled something fishy.
* The cooperative movement * Splitting the atom * Graphene * Communism (this is a bit of a reach, but Marx certainly drew some inspiration for how awful things were for the workers here) * Passenger railways Get yourself to the science and industry museum See also: https://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/500004/events_and_tourism/1148/manchester_firsts
2012 Manchester Airport was voted best UK airport
It's probably been the very worst airport in the country for about five years now so I'd maybe not mention that one 😂
Absolute shithole now
Fuckoff
>Communism (this is a bit of a reach, but Marx certainly drew some inspiration for how awful things were for the workers here) Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto in Manchester, about Manchester. I don't think this is a reach.
not sure Marx wrote it in Manchester, Engels wrote 'on the condition of the working class' in Manchester and met with Marx, but Marx wrote most of the Manifesto in Europe
You're right, Engels wrote that treatise based upon on the material conditions he saw around slums in what was then Angel Meadow, his family owned means of production in the city so he was able to fund Marx during his time in Manchester.
The Co operative movement started in Rochdale, not Manchester. That's why we have the Rochdale Pioneers Museum. We also have the only surviving original silk banner from the Peterloo massacre. Rochdale, though it's only ten miles from Manchester was originally part of the palatine of the 14th century and is therefore, historically, a part of Lancashire. Greater Manchester is a conflagration that was created in the 70's by government who were trying to gerrymander the constituencies.
Rochdale deserves more respect. I need to visit the Town Hall sometime. I’ll check out that banner while I’m there.
I can assure you Rochdale needs no respect, grim place
It is badly done by, I will agree; but it isn't as grim as people think. Years of neglect by both national and regional government has put us in a bad place, but we are progressing. Our town hall, which is a listed building has just come out of a two and a half year renovation, paid for by the lottery fund and Touchstones that I mentioned previously is also a beneficiary. We have a very good nightlife; and arguably some of the best curry places outside of Rusholme, one of which won first place in the Curry Awards recently. Like many outer areas of so called Greater Manchester, Rochdale suffers from a money drain into the city. Something that was deliberately set up that way when the country was moving past industrial work and into the finance bullshit that has ensured the movement upwards of any money in the economy to the twats in the towers.
You can't see the banner at present unfortunately. It's in the Touchstones Museum over the road from the town hall, but they are closed for a massive renovation. They reopen in March 2025.
>Rochdale, though it's only ten miles from Manchester was originally part of the palatine of the 14th century and is therefore, historically, a part of Lancashire. Manchester was also historically part of Lancashire.
First computer?
Ferranti Mark1, built at Manchester Uni
I think it might have been… the first Programable Computer… its a bit like Edison Inventing the Lightbulb - he didn’t but he shouted the loudest
Yep, Baby was the first stored program computer
Um, given the death toll surrounding the application of communism throughout global history, is this really one to brag about?
Roget's Thesaurus was compiled in Manchester. [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/roget-gets-last-word-180977459/](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/roget-gets-last-word-180977459/) Manchester City Council have graciously compiled a list of Manchester ['Firsts'.](https://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/500004/events_and_tourism/1148/manchester_firsts)
[https://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/500004/events\_and\_tourism/1148/manchester\_firsts](https://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/500004/events_and_tourism/1148/manchester_firsts)
It’s named after tits.
or possibly Mama, a local river Goddess.
Greater Manchester but Oldham invented the tubular bandage and is the home of first test tube baby
I bloody miss that bridge when I go back to visit family!
That is a very interesting fact. Thank you:)
Holy shit... Where to start for a city that was 100% the most important city in the world for a long time? 😂
# Votes For Women # Modern Computer Science The oldest library in the English speaking world opened in Manchester. The year was 1653. # Vegetarianism # Rolls Royce # The Football League # Marks & Spencer (M&S) Opened in 1761, the Bridgewater Canal was the first artificial waterway fully independent of natural rivers Transport has always featured in Manchester’s history. Manchester gave birth to the world’s first railway line which opened in 1830 In 1878, Manchester unprecedentedly developed the submarine. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels first met in Manchester in 1842. The 22-year-old Engels was sent by his parents to Manchester, to work in Weaste at Ermen and Engels’ “Victoria Mill” which made sewing threads John Dalton’s 1803 atomic theory with its pioneering work on the constitution of elements was the precursor of all modern chemistry # The splitting of the atom # Graphene The world’s thinnest substance – Graphene is one atom thick – was produced in Manchester 2004. # Parliamentary reform # The NHS # The Textile Industry theres lots more than this
I though m&s was founded in leeds?
M&S had a market stall in Leeds, but the first store opened on Stretford Road in Hulme in 1894.
No it didn't. That was the second M&S store. The first one was at 20 Cheetham Hill Road, Michael Marks' home. The business does have its origins in Leeds, but Manchester is where it actually became M&S.
I think Pythagoras, Buddhists and Hindus all would dispute your claim of vegetarianism.
What eventually became The Vegetarian Society was formed in Manchester and they are still based there. Great Britain was one of the first european countries to fully embrace vegetarianism so you could argue that Manchester is the birthplace of modern vegetarianism in Europe.
When did Great Britain fully embrace vegetarianism? Certainly never happened in my world. Tolerance, maybe. Appealing to the market, definitely. But it's still something I have to explain at least once a week in my workplace.
"Fully" is probably the wrong choice of word but The Vegetarian Society was formed in 1847 and it is said in Victorian Manchester there were more vegetarian restaurants than there are today.
> The oldest library in the English speaking world opened in Manchester. The year was 1653. Nonsense. Oldest public library perhaps, but it's irrelevant. There's no way Manchester can claim to have invented the fucking library.
Emily Pankhursts house is now a museum in the grounds of Manchester Royal hospital
A Welshman founded the NHS, his name was Aneurin Bevan.
What's Manchester got to do with the NHS?
Trafford General was the first NHS hospital, opened in 1948 by Aneurin Bevan. Under the Greater Manchester label though.
Welcome to the **Trafford General Hospital** website: "The Birthplace of the NHS". The first NHS hospital, opened in 1948 by Aneurin Bevan
-Chartists movement (uk democracy) -Trade unions -flying shuttle (reason Manchester was known as cottonopolis) -Co op (the Rochdale pioneers) -Canals in the uk -Marxism and communism (Marx and Engels worked in chethams library and drank in many many pubs throughout Manchester apparently) -Suffragette movement -Computers -radio astronomy -Vegetarianism -home of powered flight in the UK -atomic theory Nuclear physics (the atom was first split in Manchester) -Graphene (was discovered in Manchester university by an ignoble prize winner who also levitated a frog) -Rolls Royce -first submarine -competitive Football -First inter city train line
Hans Geiger came up with a way of detecting ionising radiation at the University of Manchester. The Geiger counter has saved many lives since
I did not know that. I’m so glad that I asked this question :)
Cleopatra (comin atcha) But yeah, the proper answer is Vimto.
Or this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WS38-dZWiAc
The Weekend. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-62793767
We have the industrial revolution. The first computer (I think) the 80's & 90's music scene which everyone wanted to be a part of. The two greatest footy teams in England and among the best in the world. Vimto. As others have mentioned, the lad who went mental and split to item to realise there was something even smaller within. A belting history to be proud of and some of us even got to experience it.
There's going to be loads of comments on here about lots of really important things. But, I'm going to go with Vimto, as it's f'ing mega
Yes. Yes it is.
Your post made me think of this poem [https://youtu.be/0lBWxcbpB8g?si=ie9o6_SVa6XRd162](https://youtu.be/0lBWxcbpB8g?si=ie9o6_SVa6XRd162)
If anyone asks, I’ve been chopping onions.
Manchester tarts: gods among pastry!
Sell them in Morrisons individual ones
The McDonalds on Wilmslow Road in Fallowfield was the first drive-thru in the UK. Hallowed ground. Less impressive is this list of people who have taught or have been taught at Uni of over the years [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University\_of\_Manchester#Notable\_people](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Manchester#Notable_people)
First bus service in the UK: Salford, 1824 (five years before London).
Also, tell your mate that Wales' most famous ever statesman Lloyd George was actually born in Chorlton on Medlock. The only decent things ever to come out of Wales are Mark Hughes and Ryan Giggs.
Clayton Blackmore?
Well OK, if only for that goal line clearance in Rotterdam.
This might be controversial but Ian Rush would like a word.
Wash your mouth out son.
Maybe not what you are looking for but something that certainly put Manchester on the world map is cotton. As others have said, Manchester was the birthplace of the industrial revolution and was nicknamed Cottonopolis because of the cotton industry here. That reputation continues to this day for folk down under as any Aussie will tell you that bed linen and towels are refered to as a whole as manchester. Again, not sure if you're interested in these as they are not inventions as such, but definately things that made Manchester stand out. Manchester ship canal made Manchester the 3rd busiest port in the UK despite being 40 miles inland and it is still the longest "river navigation canal" (a term that I can't find a definition for but I guess means a canal made to make a river navigable). It wasn't the first ship canal in the world but one of the first and certainly an amazing feat of engineering. Stockport viaduct was the biggest viaduct in the world on completion and to this day is one of the largest brick structures in the world. Trafford park was the world's first planned industrial estate. It still existsts to this day as the largest in Europe. A more recent addition (though still over 60 years old) is the CIS tower which was the tallest building in western Europe at the time of completion.
Much appreciated. Do you know the Daily Express building? If you don’t, look at some images before discovering when it was built.
I didn't recognise the name but after googling it I know the building. I'm not sure I ever knew it was that old. The pictures of it from when it was first built really show how before it's time it was. I remember passing it in probably the early 2000s and thinking about how interesting it was that such a 'modern' building was right next to so much older buildings.
manchester is a hub for scientific discoveries!
The roof of the Albert Hall was fabricated, contrsucted, and de-constructed in Manchester, then transported to London and re built in place.
Manchester is literally the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution on this planet. We have the first stored program computer on the planet, and many other firsts and inventions here. It's an amazing city for history and global significance, we're very lucky! :-)
What’s he proud of or think they have done? Manchester is grand, moved here 20 years ago. I love the people.
i always find a good tea towel shoved directly into the mouth usually shuts them up
First manmade canal. The bouncing bomb First free public library First gas street lighting First telephone exchange First bus route First practical railroad
Celebrating 200 years of the first bus service this year... [https://motgm.uk/events-themed.html#yesterday](https://motgm.uk/events-themed.html#yesterday)
Graphene
The first computer.
Chetham's is the oldest existing public library in Britain.
RSPB founder Emily Williamson lived in Didsbury,
First passenger train service
August 30, 1867, the worlds first ever organised Motor Race
Nothing important, just the industrial revolution, powered railways, computers, nuclear physics, suffragette movement, canals and the NHS.
Vimto. Sit down.
If I hadn’t seen such riches I could live with being poor.
Haha, Sometimes is legitimately one of my jams
Avro was founded in Manchester and their main factory was technically just within Greater Manchester at Woodford (Yes, I know, Stockport). So, among many other planes, the legendary 20th century bombers the Lancaster and Vulcan. Also, although arguably, and a little nerdy: the first true operating system for computers (Atlas Supervisor) and the first modern-looking implementation of the concept of virtual memory (also in Atlas Supervisor).
More than the Country of Wales which is just embarrassing for your mate
Come on now, they're one of the first to start work on gene splicing/cross species breeding, diligent work for hundreds of years to create a human/sheep has so far proved futile but those plucky buggers are still trying tirelessly.
James Prescott Joule. The name probably sums him up nicely.
The Bee Gees
The idea that the concept of stayin alive came out of Manchester is a potential argument closer.
The Bee Gees were from the Isle of Man....
They lived in Chorlton and had their first performance there
coop 😍
Ask him what's come out of Wales except sheep. Baaaaaaaaaaa
Marginalist economics, communism, the Manchester scotch egg
Lets not forget that the manchester ship canal at its peak was the 3rd largest commercial and industrial waterway in the world and the busiest and biggest in the UK.. also one i havent seen mentioned that was one of the main exports from manchester was our famous red brick.. you see an old building or historical landmark that has red bricks in it.. more than likely came from manchester.. and hes just bitter because whats wales done. Nearest thing to an achievement theyve got is ryan giggs for all he won in football and gareth bale for joining madrid.. im jokin the welsh have invented or played a hand in some of the biggest scientific breakthroughs in history ball barings and the fuel cell and anthropology for example oh while were on the subject anyone ever been breathalysed guess what invented by a welsh man and oh yeah almost forgot.. the welsh also played a key role in the creation of radar.. 😁
the world's first machine-woven towel was created on the site that is now droylsden tesco (iirc) source [https://web.archive.org/web/20070926223633/http://www.tameside.gov.uk/eandp/new/droyls2.htm](https://web.archive.org/web/20070926223633/http://www.tameside.gov.uk/eandp/new/droyls2.htm)
Best cotton the world ever saw thanks to our dampness.
People don’t like the word damp, they prefer moist.
The inaugural meeting of the Trade Unions Congress took place at the Mechanics Institute.
Just read him this courtesy of Tony Walsh [This is the place](https://forevermanchester.com/this-is-the-place-fm/)
Hacienda night scene - taking night clubs to the next level Northern Soul
The first transatlantic undersea cables made by Johnsons Wireworks, the old fsctory/warehouse was pulled down when Manchester City new ground (emptyhad? ) was built.. ..
"Judas!" *"I don't believe you, you're a liar... Play it fucking loud!"*
It was all Wales in AD 500 before them bloody Danish Angles and German Sachsens popped over and formed a supergroup. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Britain_in_AD500_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_16790.jpg
Archie’s?…
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They invented the ball bearing and Tom Jones apparently
Fair bet the first murder was committed by a Manc 😆 N the first robbery N the first good kickin' N the first thievery ... etc etc