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EWM April 2004 Picture Quiz: Answers

1) It is the Manchester to Liverpool railway, the first passenger railway in the world, opened in 1830.
2) Patricroft
3) Oldham Rd (A62)
4) Oldham Road Goods Yard
5) Ancoats
6) Bengal St
7) St Michael
8) Dantzic St
9) The Avation Viewing Park
10) October 2003
11) Cannon St
12) The roof of the bus station was too low
13) Band On The Wall
14) Swan St
15) The Duke of Bridgewater
16) Castlefield
17) The Arndale Centre (North)
18) The Printworks
19) New Century Hall
20) (Manchester) Cathedral

Central Library


21) The Central Reference Library
22) 1934
23) Chetham's Library
24) Friedrich Engels
25) Chetham's School of Music
26) 1969
27) Exchange Station
28) The Beetham Tower
29) Manchester City Ground Maine Rd
30) Moss Side
31) The Mathematics Building
32) Manchester University
33) Urban Splash
34) Ducie House
35) Hyde Road A57
36) Pendleton, Pendlebury

37) Trafford (Metropolitan Borough Council)
38) Stretford Rd
39) Albert Bridge
40) Quay Street Bridge
41) Slade Hall
42) 600+ years
43) Mayfield Station
44) Medlock
45) The City Art Gallery
46) The 1820s (1825)
47) Portico Library
48) The 1800s (1806)
49) Ian Simpson Architects
50) Victoria Buildings
51) Lapwing
52) Victoria Station
53) Over 20 years
54) London Rd
55) Owen (Robert Owen)
56) UMIST
57) From the south west off Oxford Rd
58) Refuge Assurance
59) Piccadilly Gardens
60) Portland St
61) Pollard St
62) Citylink
63) The Royal Exchange


64) 1968
65) The Irk
66) Manchester Evening News Arena
67) Regent Road A57
68) It is on the Manchester side
69) Manchester Town hall

70) b) On the Mancunian Way footbridge
71) The Manchester Velodrome (National Cycling Centre)

72) MANCAT Moston, north Manchester
73) King Street
74) St James's Square
75) Stretford House
76) Barton Road
77) The Town Hall
78) The Peace Garden
79) Urbis (and Cathedral Gardens)
80) The Lancaster Arcade
81) 1993
82) 3
83) Oxford Rd
84) Macintosh Village
85) Whalley Range
86) The Curry Mile
87) Piccadilly Station


88) 1992
89) Manchester Ship Canal
90) 1894
91) The River Medlock
92) Ben Brierley
93) Audenshaw Reservoirs
94) M60
95) Warrington Peace Centre (Official name: Tim Parry Jonathan Ball Young Peoples Centre)
96) This area to the north west of Warrington is part of Lancashire in its original boundaries. However between 1974 and 1998 Warrington was administered as part of Cheshire County Council. In 1998 it became a unitary authority and so ceased to be under Cheshire County Council. For the purposes of the quiz, both Lancashire and Cheshire are acceptable.
97) St Augustine's
98) L S Lowry
99) West
100) Virgin Trains

 

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