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Tommy Taylor was a Manchester United footballer, who also played for the England national team. He was one of the eight Busby Babes who lost their lives in the Munich Air Disaster (1958). On 7 July 2011, a blue plaque was erected at 22 Great Stone…

Illustration published in The Mirror, 3 March 1832

Illustration published in William Arthur Shaw, Manchester Old and New, (1894)

The Ford Motor Company was opened in Trafford Park in October 1911, to assemble Model-T cars and trucks. It was first factory to open outside of America and Canada. Before moving operations to Dagenham, Essex, in 1931, over 300,000 vehicles were…

The Art Treasures Exhibition took place at the Botanical Gardens, Old Trafford, in 1857.

The Art Treasures Exhibition took place at the Botanical Gardens, Old Trafford, in 1857.