"My problem with Manchester, you see, is that I have no image of it, none at all. Every other British city has something about it, some central motif, that fixes it in my mind: Newcastle has its bridge, Liverpool has the Liver Building and docks, Edinburgh its castle, Glasgow the great sprawl of Kelvingrove Park and the buildings of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, even Birmingham has the Bull Ring (and welcome to it). But Manchester to me is a perennial blank - an airport with a city attached". . .. .Taken from the book "Notes from a Small Island" by Bill Bryson.