Old Trafford, also knows as the Theatre of Dreams is an all-seater football stadium in the Greater Manchester borough of Trafford, and is the home of Manchester United F.C.. The ground has been United's permanent home since 1910, bar an eight year absence from 1941 to 1949 following the bombing of the stadium in the Second World War, during which the club ground-shared with Manchester City at Maine Road. The stadium is located close to Old Trafford cricket ground. Behind Wembley Stadium, Old Trafford has the largest ground capacity of any English football stadium, with a capacity of 76,212, and is the only UEFA 5-star rated facility in England.

The Manchester Ship Canal (MSC) is a wide, 36 mile (58 km) long river navigation in north west England, opened on 21st May, 1894. It was championed by Manchester manufacturer Daniel Adamson. He arranged a meeting at his home, inviting representatives of several Lancashire towns, Manchester businessmen, local politicians and two civil engineers, Hamilton Fulton and Edward Leader Williams. Both engineers were invited to submit proposals, and Williams' plans were selected to form the basis of a Bill submitted to Parliament in November 1882.

The Royal Exchange is a grade II listed building is the last of several buildings on the site used for commodities exchange, primarily but not exclusively of cotton and textiles. The first exchange was built nearby in 1729; this was replaced by a larger building in 1806-9, which was enlarged 1847-9, and replaced in 1867-74 by Mills & Murgatroyd. Extensions and modifications were carried out in 1914-21, by Bradshaw Gass & Hope, and formed the largest trading room in England. The interior building was rebuilt after war damage with a much smaller trading area. The top stages of the clock tower, which had been blasted off, were replaced in a much simpler form.

Manchester Cathedral is a medieval church in central Manchester and is the seat of the Bishop of Manchester. Although constructed over a period of 600 years, its main architectural style is Perpendicular Gothic, replete with tall windows and flat fan-vaulted ceilings. When the Diocese of Manchester was created in 1847 the church was named as its cathedral and contains many pieces of period art, notably the medieval woodcarvings of the Ripon Carvers. Severely damaged by a German bomb during WW2, it took almost twenty years to repair; the building again being damaged by a bomb in 1996, when Manchester's city centre was targeted by the IRA.