Coronation Street sets
The sets of the British ITV soap opera Coronation Street have changed since first broadcast in December 1960. The current set is based at the ITV Trafford Wharf Studios backlot, MediaCityUK in Trafford.
Stalybridge /steɪlɪˈbrɪdʒ/ is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 23,731 at the 2011 Census.
Population: 22,748
Latitude: 53° 29' 2.90" N
Longitude: -2° 03' 32.69" W
The sets of the British ITV soap opera Coronation Street have changed since first broadcast in December 1960. The current set is based at the ITV Trafford Wharf Studios backlot, MediaCityUK in Trafford.
New Mills is a town in Derbyshire, England, approximately 8 miles (13 km) south-east of Stockport and 15 miles (24 km) from Manchester. It lies at the confluence of the rivers Goyt and Sett, close to the border of Cheshire. The town stands above the…
B of the Bang was a sculpture designed by Thomas Heatherwick, in Manchester, England, located next to the City of Manchester Stadium at Sportcity. Commissioned to mark the 2002 Commonwealth Games, it was one of the tallest structures in the City of …
Albert Square is a public square in the centre of Manchester, England. It is dominated by its largest building, the Grade I listed Manchester Town Hall, a Victorian Gothic building by Alfred Waterhouse.
Shaw National Distribution Centre (also known as Shaw NDC) is the main distribution and order processing centre for British retailer Shop Direct Group, and is located in Shaw and Crompton, a town in Greater Manchester, England. Shaw NDC is a "state-…
Manchester Museum is a museum displaying works of archaeology, anthropology and natural history and is owned by the University of Manchester. Sited on Oxford Road (A34) at the heart of the university's group of neo-Gothic buildings, it provides acce…
Manchester Central is an exhibition and conference centre converted from the former Manchester Central railway station in Manchester, England. Designed by Sir John Fowler, the station, the northern terminus for services to London St Pancras, was ope…
Manchester Art Gallery, formerly Manchester City Art Gallery is a publicly-owned art museum on Mosley Street in Manchester city centre. The main gallery premises were built for a learned society in 1823 and today its collection occupies three connec…
Spinningfields is an area of Manchester city centre, in North West England. It was specially developed in the 2000s as a business, retail and residential development of Manchester, and is located between Deansgate and the River Irwell. Developed by …
The Metropolitan Borough of Oldham is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It has a population of 225,200, and spans 55 square miles (142 km2).
The Stockport air disaster was the crash of a Canadair C-4 Argonaut aircraft owned by British Midland Airways, registration G-ALHG, in a small open area at Hopes Carr near the centre of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England on Sunday 4 June 1967. 7…
The O2 Apollo Manchester (formerly Manchester Apollo) is a concert venue located in Ardwick Green, Manchester, England. Locally known as The Apollo, it is a Grade II listed building, with a capacity of 3,500 (2,514 standing, 986 seats).
Failsworth is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. It is 3.7 miles (6.0 km) east-northeast of Manchester city centre and 2.9 miles (4.7 km) south-southwest of Oldham. Failsworth lies within the orbital M6…
The CIS Tower is an office skyscraper on Miller Street in Manchester, England. It was completed in 1962 and rises to 387 feet (118 m) in height. The Grade II listed building, which houses the Co-operative Banking Group, is Manchester's second-talles…
The Alan Turing Building, named after the mathematician and founder of computer science Alan Turing, is a building at the University of Manchester, in Manchester, England. It houses the School of Mathematics, the Photon Science Institute and the Jod…
Dukinfield is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. It stands on the south bank of the River Tame opposite Ashton-under-Lyne, 6.3 miles (10.1 km) east of Manchester, and in 2011 had a population of 19,306.
Chinatown in Manchester, England is an ethnic enclave in the city centre. It is the second largest Chinatown in the United Kingdom and the third largest in Europe.
Royton (pop. 21,000) is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies by the source of the River Irk, on undulating land at the foothills of the South Pennines, 1.7 miles (2.7 km) north-northwest of Oldham…