Early computer

Vacuum tubes and all that.

First computer file

Punch cards ran early weaving machines.

Machine age power

It's that valve--what does it do?

Gears

Gears for everything.

Dynamo anyone?

Probably power a small town.

Open 'er up

The loco in locomotive.

Living life large

Real cushions, in fact.

The iron horse

The engine that moved the world.

Steam powered

Not sure what it does, though.

Manchester machine

Not sure what it does, but it looks good doing it.

Spin spin spin

Before you know it, there'll be a thousand shirts.

State of the art

Back in 1870.

Start here

The land of gizmos and whizbangs.

At the beginning

Inventing the machines that made the machines.

Back to the roots

Where Manchester became Manchester.

Tight fit

Always the traffic.

Decorated

Gothic, with the T's crossed and the I's dotted.

Reaching for the sky

Big city rates big cathedral.

Pie? My oh my

Handmade from the Lake District.

Dashing

Trains to everywhere England.

Looking dense

The view downtown from Piccadilly Station tracks.

House for music

Lotta singing going on here.

Rooms to let

Lodging for every need.

To market, to market

All fish, all the time.

Riverside

Goodbye mills, hello condos.

Goods stored here

Great Northern's great warehouse.

At the corner of old and new

The railway was the great way.

All football, all the time

It's what we crave (we're English).

Books a million

For your intellectual needs–the Manchester Library.

Wait…

He looks familiar.

Important Manchester guy

They could wag a finger then, couldn't they?

Well, it's Albert…

…Of course.

Putting on the Ritz

Queen Victoria is amused.

Hand powered

Getting from here to there the old fashioned way.

Industry lived here

Where the Industrial Age began.

Canals and Railroads

Building blocks to a great city.

Now for something completely different

Manchester before the big game--City versus United.

The ancients

Always with the stone heroes.

The royal gardener

Carlos had a green thumb.

Under glass

On to the greenhouses, horticulturists.

My lovely

Come here, my lovely.

At the Royal Gardens

Country life in the city.

Let's see…

What have we here.

Wrap-around art

It's here, it's there, it's everywhere.

Thyssen galleries up to stuff

Top of the world, art lovers!

Primary colors

Red enough?

Rounding out the top three

The Thyssen, named for, well, the German billionaire who donated the art.

Lunch, si?

Al fresco, too.

Cozy

Small gallery for the smaller stuff.

Spanish light

Between galleries at the Sofia.