History

Manchester is a city with great history. It used to be a small market town with only 10 000 citizen in 1717. But with the industrial revolution it grew to be a massive manufactuaring and commercial city of over 300 000 citizen by 1851. It was amongst the first huge industrial cities. The manufactuaring was mostly textile. By the 20th century its large growth had linked it into the surrounding cotton-manufactuaring towns: Rochdale, Oldham and Bolton thus creating a metropolitan area. By 1991 the population had grown up to 2 350 000, but after that its growth started slowing down due to the problems with the textile industry.