24 hours in… Manchester

The award-winning novelist Jeanette Winterson perhaps best described her home city’s unique place within the fabric of Britain when she wrote “Manchester is in the south of the north of England. Its spirit has a contrariness in it – a south and north bound up together – at once untamed and unmetropolitan; at the same time, connected and worldly.”

Situated between the glowering peaks of the Pennines to the east and the promise of Liverpool’s port