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Manchester City Council is the local authority for the city of Manchester in Greater Manchester, England. Manchester has had an elected local authority since 1838, which has been reformed several times. Since 1974 the council has been a metropolitan borough council. It provides the majority of local government services in the city.
Manchester bee art in the Northern Quarter. The worker bee is one of the best-known symbols of Manchester. It was adopted as a motif for Manchester during the Industrial Revolution, at a time when Manchester was taking a leading role in new forms of mass production, and symbolises Mancunians' hard work during this era and Manchester being a hive of activity in the 19th century.
The flag of the Greater Manchester Metropolitan County Council [1] was a symbol of the former Greater Manchester County Council which administered Greater Manchester in England between 1974 and 1986. [2] It has not been registered with the Flag Institute, which will not register flags for counties other than for historic counties. [3]
The Piccadilly electoral ward of Manchester City Council was created by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England to replace parts of the City Centre and Ancoats & Clayton wards in 2018. [1] It is represented in Westminster by Lucy Powell Labour Co-op MP for Manchester Central. [2]
Manchester Piccadilly is the main railway station of the city of Manchester, in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, England. Opened originally as Store Street in 1842, it was renamed Manchester London Road in 1847 and became Manchester Piccadilly in 1960.
107 Piccadilly is a Grade-II listed building on Piccadilly and Lena Street in Manchester, England. Situated near Piccadilly Gardens, it was originally built as a packing warehouse and showroom with offices for cotton manufacturer Sparrow Hardwick & Company. It was designed by influential Mancunian architect Charles Heathcote in a Jacobean ...
One Piccadilly Gardens is a large office building in Manchester, England. It is located on the east side of Piccadilly Gardens , a large public square in Manchester city centre , and was built in 2003 on former public land, as part of the redevelopment of the gardens.
The University of Manchester is the second largest full-time non-collegiate university in the United Kingdom, [211] created in 2004 by the merger of Victoria University of Manchester, founded in 1904, and UMIST, founded in 1956, [212] having developed from the Mechanics' Institute founded, as indicated in the university's logo, in 1824.