Part of the Lancashire Coalfield. Some easily accessible seams were worked on a small scale from the Middle Ages, and extensively from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution until the last quarter of the 20th century.
Manchester Docks
Redirected to Salford Quays.
Manchester Free Library
First library to be set up under the provisions of the Public Libraries Act 1850, in Manchester, England, which allowed local authorities to impose a local tax of one penny to pay for the service.
Manchester Mummy
Mummified body of Hannah Beswick (1688–1758, a wealthy woman with a pathological fear of premature burial.
Manchester Royal Exchange
Former cotton exchange damaged by two bombs, now comprising a theatre and shopping centre.
Manchester Ship Canal
36-mile-long (58 km) inland waterway in the North West of England linking Manchester to the Irish Sea.
Manchester Zoological Gardens
Gardens opened in 1838, on a 15-acre (6 ha) site between Broom Lane and Northumberland Street in Broughton, now in Salford, England.
Mary Bolles
17th-century Yorkshire woman uniquely created a baronetess in her own right.
Mary Pannell
Woman associated with witchcraft at Ledston Hall in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Died in 1603, and is said to haunt the nearby woods.
Masbro’ boat disaster
Sixty-four people, mainly children, were drowned in the River Don in Masbrough, Yorkshire, on 5 July 1841 when the launch of a boat went wrong.