What a place! The setting for Britain’s first domestic air service, one-time home to the 20th century’s greatest philosopher, a Nobel Prize-winning novelist, one of the world’s greatest record labels, the man everybody knew as “Mr Manchester” – oh and the bloke who took over from Hitler as Germany’s fuhrer. Yes, what a place!

A tram at Withington Metrolink stop. How exciting! This is where we start.

One of the greatest of all philosophers lived at 154 Palatine Road

 

The sensational sound of moody mystical Manchester was based here