Northern's Manchester Music Walk

Walk preview

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   Step 1: Welcome to Manchester Piccadilly Station...

2. Step 2: Manchester may well be Britain's greatest city for music. Manchester and Mancunians are certainly of that opinion.

3. Step 3: From the Halle Orchestra to Oasis, The Hollies and Northern Soul to Factory Records and 'Madchester', this is a city with swagger and talent in equal measure and a rich and varied musical past, present and doubtless future.

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   Step 4: This walk through several decades of Mancunian music takes us between its two main stations, Piccadilly & Victoria. Both served by Northern.

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   Step 5: Turning right on Station Approach, celebrated in Elbow's 'Station Approach' that tells of a traveller's joy on returning home to Manchester

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   Step 6: Double back onto Store Street where, beneath the pavements, was the original and spiritual home of the famous Warehouse Project