Saturday 3rd August 2013
Manchester
Departure:
Leaves at 9am from outside Fountains Learning Centre
(Traveling by Ingleby’s Coach) arrival at Manchester at 11am approx.
Return:
Leaves Manchester at 5pm
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & INDUSTRY (MOSI) – MANCHESTER
SATURDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2012
Travel
: Ingleby’s Luxury Coaches
Manchester tourist attractions
“Manchester is one of the most dynamic
and lively places in Europe. A place with
an illustrious past that's always at the
cutting edge of what's new.”
Manchester is an extremely important industrial city, with a fascinating history. It is also famous
for its influential contribution both to British music and culture and is now a modern, vibrant area
to visit, with shops, museums and galleries.
The best place to find out more about Manchester role during the Industrial Revolution is a visit
to the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) where you could walk into old Victorians
sewers and see a rich collection of the first trains in the world. MOSI also holds a good collection
of early aircraft, a planetarium and an array of very interesting talks, demonstrations and special
exhibitions. You can find out more about these and reserve your place at the visitor centre by
the entrance.
The city has also over 90 galleries to visit, including the stunning, Victorian Manchester Art
Gallery with its impressive art collection and the Manchester Craft and Design Centre, in
which contemporary arts and crafts are displayed and can be purchased. The Lowry, on the
Quays, contains two theatres and a gallery showing the work of the famous English artist, LS
Lowry. There are also quayside cafes and a restaurant.
The Town Hall, with its impressive neo-Gothic architecture, has been used as one of the
locations for the films like Sherlock Holmes. Manchester Cathedral, with its Angel Stone and
marvellous stained-glass windows, is also well worth a visit.
The Manchester Ship Canal is a highly significant industrial waterway. Get here by tram from
St Peter’s Square. You can then cross the canal at The Quays to reach the Imperial War
Museum (North) and The Lowry.
Exchange Square, which contains The Triangle, is the place to go for designer shops.
The Imperial War Museum (North) has powerful exhibits to visit, listen to and view.
The Royal Exchange, which used to be the Cotton Exchange, still shows cotton prices on its
walls, giving a link to the historic source of Manchester’s wealth: spinning and trading cotton. It is
now an elegant theatre with a modern craft gallery.
More information about Manchester can be found at http://www.visitmanchester.com