Manchester Library visit
Mon, 22 Sept
|Manchester
This is a visit to Manchester to explore the Portico Library. The library is in a beautiful building that is 218 years old. We'll travel by train from Dore Station, have a look round the library and have lunch (hopefully in the Library).
Time & Location
22 Sept 2025, 09:00 – 18:00
Manchester, 57 Mosley St, Manchester M2 3HY, UK
About the Event
We plan to meet at Dore Station to catch the train to Manchester. At the time of writing (Jan 25) there is a direct train leaving at 9.20am. This arrives into Manchester for 10:30am and the library is a 5 minute walk from the train station. A return anytime rail ticket with a rail card will cost £14.50. We'll probably aim to catch the 15:48 train back which arrives back at Dore for 16:56.
One of Manchester’s longest-running institutions, the Portico is a subscription library and newsroom whose historic collection of over 25,000 books and archives spans over 450 years. There is public access free of charge. The Portico Library was established by 400 founding subscribers in 1806, during Manchester’s emergence as ‘the first modern city’. Early readers and associates included word-famous authors, future Prime Ministers, leading scientists, and educators. Built with wealth derived from the Industrial Revolution, British empire-building,…