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King Cotton's Palace: Manchester Town Hall
25 minutes
Color
Recommended audience age range 17-adult
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Availability:
This title is no longer available from the Roland Collection
Additional information
Order number: 377
The huge growth of trade and manufacturing business in Manchester in the nineteenth century - when `cotton was king' - meant that the city needed a new town hall for practical reasons alone. But the new building was also intended to impress the rest of the world: nobody who saw it was to be left in any doubt about Manchester's economic status. Detailed investigation of the town hall's planning and design show how deliberately its builders set out to create a visible symbol of the city's mushrooming wealth and power.
Credits -
Director
Tony Coe
Presenter/Writer
Colin Cunningham
Open University/BBC
