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Deansgate is a long straight street which has provided a venue for sporting events in the city centre. In 2006, A1 Racing cars visited the city to launch A1 Grand Prix, and used Deansgate as part of the route. [15] In August 2011, thousands packed the street as Jenson Button drove a McLaren MP4-23 along Deansgate as part of the Vodafone Vip ...
The following is a list of notable streets and roads in Manchester, England. Rochdale Canal which runs parallel. Partly pedestrianised. Scene of the 1996 Manchester bombing. Recognisable landmarks include Urbis, The Printworks, Corn Exchange (now The Triangle), Exchange Square, Corporation Street Bridge. Cuts the city centre in two and runs ...
Manchester city centre. Manchester City Centre is the central business district of Manchester, England, within the confines of Great Ancoats Street, A6042 Trinity Way, and A57 (M) Mancunian Way, which collectively form an inner ring road. [1][2] The City Centre ward had a population of 17,861 at the 2011 census. [3]
As of 2023, it is the 32nd-tallest building in Greater Manchester. Its entrance opens onto Bridge Street. The structure is notable for "fingers" at each end, cantilevered over the lower levels. On the western facade is a 60 metre by 60 metre suspended glass wall which totals 11,000-square-metre (120,000 sq ft) - the largest in Europe.
The Hulme Arch Bridge over Princess Road. The original scheme for a new road through the rural area south of Manchester was the design of the urban planner Richard Barry Parker, who envisaged the creation of a parkway – a broad, landscaped highway – to run from the new garden suburb of Wythenshawe, connecting it with Manchester City Centre.
It is located in a Grade II listed, former hydraulic pumping station on the corner of Bridge Street and Water Street designed by Manchester Corporation city architect, Henry Price. [1] [2] [3] The museum tells the history of workers' rights and democracy in Great Britain and about people's lives at home, work and leisure over the last 200 years ...
Blackfriars Bridge (1831–1834) by Agostino Aglio. The current Blackfriars Bridge replaced an earlier, wooden structure, dating from 1761. This was erected by a company of comedians keen to allow people from Manchester to easily cross the Irwell, to visit the Riding School on Water Street in Salford, where they performed.
Corporation Street is a major thoroughfare in Manchester city centre, England. It runs from Dantzic Street to the junction of Cross Street and Market Street. Major buildings located on or adjacent to the street include the Arndale Centre, Exchange Square, The Printworks, Urbis (National Football Museum) and New Century House next to the CIS Tower .