Top 10 Facts About Manchester

January 15th, 2008 | by Simon Rattray |

Here are some interesting facts about Manchester…

  • Over twenty of the nobel prize winners have come from Manchester
  • Manchester houses over 100,000 students across 4 Universities
  • There will be £4.9 billion pounds of construction in the next 10 years
  • Is the city where Rolls met Royce
  • Over 50,000 journies are made daily on the city’s Metrolink
  • Manchester was the world’s first industrial city
  • Manchester has over 2,000 foreign owned firms
  • The first modern computer was built in Manchester
  • The atom was first split in Manchester
  • Has the tallest UK building outside of London

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  1. One Response to “Top 10 Facts About Manchester”

  2. By winning is everything on Jan 16, 2008 | Reply

    Just to add to make it 11.

    The world’s first passenger railway ran from manchester to Dalton!

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