You have permission to edit this article. There was a problem saving your notification. MANCHESTER, NH — Jan Raymond, executive vice president and chief lending officer for St. Mary’s Bank, was honored with Daniel Webster Council’s 2020 Granite State Outstanding Women’s Leadership Award at a virtual reception last month.. Raymond was chosen to receive the prestigious annual award for the leadership qualities she demonstrates. [201], The three universities are grouped around Oxford Road on the southern side of the city centre, which forms Europe's largest urban higher-education precinct. [167] Later the council stated it had secured a further £32 million. [30] However, this period of decline coincided with the rise of the city as the financial centre of the region. The airport is the third busiest in the United Kingdom, with over double the number of annual passengers of the next busiest non-London airport. [219], Several local weekly free papers are distributed by the MEN group. Manchester city centre suffers from constrained rail capacity that frequently leads to delays and cancellations – a 2018 report found that all three major Manchester stations are among the top ten worst stations in the United Kingdom for punctuality, with Oxford Road deemed the worst in the country. [20] In 1878 the GPO (the forerunner of British Telecom) provided its first telephones to a firm in Manchester.[36]. For example, casting and machining expertise at Beyer, Peacock and Company's locomotive works in Gorton was switched to bomb making; Dunlop's rubber works in Chorlton-on-Medlock made barrage balloons; and just outside the city in Trafford Park, engineers Metropolitan-Vickers made Avro Manchester and Avro Lancaster bombers and Ford built the Rolls-Royce Merlin engines to power them. For purposes of the Office for National Statistics, Manchester forms the most populous settlement within the Greater Manchester Urban Area, the United Kingdom's third-largest conurbation. At the University of Manchester, Ernest Rutherford first split the atom in 1917, Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn and Geoff Tootill developed the world's first stored-program computer in 1948, and Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov isolated the first graphene in 2004. Until the 19th century local government was largely in the hands of manorial courts, the last of which was dissolved in 1846. [26], Manchester is mentioned as having a market in 1282. [222][223][224] Granada produces Coronation Street,[225] local news and programmes for North West England. [112] In 2013 Manchester was ranked 6th in the UK for quality of life, according to a rating of the UK's 12 largest cities. [93], Kidd identifies Moss Side, Longsight, Cheetham Hill, Rusholme, as centres of population for ethnic minorities. It caused worldwide condemnation and changed the UK's threat level to "critical" for the first time since 2007. The largest skyscraper is now Deansgate Square South Tower, at 201 metres (659 feet).The Green Building, opposite Oxford Road station, is a pioneering eco-friendly housing project, while the recently completed One Angel Square, is one of the most sustainable large buildings in the world. [106] Meanwhile, KPMG's competitive alternative report found that in 2012 Manchester had the 9th lowest tax cost of any industrialised city in the world,[107] and fiscal devolution has come earlier to Manchester than to any other British city: it can keep half the extra taxes it gets from transport investment. [30] Manchester continued to process cotton, and in 1913, 65% of the world's cotton was processed in the area. Migration (internal and international) and other changes accounted for a net increase of 3,100 people between July 2011 and June 2012. A few flurries or snow showers possible. [239][240] In addition, the British Council maintains a metropolitan centre in Manchester. "[20] The cathedral and Chetham's buildings are the only significant survivors of Leland's Manchester. [99] The Manchester LUZ is the second largest within the United Kingdom, behind that of London. [9] It is fringed by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and an arc of towns with which it forms a continuous conurbation. Try for 99¢ a month for two months, cancel or pause anytime. The Roman habitation of Manchester probably ended around the 3rd century; its civilian settlement appears to have been abandoned by the mid-3rd century, although the fort may have supported a small garrison until the late 3rd or early 4th century. [142], Manchester Airport serves Manchester, Northern England and North Wales. The Manchester Arena hosted the FINA World Swimming Championships in 2008. Stoddart worked for newspapers for over 40 years, including at the Boston Herald and the Union Leader. In addition, Manchester Mayfield station closed to passenger services in 1960; its buildings and platforms are still extant, next to Piccadilly station, but are due to be redeveloped in the 2020s. The current General Secretary is Frances O'Grady.. [20] Large quantities of machinery, including cotton processing plant, were exported around the world. Manchester regained its borough status in 1838, and comprised the townships of Beswick, Cheetham Hill, Chorlton upon Medlock and Hulme. Ice fisherman Scott Leslie froze in his tracks when he saw his bobhouse sinking last weekend on Burns Pond in Whitefield. [27] Around the 14th century, Manchester received an influx of Flemish weavers, sometimes credited as the foundation of the region's textile industry. The cost of the immediate damage was initially estimated at £50 million, but this was quickly revised upwards. Beattie said a bystander alerted firefighters to the apartment resident trapped on the second floor, who was removed and later refused medical treatment. In 2018, Andy Burnham, appointed Sacha Lord as Greater Manchester's first Night Time Economy Adviser, following in the footsteps of Amy Lamé, who was appointed by London Mayor Sadiq Khan in 2016 to be the first London night czar. Manchester was thus the target of bombing by the Luftwaffe, and by late 1940 air raids were taking place against non-military targets. [102] It is ranked as a beta world city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network.[103]. The National Indoor BMX Arena (2,000 capacity) adjacent to the velodrome opened in 2011. The association had planned to include many of the items in its centennial celebration in 2023, he said. [90], Of all households in Manchester, 0.23 per cent were Same-Sex Civil Partnership households, compared with an English national average of 0.16 per cent in 2011. [117], According to 2019 property investment research, Manchester is rated as No. [28] A stroke of a baron's pen is said to have divorced Manchester and Salford, though it was not Salford that became separated from Manchester, it was Manchester, with its humbler line of lords, that was separated from Salford. There are three universities in the City of Manchester. [54], On 22 May 2017, an Islamist terrorist carried out a bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in the Manchester Arena; the bomb killed 23, including the attacker, and injured over 800. [111] On the other hand, Greater Manchester is home to more multi-millionaires than anywhere outside London, with the City of Manchester taking up most of the tally. Manchester lost 150,000 jobs in manufacturing between 1961 and 1983. Much of the inner city, especially in the south, is flat, offering extensive views from many highrise buildings in the city of the foothills and moors of the Pennines, which can often be capped with snow in the winter months. Although historically and traditionally a part of Lancashire, areas of Cheshire south of the River Mersey were incorporated into Manchester in the 20th century. [75], Manchester lies at the centre of a green belt region extending into the wider surrounding counties. [20] The First World War interrupted access to the export markets. [128], Recent improvements in Manchester as part of the Northern Hub in the 2010s have been numerous electrification schemes into and through Manchester, redevelopment of Victoria station and construction of the Ordsall Chord directly linking Victoria and Piccadilly. Reported at 9:53 a.m. Friday, the two-alarm fire at 1105 Union Avenue remains under investigation but is believed to be electrical, Laconia Fire Chief Kirk Beattie said. She was accompanying her father Patrick, who was convalescing in the city after cataract surgery. [50], Spurred by the investment after the 1996 bomb and aided by the XVII Commonwealth Games, the city centre has undergone extensive regeneration. In 1885, Bradford, Harpurhey, Rusholme and parts of Moss Side and Withington townships became part of the City of Manchester. The economics books Marx was reading at the time can be seen in the library, as can the window seat where Marx and Engels would meet. [62] Between 1890 and 1933, more areas were added to the city which had been administered by Lancashire County Council, including former villages such as Burnage, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Didsbury, Fallowfield, Levenshulme, Longsight, and Withington. The biggest took place during the "Christmas Blitz" on the nights of 22/23 and 24 December 1940, when an estimated 474 tonnes (467 long tons) of high explosives plus over 37,000 incendiary bombs were dropped. In 1931, the Cheshire civil parishes of Baguley, Northenden and Northen Etchells from the south of the River Mersey were added. The Alan Turing Memorial in Sackville Park commemorates his role as the father of modern computing. In the 1950s, the city was home to a so-called "Manchester School" of classical composers, which was composed of Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies, David Ellis and Alexander Goehr. There is regular but generally light precipitation throughout the year. [169]:13–14 The theatre, to be called The Factory, after Manchester's Factory Records, will provide a permanent home for the Manchester International Festival. [176] Other exhibition spaces and museums in Manchester include Islington Mill in Salford, the National Football Museum at Urbis, Castlefield Gallery, the Manchester Costume Gallery at Platt Fields Park, the People's History Museum and the Manchester Jewish Museum. The largest to be detonated on British soil, the bomb injured over 200 people, heavily damaged nearby buildings, and broke windows 1⁄2 mile (800 m) away. [223][235] Manchester is also covered by two internet television channels: Quays News and Manchester.tv. "[31] Engineering firms initially made machines for the cotton trade, but diversified into general manufacture. Manchester became known as the world's largest marketplace for cotton goods[20][31] and was dubbed "Cottonopolis" and "Warehouse City" during the Victorian era. The later groups came from what became known as the "Madchester" scene that also centred on The Haçienda nightclub developed by the founder of Factory Records, Tony Wilson. Although its influence has waned, Granada had been described as "the best commercial television company in the world". 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