Cottonopolis · event 8 of 12

1858

The Hallé’s first concert. Charles Hallé, who came to Manchester as a refugee from the 1848 revolutions and found the local orchestra intolerable, forms his own. It is the oldest professional symphony orchestra in the United Kingdom and still plays, now at the Bridgewater Hall.

The Cottonopolis era

  1. 1761
  2. 1781
  3. 1804
  4. 1830
  5. 1838
  6. 1853
  7. 1857
  8. 1858
  9. 1877
  10. 1894
  11. 1900
  12. 1906

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