History of Manchester

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The History of Manchester

Although the history of Manchester stretches back to Roman times when a small settlement grew up around the Roman fort known as Mamuciam, it was not until the later years of the eighteenth century that it became a population center of any great magnitude. Records indicate the population grew from 10,000 to approaching 80,000 in just a few decades, increasing to around 150,000 by the Industrial Revolution, which saw its transformation into the country’s and the world’s leading industrial metropolis. The engine for this change was cotton, which began to be imported via the port of
Liverpool and which was delivered by canal to Manchester in the latter part of the eighteenth century. The rapid and profitable boom in textile manufacture saw the streets of Manchester and surrounding towns become home to huge numbers of cotton mills, textile printworks, and engineering workshops. The expansion of transport links facilitated this development. In 1824, one of the world’s first public omnibus services began in Manchester, quickly followed in 1830 by the opening of the first steam passenger railway linking Liverpool and Manchester. Often overlooked, however, was the ‘human fuel’ that made all this possible. The promise of work, however poor the pay, however bad the conditions, resulted in wave after wave of immigration from the surrounding countryside and abroad, the villages and towns of Ireland in particular, where terrible poverty and the threat of famine drove whole families
to leave everything they knew for life in ‘Cottonopolis’, as the city was dubbed.