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A bronze statue of Sir Matt Busby, erected in 1996, stands on the exterior of the East Stand of the Old Trafford stadium, overlooking Sir Matt Busby Way. The road is approximately 420 metres (459 yd) long and runs from Chester Road to Trafford Park Road/Wharfside Way (A5081). It also connects to United Road, which runs under the North Stand of ...
The A56 is a road in England which extends between the city of Chester in Cheshire and the village of Broughton in North Yorkshire.The road contains a mixture of single and dual carriageway sections, and traverses environments as diverse as the dense urban sprawl of inner city Manchester and the lightly populated region of rural east Lancashire.
Old Trafford (/ ˈ t r æ f ər d /) is a football stadium in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, and is the home of Manchester United.With a capacity of 74,310, [1] it is the largest club football stadium (and second-largest football stadium overall after Wembley Stadium) in the United Kingdom, and the twelfth-largest in Europe. [3]
During its design it was known as Link Road 17/7. The scheme lies over the geological West Manchester Fault. It would be the first elevated main road to be built outside London, and the UK's second aerial motorway after the Hammersmith flyover. [4] The road is 3,232 ft (985 m) long and has 28 spans of 105 ft (32 m), and two spans of 60 ft (18 m).
Old Trafford Football Stadium, home of Manchester United F.C. Until the mid-20th century there were four cinemas in Old Trafford: the Imperial Picture Theatre in Chorlton Road, Brooks Bar, The Globe on Cornbrook Street, The Lyceum in City Road and the Trafford Picture House in Talbot Road.
Deansgate is a main road (part of the A56) through Manchester City Centre, England. It runs roughly north–south in a near straight route through the western part of the city centre and is the longest road in the city centre at over one mile in length. [1]
The origin of the name Stretford is "street" (Old English strǣt) on a ford across the River Mersey. [1]The principal road through Stretford, the A56 Chester Road, follows the line of the old Roman road from Deva Victrix to Mamucium (), crossing the Mersey into Stretford at Crossford Bridge, built at the location of the ancient ford.
The Stretford End terraces before 1993. Before the Taylor Report, which required all Premier League and Division One clubs to have all-seater stadia by the start of the 1994–95 season, the Stretford End was the main standing area at Old Trafford, accommodating around 20,000 fans.