lived in manchester for some seven years.
in this neck of the city centre there's manchester art gallery, manchester library and manchester catherdral is over yonder (well its the other side really)
What is noticable is how Liverpool's versions (as we seem to not only have twice of what Manchester has) are so much better and bigger. Our Liverpool library is [Poor language removed] wonderful. Manchester library is good but doesn't hold a candle to it. Manchester art gallery is a bit naff all told. The exhibition space at the top is nice, but the tate and the walker piss all over it.
As for the catherdrals, please. The contentious modernist stylising of paddys whigwam and the huge monolithic splendour of the anglican compared to a well fashioned church the size of half a block of flats. We have nightclubs in Liverpool bigger than Manchester catherdral.
Still, I like manchester for all that. Friendly people, good laugh.
Can't do us for civic buildings though, still, they never got all that slave trade money.