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We will visit it in [[April (2018)]] ([[Fabrice]] did pass by once in [[2017]] in an attempt to get a [[Chinese]] visa). | We will visit it in [[April (2018)]] ([[Fabrice]] did pass by once in [[2017]] in an attempt to get a [[Chinese]] visa). | ||
| − | == Things to see == | + | == Things to do/see == |
| − | * Chetham's Library, Manchester | + | * Chetham's Library (Mon). |
| + | * Castlefield park (canals and Roman amphitheatre) | ||
| + | * Manchester Art Gallery | ||
| + | * Manchester Cathedral | ||
| + | * The John Rylands Library (Sun). | ||
| + | * Town hall | ||
| + | * Victoria baths | ||
| + | * People's History Museum | ||
| + | * A beer at the Old Wellington | ||
| + | * Whitworth | ||
| + | * Heaton Park | ||
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| + | === Chetham's Library, Manchester === | ||
Chetham's Library opened its doors nearly 350 years ago and is the oldest free public reference library in the English-speaking world. It holds more than 100,000 volumes of printed books as well as manuscript diaries, letters and deeds, prints and paintings. The library was also the meeting place of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels when Marx visited Manchester in the summer of 1845. Here the pair would meet in a window seat and carry out research which ultimately led to their work on The Communist Manifesto. | Chetham's Library opened its doors nearly 350 years ago and is the oldest free public reference library in the English-speaking world. It holds more than 100,000 volumes of printed books as well as manuscript diaries, letters and deeds, prints and paintings. The library was also the meeting place of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels when Marx visited Manchester in the summer of 1845. Here the pair would meet in a window seat and carry out research which ultimately led to their work on The Communist Manifesto. | ||
Manchester is a city in the north of England, nearby Liverpool.
We will visit it in April (2018) (Fabrice did pass by once in 2017 in an attempt to get a Chinese visa).
Chetham's Library opened its doors nearly 350 years ago and is the oldest free public reference library in the English-speaking world. It holds more than 100,000 volumes of printed books as well as manuscript diaries, letters and deeds, prints and paintings. The library was also the meeting place of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels when Marx visited Manchester in the summer of 1845. Here the pair would meet in a window seat and carry out research which ultimately led to their work on The Communist Manifesto.