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Welcome to the Greater Manchester WikiProject. We are a user group dedicated to improving and expanding Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to Greater Manchester, England. We cover the cities of Manchester and Salford and the boroughs of Tameside, Stockport, Oldham, Rochdale, Bury, Bolton, Wigan and Trafford.
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| User | Location | Interests and specialist knowledge | Any relevant printed sources available |
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| Pit-yacker* (talk) | Manchester City Centre, South Manchester, University of Manchester | ||
| Jza84* (talk) | Shaw and Crompton | Greater Manchester, Oldham (and wider borough), civic history | *Tradition in Action: The Historical Evolution of the Greater Manchester County, *Looking back at Crompton, *Cotton Mills of Oldham, *Textiles; It Happened Round Greater Manchester |
| Dpaajones* (talk) | Manchester / Shropshire | City of Manchester, University of Manchester, Manchester City Centre | |
| Mr Stephen* (talk) | Stockport & South Manchester. | ||
| Fingerpuppet* (talk) | Former resident of the area! | Various bits and bobs, really! | |
| Erebus555* (talk) | West Midlands | Architecture and buildings in the area | |
| Oldelpaso** (talk) | Manchester | Sport | Various Manchester City F.C. related books (list) |
| Ecco1983* (talk) | Radcliffe, Greater Manchester | Entertainment, the Bury borough | |
| Peteb16* (talk) | Shaw and Crompton, Greater Manchester | ||
| Fursday* (talk) | Withington, Greater Manchester / Greater London | Manchester Academy, University of Manchester, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Withington, a few other bits and pieces | |
| Malleus Fatuorum* (talk) | Stretford | The Trafford area | |
| Joshii* (talk) | Live in Greater Manchester. | Manchester, Tameside, Economy of county. | Manchester: A History by Alan Kidd (2006) |
| ricmitch* (talk) | Lived in Ramsbottom all my life. | Ramsbottom and surrounding area, Bury, Rochdale | |
| GRB1972* (talk) | Southport | Walkden, Bolton & Manchester. | |
| Richerman* (talk) | Prestwich most of my life, also lived in Shuttleworth for 8 years | Local area around Prestwich, contributed articles on Kersal Moor and Drinkwater Park. | Broughton and Cheetham Hill in Regency and Victorian Times by Monty Dobkin |
| WebHamster* (talk) | Interested primarily in Levenshulme. I'm a web designer, IT consultant, layout artist and amateur photographer. If it counts I'm also an ex-paramedic who used to work in the Manchester inner city area. Just started a total rewrite of the Belle Vue Zoo article. | ||
| Geotek* (talk) | Bolton area, Stockport & Manchester / GMC Fire Brigades | ||
| Nev1* (talk) | Trafford and Tameside | ||
| Parrot of Doom* (talk) | Flixton | I grew up in Radcliffe. My main interest is local history, see my page for pages I've contributed to. I love cycling along canals and things, taking photographs as I go. | I have a small collection of postcards of Flixton, Urmston, Davyhulme. One day I'll get around to uploading them all to Wikimedia Commons. |
| Carl* (talk) | Currently Leigh | Wigan, Abram, Leigh | |
| ukexpat* (talk) | Grew up in Brooklands, now living in the USA | South Manchester, Sale, Brooklands, William Hulme's Grammar School | |
| Mike Peel* (talk) | University of Manchester | University of Manchester as well as various articles on the buildings in Manchester | Portrait of a University 1851-1951 by Charlton; A Portrait of the University of Manchester 1951-73, and the same for 1973-90, by David and Pullan respectively; The University at War: 1939-1946; Manchester and its region: A survey prepared for the meeting held in Manchester , August 29 to September 5, 1962 by the BAAS |
| Unsy770* (talk) | Wigan | Wigan, Ashton-In-Makerfield, Wigan Athletic | |
| Hassocks5489* (talk) | West Sussex (!) | General copyediting and article improvement, incl. finding sources; transport (esp. railways and photos); spoken versions of articles | Various railway books covering GM stations; anything available in Brighton & Hove or West Sussex Libraries |
| Paypwip* (talk) | Horwich | Horwich, Bolton, Clifton, Rail and Road Transport | |
| Liquidswords* (talk) | South and Central Manchester | Manchester's architecture, primarily Victorian and industrial buildings. (Nothing post-war). | Various |
| Man2* (talk) | Wigan | ||
| Kieran5676* (talk) | Stockport | South Manchester | |
| James50567* (talk) | Glossop, Derbyshire | Stockport and Tameside, Shopping Centres and other Infrastructure related articles | |
| A1personage* (talk) | |||
| SquarePeg* (talk) | Eccles, Salford | Manchester United (and related articles), Salford City Reds (and related articles), other local sports and other interesting (and uninteresting!) subjects. | Books? You mean you want me to read, too? |
| Lozleader* (talk) | Academic ivory tower | Civic history and heraldry, municipal transport and other utilities | Youngs' Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, which gives details of all parishes, local government areas, parliamentary constituencies and diocesan boundaries from Tudor times to 1974. Various books on civic heraldry, some with public domain images, Edwardian cigarette cards with borough arms, some books on public transport undertakings, access to full text of acts of parliament and various academic journals. |
| AnIco* (talk) | Stoke-on-Trent and Manchester | Architecture, mathematics, physics, geography, photography and local history | Not a printed source, but a great place where you can obtain information about contemporary architecture developments in Manchester is the Manchester section of the SkyscraperCity forums |
| Hindleyite* (talk) | Hindley | Wigan, in particular football, Hindley and local area | A number of Wigan Athletic publications |
| TheFamousPeter* (talk) | Wigan | Wigan Athletic, anything else Wigan and my occupation: Refereeing. | Wigan, with Uncle Joe's under culture and the acknowledgement of the Warriors move from the JJB Stadium. |
| Felix Folio Secundus (talk) | Central and parts of South Manchester and University | ||
| RuthAS* (talk) | South Lancashire | Transport history of Greater Manchester | Several books on the area's transport history |
| Anthony of the Desert* (talk) | Greater Manchester | North Manchester | |
| ClemRutter* (talk) | way down south in Rochester, Kent | Longdendale, and other districts just outside GMC that provide support for the city: water, labour, recreation. | OS maps- and old second hand books |
| Sitush* (talk) | Whitefield | Whitefield, L&Y Railway | Various local histories, postcards etc |
| Chaosdruid* (talk) | Born Dukinfield now living in Norwich | Dukinfield, Ashton Under Lyne, Tameside and Glossop | |
| Skinsmoke* (talk) | Bredbury | Stockport and local government | Official handbooks to most pre 1974 local authorities in Greater Manchester, plus hundreds from other parts of the United Kingdom |
| Majorly* (talk) | Interested in history, old buildings, locations in South Greater Manchester. Can probably help in other areas too. | None personally but I have easy access to a library | |
| Sharadjalota456* (talk) | Baguley, Greater Manchester | Manchester United, Baguley and surrounding areas | |
| Juliancolton* (talk) | New York, USA, though interested in the Manchester area | Roads, perhaps | |
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Assessment and progress of articles
Below is a bot generated table of the assessment process of WikiProject Greater Manchester supported articles. See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Greater Manchester/Assessment. The stats are generated automatically every 2-3 days, but they can be updated manually by entering Greater Manchester (and replacing Foobar) into the Category box here (or else here).
| As of 05 January 2009, we have assessed 100% of all articles with a project banner.
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Index · Statistics · Log
| Greater Manchester articles |
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| Top | High | Mid | Low | Total | |||
| Quality | |||||||
 FA |
9 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 26 | ||
| FL |
2 | 3 | 8 | 13 | |||
 GA |
5 | 12 | 16 | 11 | 44 | ||
| B | 14 | 23 | 39 | 30 | 106 | ||
| C | 10 | 17 | 43 | 45 | 115 | ||
| Start | 13 | 92 | 241 | 396 | 742 | ||
| Stub | 1 | 48 | 135 | 586 | 770 | ||
| List | 4 | 28 | 20 | 52 | |||
| Assessed | 52 | 205 | 510 | 1101 | 1868 | ||
| Total | 52 | 205 | 510 | 1101 | 1868 | ||
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- The project was featured in the Wikipedia Signpost on 10 December 2007.
- Towns in Trafford acquired featured topic status on 18 June 2009.
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We at Greater Manchester WikiProject think that Greater Manchester is an important area of the world, and worthy of encyclopedic recognition!
Users are encouraged to nominate eligible articles for the Did you know? section of the Main page.
There are many, many interesting facts about the Greater Manchester area as outlined below (note, each is verifiable with citation found within the article itself). You may wish to add your own trivia you find to this list:
Did you know?....
- St Mary's Church in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, England, a Grade II listed building, was built in the 16th century and houses a stone cross dating to the 11th century? Featured on the Did you know? section on December 21, 2007.
- Many of Manchester's Grade I listed buildings are Victorian, because of Manchester's growth during the Industrial Revolution? Featured on the Did you know? section on December 27, 2007.
- There are two separate churches dedicated to St Werburgh in the village of Warburton, Greater Manchester? Featured on the Did you know? section on December 27, 2007.
- Wythenshawe Aerodrome was Manchester's first purpose-built municipal airfield, but was closed after one year due to the completion of Barton Aerodrome? Featured on the Did you know? section on January 2, 2008.
- The astronomer William Crabtree of Broughton, Greater Manchester, was one of only two people known to have observed the first recorded transit of Venus in in 1639. The other observer was his friend and correspondent Jeremiah Horrocks who was the only astronomer to have correctly predicted the event.
- John Dalton was the first person to describe colour vision deficiency in a paper to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, whilst working at the Manchester Academy, in 1794. Daltonism later became a common term for colour blindness.
- In 1841 Joseph Whitworth devised a standard for screw threads at his company in Openshaw that became the first nationally standardized system, British Standard Whitworth (BSW).
- Bury Castle in Bury was razed to the ground in 1485, 16 years after it was built, because its owner supported the losing side in the Wars of the Roses? Featured on the Did you know? section on 10 January 2008.
- Manchester born, Mother Anne Lee (February 29, 1736 - September 8, 1784) was the leader of the band of Shakers; who emigrated from Manchester to Watervliet, New York due to persecution in 1774 and founded the Shaker movement in America.
- Greater Manchester has nine castles, of which five are Scheduled Ancient Monuments. Featured on the Did you know? section on 24 February 2008.
- A study by the University of Salford concluded that the high density of high-rise buildings in Salford has "a dramatic influence on the region's weather patterns", in particular by encouraging drizzle? Featured on the Did you know? section on 27 February 2008.
- Two of Manchester's oldest buildings in Shambles Square were physically moved twice – once in 1974 and again in 1999? Featured on the Did you know? section on 16 March 2008.
- ...that the Upper Brook Street Chapel in Manchester, designed by Sir Charles Barry shortly before he designed the Palace of Westminster, is said to be the first neogothic Nonconformist chapel? Featured on the Did you know? section on 21 March 2008.
- In 1806, Murrays' Mills in Ancoats, Manchester was the largest mill complex in the world? Featured on the Did you know? section on 29 March 2008.
- ...that Hulme Arch Bridge in Manchester (pictured) follows the design of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, and rejoins two halves of a road that was sundered in 1969? Featured on the Did you know? section on 5 April 2008.
- ...that The Guardian newspaper was founded 189 years ago in Manchester, England as a direct response to the Peterloo Massacre? Featured on the Did you know? section on 10 April 2008.
- ...that Sans Pareil (pictured), one of five locomotives to compete in the 1829 Rainhill Trials, was later used on the Bolton and Leigh Railway? Featured on the Did you know? section on 19 April 2008.
- ...that broken remains of three medieval high crosses were found in 1874 during the construction of Barnes Hospital in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, but the location of only one is known today? Featured on the Did you know? section on 21 April 2008.
- ...that the village of Denshaw in Greater Manchester (pictured) achieved international notoriety when spoof information added to its Wikipedia entry was reported in national and international media? Featured on the Did you know? section on 22 April 2008.
- ...that Platt Fields Park in Manchester, England, was used as a country park for over 400 years before being converted for public use in 1908–1910? Featured on the Did you know? section on 25 April 2008.
- ... that Castleshaw Roman fort in Greater Manchester was a Roman fort built in 79 AD replaced by a smaller fortlet before being abandoned in the 120s? Featured on the Did you know? section on 2 July 2008.
- ... that Cine City in Manchester, England, the third cinema to open in England in 1912 as "The Scala", has recently been demolished? Featured on the Did you know? section on 4 July 2008.
- ... that The Towers, a residence in Didsbury, Manchester originally built for the editor of the Manchester Guardian, is now a cotton research facility? Featured on the Did you know? section on 7 July 2008.
- ...that the Daily Express Building (pictured), an Art Deco former printing press, is one of Manchester's only listed buildings constructed in the 1930s? Featured on the Did you know? section on 8 July 2008.
- ...that Withington Community Hospital was, at its height, the largest teaching hospital in Europe? Featured on the Did you know? section on 22 July 2008.
- ... that a word square found in Mamucium (pictured), a Roman fort in Manchester, may be one of the earliest examples of Christianity in Britain? Featured on the Did you know? section on 24 July 2008.
- ... that the Port of Runcorn in Cheshire, England, was an independent customs port for two separate periods before becoming part of the Port of Manchester in 1894? Featured on the Did you know? section on 26 August 2008.
- ... that Winston Churchill (pictured) lost his first election, the Oldham by-election of 1899, after promising to vote first for, then against, the Clerical Tithes Bill? Featured on the Did you know? section on 27 August 2008.
- ...that the Albert Medal was one of the awards given to Mark Addy for rescuing more than 50 people from the highly polluted River Irwell, Manchester, in the 19th Century? Featured on the Did you know? section on 29 August 2008
- ...that in 1908, swimmer Henry Taylor (pictured) became the only Briton to win three gold medals at a single Olympic Games until Chris Hoy equalled his mark in 2008? Featured on the Did you know? section on 2 September 2008.
- ...that Peel Park in England was the first of three public parks to be opened for the people of Manchester and Salford in 1846? Featured on the Did you know? section on 9 September 2008.
- ...that the Manchester and Bolton Railway was originally proposed as a replacement for the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal but was eventually built alongside it instead? Featured on the Did you know? section on 14 September 2008.
- ... that British activist Emmeline Pankhurst once slapped a police officer so she would get arrested to raise awareness about the need for women's suffrage? Featured on the Did you know? section on 9 October 2008
- ... that the controversial Scout Moor Wind Farm, which opened in September 2008, is presently the largest onshore wind farm in England? Featured on the Did you know? section on 7 November 2008.
- ... that in 1908, Maypole Colliery in Abram, Greater Manchester, England, was the site of an underground explosion that killed 75 miners? Featured on the Did you know? section on 23 December 2008.
- ... that the turnpike trusts in Greater Manchester (milestone pictured) had a huge impact upon the way business was conducted around Manchester, England? Featured on the Did you know? section on 9 January 2009.
- ... that the Seashell Trust is the oldest charity for deaf children in the north-west of England? Featured on the Did you know? section on 16 January 2009.
- ... that the village of Worsley is centred around the coal mines that helped kickstart the industrial revolution in nearby Manchester? Featured on the Did you know? section on 30 January 2009.
- ... that Dr Charles White, co-founder of the Manchester Royal Infirmary, kept the mummified body of one of his patients in a room of his house for 55 years? Featured on the Did you know? section on 15 February 2009.
- ... that a series of innovative computers, including the first transistor computer and the world's fastest computer, were produced by a small team working at Manchester University between 1947 and 1977? Featured on the Did you know? section on 1 March 2009.
- ... that on 28 February 1828, dozens of people died when The Emma was launched on the River Irwell in Manchester? Featured on the Did you know? section on 4 May 2009.
- ... that Carrington Moss was used to dispose of Manchester's night soil, and was a Starfish site in World War II? Featured on the Did you know? section on 14 May 2009.
- ... that Greater Manchester bus route 192 was the first in the UK to have solar powered on-street ticket machines? Featured on the Did you know? section on 17 May 2009.
- ... that although Mellor hill fort is Iron Age in origin, artefacts possibly as old as 10,000 years have been discovered on the site, including a 4,000 year old amber necklace? Featured on the Did you know? section on 22 May 2009.
- ... that after the collapse of the Broughton Suspension Bridge in 1831, the British military introduced the order to "break step" when soldiers were crossing a bridge? Featured on the Did you know? section on 6 June 2009.
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TemplatesFor templates used for the administration and organisation of the Project and its remit, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Greater Manchester/Templates.[edit]
Online resourcesThe following table shows useful, reliable sources that have been shared by our members to mutually improve the coverage of Greater Manchester. Websites listed here include primary, secondary and tertiary source material on everything from ancient history to contemporary economic statistics. Members may wish to refer to this section to gather material for developing pages.
Hyperlink Content Quick reference Suitability A select gazetteer of local government areas, Greater Manchester County A detailed gazetteer of townships, Urban districts and boroughs that today form Greater Manchester. *Governance *Geography Suitable for settlement type articles, and as a source about local government history and local government boundary changes. A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4 Detailed local histories of most of Greater Manchester, as well as parts of Liverpool. *History Suitable for most locality/settlement articles. High quality source full of detailed facts and commentaries. Historical and Genealogical Information for the Region Anciently Known as the Salford Hundred This site exhibits information about the Salford Hundred, its townships, their history and related genealogical information. All of which is supported by a chronological list of events for the region. *History *Geography Suitable for most locality/settlement articles. Has some maps, etymologies and historical commentary. GMroads.co.uk History of Greater Manchester's roads, from City of Manchester Plan 1945 - to the Greater Manchester Local Transport Plan 2. *Transport Suitable for material about transport infrastructure and history in Greater Manchester. GMBuses.co.uk Official site of GM Buses, including history and gallery. *Transport Suitable for material about transport infrastructure and history in Greater Manchester. A Vision of Britain Through Time A vision of Britain between 1801 and 2001. Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions. *History *Governance *Geography *Demography Suitable for most locality/settlement articles. High quality secondary source full of detailed facts and commentaries. Particularly useful for historic districts and their population. Neighbourhood Statistics This site allows you to find detailed contemporary statistics within specific geographic areas, for example within a civil parish, or postcode area. *Demography *Economy Suitable for most locality/settlement articles. High quality primary source with in-depth analysis of data. A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848) Contains detailed historic topographical accounts of places, parishes and counties in England. Originally published in 1848 in four volumes, here given together digitally. *History *Geography *Geology Suitable for most locality/settlement articles. High quality, historic primary source. visitmanchester.com The official tourism website for Greater Manchester. *Economy *Tourism *Culture Suitable as a source about landmarks, places of interest and elements of the economic activity of Greater Manchester. The SELNEC Preservation Society Website principally involved with the cataloging and preservation of public passenger buses from the Greater Manchester area from 1968. *Transport Suitable only as a tertiary source for material about transport infrastructure and history in Greater Manchester. Geograph.org.uk The Geograph British Isles project is an open source collection of geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of the British Isles. Contains images of Greater Manchester available for use on articles under the Creative Commons licence. *Photographs Suitable for all articles related to the project. The Manchester Geographical Society Resources concerning local geography such as fieldwork guides, physical geography, transport geography, historical geography, canals etc. Also sells early copies of "The North West Geographer" journal and has later copies available for free download *Geography Suitable as source for a wide range of geographical material such as physical geography, transport history, use of urban space, impact of urbanisation etc. A Key to English Place Names A searchable index of place-names, their origin and possible meaning. *Toponymy Suitable as a source that offers suggestions what place names may mean for a given number of places. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Authoritative biographies of important historical figures *Notable residents Used to be a subscription only site, but almost all of the GM boroughs now seem to have joined, so all you have to do is to enter your local library card number. Greater Manchester Lieutenancy Office) Website of the Lord Lieutenant of Greater Manchester. *History *Governance *Culture. Predominantly about the ceremonial post and its duties, but also some history and coverage about Greater Manchester as a whole. Manchester City Council 24 hour library Contains a good range of very useful sources including the Oxford English Dictionary, 200 years of archives of The Times, Encyclopaedia Brittanica material, British Standards Online, Naxos Music Library, Newsbank, Oxford Art Online, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford Language Dictionaries, Oxford Music Online, Oxford Reference, and others. *Culture A prime source of information. Free registration is required, the link gives details. For those with Firefox, the 'Sxipper' add-on will store your login details. [edit]
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- Category:Towns in Greater Manchester
- Category:Villages in Greater Manchester
- Category:Districts of Greater Manchester
- Category:People from Greater Manchester
- Category:Theatres in Greater Manchester
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