manchester meaning Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/manchester-meaning Sun, 13 Nov 2016 17:40:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 MANCHESTER http://travelsfinders.com/manchester.html http://travelsfinders.com/manchester.html#respond Sat, 14 Jan 2017 17:42:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=226110 MANCHESTER The Industrial Revolution transformed the unremarkable village of Manchester (pop. 2.5 million) into Britain’s second-largest urban area A center of manufacturing in the 19th century, the city became a hotbed of liberal politics, its deplorable working-class conditions arousing the indignation of everyone from Frederic Engels (who called it “Hell on Earth”) to John Ruskin (who called it a “devil’s darkness”). Now teeming with electronic beats and post-industrial glitz, Manchester has risen from factory soot to savor its reputation as one of the hippest spots in England. Though dodgy in parts, the city is undergoing a gradual gentrification and is

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