Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,710 pages of information and 247,104 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
In 1857, four years after it had been awarded its city status, Manchester played host to Art Treasures Of The United Kingdom, the largest art show that had ever been seen in Britain.
With over 16,000 exhibits, the city leaders had to sanction the building of a huge temporary glass pavilion in the Manchester Botanical Gardens
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