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Containerization traffic led Manchester Liners to restructure their fleet.

It was from the Old Boar's Head in Fleet Street that travellers could take a coach to Colne or Manchester.

A Manchester Corporation tramcar stands at the Altrincham terminus in Railway Street, its route back to Manchester being by way of Stamford New Road, Sandiway Road, Manchester Road, Washway Road, Cross

Manchester's Royal Jubilee Exhibition at Old Trafford opened on Tuesday, 2 May 1887.

John Bright was elected MP for Manchester in 1847, but his outspoken opposition to the Crimean War and his Quaker moral sense of duty turned Manchester people against him.

Though called Manchester Docks, most of the port was in fact in Salford; only the Pomona wharfs, which handled coastal vessels and short sea routes, were in Manchester.

The city of Manchester was the powerhouse of northern industry.

The city of Manchester was the powerhouse of northern industry.

This was the Midland Railway main line from London St Pancras to Manchester Central.

cotton rise from 21.4 per cent to 33.6 per cent by 1899-1900; in anticipation of lucrative contracts for frozen meat, the MSC went ahead in 1895 with the construction of cold storage buildings at Manchester

This photograph is looking north over the Hough where Manchester`s murk still obscures the horizon.

It was here that the Manchester liners and Eleman boats could be turned round ready for their journey back out to sea.

This scene on the Bridgewater Canal in Greater Manchester is essentially unchanged to this day.

The Guiness Brewery's vessel 'Guiness' waits to enter Latchford Locks near Thelwall after discharging her liquid cargo at Manchester.

Local man Henry Daniels introduced fustian cutting to Lymm, having first gone to Manchester to learn the business.

A comfortable Tudor farmhouse beside a 15th-century pele, Turton Tower is associated with Humphrey Chetham, remembered for the free library, school and hospital that he founded in Manchester.

Altrincham is situated only 8 miles south-south-west of Manchester, and its popularity as a residential area for business people grew with the opening of the Manchester South Junction & Altrincham Railway

An old village on the Cheshire side of the Manchester Ship Canal, Flixton was developed as a residential suburb of Manchester.

On 15 August 1819, Henry Hunt, a leading advocate for Parliamentary reform, stopped here on his way to address a meeting in Manchester.

There were different types of craft employed; the basic packet on the Warrington-Manchester run carried passengers at 1s a head.

When the Duke of Bridgewater planned his canal into Manchester in 1760, the original plan was to stay on the Salford side of the Irwell.

In 1760 he employed the pioneering engineer James Brindley to create a waterway connecting his coal mines with Manchester.

This gothic pile on Great Ducie Street was opened on 26 July 1864, when Manchester held its first Assize Session here.

To the left, and above the bow of the tanker Dauphine, we can see the huge lock gates that give access to the Manchester Ship Canal.