• The Manchester Open previously known as the Northern Lawn Tennis Championships, the Northern Championships, the Northern Tennis Tournament and the Manchester...
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    incorporated into Manchester in the 20th century, including Wythenshawe in 1931. Manchester achieved city status in 1853. The Manchester Ship Canal opened in 1894...
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  • Manchester City Football Club, commonly referred to as Manchester City, Man City or simply City, is a professional football club based in Manchester, England...
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    The 2023–24 season was the 137th in the history of Manchester United, their 32nd season in the Premier League and their 49th consecutive season in the...
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    councils of which collaborate through Greater Manchester Combined Authority. The county was created on 1 April 1974 from parts of north-east Cheshire, south-east...
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  • of the Dead'; also known as The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue and Don't Open the Window) is a 1974 zombie horror film directed by Jorge Grau, and starring...
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    Greater Manchester since 1974. Bury emerged in the Industrial Revolution as a mill town manufacturing textiles. The town is known for the open-air Bury...
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    Melissa Manchester (born February 15, 1951) is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Since the 1970s, her songs have been played by adult contemporary...
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    The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) was a university based in the centre of the city of Manchester in England. It specialised...
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    proposition was that Manchester City Council could sell the building to the National Trust. A Friends Group was formed to support monthly open days and events...
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    Strangeways was designed by Alfred Waterhouse and opened in 1868 alongside the demolished Manchester Assize Courts. The prison is known for its prominent...
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    The history of Manchester encompasses its change from a minor Lancastrian township into the pre-eminent industrial metropolis of the United Kingdom and...
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    since 1 April 1974, formed an unparished area of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport within the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester. Since 1950...
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    financial backing from the Prudential Assurance Company and Manchester Corporation. The first phase opened in 1975. It was the largest Arndale Centre in the United...
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    Victoria University of Manchester, usually referred to as simply the University of Manchester, was a university in Manchester, England. It was founded...
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    Midland Hotel is a grand hotel in Manchester, England. Opened in 1903, it was built by the Midland Railway to serve Manchester Central railway station, its...
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    1974. The city forces were Manchester Borough Police, which formed in the late 1830s and Salford Borough Police, which began in 1844. Upon Manchester...
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    Dobcross (category Villages in Greater Manchester)
    parish of Saddleworth in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England. It is in a valley in the South Pennines, along the course of...
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    Liverpool F.C.–Manchester City F.C. rivalry is an inter-city rivalry between English professional football clubs Liverpool and Manchester City. Liverpool...
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    Salford (redirect from Salford, Manchester)
    Greater Manchester, England. The city is situated in a meander on the western bank of the River Irwell which forms its boundary with Manchester and its...
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    The Manchester derby refers to football matches between Manchester City and Manchester United, first contested in 1881. City play at the Etihad Stadium...
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    Denton is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, five miles (8 km) east of Manchester city centre. Historically part of Lancashire, it had a...
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    The Manchester Ship Canal is a 36 mi-long (58 km) inland waterway in the North West of England linking Manchester to the Irish Sea. Starting at the Mersey...
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    Although Arsenal and Manchester United have frequently been in the same division in English football since 1919, the rivalry between the two clubs only...
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    since 1 April 1974 formed an unparished area of the City of Salford, a metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester. Swinton lies...
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    The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Manchester in north west England. c. 79 – Romans build a wooden fort at Mamucium in the Castlefield...
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    The rivalry between Leeds United and Manchester United, sometimes nicknamed the Roses rivalry, is a footballing rivalry played between the Northern English...
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    borough became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester in 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972. Hyde Town Hall dominates the...
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  • the Wiener Stadthalle, in Vienna, Austria, since 1974. The event was also known as the Stadthalle Open, and as the Fischer-Grand Prix from 1976 to 1985...
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  • as a positive for the clubs involved. Premier League giants Manchester City (6), Manchester United (5), Liverpool (5) and Chelsea (3) between them won...
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