', but characters do occasionally venture further: several attended the Countryside Alliance march in London, there have been references to the gay scene in Manchester's Canal Street, and a number of scenes have taken place abroad or in other places around the country, with some characters resident overseas in South Africa and Hungary, and other characters have visited Norfolk.

Parades such as Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and Manchester's Pride events attract significant investment and create tourist revenue, and cities are beginning to realize, firstly, that the acceptance of lesbian and gay culture is fast becoming a sign of urban " sophistication ", and secondly, that gay-oriented events, such as pride parades, the World Outgames and the Gay Games, are potentially lucrative events, attracting thousands of gay tourists and their dollars.

Queer as Folk is a 1999 British television series that chronicles the lives of three gay men living in Manchester's gay village around Canal Street.

Manchester's claim to status of " gay capital of the UK " was strengthened in 2003 when it played host city to the annual Europride festival.

As such he is as much a gay icon as an icon of computing, and it is no coincidence that this memorial is situated near Canal Street, Manchester's gay village.

On Turing's left is the University of Manchester and on his right is Manchester's gay village.

They stayed for several months in the seaside town of Southport, then moved briefly to the village of Disley and finally settled into a house in Manchester's Victoria Park.

Internationally, the University of Manchester's student union, the Steve Biko Building, on the Oxford road campus, is named in his honour.

What remains of the route is the path of Interstate 84 / Route 6, which connects to Manchester's Middle Turnpike East.

The University of Manchester can trace its roots back to the formation of the Mechanics ' Institute ( later to become UMIST ) in 1824, and its history is closely linked to Manchester's emergence as the world's first industrial city.

In recognition of his achievements and contributions to education in Manchester, the Whitworth Building on the University of Manchester's Main Campus is named in his honour, and graduation ceremonies are held in its Whitworth Hall.

The Mall of New Hampshire, on Manchester's southern fringe near the intersection of Interstates 93 and 293, is the city's main retail center.

Manchester's largest development, Pine Lake Park, is best known for its man made lake, Pine Lake, built in the 1970s.

William Manchester's A World Lit Only by Fire places the events in 1484 ( 100 years after the mention in the town chronicles that " It is 100 years since our children left ") and proposes that the Pied Piper was a psychopathic paedophile.

The University of Manchester's Small-Scale Experimental Machine ( SSEM ) is generally recognized as world's first electronic computer that ran a stored program — an event that occurred on June 21, 1948.

Manchester's Stark Park, also a listed property, is home to his grave and is named in his honor.

It is Manchester's third busiest train station after Piccadilly and Victoria.

24 Hour Party People is a 2002 British film about Manchester's popular music community from 1976 to 1992, and specifically about Factory Records.

The exterior, faced with Spinkwell stone, hard sandstone quarried near Bradford in Yorkshire, is decorated with sculptures of important figures in Manchester's history.

He is best known for presenting The Late Night James Stannage Talk Show on Manchester's Key 103.

In the mid-1980s, when Manchester United Football Club owned the Manchester Giants, Manchester's basketball franchise, there were plans to build a 9, 000-seater indoor arena on the site of what is now Car Park E1.

Manchester's argument is ultimately that Magellan's voyage was concurrent with and, on several levels, symptomatic of changing ways in which Renaissance people thought.

Manchester's Chinatown on Faulkner Street is the second largest in Britain after London's.

The Death of a President, November 20 – November 25, 1963 is historian William Manchester's 1967 account of the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Manchester's original manuscript is held at Wesleyan University under " extremely restricted use " and, according to his son John, the Kennedy family has permitted the book to go out of print.

From the late 18th century onwards, the British city of Manchester acquired the nickname " Cottonopolis " due to the cotton industry's omnipresence within the city, and Manchester's role as the heart of the global cotton trade.

Glossop and the western area of High Peak fall within Greater Manchester's sphere of influence by way of some transport being provided by Transport for Greater Manchester.

It lies within the ancient county boundaries of Cheshire, by the River Etherow, on Greater Manchester's border with Derbyshire.

In March 2005 the paper launched a cut-down afternoon version of the paper titled MEN Lite, which was distributed free to commuters within Manchester's city centre.

This flowering of radicalism and reform took place within the context of a ferment in Manchester's cultural and intellectual life.

The park is within walking distance of many local landmarks, including Manchester's mill district, the Verizon Wireless Arena, the WMUR television station, the University of New Hampshire at Manchester college campus, and countless restaurants and bars.

It was poised to become Greater Manchester's standard double decker from the mid-1980s onwards, however deregulation within the British bus industry created intense competition for GM Buses-the successor of Greater Manchester Transport and Northern Counties ' main customer, who vastly reduced their requirement for new vehicles.

It passes through all Greater Manchester's metropolitan boroughs except for Wigan and Bolton.

It was voted Greater Manchester's favourite building by readers of the Manchester Evening News in 2012 and in the same year featured in a series of Royal Mail stamps commemorating British landmarks.

First Greater Manchester's frequent 425 service runs through Glodwick to Holts Estate via Abbeyhills and to Fitton Hill via Oldham.

172, 000 visitors, making it one of Greater Manchester's ten most-visited tourist attractions.

The documentary also contained sequences of Craig Potter demonstrating Elbow's unusual recording techniques at Blueprint Studios, Mark Potter driving around Elbow's old neighbourhood in Bury, Greater Manchester, Peter Turner showing cameras around Manchester's Northern Quarter, where the band played their first gigs as Elbow, and sequences of Guy Garvey reading through old and new lyric books.

Large companies like Ikea and DFS also advertised on Channel M, the former during the opening of Greater Manchester's first Ikea store in Ashton-under-Lyne.

A SELNEC-branded bus ( Greater Manchester's Museum of Transport | Manchester Museum of Transport )

The highest priority was to increase the quality of life for its inhabitants by way of improving the county's physical environment and cultural facilities which had suffered following deindustrialisation — much of Greater Manchester's basic infrastructure dated from its 19th-century industrial growth, and was unsuited to modern communication systems and life-styles.

The last leader of Greater Manchester County Council, Bernard Clarke, became the manager of the YMCA's Training for Life project and a director of Manchester Travel Services and of Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry.

Greater Manchester's representative county council was abolished in 1986, following the Local Government Act 1985.

Heaton Park, at around, is the biggest park in Greater Manchester, and one of the largest municipal parks in Western Europe, providing some 25 % of Manchester's total green space.

However, the topography of the land around Lumn's Lane has changed markedly due to the dumping of mining waste from the former collieries and the area has been used as a landfill site by the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority since 1982, taking ten percent of Greater Manchester's waste each year.

However, following a public inquiry into Greater Manchester's constituencies held in late 2005, a number of changes to the original proposals for the county were made.

In 2009, the Tameside Local Education Authority was ranked 117th out of 148 in the country – and 8th out of Greater Manchester's 10 LEAs – based on the percentage of pupils attaining at least 5 A *– C grades at General Certificate of Secondary Education ( GCSE ) including maths and English ( 41. 8 % compared with the national average of 47. 6 %).

Although the group was considered by some senior officers in the Greater Manchester Police to be the instigators of much of Manchester's major crime, many others believed that the gang was nothing more than a social friendship between a group of men, most of whom had criminal records.

There are frequent buses running through Hollinwood towards Oldham and Manchester on First Greater Manchester's 82 and 83 services.

In the 1960s and 1970s, mills were closing in Greater Manchester at a rate of almost one a week, and by the 1980s only specialised textile production remained, although clothing manufacture and the wholesale trade continue to form a strong part of Manchester's economy.