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    The Athenaeum on Princess Street in Manchester, England, now part of Manchester Art Gallery, was originally a club built for the Manchester Athenaeum, a...
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  • Manchester Mechanics' Institute, founded 1824 Manchester Statistical Society, founded 1833 Manchester Athenaeum, founded 1835 Chetham Society, founded 1843...
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    lantern above the entrance hall. Manchester Athenaeum, also designed by Barry, was built in 1837 and was bought by the Manchester Corporation in 1938 to provide...
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    Manchester (/ˈmæntʃɪstər, -tʃɛs-/ ) is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had an estimated population of 568,996 in...
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    the building. His last work in Manchester was the Italianate Manchester Athenaeum (1837–39), this is now part of Manchester Art Gallery. From 1835–37, he...
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    Belle Vue Zoological Gardens (founded by John Jennison in 1836), the Manchester Athenaeum (1836–37), the Corn Exchange (1837) and the Royal Victoria Gallery...
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    my first idea". In a fundraising speech on 5 October 1843 at the Manchester Athenaeum, Dickens urged workers and employers to join together to combat ignorance...
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  • Dodie Smith (category People from Whitefield, Greater Manchester)
    ten, and she began acting in minor roles during her teens at the Manchester Athenaeum Dramatic Society. There is a blue plaque commemorating the building...
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  • Hulme Athenaeum F.C. was an English association football club from Manchester. The club was based at the Hulme Athenaeum, a clubhouse founded in 1860 by...
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    an enthusiastic supporter of dramatic organisations including the Manchester Athenaeum and the Dramatic Reading Society. He owned a theatre in Salford for...
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    Manchester Airport (IATA: MAN, ICAO: EGCC) is an international airport in Ringway, Manchester, England, 7 miles (11 km) south-west of Manchester city centre...
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    Edinburgh (in 1854), a Member of the Manchester Athenæum, and the Honorary Curator of the museum of the Manchester Natural History Society. James Braid...
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    Mackintosh) to Manchester. 1835 Royal Manchester Institution building in Mosley Street completed as a natural history and art museum. Manchester Athenaeum established...
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    became Manchester Art Gallery which also incorporates the Manchester Athenaeum, designed in the palazzo style by Barry in 1836. As Manchester emerged...
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    a conspicuous figure in Manchester political and intellectual life. He championed the foundation of the Manchester Athenaeum and delivered its inaugural...
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    The City of Manchester Stadium, currently known as the Etihad Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is the home of Premier League club Manchester City, with...
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    "The Athenaeum, Manchester (1270889)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 29 May 2008. Historic England. "103 Princess Street, Manchester (1247391)"...
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    1844 he took part in, and spoke at, the soirée held at the Manchester Athenaeum under the presidency of Disraeli. A few days later, he and his friends...
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    notable streets and roads in Manchester, England. Bradshaw, L. D. (1985). Origins of Street Names in the City of Manchester. Radcliffe: Neil Richardson...
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  • (approximate date). 1844 - Manchester Athenaeum established. 1846 City incorporated. Manchester High School established. 1849 - Manchester and Lawrence Railroad...
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    Apollo Manchester (known locally as The Apollo and formerly Manchester Apollo and ABC Ardwick) is a concert venue in Ardwick Green, Manchester, England...
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    brothers séance phenomena through trickery at the Library Hall of the Manchester Athenaeum. Irving impersonated Dr Ferguson who had introduced the real Davenports...
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    structures in Greater Manchester ranks buildings in Greater Manchester by height. As of August 2024[update], Greater Manchester has 24 towers completed...
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    Manchester Piccadilly is the main railway station of the city of Manchester, in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, England. Opened originally...
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    HM Prison Manchester is a Category A and B men's prison in Manchester, England, operated by His Majesty's Prison Service. It is still commonly referred...
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  • The Sun Inn Group (category Writers from Manchester)
    the city's literary community when Charles Dickens spoke at the Manchester Athenaeum Club in 1843, but he was also pointedly not invited to the club's...
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    Manchester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Mary, St Denys and St George, in Manchester, England, is the mother church of...
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  • quit medicine in 1846, to become the full-time secretary of the Manchester Athenaeum. Langley put himself forward as an ultra-radical candidate for Stockport...
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  • Stanley Houghton (category People from Sale, Greater Manchester)
    plays. Houghton's first productions were The Intrigues at the Athenaeum Society, Manchester on 19 October 1906, The Reckoning at the Queen's Theatre, London...
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