2:18 The Old Wellington certainly has a massive history. It used to sit across the street in the old Shambles Square since 1552 but was moved brick by brick around 1996 when that part of Manchester was redeveloped

You found the Roman wall! 😃 I go to Manchester for fun quite often, from Victoria Station, either walk around the centre, or take the tramway to Media City. Both areas have a Bella Italia 😋, and finding a pizza in the UK which deserves the name is quite rare. The library is worth visiting, too, alone for the building inside, and then there's the house where Emmeline Pankhurst lived. If I want to stay overnight I'd be at the Ibis Budget at Salford Quais. Manchester is to this day the only city in the UK I actually like.

@vordman

Ай бұрын

Have you been to Liverpool? Well worth a look. Fabulous city.

Looks ace. Rivalling London now, the fastest growing city in Europe.

@honestplaces

Жыл бұрын

Is growing quick

@valentynaartysyuk9129

2 ай бұрын

​@garethmathew69manchester is the best city in UK so far about everything!

@unelectedbureaucrat2003

2 ай бұрын

You wait until they rebuild old Trafford football centre of the world

I'm an American. I follow Manchester on IG. Great places to eat and hang out. Amazing variety.

@honestplaces

Жыл бұрын

It is very good,very diverse!

Good work Danny, you said the magic words 'hidden gems'. As a proud Mancunian I really value my home town, its rich in culture, history and entertainment. You can relax on grassed areas, at bars or go to the cinema etc. We do have our fair share of the grim side of life too but when you look at this it's a wow. There is just one thing out of place though.. its usually absolutely buzzin with people! Where the hell are they...

@honestplaces

Жыл бұрын

Great post. Yeh i dunno, i forgot what time or day i went but it is always buzzing

I remember going past on the bus seeing all the inmates on the roof. Best pub in Manchester is the grand Central. A Rock pub.

An interesting vlog I was in Manchester 35 years ago massive changes since then I have subscribed thanks

@honestplaces

Жыл бұрын

It really has, in a good way, alot of places have improved places in the wrong areas but Manchester seemed to have been spot on. Cheers pal!

My god so well filmed, well done mate! 👏

@honestplaces

Жыл бұрын

Nice to not have abuse for once 🤣

My home city! My work was spotted opposite the Library 👍🏻 Good video!

Good review mate. Will be much better once they have completed the renovation of Albert Square and the town hall. Probably one of the most know parts of the city centre

@honestplaces

2 жыл бұрын

Yeh i missed that completly as was not much to see but construction. But yeh good place Manchester!

Luvly....Thanks bro... 'Schooled' in Manchester University... With Love from Ghana 🇬🇭

@honestplaces

Жыл бұрын

Not too bad is it?

Manchester has some awesome classic architecture, with some of my favourites being the red-brick Victorian masterpieces scattered around. Central Libray is certainly impressive from the outside, but take a look at John Rylands which is mind-blowing inside.

@honestplaces

4 ай бұрын

True mate. It's a good city

@moodyguymick

17 сағат бұрын

Also Manchester town hall.

i live in manchester originally from near newcastle and lived in leicester and birmingham as well. Manchester is a great city very openminded people and very cool vibe (music & art etc). However its getting very expensive and is going the way of london people are getting priced out with regards to rental prices etc

Amazing City..unbelievable change in last 15 years

@honestplaces

Жыл бұрын

Money spent in the right areas, very diverse and keeping it's nice architecture along side new buildings. Very good

@stubru16

Ай бұрын

Locals can’t afford to buy or rent the apartments they have built apart from Londoners and south twats that’s moving there. London is a shithole so why do the same to Manchester

I like Manchester, but don't forget Norwich. I live in the Norfolk Broads, and Norwich has an amazing Viking history, and more medieval buildings than any other city in the Divided Kingdom.

Definitely one on my favourite cities and I go back in a couple of weeks. Glasgow is a close second. I live in London which is cool but far too big!! 👍🏻😀

Some great places, not a fan of Spinningfields, on a grey day, we have many 😊 it blends in with the sky, like some colour.

Manchester looks really cool thanks Danny

@honestplaces

Жыл бұрын

Got alot to offer whatever you like to do in a big city. Drinking scene is 2nd to none!

excellent review!!

@honestplaces

Жыл бұрын

Cheers!

Did not realize manchester was so attractive,, they should build on that and make a statement

cool video danny ive only been there once but it was only for a couple of hours ill have to get back there soon and make a video

@honestplaces

Жыл бұрын

Deffo worth a visit. I went back for drinks and some great misc bars and pubs. Do your own video on it yeh, would like to see your take on it.

Who is the narrator? Great voice. Love to hear the fellow!

Manchester is one of my favourite cities in England always different things to do and very colourful

@honestplaces

Жыл бұрын

Yeh it aint half bad is it!

Sir Edwin Lutyens designed the white building(Now Gotham). The man famed for the London Cenotaph.

@honestplaces

Жыл бұрын

Is a quality building

I stayed in that hotel years ago (worst rated in Manchester) for a weekend. The bar (that has a back entrance) was rowdy and they had bouncers at the main entrance too but everything else was fine.

Manchester at one time in history was one of the most wealthiest places in the entire world. So it seems that it is not so much being developed, than it is being restored. The notorious Don Arden, music mogul and father/in law of Sharon and Ozzy Osborne was born on the street you were walking down near the prison.

I’m from Manchester Sale. You will have to visit pubs in Alderley edge to show people how beautiful the place is.

That first building was the Gordon Ramsey restaurant. I like all the architecture in Manchester, I just hate driving in and out of it.

@honestplaces

Ай бұрын

Yeh driving there is grim

Use to go to a place called Linda's Pantry when visiting Manchester it's a shame that old school greasy spoons are dying out.

MANCHESTER HOME OF THE SMITHS, STRANGEWAYS HERE WE COME.

That prison gate looks like the one featured at the end of 'Kind Hearts and Coronets'.

@honestplaces

Жыл бұрын

Some throw back that film! Classic!

Love your saying let's go see what's kicking off.... And nothing ever happens 😂

"Selfridges..." 😂🤣😂

Come look at Barnsley town best market to go and have a nice shopping day

@markplatt1768

2 ай бұрын

My town. Gone all posh now😊

There’s always an argument for councils and developers NOT no invest in town centres, lack of foot fall, lack of interest from companies and brands in leasing buildings. No point pumping millions into an area where it’s not going to make money. One day when the country sacks off Amazon and the like then we may see the so called high street making a return, but I doubt it.

The 'grim hotel' near the start of your video is I believe scheduled to be demolished and replaced by something much better in the near future.

@honestplaces

Жыл бұрын

I went and filmed and lost all my footage! It deffo needs to be demolished!

Try Crewe town near Manchester 👌🏼

Remember the riot, dead hot weather for April 1990. Gave strangeways’ phone number to one of the lads in the pub but didn’t tell him, just said it was a customer after a bit of roofing doing.

Manchester IS red!! ❤️👹⚽️🐝🍺

Cant believe you didn’t show Manchaton the 4 new sky scrapers 😫

@honestplaces

Жыл бұрын

Yeh i should of. Hopefully more to come!

@paulwild3676

6 ай бұрын

The tallest building ever built in regional Britain will be built next to Deansgate/Castlefield Met station. It will be just shy of 80 storeys high. These huge structures are being announced almost weekly now. The race with London is now on. Devolution has transformed Greater Manchester.

Great but where are all the people?

@honestplaces

Жыл бұрын

Never actaully noticed that, don't even know what day of the week i went now! Must have been early init!

Manchester is at the centre of the second most built up area in Western Europe

ooh fancy Sell Fridges 😄

@honestplaces

2 жыл бұрын

I actually don't think i've ever been in one

@rufdymond

2 жыл бұрын

Only place in the country that has two Selfridges store apparently. Oh and good luck with the hotel, you’ll need it.

@honestplaces

2 жыл бұрын

@@rufdymond The one i saw was big enough!.....no need for a 2nd. Have you stayed there before? I stayed last week, yet to upload my verdict.

Manchester is🔴👊👹

@honestplaces

Жыл бұрын

Agree with you on that one!

Go round Newcastle please!

England needs a rival to London rather than everything being sucked down south. We aren't the big USA with multiple great Cities but we should promote Manchester so that it is as near prestigious and attractive as London. When I say "attractive" I mean more than the environment but as attractive for artists, software designers, and large corporation head quarters.

@honestplaces

2 ай бұрын

100% agree pal 👍

My wife just got a full ride scholarship at University of Manchester, so um I guess we're moving there for 4 years lol. Your vid alleviated a fair bit of my reservations. Thank you from the west coast of Canada. Fantastic vid. Glad I found ya.

You wanna visit Salford & media city be very good content

@honestplaces

Жыл бұрын

I like Media City. Salford i haven't really explored much so need to visit there yeh

When Your doing Birmingham? City of Duran Duran ?

@honestplaces

Жыл бұрын

Got a long list but it is on there! Never been before

@shazyboy227

Жыл бұрын

@@honestplaces second city after London, I hope its not on the bottom of your list..

Best city in the UK!

The premier inn is ugly , because its the old Inland revenue office , Oyster bar = nice beer . There are some old traditional pubs with decent beer left - but not many , mainly yuppy overpriced wine bars now.

Best city in uk ❤

Same as London keep in the square mile you won’t get stabbed

I think you're getting Elizabethan confused with Victorian 😆

Outside of pension funds and local council borrowing how much private money is really going in?

@honestplaces

Жыл бұрын

No idea, i just film what i see 🤣

Slow down, by the way at one point you were in Salford

@honestplaces

Жыл бұрын

Really!? At what point?

@rinkydinkmcruk

Жыл бұрын

Salford is In Manchester so that’s ok 😝

Where's the video of Sashas lol

Can I come on 1 of these travel things .. my brother's just died and I'm so fukt off

Love manchester the jewel of England ❤❤

They moved the old Wellington after the ira bomb. Still strange walking out and your somewhere different.

STRANGEWAYS

@honestplaces

2 жыл бұрын

Dr Strangeways

You must film about 6 in the morning to avoid all the scroats 🤣

@honestplaces

Жыл бұрын

Shh. You're giving away my tactics

Manchester is as old as Chester.

@honestplaces

Жыл бұрын

Never knew that!

@floswason8776

10 ай бұрын

Both Roman cities mancunium

'All the big ones' on GAY Canal street - you know, you're right!!!

i don't believe that is really Manchester. I didn't see one junkie in the entire 15 minute video! Did you photoshop all of the crackheads out? 😲

@markmanc-zw3td

4 күн бұрын

😂 I'm with you on that mate ! No beggars either ???

It really is not. The growth up there is impressive though tbh.

Manchester is a nice city but a lot of the areas to live are not up to much. You have Didsbury and may be parts of Altrincham and somewhere like Ramsbottom but a lot of the other areas are quite rough. The homeless are quite an issue as well, there's a lot of them and they can be quite rough. Nice to visit but not worth living there.

@hansw7878

Жыл бұрын

compared to other cities i found manchester has a lot more nicer inner city suburbs

@Manc780

2 ай бұрын

Bramhall, Poynton, Wilmslow, Alderley Edge, Hale, Prestbury....

@yellard6785

2 ай бұрын

I love the name " Ramsbottom'.. In Thanet there is a ' Poor hole Lane"... I want to buy a house in that street.. Best UK address! 😁

@valentynaartysyuk9129

2 ай бұрын

absolutely not!Manchester is amazing city and its districts as well!!It s the best city in UK so far about almost everything and it is a big city of almost 3 millions people.

The new London ? Please don't say that !!

why not check Liverpool out

@honestplaces

Жыл бұрын

I do need too! Any hidden gems there?

@joeydowney2865

Жыл бұрын

@@honestplaces oh yes lots...check out the Baltic market, Bold street, the North shore...

@honestplaces

Жыл бұрын

@@joeydowney2865 not too far Liverpool so will add it onto the list init

@joeydowney2865

Жыл бұрын

@@honestplaces Great stuff! yeah only about 50 minutes down the M62

@steveharrison7328

Жыл бұрын

yes man!! gotta be done

Charles veitch shits on it often (even though has lived there for ages)for views i guess focusing on the shit side it's nice to see someone show the good 👍

Manchester ... the new London? Let's hope not. London is too crowded and expensive.

sellfridges rotffl

About five errors in the first minute!

@honestplaces

Жыл бұрын

Was on the beer night before.....knowledge was abit blurred!

@AshtonArcher

Жыл бұрын

@@honestplaces haha, fair play for the response!

The city has no character, no really impressive buildings like London, Liverpool and Edinburgh do.

"Piccadily Gardens" prevents Manchester from being the best at anything. It is the ugliest City centre garden I have ever seen.

@floswason8776

10 ай бұрын

That’s because they ripped up the original gardens to make that mess with a concrete wall

@pablodelnorte9746

6 ай бұрын

Piccadilly Gardens is a crime against urban design.

@honestplaces

5 ай бұрын

Yeh that berlin wall needs to go!

@valentynaartysyuk9129

2 ай бұрын

very soon Piccadilly gardens will be built completely new!!

@jacobfield4848

2 ай бұрын

@@valentynaartysyuk9129 They have been saying that for years.

The new London ? In your dreams lol

@honestplaces

Жыл бұрын

I don't live there so doesn't bother me either way 🤣

@rufdymond

Жыл бұрын

Like every Manc my worst nightmare is that Manchester would end up anything like London…..

@paulwild3676

7 ай бұрын

That is a grim prospect. Body odour and undrinkable water. No thanks.

@valentynaartysyuk9129

2 ай бұрын

Manchester is not new London,Manchester is definitely much better than London,Manchester is the best city in UK so far!!

bit of an insulting title to the likes of Liverpool and London

@honestplaces

Жыл бұрын

Not been Liverpool in awhile.....need to re-visit. Can go to any European city for 3 days for the same price as it is for me to do London so i always opt for that 🤣

@gazriley624

Жыл бұрын

@@honestplaces Train prices are ridiculous now

@honestplaces

Жыл бұрын

@@gazriley624 Gonna get worse init, and they never turn up!

@gazriley624

Жыл бұрын

@@honestplaces Get the Bus

All northern towns are dumps, including mucky Manchester

Manchester is the most overrated city In the UK. Its half the size of Birmingham but twice as arrogant as London.

@ds9642

Ай бұрын

but better than Liverpool

@annacomnena217

Ай бұрын

Greater Manchester is larger than the West Midlands. It's the largest conurbation after Greater London.

Manchester is souless liverpool 100 Times better

@ds9642

Ай бұрын

at what? shooting kids on the way home from footy training and girls sat outside pubs?

To answer your question. No, Brighton is the best city in the UK.

@honestplaces

Жыл бұрын

Never been. Will pop down

@DamnDealDone

Жыл бұрын

@@honestplaces Go in summer.

its really crap. imagine living here and expecting to meet a girl, get married, buy a house and start a family.....