The Modern City · event 6 of 12

1982

The Haçienda opens. Factory Records opens FAC 51 on Whitworth Street West, funded by New Order’s record sales. It loses money for six years, then acid house arrives and it becomes the most important club in Britain. It closes in 1997. The site is now flats.

The The Modern City era

  1. 1917
  2. 1940
  3. 1948
  4. 1958
  5. 1976
  6. 1982
  7. 1992
  8. 1996
  9. 2002
  10. 2017
  11. 2023
  12. 2025

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