DID YOU KNOW, MANCHESTER...

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Has the oldest public library in the English -speaking world?

Has over 85,000 students at its colleges & universities?

Has nearly 11 million people living within  a 50 mile radius?

 Had the world's first passenger railway running from it?

  Is home to the Halle Orchestra, Britain's longest established professional symphony? 

Boasts over 50 museums and galleries and has the largest concentration of theatres in the Uk outside London?

Developed the first computer with a stored programme and a memory, nicknamed 'The Baby', at the University in 1948?