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You can visit Blackfriars, Greater Manchester places with Walkfo Blackfriars, Greater Manchester to hear history at Blackfriars, Greater Manchester’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Blackfriars, Greater Manchester has 457 places to visit in our interactive Blackfriars, Greater Manchester map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Blackfriars, Greater Manchester, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Blackfriars, Greater Manchester places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Blackfriars, Greater Manchester & the surrounding areas.

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Best Blackfriars, Greater Manchester places to visit

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Blackfriars, Greater Manchester has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Blackfriars, Greater Manchester’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Blackfriars, Greater Manchester’s information audio spots:

Victoria Baths Victoria Baths opened to the public in 1906 and cost £59,144 to build . Manchester City Council closed the baths in 1993 and the building was left empty . A multimillion-pound restoration project began in 2007 and is on English Heritage’s Heritage at Risk Register .

Edgar Wood Centre Edgar Wood Centre was designed by Edgar Wood in 1903 . Nikolaus Pevsner considered it “the only religious building in Lancashire that would be indispensable in a survey of twentieth century church design in all England” Grade I listed building is on Heritage at Risk Register .

Ardwick Ardwick is a district of Manchester in North West England, one mile south east of the city centre . The population of the Ardwick Ward at the 2011 census was 19,250 . Historically in Lancashire, by the mid-nineteenth century Ardwick had grown from being a village into a wealthy suburb of Manchester . By the end of that century it had become heavily industrialised .

O2 Apollo Manchester The O2 Apollo Manchester is a concert venue in Ardwick Green, Manchester . It is a Grade II listed building with a capacity of 3,500 (2,514 standing, 986 seats)

Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education The Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE) is part of the Manchester Pharmacy School, in the University of Manchester . In May 1991, CPPE was created as a direct response to the perceived lack of continuing professional development support given to community pharmacists .

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at The University of Manchester is one of the oldest earth and environmental science departments in the UK . The Department takes roughly 100 new undergraduates and 140 postgraduates each year .

National Graphene Institute The National Graphene Institute is a research institute and building at the University of Manchester . It is focused on the research of graphene . Construction of the building started in 2013 and finished in 2015 .

Department of Materials, University of Manchester The Department of Materials is the largest materials science and engineering department in Europe . It is reflected by an annual research income of around £7m, 60 academic staff and 150 research students .

The Star and Garter The Star and Garter has a room upstairs for club nights and gigs . It is situated on Fairfield Street behind Piccadilly railway station . It has been Grade II listed building since 20 June 1988 .

B of the Bang B of the Bang was a sculpture by Thomas Heatherwick next to the City of Manchester Stadium in Manchester, England . It was one of the tallest structures in Manchester and the tallest sculpture in the UK until the completion of Aspire in 2008 . The sculpture took its name from a quotation of British sprinter Linford Christie, in which he said that he started his races not merely at the “bang” of the starting pistol, but at “the B of The Bang”

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