Manchester buildings

The first railway station

Other stations in Manchester
The first train line
The death

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The Hacienda

Music, drugs
Nationwide
Chaotic

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Platt Fields

Eid
Australia – Ten Pound Poms
Mound from Mancunian Way

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Victoria Mill

Canal
Victoria
City

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John Rylands

Libraries – Chetham, Central
1900s
Guardian

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Express building

Hot press – mind your p’s and q’s
Caxton and Gutenburg
Maxwell

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Beetham Tower

2006 – new city centre
47 storeys
The best tall building in the world in 2007

Rent a flat

Co-op HQ

The £100m development – completion August 2012
Rochdale – bank – shops
Balloon Street

The co-operative dividend

Piccadilly Gardens

Warehouse to department store
The gardens Lowry
Woolworths

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