It's Grim Up North?

ANNETTE ON THE ROAD Meet Manchester, the World's First Industrial City That's Industrial No More (but may still be a bit grim)

How Long Is This Post? About 3, 200 words, or 15 minutes

This grey, unpleasant land seen from beautiful countryside: Manchester in 1750 had been a pretty village in the country. Within a century, it was a forest of factory chimneys and smog cloud. This is it in 1851. Sobering to think that this smoke is still entering the atmosphere, just not in Manches…