Manchester was the world’s first industrial city (keep quiet there, Birmingham), so we have lot to shout about: some of the first luxury cars from Rolls Royce, a railway warehouse that could guarantee 24-hour delivery (they can’t do that these days), Britain’s first canal, the world’s first railway, Britain’s most beautiful cotton mill, the engineering genius of Giant’s Basin and the unmatchable machines at the Museum of Science & Industry.

By the time we’ve finished with you you’ll be writing that letter to the government urging the re-opening of the local coal mines!