The Manchester rain is the essential Manchester experience: the soft, the persistent, and the 867 mm per year (the more than the Seattle), the rain that is the reason the city is the green, and the rain that the 19th century workers walked through to the mills and the railway works and the warehouse of the first industrial city. The Manchester is the city that made the modern world: the 1761 Bridgewater Canal (the first true canal in the UK, the coal from the Worsley to the Manchester, and the start of the industrial transport revolution), the 1830 Liverpool and Manchester Railway (the first inter-city passenger steam railway in the world), and the Peterloo Massacre (the 1819, the 18 killed, the 650 injured, the reform meeting, and the most important political event in the British history). The Manchester is the most important city in the UK that the tourists do not visit. Here is the guide.

Manchester, The Famous City of England

• The essential Manchester, the history and the culture: The Science and Industry Museum (the SIM): the Museum of the Science and Industry at the Castlefield is the essential Manchester museum: the Liverpool Road Station (the oldest surviving passenger railway station in the world, the 1830, the terminus of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, and the most important station in the history), the textiles gallery (the cotton, the mill machinery, the working, and the story of the Manchester’s rise from the market town of the 20,000 to the industrial city of the 400,000 in the 100 years), the 4-storey working steam engine, and the best industrial museum in the UK. The free, and the essential time: the 3 hours. The Castlefield, the canal basin, the Roman fort (the Mamucium, the 79 AD, the reconstructed gate), and the best urban walk in the Manchester. More UK →
• The football, the music, and the food: The National Football Museum: the Urbis building, the free, the 4 floors, the 140,000 objects, the 1966 World Cup Final ball (the leather, the red, the Bobby Moore on the Geoff Hurst’s shoulders, the most important football artefact in the England), the Diego Maradona’s Hand of God Mexico 1986 shirt, and the best football museum in the world. The free, and the essential: the Penalty Shootout experience, the £2.50, the 4 attempts, and the best £2.50 in the Manchester. The music: the Salford Lads Club (the 1903, the Queen Is Dead inner-sleeve photograph, the Smiths, the 1986, and the most important music pilgrim site in the UK. The free, and the essential photograph: the Morrissey pose in front of the red-brick), the Manchester Central (the GMEX, the December 1976, the Sex Pistols, the Buzzcocks, the Joy Division, the most important gig in the British music history, the 42 people in the audience, the 10,000 who claimed they were there). The food: the Curry Mile (the Wilmslow Road in the Rusholme, the 70+ South Asian restaurants, and the best-value curry in the UK: the £8 for the curry, the rice, and the naan at the Mughli, the best on the Mile, the £25 in the area the London would be the £50)
• The essential Manchester day: the Manchester Art Gallery (the Pre-Raphaelites, the Manchester has the best collection outside the London), the John Rylands Library (the 1899, the neo-Gothic, the stained-glass, the most beautiful library in the UK. The free), the lunch at the Mackie Mayor (the 1858 market hall, the food hall, the best lunch in the city, the £10 for the pizza, the ramen, the burger, and the essential Manchester experience). The essential accommodation: the King Street Townhouse (the 1872 bank, the rooftop infinity pool, and the best hotel in the Manchester. ~£150/night)