Information about Manchester and the United Kingdom can be found at:

The Lowry Centre

   www.information-britain.co.uk

Cheap car hire/car rental. Easycare at www.easycar.co.uk

Places you might like to visit whilst in the area.

http://www.manchester.gov.uk/24hrcity/attract/gm15.html

http://www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk

http://www.daysout.co.uk/colourapore/IA030.html

http://www.lymm-net.demon.co.uk

http://www.knutsfordcheshire.co.uk

http://www.cumbria-the-lake-district.co.uk

Dunham Massey
Fallow deer roam parkland of restored Tudor house where 30 room recapture life in past centuries. Several relics survive in grounds, including an Edwardian water garden and Elizabethan mill in working order.

Heaton Hall
Landscaped grounds of 18th century Palladian house has boulder where Pope John Paul celebrated mass in 1982, boating lake and vintage tram service. Painted ceilings and walls in Cupola Room are "Etruscan style - popularised after excavation of Pompeii.

Tatton Park
Sumptuous rooms of 18th century mansion appeared in the television series Brideshead Revisited. Exquisite grounds have 1000 acre deer park, Japanese garden with Shinto temple, fishing and sailing in mile long Tatton Mere. Way-marked walks include lakeside, woodland and landscape history trail recalling former village cleared to make room for park. Old Hall still exists with restored pre-Reformation rooms.

Worsley
Birthplace of British canals. James Brindley built Bridgewater Canal to carry loads from Worsley Delph mines to Manchester. Canal was completed in 1761.

http://www.worsley.history.btinternet.co.uk

Styal
Largely unchanged model village of Quarry Bank cotton mill. Mill founded in 1784, restored as working museum with spinning room, weaving shed and giant water wheel. Village retains houses where mill's owner, manager and apprentices lived. Lies in 240 acre country park with varied wildlife and miles of woodland walks.

http://www.quarrybankmill.org.uk

Manchester Craft Centre
More than 20 shops and workshops display crafts made on the premises, including textiles, jewellery, ceramics, glass and fashion. Housed within handsome Victorian market buildings, converted from old Smithfield fruit & fish market in 1973.

Manchester science & Industry Museum Housed on the site of the world's first passenger railway station - Liverpool Road, a grade 1 listed building dating back to 1830. Museum illustrates development of science in greater Manchester, the world's first industrial heartland. Power hall has mill engines, vintage cars and railway locomotives - all restored to working order. Warehouse Exhibition displays textile, printing and paper making machinery. Restoration work can be seen
in progress in the museum workshop.

http://www.msim.org.uk

Buxton
A gracious spa town, 1000 ft (300m) up in Peak District. the 5th Duke of Devonshire
built elegant an Crescent at the end of the 18th century, to rival fashionable
Bath. The hospital of 1856 has one of the widest domes in the world at 156 ft in
diameter. Victorian Pump Rooms houses Micrarium museum where microscopes
explore natural world.

http://www.cressbrook.co.uk/buxton.htm