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Tourism Day: Manchester’s best free tour
National World - LocalTV
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20/09/2024
There are tonnes and tonnes of tourist traps in Manchester, but we decided that the best way of learning about the city was by talking to an expert.
Josh runs free city walking tours each day, and gave us a quick example of the sort of stuff he has to offer.
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Hi I'm Theo with Manchester World and today I'm joining Josh who runs a free
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walking tour around Manchester to try and learn more about the city for
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International Tourism Week. Hi my name is Josh I set up free Manchester walking
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tours about 10 years ago it's a daily tips-based tour that runs every day at
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11 a.m. and today I'm going to show you a couple of the highlights of the city
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centre of Manchester. Manchester really developed as a modern city in the late
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1700s when you get the Industrial Revolution. Manchester is the world's
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first industrialized city but the flip side is being the first you also make
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the mistakes first and therefore a lot of great political movements begin life
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in Manchester in reaction to those kind of difficult and dire conditions. So this
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is Alan Matheson Turing he's the kind of father of modern computer science quite
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famously cracked the Enigma codes in World War two after which he came to
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Manchester and helped to build the world's first computer that could
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program information and also store information. This city was based on
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economic migration Jews in the east of Europe wealthy German Italian merchants
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Irish of course which is really I think seen today in the fact that Manchester
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is the third most linguistically diverse city on earth. After London and after New
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York there are more languages officially spoken in Manchester than any other city
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and one of the areas that reflects that migration and the contribution that
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economic migrants made to the city is of course in Chinatown. As you can see the
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town hall here is currently under renovation like so much of Manchester
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they're just about peeling back the scaffolding and you can see right at the
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top the golden cotton ball. Manchester was a synonym for cotton based textiles
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all around the world and so for example in the Swedish language and the Czech
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language the word Manchester means corduroy trousers that I am sporting
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today. This is an important memorial here in Manchester it's the memorial for the
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Peterloo massacre which took place on the 16th of August 1819. If you come to
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the top you'll see here there's a compass which points to
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massacres which have taken place all around the world since the Peterloo
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massacre. Here we are in the the Royal Exchange the Royal Exchange Theatre
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it's originally a cotton exchange for trading cotton these are the prices of
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cotton from the final day of trading. I think this building encapsulates the
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city because you can see the industrial Manchester and the Manchester side by
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side the the empty warehouses have become the Chinese restaurants and
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raves and offices or the empty train station in St. Peter's Square that's now
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a conference center it was a music venue for a while and yeah here the Royal
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Exchange of cotton trading is now a place where ideas and creativity is
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traded instead. I really can't thank Josh enough for his help as he says he runs a
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free walking tour around Manchester there are tours every day starting at 11
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a.m. in Sackville Gardens next to that Alan Turing statue. The thing that will
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stick in my head is this the the Royal Manchester Exchange there having the old
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prices from the final day of trading and then having this uber modern uber cool
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in the round theater. Thank you for watching follow Manchester World for
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more and please give Josh's walking tours a go
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