Cottonopolis · event 11 of 12

1900

The John Rylands Library. Enriqueta Rylands opens the library she built to commemorate her husband, ten years in the making, electric from day one and with filtered air to keep the city’s soot off the books. It is free, and it is the most beautiful room in Manchester.

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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