Museum of Science and Industry

Experience the working life of the 1830 Warehouse through this 12-minute audio-visual show. Warehouse for the World combines video reconstruction, archival images, and information drawn from business records and personal accounts. The early nineteenth century ballad 'Manchester's Improving Daily' is threaded through the show to give a flavour of a period when Manchester was a place:

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Where the arts and sciences are flourishing,
Where smoke from factory chimneys bring
The air so black, so thick, and nourishing.