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Manchester Leasing

Did You Know?

Manchester is a major city in the Northwest of England with a rich industrial heritage. The Castlefield conservation area’s 18th-century canal system recalls the city’s days as a textile powerhouse, and visitors can trace this history at the interactive Museum of Science & Industry.

Manchester is a birthplace to many great things we love. Home to the world famous ‘Curry Mile’ and the rock group Oasis, even the world’s first ever computer was put together here. The city is enriched in proud history and thriving culture that has so much to offer for everyone. I mean, let’s face it where would we be today without the computer?

Manchester airport is the largest and busiest airport outside of London. It is the third busiest in the UK handling over 22 million passengers to over 200 destinations worldwide a year.

Manchester is known to be the birthplace of the modern vegetarian diet. Aptly named Reverend William Cowheard preached to his followers in a small chapel in Salford in 1847 about the benefits of a meat free diet.

Manchester gave the world a real science breakthrough, helping shape the world we live in today: Here, the atom was ‘split’ for the first time ever by Ernest Rutherford and the first ever modern computer – known as the ‘baby’ – was also built. And did you know this first ever commercial computer had a memory of 32 words

Canal Mania’ began in 1761 when The Bridgewater Canal, affectionately known as the ‘Duke’s Cut’, became the first man-made waterway in Britain. Visitors can take a walk or trip along the many canals within Greater Manchester.

The name Manchester came from the Old English word 'ceaster' which means 'Roman town or city' (similar to where the name of the nearby city of Chester originated). The name gradually became known as Manchester over the years, with the adjective Mancunian evolving from the medieval Latin form of the place-name, Mancunium.

World’s first passenger train station was founded in Manchester in 1830. Actually, It was the first railway to rely exclusively on steam power, with no horse-drawn traffic permitted at any time; the first to be entirely double track throughout its length; the first to have a signalling system; the first to be fully timetabled; the first to be powered entirely by its own motive power; and the first to carry mail.

With the arrival of the world’s first steam-driven textile mill and mechanisation, many cotton mills started to open around Manchester to peak at a number of 108 in 1853.