Boggart Hole Clough
Large woodland area and country park in Greater Manchester, what remains of an ancient woodland.
Imperial War Museum North
Museum in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford in Greater Manchester, England. One of five branches of the Imperial War Museum, it explores the impact of modern conflicts on people and society.
1996 Manchester bombing
Attack carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army on Saturday 15 June 1996, when they detonated a 15,000 kg bomb in the centre of Manchester, England.
Worsley Navigable Levels
Extensive network of underground canals that drained the Duke of Bridgewater’s coal pits emerge into the open at the Delph in Worsley, Greater Manchester.
Ellesmere Colliery
Ellesmere Colliery in Walkden, on the Lancashire Coalfield, was sunk in 1865 by the Bridgewater Trustees. Production ended in 1923.
Worsley New Hall
Worsley’s third manor house, New Hall was built in 1846 to designs by Edward Blore for Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere.
RHS Garden Bridgewater
The Royal Horticultural Society’s first new garden since 2003, opening in 2020 in Worsley, in the City of Salford.
Winter Hill
The high point of Rivington Moor in the West Pennine Moors is 1,496 feet high and has been the site of mining, a mass trespass, aeroplane disasters and murder.
Byrom, Allen, Sedgwick and Place
The first bank in Manchester, founded in 1771. It collapsed in 1788 when one of its major borrowers declared bankruptcy.
Andrew Knowles & Sons
Andrew Knowles and Sons was a coal mining company that operated on the Manchester Coalfield in and around Clifton, in the historic county of Lancashire, England.