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



One Response to “Top 10 Facts About Manchester”
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!