00:00Hi I'm Theo with Manchester World and today I'm joining Josh who runs a free
00:04walking tour around Manchester to try and learn more about the city for
00:08International Tourism Week. Hi my name is Josh I set up free Manchester walking
00:12tours about 10 years ago it's a daily tips-based tour that runs every day at
00:1611 a.m. and today I'm going to show you a couple of the highlights of the city
00:20centre of Manchester. Manchester really developed as a modern city in the late
00:231700s when you get the Industrial Revolution. Manchester is the world's
00:26first industrialized city but the flip side is being the first you also make
00:30the mistakes first and therefore a lot of great political movements begin life
00:35in Manchester in reaction to those kind of difficult and dire conditions. So this
00:39is Alan Matheson Turing he's the kind of father of modern computer science quite
00:44famously cracked the Enigma codes in World War two after which he came to
00:48Manchester and helped to build the world's first computer that could
00:50program information and also store information. This city was based on
00:54economic migration Jews in the east of Europe wealthy German Italian merchants
00:58Irish of course which is really I think seen today in the fact that Manchester
01:03is the third most linguistically diverse city on earth. After London and after New
01:08York there are more languages officially spoken in Manchester than any other city
01:12and one of the areas that reflects that migration and the contribution that
01:16economic migrants made to the city is of course in Chinatown. As you can see the
01:21town hall here is currently under renovation like so much of Manchester
01:25they're just about peeling back the scaffolding and you can see right at the
01:29top the golden cotton ball. Manchester was a synonym for cotton based textiles
01:34all around the world and so for example in the Swedish language and the Czech
01:38language the word Manchester means corduroy trousers that I am sporting
01:42today. This is an important memorial here in Manchester it's the memorial for the
01:47Peterloo massacre which took place on the 16th of August 1819. If you come to
01:51the top you'll see here there's a compass which points to
01:57massacres which have taken place all around the world since the Peterloo
02:00massacre. Here we are in the the Royal Exchange the Royal Exchange Theatre
02:04it's originally a cotton exchange for trading cotton these are the prices of
02:08cotton from the final day of trading. I think this building encapsulates the
02:12city because you can see the industrial Manchester and the Manchester side by
02:17side the the empty warehouses have become the Chinese restaurants and
02:21raves and offices or the empty train station in St. Peter's Square that's now
02:25a conference center it was a music venue for a while and yeah here the Royal
02:29Exchange of cotton trading is now a place where ideas and creativity is
02:33traded instead. I really can't thank Josh enough for his help as he says he runs a
02:38free walking tour around Manchester there are tours every day starting at 11
02:42a.m. in Sackville Gardens next to that Alan Turing statue. The thing that will
02:46stick in my head is this the the Royal Manchester Exchange there having the old
02:49prices from the final day of trading and then having this uber modern uber cool
02:54in the round theater. Thank you for watching follow Manchester World for
02:57more and please give Josh's walking tours a go
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