What Came Before
History
TODO — what history in Manchester are actually worth the time.
3 placesCastlefield
Castlefield and the Roman Fort
A rebuilt Roman gate, the world's first industrial canal basin, and a garden on a Victorian viaduct — all in one basin.
Spinningfields
People's History Museum
The national museum of democracy, in a pump house, holding the largest collection of trade union banners in the world.
St Peter's Square
The Peterloo Memorial
Eighteen dead, hundreds injured, and two hundred years before the city built anything to mark it.