[Closed] Manchester tributes - what's with the bees?

The City of Manchester has various heraldic emblems, particularly the worker bee which symbolises industry.

[url= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols_of_Manchester ]Symbols of Manchester[/url]

I always thought it was something to do with Boddingtons(R.I.P)
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Workers, innit

Birthplace of the industrial revolution, and all that. Its a bit better as a symbol than a 6 year old underneath a loom 😉

😆 at binners!

They're all over the shop....
[url] http://www.manchesterbicycleclub.org [/url] and this weekend, one of the tattoo places in town are doing tattoos of them for £50 each with all funds going to one of the charities supporting the victims and families of the atrocity. My daughter thinks she's having one. I'm giving the charity £50...she's not having a tatttoo

Symbol of the City innit.

Everywhere from bollards to bins, from the mosaics on the town hall floor to the patterns on Boddington's beermats.

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...and if you mess about with it too much it will sting you in the face.

I can't believe Boddingtons has closed!!

I can't believe Boddingtons has closed!!

Step 1, brew great beer
Step 2, get bought by A-B Inbev
Step 3, brew shit* beer that people still buy for a while because it used to be great
Step 4, close.

*They made a special effort with Meantime, they swapped Meantime Lager for Grolsh!

Step 1, brew great beer
Step 2, get bought by A-B Inbev
Step 3, brew shit* beer that people still buy for a while because it used to be great
Step 4, close.

Wonder if they still own the brand name, if not great opportunity to resurrect it for someone with the means.

That said was in town at the weekend and found myself in the 'Port Street beer house'had a pint of Espresso Stout from Squawk brewing company, turns out there from Ardwick so not all is lost beer wise.

Yep inbev still own it, along with all the other Whitbread brands. Whitbread sold all their breweries and beer brands to Inbev (or Interbrew they were called at the time) in 2000.

Manchester birthplace of the Industrial Revolution?? Think you've got your history very wrong there

What was the Boddingtons brewery has for years now been a bit of wasteland used for event parking for the Manchester Arena

Anyone remember the Bodkan?

So where did it start?

Scotland with James watt

Cornwall with tethvrick?

You'd be hard pushed to argue against cottonopolis

Soz for the splenig

Ps I'm a scouser(ish) we invented IPA

Ironbridge, Shropshire.

Manchester birthplace of the Industrial Revolution?? Think you've got your history very wrong there

Hmm, I'd say Lancashire as a whole (which I include Manchester). For the inventors of the spinning jenny, waterframe and spinning mule where all from the Lancashire area. I think the first power-looms were supposedly installed in mills in Manchester too? Manchester is also credited with being the first 'industrial city' so to say very wrong is a bit of a stretch, unless there's something I've missed?

Scamper - Member

Ironbridge, Shropshire.

Is the correct answer

Where was the first "manufactory" built? That would be the birth place of the industrial revolution.

Wiki is good on factories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_system

"One of the earliest factories was John Lombe's water-powered silk mill at Derby, operational by 1721."

The UK is the birthplace, too hard to pin it down to one invention in one place.

If you like your industrial history, get your visual media device of choice tuned to this:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=industrial+revelations

Great stuff.

Interesting, depends how you phrase the question I guess, and that it's difficult to pin it down as above. Still flying the flag for Lancashire, though might be a bit biased. Cheers for the links.

Manchester birthplace of the Industrial Revolution?? Think you've got your history very wrong there

Whatevs. The world's first great industrial city then. Unless you're claiming that for Telford too 😉

On a related note, this is worth a read...

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About Manchester's huge cultural contribution to the world, as it was the first City to have a large working population with disposable income, time on their hands, and the need to be kept amused and entertained. Even bigger than Telford! A really interesting read.

I starting reading that BinBins, but it was very Dave Haslam, who I find a bit irritating...

I think you'll find the true birthplace of the industrial revolution was Arkwrights mill in Cromford, Derbyshire. There Arkwright invented the first mechanical production system for cotton textiles and started the very first mass production of a product that was traded globally that ultimately killed off all the 'cottage industries'.

There is a museum there at his first mill with an official plaque and everything proclaiming it to be so!

The model then spread to Birmingham Manchester and beyond.

I think bodies bitter was always crap. I never took to lager as a yoof, so cut my teeth on Boddy's but soon moved into Guinness until he real ale revolution. Unfortunately all that there was on offer near me was Boddy's or robinsons, the latter only good for slug traps.

About Manchester's huge cultural contribution to the world, as it was the first City to have a large working population with disposable income, time on their hands, and the need to be kept amused and entertained.

Not belittling Manchester's contributions, but Shakespeare was entertaining the workers a few years before that in London...

Didnt he live in Telford?

Nah, you're thinking of Steven Spielberg

And anyway, the rest of you can piss off with your facts; Manchester was the home of fire, the wheel, farming and Um Bongo, and that's that.

Though did you know that both the apostrophe and syphilis originated in Telford

A couple of useful pub quiz facts for you there.

And here's a picture of Bez with some bees. Keen beekeeper is Bez....
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The only problem is that Bez thinks that they are magic dancing flying beans.

@IHN - don't forget Vimto !!

That ^ is Peak Manc.

Everything of any use was invented in Manchester. Fact.

Try coming here and telling us any different.

Computers
Splitting the atom
Graphine
Vimto
Electric motors
The flying shuttle (ok... Bury)
Music
The colour yellow
Helium
Fridays
Cheese
Pen knives
Albert Finney
...and Hall's Mentholyptus

Yes but the Hall's factory, half a mile from where I'm typing this, has closed and production has been transferred to some massive factory in Yoorup.

Music
The colour yellow

Which, when combined, launched the career of Binners' favourite band 😉

[b]BUZZIIIIN'[/b]

Steps?

I was wondering this too, so thanks for clearing it up.

Before I moved up here I found the way Mancunians claimed to have invented everything infuriating - and I suspected it came from a cultural inferiority complex.

Now I reckon they mainly do it as a wind-up.

Cultural inferiority complex? Mancs? .....

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Now I reckon they mainly do it as a wind-up.

Shit, we've been rumbled.

[url= http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/12-things-that-make-manchester-better-than-pretty-much-anywhere-20170524128260 ]Just to clear this up once and for all.[/url]

......I suspected it came from a cultural inferiority complex.....

Another thing we invented.
Comes from all the collective Catholic guilt.

🙂

Duh, how could I forget; water. We invented water. And the moon.

And rocket lollies

And wine

Communism, vegetarianism and Harrington jackets too.....

What a town.

Not forgetting…

Shoe laces
Moist toilet paper
Pickled eggs
Spaghetti
All the best swear words
Cornflakes
Melanie Sykes
Budgies
and Lego

All from Manchester.

Fact.

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Cantona? A Manc.

Born and bred in Ancoats

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Also from Levenshulme.....

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They met at an all-nighter in Whalley Range

They met at an all-nighter in Whalley Range

...arranged by

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Who grew up in Parrs Wood, his dad ran the Bargain Booze.

Oh yeah, Bargain Booze. And Ikea.

Vimto was invented in Manchester..

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were originally in front of Billy Green's Pub in Collyhurst and are just visible in the foreground of this picturesque local scene:
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The term 'Hanging' is an affectionate one, meaning full of tramps, dogshit and old jazz mags.

We swapped them for an ancient Mesopotamian scroll which contained the secret of gravy.

Very adaptable symbol, the bee. 1840 - 1979, worker bee. Thereafter, drone.

LOLing at these fabulous 'people I never knew were Mancs'
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Used to work in the KFC in Cheetham Hill, before deciding to end apartheid instead.

We invented bees! And honey!

But not wasps. That was the Scouser's

This was the product of an early European Cup campaign, when the United fans, among them a group of builders from Burnage were a bit bored.,,.

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They made this in Trafford Park. In one morning.

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...and this was made in Woodford.

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Did you know that Trafford Park was the worlds first industrial estate? It was esrablished by a company making beehives for Bez's great great grandad, DFS, and someone making pre-packaged microwave meals for Tesco

So by inventing the Industrial Revolution, Manchester also invented long working hours, monotonous jobs, and the expression, "My foreman's a bastard".
Thanks Manchester, I could be chilling out in the countryside with my wife (also my cousin) instead of being stuck in a cubicle at work!

Newton Heath's finest

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Eccles....

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This place is hidden in a copse next to the boating lake in Boggart Hole Clough.

It is believed to house several priceless Mancunian cultural artifacts, including Frank Sidebottom's head and the recipe for Vimto.
There's a rumour that it may also contain Morrissey's sense of humour, which hasn't been seen since 1986.

Not long now comrades.....

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There's a rumour that it may also contain Morrissey's sense of humour, which hasn't been seen since [s]1986[/s] 1959.

Meh. Morrisey lives in LA. And has successfully completed the journey from icon to total bell end more effectively than anyone. So **** him!

Meanwhile, back in Manchester.....

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The mancs invented hair dye? Now I am impressed

Does the forum know that INH is from Manchester himself (OK well a suburb but still).

The mancs invented hair dye?

Yep. And hair.

OK well a suburb but still

I don't like to shout about it, but growing up on the mean streets of Poynton made me the man I am today.

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Anyone who's been to [url= http://msimanchester.org.uk/ ]MOSI[/url] will know that us Mancs invented the world

For the engine geeks, get over to the Anson Engine Museum in Poynton and then pop into IHN's for a post-museum "[i]proper brew[/i]"
http://www.enginemuseum.org/

then pop into IHN's for a post-museum "proper brew"

Whilst you'd be more than welcome, sadly Poynton is no longer my home. Instead I'm rollin' in da Cirencester 'hood

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Tea. Invented in Manchester.

And biscuits.

Harry_the_Spider - Member

Everything of any use was invented in Manchester. Fact.

I went to MOSI and I think Manchester and Scotland can arrive at an uneasy truce where everything worth inventing, was invented in Scotland but everything worth manufacturing, was manufactured in Manchester.

Well, not really, because Scotland was invented in Manchester in the first place.

If the Scots hadn't been too mean to pay the hair dye licensing costs, they wouldn't have been held back by their inherent gingerness and Scotland could have been as great as Manchester.

Let's not get racist!

Many great engineers came from Scotland... to work in Manchester.

Many great engineers came from Scotland... to work in Manchester

True that.
My Scottish mate works at the Large Hadron Collider near Derker.

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Moston Lane.
You can just see the Ben Brierley on the left.

Little known fact, Paul McCartney is barefoot in that picture. Some people say it was to symbolise his death, but actually it's because he was from Liverpool and they hadn't heard of shoes there. John, Ringo and George were all really from Manchester and were early adopters of shoes, which were invented in a shoemakers* in Bury in 1962

* cobblers, some may say.

Of course people weren't forced to go barefoot prior to that, but there was a fear that if Paul had been wearing his sparking clogs he'd possibly have set fire to his flares, the bottoms of which had been soaked in LSD. Which was invented by another famous Mancunian, Bertie Hoffmann, in a secret lab under the Nationwide in Altricham. And without that LSD, Sgt Pepper would never have been recorded.

Straight outta High Crompton.
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more like Higher Broughton mid 80s

I used to live in Higher Broughton. Or 'the Cradle of Civilisation' as it's known throughout the world, as they knew that behind this humble, shuttered exterior lies the finest chicken tikka kebabs* known to man

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* Kebabs - also invented in Manchester. And pizza

Binners is absolutely correct. "Spiceees" as it is properly pronounced is the birthplace of all naan bread packaged foods.

Of course you all know that Harry Hall invented the bicycle.
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Wrong! The kebab was invented at Sal's on Walmsley Road by Robert Stephenson on his way from Scotlandshire to Manchester where he invented steam trains, Tetris and Bombay Saphire.