Half-term ideas in Manchester
School's out. 7 family days out in Manchester: animals, science, big parks and rainy-day saves for half-term.
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Castlefield
Castlefield Time Slip
Stand where a Roman fort met a canal basin, two thousand years apart.
Northern Quarter
The Afflecks Palace Hunt
Find the strangest thing for sale in Manchester's indie department store.
Cathedral Quarter
England's Widest Medieval Nave
Step inside the cathedral built wide instead of long.
Castlefield
Where the Railway Was Born
Visit the site of the world's oldest surviving passenger railway station.
Northern Quarter
Stevenson Square Street Art
Find whatever mural is up this month — it won't be there for long.
Mayfield
Manchester's Best-Kept Secret Park
Find the quiet meadow built into an old rail yard, minutes from Piccadilly.
Deansgate
The Cathedral of Books
Find the reading room that looks like a cathedral but is actually a library.
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