They make things here. Things you can touch and feel and things that exist only in your mind and sometimes in your soul.
This is where the industrial revolution took off and where non-religious vegetarianism was conceived.
This is where John Dalton helped define atomic theory and where Oasis helped define 90s rock.
This is where they built and operated the world's first passenger railroad and where, after an IRA bomb flattened the city center 20 years ago, they picked themselves up, dusted themselves of and rebuilt the heart of a metropolis from scratch.
This is Manchester.